Final Exam Study Guide
Study guide for final exam with Mr. Diaz... Milford High School, DE
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- Doves
- People opposed the war
- Napalm
- Flammable gasoline used during war
- Genocide
- Organized killing of an entire people
- Heinrich Himmler
- Leader of SS
- Eitzangrupen
- Mobile killing squad
- The White Rose Movement
- Anti Nazi party establish in Munich
- Geneva Accords
- 1954 international conference in which Vietnam was divided into two separate nations
- Richard Nixon
- US President from 1969-1974 who ended Vietnam War
- Pogrom
- Killing certain people secretly
- Containment
- American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
- Joseph Goebbels
- Hitler's Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda
- Allies
- During WW2, Great Britain, US, Soviet Union and other nations
- Benito Mussolini
- Italian dictator
- Bay of Pig Invasion
- Failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces in 1961
- Axis
- During WW2; Germany and Japan
- Ho Chi Minh
- Leader of North Vietnamese Army during Vietnam War
- The Final Solution
- Nazi final plan to exterminate Jewish people
- Kent State Shooting
- National guard shot and killed 4 students during student protest and rise public anger
- Martin Niemoller
- Against HItler, formed alliance against Nazi and also against Jews as well.
- Brown v. Board of Education
- 1954 Supreme Court casa in which racial segregation in public school was outlawed
- Joseph Stalin
- Leader of Soviet Union on the beginning of WW2, responsible for killing over 20 million people
- Le Chambon sur Lignon
- Village occupied by French and was a safe place for Jewish people
- FDR
- The 32th president of US who led American during ww2
- Massacre at My Lai
- US troops kill civilian in Vietnam and cause people agaist the war
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnamese dictator who is supported by US but then ended up being assassinated
- Auschwitz
- Largest concentration camp established in 1940 in Poland
- Harry S. Truman
- Vice president of US during FDR's presidency but then became president right after him. He is the one who agreed to drop A-Bomb in Nagasakai & Hiroshima
- Kristallnacht
- Night of Broken Glass, night when Nazy attacked arsenal and directly started Holocaust
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Starting point of WW2 in Pacific which mostly between US and Japanese
- Nonaggression Pact
- Agreement between HItler and Stalin that they are not going to attack each other, but then Hitler broke it
- SNCC
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; pronounce "snick", began 1960 at North Carolina
- Guerilla Warfare
- Hit and run tactics used in war
- Montgomery Buss Boycott
- Protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1962 crisis that arose between the US and the Soivet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba
- Winston Churcill
- Leader of Great Britain who then decided to confront HItler
- Viet Cong
- Communist guerillas in South Vietnam
- A-Bomb
- Bomb that made from Uranium that used to finish WW2 in Pacific by dropping it on Nagasaki & Hiroshima and caused tremendous destruction
- William Westmoreland
- Four stars general during Vietnam War of ground troops until 1968
- Concentration Camp
- Isolated area made to collect all Jews and other hated people by Nazi. It also is called killing camp because people were killing of an entire people
- Warsaw Ghetto
- Largest ghetto in Poland, most people die because of disease and starvation
- Lebensraum
- Term describes the need of more space for Germany. It means "Living Space"
- Eugenics
- Study of sterilization
- Jewish Resistance
- A group of Jewish who fought back agains Nazi Germany
- Blitzkrieg
- Kind of warfare emphasizing rapid & mechanized movement, used by Germany during WW2
- VIetnam War
- Fought to avoid Vietnam fall to Communist, last for 12 years between South Vietnam backed up with US and North Vietnam.
- D-Day
- Code name for the allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944
- Korean War
- It is fought to stop spreading of communism on Korea, trying to eliminate the 38th parallel divison and unify South and North Korea. This war took place during 1950-1953, and as the result, nothing is changed.
- Beatniks
- in 1950s, people who criticized American Society as apathetic and conformist
- Lend-Lease Act
- 1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security
- The Nuremberg Laws
- Racial law according pure blood
- Oscar Schindler
- Holocaust hero, save about 1200 Jews during Holocaust
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Route in Cambodia and Laos used to send supply to South Vietnam from North Vietnam
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The 34th president of the US
- SCLC
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, started by Martin Luther King Jr. and other African American people
- Totalitarian
- A government that exerts total control over the nation & citizens' lives
- Wansee Conference
- Conference held by fifteen top Nazir officers, planning how to carry out the Final Solution
- Iron Curtain
- Imaginary curtain, used to describe tension between two world power countries after WW2, US, and Soviet Union
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- The 36th president of US during Vietnam War and issued the Great Society
- Truman Doctrine
- Doctrine issued bu Truman which basically implies that US will help other countries if communism will spread on that country
- Adolf HItler
- Dictator who led Germany and Nazi
- JFK
- The 35th president of US from 1961-1963 who then be assassinated
- Neville Chamberlain
- Issued Appeasement Policy
- Hawks
- Supporter of a war
- Hideki Tojo
- Leader of Japanese army who led Japanese to WW2 and bomben Pearl Harbor
- T-4 Program
- Code name for euthanasia program during Holocaust
- Nazism
- An extreme form of fascism shaped by Adolf Hitler's fanatical ideas about German nationatlism & racial superiority
- Domino Theory
- Belief that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would likewise fall
- fascism
- Political philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the supreme authority of the leader over that of the individual
- Manhattan Project
- Secret American project during WW2 to develop A-Bomb
- Agent Orange
- Herbicide used as a chemical weapon during the Vietnam War to kill vegetation and expose enemy hiding place
- Tet Offensive
- 1968 attack by Viet Cong and NVA throughout South Vietnam