STUDY TERMS FOR TEST III
Nye Committee
Neutrality Act of 1935
“cash and carry”
Blitzkrieg
Lend-Lease Act
Manhattan Project
Pearl Harbor
Casablanca Conference & “unconditional surrender”
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Potsdam Declaration
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
War Production Board
War Food Administration
Office of Price Administration
“Rosie the Riveter”
Japanese-American Relocation Policy
A. Philip Randolph
March on Washington, 1941
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Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Dumbarton Oaks Conference - framework of the United Nations
Yalta Conference
United Nations - Security Council and General Assembly
Potsdam Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
Cold War
Occupation of Japan
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Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Truman’s Fair Deal (foreign policy)
Korean War
Containment
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) & National Security Council
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Eisenhower Doctrine
Truman’s Domestic “Fair Deal”
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill of Rights)
Taft-Hartley Act
Presidential Election of 1948
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Alger Hiss
Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism
Jim Crow
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Fourteenth Amendment
Plessy v Ferguson
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
State of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v Canada
Sweatt v Painter
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka. Kansas
Brown II - “with all deliberate speed”
Little Rock (Arkansas) Crisis, 1957
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Oxford (Mississippi) Crisis, 1962
Civil Rights Act, 1957
Civil Rights Act, 1960
Civil Rights Act, 1964
Voting Rights Act, 1965
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sit-in Movement
Freedom Rides
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Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
March on Washington, 1963
Watts Riot, 1965
Malcolm X
Black Power Movement
Great Society
Free Speech Movement
Counterculture - Woodstock
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Domino Theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
China
Silent Majority
“stagflation”
Watergate
CREEP
WIN
Camp David Accords
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Iranian Crisis
Reaganomics
Grenada
Nicaragua, the Contras & Iran-Contra Affair
Tiananmen Square
Berlin Wall
Desert Storm
Somalia
Bosnia
Cultural Diversity
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