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- To take Japanese held islands one by one
- what was the american strategy to defeat Japan in the Pacfic?
- Anti communist act proposed by communists
- McCarran Act
- fought over organized labor
- why did congress and truman battle over the taft hartley bill
- racism
- what was the basis of segregation of american law
- japanses americans found ways to preserve their culture
- what were the us interment camps like
- use of borrowed money to aid the economy
- Deficit Spending
- housing shortages
- waht major promblem faced migrant workers in the 1940s
- competitions for jobs and housing
- what caused racial tensions in boom towns
- slauter of about 6 million jews
- halocaust
- accuried power by accusing gov officals of being communists
- Joseph McCarthy
- invasion at the bay of pigs interrupting cuban trade and a blockade
- decribe kennedys actions toward cuba
- helped ease the transtion of soilders to civilan life
- GI bill
- the Tennessee valley authority
- what new deal programs continue today
- upheld wartime polices aganist japanese americans
- what was the ruling of the us supreme court in the 1940s
- because of the us undermining castros goverment
- why did the soviets install missiles in cuba
- presidential candidate in 1960
- John F. Kennedy
- french soilders positioned the magiot line
- What was the french reaction to the German invasion
- organization that opened jobs for hispanic and african americans
- FEPC
- attemet to end the reservation system
- termintaion policy
- devlop new forms of protest
- what did world war II cause civil right groups to do
- it ended the worst health threat to childeren
- what was the reasult of the vaccine for polio
- they held low paying jobs as secreatries they didnt have many choices
- describe womens roles in the 1950s
- it fueled the economy
- describe the affect of the babyboom in the 1950s
- it adressed the frustratins of women
- what was the significane of betteys fredians book the feminine mystique
- Gained labor support when he vetoed Taft Hartley Bill
- Harry s Truman
- final german offensive
- Battle of the bulge
- enter the war aganist japan
- At yalta the agreed that they would do waht to germany
- elevated animosity between america and germany
- what was the result of the berlin air lift
- group that helped end segregation
- CORE
- native americans lost valueable lands
- how did the termintation policy impact native americans
- lend lease act
- what program provided billons of is dollars to the allies
- statement outlining certain principles for a postwar world
- atlantic charter
- belief that race determines human capacites
- racisim
- became a corporate interprise
- what change in agriculture happened in World war II
- childeren were often left unattended
- during world war II what change happend to family life
- started his political carrer in 1946
- Richard Nixion
- tthe greatest wave of college building in american history
- what was the outcome of the gi bill in 1944
- american citzens of japanese heritage
- nisei
- Jiang Jieshi refusal to solve his nations problems
- truman blamed the fall of the nationlists of china on what
- movement of people
- migration
- millions of americans living in poverty
- invisible poor
- dictator of Italy
- Benito Mussolini
- he wanted japans unconditional surrender
- why did truman order the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima
- formed in 1945 alliance of 50 nations and they were peace keepers
- waht were the characteristics of the united nations
- avaitior and famous speaker
- Charles Lindbergh
- included a policy of massive retaliation
- explain eisenhowers containment policy
- program to deport milions of mexicans
- operation wetback
- expansion of new deal
- Fair Deal
- democrat who lost twice to Eisenhower
- Adlai E Stevenson
- acussed of spying
- alger hiss
- turned thousands of acres of native american land to busniesses
- describe the policy of determintaion
- rights gaurnteened to all citzens
- civil liberties
- coorporation made up of several unraterd industry
- conglomerate
- work through the goverment to end discrimnation
- what did the NAACP urge african americans to do
- policy of avoiding conflicts
- isolationism
- social security; housing act and increase in min wage
- what programs happended under trumans fair deal
- An allie advantage in europe
- What was the reasult of the Battle of Stalingard
- hitlers invasion of poland
- what was the cause to great britan and france declaring war on germany
- the us economy incresed in the gnp
- what best characterize the period of WW II
- increase in church membership
- religious resurgence
- members of a poltical party in italy
- fascists
- acused of stealing bomb secrets
- ethel and julius rosenber
- he was convicted under purchary
- what was alger hiss convicted of
- demamnded a powerless Germany
- what did the soviet union want after WWII
- to have more and better bombs then the soviets
- how did americans feel was the best way to prevent nuclear war
- dismantling the war machine
- demoblization
- faced racial discrimination
- what was the african american experience during WWII
- wanted to attack china
- what strategy did macarthur propose for korea
- kennedy looked calm and relaxed
- during a televised debate what caused kennedy to win
- western oil companies shared in profits by selling iranin oil
- what was the result of the CIA operations in Iran
- offensive action by japan
- What was the effext of the economic pressure the us placed on japan after japanese agression in Asia
- had a better airforce
- what were some of the advantages that the British had over the Germans