US History
Vocabulary List for Unit 01: Reshaping our Role in World Affairs
Identify ALL the terms below in 2 to 3 sentences.
Allied Powers
Anti-Semitism
Arms race
Atomic bomb
Axis Powers
Bataan Death March
Battle of Britain
Battle of Midway
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Blitzkrieg
Changing gender roles (military and civilian)
Civil liberties
Cold War
Concentration/death camps
Containment
Cuban Missile Crisis
D-Day
Deterrence
Draft
Enola Gay
Final Solution
Genocide
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Holocaust
Home front
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
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US History
Vocabulary List for Unit 01: Reshaping our Role in World Affairs
Iron Curtain
Iwo Jima
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Japanese American internment
Korean War
Kristallnacht
Douglas MacArthur
Manhattan Project
Marshall Plan
Mass media
McCarthyism
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Navajo code talkers
Nisei
Normandy invasion
Nuremberg Trials
Pearl Harbor
Propaganda
Rape of Nanking
Rationing
Red scare
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rosie the Riveter
Satellite nations
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Truman Doctrine
Tuskeegee Airmen
U-boats
United Nations
V-E Day
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US History
Vocabulary List for Unit 01: Reshaping our Role in World Affairs
Victory gardens
V-J Day
War bonds
Warsaw Pact
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