U.S History Final
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- Neutrality Acts
- Series of laws to prevent U.S arms slaes and loans to nations at war.
- De facto segregation
- segregation because of culture
- Camp David Accords
- Historic agreement between Isreal and Egypt
- Cesar Chavez
- Mexican- American who fought for farmer's rights
- War Powers Act
- limited president's power to send troops into a hostile area with out war
- Gerald Ford
- pardoned nixon; cut goverment spending
- Tet Offensive
- showed Americans that Johnson had been lying about the US winning the war
- Emmett Till
- Was killed for flirting with a white women
- Pearl harbor Attack
- Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
- Island Hopping
- U.S moved from island to island to get closer to Japan
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- granted Johnson braod military powers in Vietnam
- V-E Day
- Victory in Europe Day; May 8 1945
- Battle of the Bulge
- month long battle; last major German offensive of the war
- Dien Bien Phu
- place where French were beat
- NOW
- Women's civil rights group
- SCLC
- MLK founded it; planned protests and demenstrations
- Pentagon Papers
- revealed that the govement had had plans to enter war even after Johnson said they wouldn't go to war
- Hitler
- German leader; wanted to enforce racial "purification"
- Iran Hostage Situation
- Iran had American hostages; Reagan traded them for arms
- Bill Clinton
- cut spending; lowered taxes; decreased national debt
- Warsaw Pact
- military alliance between Soviet Union and Eastern Eurpoean Satillite Countries
- Nonagression Pact
- Stailin and Hitler signed it
- Manhattan Project
- U.S program to develop an atomic bomb
- Hollywood 10
- Ten witnesses who refused to cooperate
- Truman Doctrine
- provided aid to countries threatened by communism
- De jure Segregation
- segregation because of law
- Jimmy Carter
- focused on energy crisis; gave up ownership of the Panama Canal; worked towards peace between Isreal and Egypt
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnam's leader; anti-communist, christian, hated, was assasinated
- Containment
- The blocking of another nation;s attempts to spread communism
- The Beat Movement
- expressed the social and lityeracy noncomformity of artist poets and writers
- Marshall Plan
- program that gave aid to nations after World War II
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Court ruled "seperate but equal" education was unconstitutional
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- prohibited segregation in public places
- HUAC
- Investigated communist influence in the movie industry
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Court ruled "sperate but equal" was constitutional
- Iran Contra Scandal
- Reagan sent money to the Contra's in Nicaragua with the money he got for selling arms to Iran
- Fascism
- political philosophy that advocates a govermant headed by a dictator
- D-Day
- In 1944, allies invaded the European mainland
- Militarism
- policy of building up armed forces
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Eliminated Literacy tests
- Star Wars
- Defense system that cost trillions of dollars; never worked
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- After Rosa Parks was arrested people stopped riding the bus in protest
- Ronald Reagan
- cut social programs; put money saved and more into defense; raised national debt
- Domino Theory
- the idea that if one country falls to communism the coutries around it will too
- War in Iraq
- Began in 2003 Saddam Hussein was said to have WMD; none were found
- The Great Frontier
- JFK's program to provide medical care for the elderly, rebuild urban areas and aid education
- Berlin Blockade/Airlift
- U.S and G.B planes flew supplies to West Berlin
- Ho Chi Minh
- North Vietnam's communist leader
- Vietcong
- communsit opposition group in the south
- Vietnamization
- Nixon's gradual withdrawl of U.S troops
- The Great Society
- Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice
- Watergate Scandal
- Nixon administration's attempt to cover up it's involvment in the breakin
- My Lai
- US troops massacered civilians after being told to kill anything that breaths
- U-2 Spy incident
- Pilot got shot down flying over Soviet Union
- Black Panthers
- political party
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cuba had missles; when U.S pledged not to invade they removed them
- Black Power
- slogan that encouraged black pride and political and social leadership
- Okinawa
- battle killed 7, 600 Americans and 110, 000 Japanese
- NATO
- A military alliance
- Joseph Stalin
- Soviet Union's communist leader
- Iwo Jima
- Most heavily defended place; only 200 Japanese survived
- McCarthyism
- attacks on people suspected of communism
- Credibility Gap
- What American's were seeing on TV and hearing from Johnson were very different
- Thurgood Marshall
- judge of the Brown v. Board of education
- SNCC
- A student non-violent civil rights group
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Eisenhower had Cuban exiles trained to overthrow Castro; didn't work
- Reaganomics
- 1. Budget Cuts 2. tax cuts 3. increase defensive spending