History Final Exam
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- Containment
- US foreign policy followed during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet Communism
- Berlin Airlift
- Joint effort by the US and Britian to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
- What Brought Dictators to power in Europe during the G.D.
- Debts from WWI still burden the European economies when teh Great Depression, Governments tried to handle the economic problems, some counties turned to totlaitarianism where the government controled all aspects of the citizens lives.
- NATO
- North Alantic Treatry Organization Military alliance formed in 1949 by teh US, GB and 10 other counties to help each other against in defence against another war
- A. Philip Randolf
- AA labor leadetr that wanted to protest his discrimination organized a march at Washington DC but canceled it when FDR issued an order to ban racial discrimination in defence industries
- Blitzkreig
- "Lighting Wars" type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939
- United Nations
- (UN) International org. chartered ihn 1945 to promote world peace and resolove conflicts between natinos
- Cold War
- Power struggle between the US and the SU that lasted from 1945-1991
- Island Hopping
- WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan
- What made the US join the UN when it didn't want to join the League of Nations after WWI
- The League of Natins responed with authority of penelities but refused to enforce them
- What created post-war tensiton between the SU and the Western Allies
- The US and the SU strongly disagreed about the political future of Cent. and Eastern Germany. Germany status was an issue. The US wanted Germany to be united and independant. Soviets feard that Germany United would cause Germ. to invade again. Growth of Ger. would threaten W Europw's democracies. Stalin used his terror and viloence against the Soviet cirizens
- Nuremburg Trials
- 1942 War crimes trials of high-ranked Nazi officals held by the International Militay in Nuremburg, Germany
- Holocaust
- Hitler's carefully plannedextermination of about six million European Jews
- Compare leadership qualities of Stalin.Hitler, and Mussolini
- Hitler- Stalin- Mussolini
- Totalitarianism
- Political system in which the gov. controls every aspect in the citizens life
- Erwin Rommel
- "Desert Fox" Afrika Korps commander He was a master of warfare and sly attacks Tried to advance into N Africa but stopped by Eisenhower
- Chester Nimitz
- US Navy commander Sent allied forces to attack the Japs in the Coral Sea also ordered to have US Carries to catch Japs by surpise
- Why did the Western Allies put so much effort&money into keeping the SU from controlling W Berlion
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- Benito Mussolini
- Leader of Italy had supporters called the 'Blackshirts' had a fascism government
- Kamikaze
- WWI Japanese tactic bu the Japs npilots to crashe Japenese piolited airplanes filled with explosives into the Allied ships
- Marshall Plan
- US program of giving aid to European countries to help them rebuild their economies after WWII
- Battle of Britian
- 1940-1941 Series of bombing raids launched against British cities by the German air force
- Joseph Stalin
- Commander of the Soviet Union believed in totalitarianism had a good economic plans
- D-Day
- June 6,1945 date when the Allied Forces invansion of France during WWII
- Battle of El Alamein
- 1942 British victory in WWII that stopped the AAxis forces from advancing into the North of Africa
- Manhattan Project
- Secreat Allied project begun in 1942 to develop an A-Bomb
- Braceros
- Mexican Workers authorized by the US gov. to enter&work in the US during WWII
- Yalta Conference
- 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war