US History II Midterm names
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- took over Russsia and focused on creating a model communist state. he transformed the Soviet Union into a great industrial power
- joseph Stallin
- established a totalitarian regime in Italy. played on fears of economic collapse and communism
- benito Mussolini
- similar to Mussolini, lead Nazi party, be ame ruler of Germany
- Adolf Hitler
- lead a group of spanish army officers to rebel against Spanish Republic. His victory in 1939 established him as Spain's fascist dictator
- Francisco Franco
- british prime minister, signed the munic agreement with Hitler and
- Neville Chamberlain
- chamberlain's political rival in Great Britain, believed the munic pact was appeasement, he became Prime Minister, a fighter
- Winston Churchill
- cheif of Japan's Kwantung Army, launched the invasion into china. he became Prime Minister of japan
- Hideki Tojo
- Hitlers mistakes
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1.Dunkirk->spit fire
2.attacking USSR->fighting on two fronts
3.battle of Britain->air war -
Yalta conference->people/when
re-establish conqured nations, idea of UN -
Churchill-GB, Roosevelt-US, Stallin-USSR
Feb. 1945 -
Potsdam Conference-people/when
unconditional surrender of Germany
re-established the 4 zones -
Clement Atlee-GB, Stallin-USSR, Truman-US
Aug. 1945 - former state depatment official, was accused of spying for the USSR
- Alger Hiss
- minor activists in the American Communist Party. guilty of espionage and sentenced to death
- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
- a republican from wisconson that charged that communists were taking over the government to gain speed in the election
- Joseph McCarthy
- strong anti-communist, wanted brinkmanship
- John Foster Dulles
- followed Stalin as ruler of USSR, believed communism would take over the world but in peace
- Nikita Khrushchev
- started Unity League of California -to register Mexican Americans to vote
- Ignacio Lopez
- leader of CORE
- James farmer
- mean police leader in Birmingham
- Conner
- led opperation torch, led Operation overlord as a US general, later became US President
- Dwight D. "IKE" Eisenhower
- these two men led in the liberation of Paris
- Omar Bradley and George Patton
- the U-2 incident pilot, sentenced to 10 years in prison
- Francis Gary Powers
- took over for Roosevelt after his death
- Harry S. Truman
- developed vaccine for the crippling disease polio
- Dr. Jonas Salk
- news reporter used person to person interviewing, two news shows on tv
- Murrow
- first rock'n'roll dj
- Alan Freed
- after france fell he fled to England where he set up a gov't-in-exile, "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war"
- Charles de Gaulle
- pushed for the formation of WAAC, was the army chief of staff general
- George Marshall
- nationalist leader of China, supported by US, low moral and weak leadership
- Chaing Kai-Shek
- communist ruler of China, supported by the USSR, highly motivated leadership, attracted peasants because of promises of land reform
- Mao Zedong
- mexican workers
- Braceros
- worked NAACP and won many supreme court rulings in his favor, became first African-American Supreme Court Justice
- Thurgood Marshall
- spoke for Mississippi freedom Democratic Party at 1964 Democratic National Convention
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- leader of SNCC
- Stokely Carmichael