UNIT 10: World War II & Aftermath
PART 1
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General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
General Douglas MacArthur
Admiral Chester Nimitz
General George S. Patton
The Holocaust
Anti-Semitism
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Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Fair Employment Practices
Commission
Code-Talkers
Zoot-Suit Riots
Rosie the Riveter
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Japanese Internment
DDay
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
Berlin Airlift
NSC-68
Servicemen’s Readjustment
Act 1944 (GI Bill)
Fair Deal
Korean War
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Alger Hiss
Richard M. Nixon
McCarran Internal Security
Act 1950
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American Bandstand
Michael Harrington, The Other
America
Brown v. Board of Education
Little Rock Nine
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC)
Jackie Robinson
Federal Highway Act
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PART 2
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Cold War
United Nations
Containment Doctrine
George F. Kennan
The Marshall Plan
National Security Act of 1947
Central Intelligence Agency
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PART 3
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Baby Boom
Keynesian economics
Jonas Salk
Sputnik
NASA
Disneyland
Levittown
Dr. Benjamin Spock, Baby and
Child Care
Elvis Presley
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Nikita Khrushchev
Michael Harrington, The Other
America
John Foster Dulles
“Rollback” / “Massive
Retaliation” / Brinksmanship”
Shah of Iran
Fidel Castro
U-2 Incident