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- Allied powers in WWII
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U.S.,England,France,Russia,
Syria,Lebanon,Palestine,
Egypt - Civil Rights Act (1964)
- an act that banned dicrimination in public places, on the job, and at the polls.
- Concentration camps were to Poland as ________ were to the Ukraine.
- Work camps
- Contaiment
- the post-World WarII American foreign policy designed to prevent the spread of communism througout the world
- I was the U.S. president for most of WWII.
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Voting Rights Act
- a law designed to end rules that souther states used to keep Afican Americans from voting
- OPEC
- (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)organization of major oil-producing nations formed in 1960
- Truman Doctrine
- President Truman's 1947 promise that the U.S. would defend people from subversion or outside pressure
- Who was in charge of Japan's military operations?
- General Tojo
- NATO
- (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)defesive alliance formed in 1949 by the U.S., European nations, and Canada
- Watergate
- the public exposure of a burglary and its coverup by the Nixon administration that eventually let to Nixon's resignation.
- Marshall Plan
- a massive American aid program to help European nations recover from World WarII
- What is the total amount of undesirables killed by the Germans?
- 12 million
- Warsaw Pact
- alliance formed in 1949 by the Soviet Union and nations of eastern Europe
- I was the character created by the American government to persuade women to work in factories during the war.
- Rosie the Rivter
- Four Freedoms
- Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
- Tet Offensive
- the January 1968 surprise attacks by Vietcong forces on cities and towns throughout S.Vietnam
- I was the leader of Japan. I forced my country to surrender, becuase my people would never surrender without my lead.
- Emperor Hirohito
- What was the amount of Jews killed by the Germans?
- 6 million
- I developed the atomic bomb.
- John Oppenheimer
- CORE
- the Congress of Racial Equality
- detente
- a relaxing of tensions between nations
- I was the English leader who made convincing patriotic speeches defending th war and denouncing Hitler.
- Winston Churchill
- Vietnam War
- the conflict in which S. Bietnam, supported by U.S., was defeated by communist N. Vietnam
- We signed a nonaggression pact with each other.
- Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler
- Geneva Accords
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the 1954 international agreement that split Vietnam into 2 parts:
North-communist
South-non-communist - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- the resolution passed by Congress that authorized President Johnson to increase American military involovment in Vietnam
- I was the name of the mother whose son dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
- Enola Gay
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- the 1962 confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
- sunbelt
- the sunny states of South and Southwest
- What happened at Stalingrad?
- The German sodiers were surrounded by Russians and killed
- Axix powers in WWII
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Germany, Japan, Italy, and
Spain - bicentennial
- a 200-yr anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
- Who were the major people involved in WWII and what countries were they involved with?
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Hitler-Germany
Stalin-Russia
General Tojo-Japan
FDR-U.S.
Moussilini-Italy
Churchill-U.K. - Who was the president who decided to drop the bomb on Japan?
- Harry S. Truman
- What was the turning point of the war for the Allies?
- The Bulge
- Great Society
- President Johnsons's 1964 program to end poverty and racial injustice
- Brown vs Board of Education
- the 1954 Suprememe Court decixion that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
- What is the United Nations?
- an international organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and progress.
- Battle of Midway
- June 1942, the U.S. Navy defeated the Japanese navy.
- I was the fascist dictator of Italy
- Benito Mussolini
- Where and when did the Allied soldier land on D-Day?
- June 6, 1944, 150,00 of them landed in France
- What were the name of the places of where the two atomic bombs were dropped?
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Why did Japan invade China?
- They needed to more land. They claimed China bombed them first.
- Korean War
- the cold war conflict in which UN soldiers fought to defend S. Korea from takeover from communist N. Korea, ending in stalemate
- Why did Germany invade their neighbors?
- Germany lost alot of its land and people to nearby countries. Germany's new leader wanted it back along with the rest of the world.
- Japan invaded what probince of China?
- Manchuria
- McCarthyism
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unfairly accusing other of disloyalty and subversion