All social studies vocab on final exam
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- long telegram
- a 5,400 word cable message explaining george kennan's containment policy
- OP rolling thunder
- 1965--a shift of LBJ's policy in vietnam to BOMBING
- Warsaw pact
- a military alliance with USSR and Eastern europe in attempt to copy NATO
- apeasment
- the policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace
- agent orange
- a chemical that kills all vegitation
- v-j day
- aug 1945 japan surrenders
- alexander butterfield
- white house aid who told senate about tapes
- joseph stalin
- new communist USSR ussr dictator
- DNC
- the office in watergate that burglars broke into (democratic headquarters)
- fat man
- atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki 1945
- washington post
- newspaper that tried to keep watergate stories coming
- judge sirica
- leader of criminal trial
- jesse jackson
- a student leader who wanted change in segregation laws
- vietcong
- a guerrilla army organized by ho chi minh that fought with vietminh after elections were cancelled
- 101st airborne
- arrived at little roch high school to help african american students enter the now desegregated school
- sit ins
- a form of protest that involves sitting at the white lunch counter and demanding service
- iron curtain
- an imagery divider between communist eastern europe and anti communist western europe
- d-day
- june 6, 1944--attack on normandy
- SDS
- a student organization that opposed the war in vietnam and held marches
- JFK
- US president who ordered the civil rights bill
- geneva accords
- negotiations after the conflict of french and vietminh in dien bien phu---divided north and sounth vietnam
- Brown vs Board
- 1954-ruled that racial segregation in public schools was not equal, so could not occur
- 442nd regiment
- all japanese unit in WWII
- Pas-de-Calais
- the area of france closes to britain
- fascism
- a kind of aggressive nationalism. nation=more important than individual.
- declaration of liberated europe
- ageement that asserted the right of all people to choose the form of government in which they live
- foothold
- a starting poiint for gaining territory
- carl bernstein
- reporter from wachington post
- sherriff jim clark
- sherrif in selma who led armed white police in selma
- dove
- people in america who are against the the war in vietnam
- mussolini
- founded italy's fascist party
- letter from a birmingham jail
- the letter MLK wrote from jail defending non violent protest methods
- little boy
- atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima from the enola gay 1945
- frank willlis
- watergate security guard
- george kennan
- the person who wrote the long telegram
- robert mcNamara
- LBJ's secretary of defense who liked LBJ's involvment in the war
- spiro agnew
- nixon's VP who took bribes as governer therfore resigned
- dean achenson
- presidential advisor who thought stalin demanding control of dardenelles was a step towards controlling the mideast
- strategic hamlets
- special villages where vietcong and south vietnamese were held to protect them.
- NATO
- a mutual defense alliance between many anticommunist western europe countries
- bob woodward
- reporter from washington post
- sam ervin
- leader of senate trial
- blackshirts
- fascist army that backed up mussolini
- james McCord
- watergate burglar
- ella baker
- the student who brought other student leaders together to coordinate sitins through SNCC
- nazi party
- new german political party. nation=more important the individual
- embargo
- a restriction or prohibition
- vietminh
- nationalist group in north japan organized by ho chi minh
- Chaing Kai Shek
- leader of nationalist, anti communist, forces in China
- ngo dinh diem
- nationalist leader of south vietnam--anti communist
- satelite nations
- the communist countries of eastern europe
- napalm
- jellied gasoline that explodes on contact
- internment camps
- prison
- USSR
- new name for communist russia
- impeach
- officially charge the president of misconduct
- Mao Zedong
- leader of communist forces in China
- non-aggression pact
- germany would fight against britain and france but USSR would be safe 1939
- mein kampf
- (my struggle) hitler's autobiography that showed germans should expand their territory
- john mitchel
- he was accused of ordering watergate breakin
- edmund pettus bridge
- bridge that led african americans out of selma, and jim clark's police attacked them
- CRP (CREEP)
- comitee for re election of the president
- strategic materials
- materials important for fighting in a war
- general westmorland
- american commander in south vietnam who announced to american public that the vietnam war was basically over, when it wasnt
- omar bradley
- the commander of the american forces landing on Omaha and Utah
- ho chi minh
- leader of the nationalist movement , north vietnam, organized vietminh
- Eisenhower
- president of US personally disagreed with segregation
- poll taxes
- a fee that must be paid in order to vote
- birmingham
- city in alabama where violence towards african american nonviolent protests occured
- adolf hitler
- anticommunist who liked mussolini. formed nazi party in germany
- john dean
- white house lawyer
- hawk
- people in america who like the US involvement in vietnam
- archibald Cox
- special prosecuter fired by Bork
- federal campaign act amendments
- (passed because of watergate) limited campaign contributions and administered stricter election laws
- sudetenland
- an area of czechoslovakia with a large german-speaking population
- orval faubus
- governer of Arkansas, he went against his own beliefs and supported segregation of schools to get re-elected
- bulll connor
- Public safety commisioner who responded with force to nonviolent protests
- executive privlege
- when soemthing from the white house cannot be exposed because of confidentiality
- storm troopers
- nazi military units that intimidated voters
- gerald ford
- new VP in place of Agnew who eventually became president after nixon resigned