Finals U.S. History - Rossomondo
Mrs. Enders
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- Pearl Harbor
- site of the Japanese attack on the US that brought US into WW II
- Rosie the Riveter
- symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war.
- New Deal
- The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
- Vietnam War
- Japanese seized power in Vietnam; they tried to get independence from France and France did not want them to become independent
- Marshall Plan
- a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
- Good Neighbor Policy
- FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region, FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region
- Nuremburg Trials
- tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes
- Internment
- confinement under guard, especially during wartime
- Hitler
- German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
- G.I. Bill
- Rewarded soldiers for efforts during war. GI welfare. Programs such as Govt pays for college after 2 yrs of service
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Italian anarchists unfairly arrested and executed for robbery and murde
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
- Allied Powers
- the US and its allies, which opposed Germany, Japan, and Italy during WWII; included France, Great Britain and Russia
- limited war
- a war fought to achieve limited objective (such as containing communism)
- Lend-lease Act
- allowed the US to lend or lease arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the US"
- kamikaze
- Japanese pilots who carried out suicide missions during WW II
- Victory garden
- gardens americans planted to get more food for combat soldiers
- containment
- Main component of foreign policy during the post WWII era. Keep communism from spreading outside of where is already is
- Fascism
- a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
- D-Day
- Date of the Invasion of Normandy during WW II
- War Powers Act
- Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort
- Franco
- Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)
- Axis Powers
- the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan
- genocide
- systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
- Island Hopping
- strategy of Allies in World War II of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others
- totalitarian
- a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
- Tojo
- Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II
- United Nations
- an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
- liberty ship
- a type of large, sturdy merchant ship built in World War II
- atomic bomb
- powerful nuclear weapon that could destroy an entire city with one bomb
- embargo
- a government ban on trade with other countries
- Maginot Line
- a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border
- sputnik
- The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US.
- Berlin airlift
- airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- US congress gives president Johnson the right to cause war at Vietnam
- women's role in WWII
- Army enlisted women (barred from combat)
- Churchill
- British statesman and leader during World War II
- holocaust
- the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII
- Sen. Joseph McCarthy
- United States politician who unfairly accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
- Cold War
- State of tension between two superpowers with not actual fighting
- Mussolini
- Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)
- Korean War
- American/Soviet Forces entered Korea and divided it at 38th parallel
- appeasement
- accepting demands in order to avoid conflict
- Stalin
- Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
- FDR Hundred Days
- congress passed 15 major acts to meet the economic crisis
- Truman Doctrine
- President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
- blitzkrieg
- "Lighting war", type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939
- lend lease
- An act passed to get around the neutrality act, it allowed the US to "lend" supplies to other countries as long as they paid us back
- Lenin
- Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
- rationing
- The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy - often imposed by governments during wartime.
- Nonaggression Pact
- 1939-Secret agreement between German leader Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland