countries allied against the Axis powers in WWII
Allied Powers:
discrimination against Jews
Anti-Semitism:
giving into an aggressive power to keep them happy
Appeasement:
competition between countries to build a bigger defense
Arms race:
first nuclear weapons, used to end WWII by the US
Atomic bomb:
Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII
Axis Powers:
forced march of US/Filipine prisoners of war by Japanese soldiers
Bataan Death March:
Britains defense against German air attacks in 1940-1
Battle of Britain:
major naval battle between the US and Japan following Pearl Harbor
battle between Germany and Soviet Union to liberate Stalingrad
major counteroffensive by Germany late in WWII
Cuban nationals attempt to invade Cuba during Kennedy admin
Italian fascist leader during WWII
barrier separating East and West Berlin
German war strategy of WWII, rapid attack
rights guaranteed citizens
conflict between the US and Soviets following WWII
economic/political system of socialism and dictatorship
German facilities confining enemies of the state
US foreign policy to keep communism from spreading
conflict between US and Soviest over nuclear missiles
Allied invasion of France in 1944
military ability that convinces countries to not attack another
Supreme commander of US troops in Pacific during WWII
required military service
refusal to buy or sell from a country
B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
US scientists executed for treason
political system emphasizing superiority of one group over others
Hitler's decision to exterminate the Jews
Spain's dictator during WWII
Democratic president during Great Depression and WWII
purposeful extermination of an entire ethnic group/race
Battle of Midway:
Battle of Stalingrad:
Battle of the Bulge:
Bay of Pigs:
Benito Mussolini:
Berlin Wall:
Blitzkrieg:
Civil liberties:
Cold War:
Communism:
Concentration/death camps:
Containment:
Cuban Missile Crisis:
D-Day:
Deterrence:
Douglas MacArthur:
Draft:
Embargo:
Enola Gay:
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg:
Fascism:
Final Solution:
Francisco Franco:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Genocide:
Japan's creation of an empire leading up to WWII
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere:
Japanese cities the US dropped Atomic bombs on.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki:
Congressional committee charged with investigating communism
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC):
term coined by Churchill to describe the isolation of the communist bloc
Iron Curtain:
foreign policy of keeping to oneself
Isolationism:
battle between the US and Japan to control an island near Japan
atomic scientist, father of the atom bomb
relocation of Issei and Nisei during WWII
leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
invasion of South Korea triggered a UN defense
Nazis vandalized Jewish businesses and synagogues
Congressional act to support Britain
confrontation between Japan and China that led to Japanese control
secret development of the atom bomb
Iwo Jima:
J. Robert Oppenheimer:
Japanese American internment:
Joseph Stalin:
Korean War:
Kristallnacht:
Lend-Lease Act of 1941:
Manchurian Incident:
Manhattan Project:
US policy to rebuild war-torn Europe following WWII
Marshall Plan:
hunting down Communists in the US government
McCarthyism:
Hitler's autobiographical plan for Europe
US use of Native American language against the Japanese
foreign policy of staying out of a war
Mein Kampf:
Navajo code talkers:
Neutrality:
children of Japanese immigrants
Nisei:
Allied invasion of France in 1944
Normandy invasion:
US led coalition of nations to defend against Soviet aggression North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO):
tribunal courts held to bring Nazi war criminals to justice
Japanese surprise attack on US
information aimed at influencing public opinion
Japanese war atrocities against Chinese city
Nuremberg Trials:
Pearl Harbor:
Propaganda:
Rape of Nanking:
US government control of certain consumer products during WWII
Rationing:
fear of communism following WWII
Red scare:
propaganda representation of women in war industries
less powerful countries that ally with more powerful hegemons
government that exercises total control over population
US foreign policy of containment following WWII
African American pilots of WWII
German submarines
International organization to promote peace following WWII
Victory in Europe-the day Germany surrendered
attempts to promote civilian food production
Victory in Japan-the day Japan surrendered
Rosie the Riveter:
Satellite nations:
Totalitarian:
Truman Doctrine:
Tuskeegee Airmen:
U-boats:
United Nations:
V-E Day:
Victory gardens:
V-J Day:
loans to the US government during wartime
War bonds:
multinational coalition allied with the Soviet Union
Warsaw Pact:
government programs to remedy past discrimination
Affirmative action:
chemical used in Vietnam to defoliate, eliminate cover
civil rights organization for Native Americans
Agent Orange/napalm:
American Indian Movement (AIM):
counterculture movement in opposition to Vietnam
Anti-war movement:
generation born following WWII-largest in US history
Baby boom:
US social and literary movement of the 50s counterculture
Beat Movement:
pride in African American culture striving for political power
Black Power:
Court decision outlawing segregation in schools
Brown vs. Board of Education:
nation bordering Vietnam, bombed by US
Cambodia:
civil rights leader for Mexican American farm workers
Cesar Chavez:
pride in Mexican American culture
Chicano Movement:
Congressional law forbidding discrimination in public facitilities
Civil Rights Act of 1964:
civil rights organization for African Americans formed following WWII Congress of Racial Equality (CORE):
social reform movement against the mainstream values
Counterculture:
separation of peoples that is not mandated by law
De facto segregation:
separation of peoples mandated by law
De jure segregation:
government spending more money than it collects in taxes
Deficit spending:
easing of tensions between US and Soviets during the seventies
Détente:
fear that allowing one country to fall to communism would lead to others
Republican president of the 1950s
belief that the nation would run out of oil and electicity
attempt to make sex discrimination unconstitutional
North Vietnam's successful takeover of South Vietnam in 1975
belief in social, economic and political equality of the sexes
civil rights activists who purposefully violated bus segregation in 1964
1965: massive attempt to register voters in the South
agreement ending the French attempts to regain Indochina
Congressional law providing for education and housing for veterans
President Johnson's war on poverty
military strategy avoiding direct confrontation
Congressional act empowering the president to take action in Vietnam
leader of the communists in North Vietnam
general rise in prices
Truman ordered the desegregation of the military
Domino theory:
Dwight Eisenhower:
Energy crisis:
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA):
Fall of Saigon:
Feminism:
Freedom Riders:
Freedom Summer:
Geneva Accords-1954:
GI Bill:
Great Society:
Guerilla warfare:
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
Ho Chi Minh:
Inflation:
Integration of the armed forces:
illegal selling of weapons to Iran and funding of Contras in Nicaragua
Iran-Contra Affair:
Iranian students held 52 US hostages in Tehran
Iran-Hostage Crisis:
Democratic president during the sixties following Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson:
Democratic president of the early sixties
John F. Kennedy:
African American students attending white school in Arkansas 1957
Little Rock Nine:
member of the Nation of Islam, black nationalist leader
civil rights march on the capital in 1963 for jobs
civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership Council
First African American to attend the University of Mississippi
US Army massacre of Vietnamese civilians
Malcolm X:
March on Washington:
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
James Meredith:
My Lai:
civil rights organization for African Americans formed in 1909
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP):
Nixon's policy of shifting programs to state authority
conservative movement that began in the seventies
Republican president 1969-1974, resigned
New Federalism:
New Right:
Richard Nixon:
Ghandian strategy of protest against unjust law or government
NAACP member who began the Montgomery Bus Boycott
competition between the US and Soviets to develop space programs
two consecutive quarters of reduced economic production
Court decision allowing abortion
Non-violent civil-disobedience:
Rosa Parks:
Race for space:
Recession:
Roe v. Wade:
civil rights organization for African Americans formed by clergy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC): Strategic
talks between the US and Soviets to reduce nuclear weapons
Soviet artificial satellite, first manmade satellite
Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT):
Sputnik:
economic policy of cutting taxes and spending to stimulate economy Supply-side economics (Reaganomics):
coordinated broad attack by Viet Cong against US and Vietnamese forces
communist forces in South Vietnam
Tet Offensive:
Viet Cong:
Nixon's policy to remove US troops from Vietnam
Vietnamization:
Johnson's domestic policy to help the poor
War on Poverty:
Congressional act to limit the power of the president to send troops
liberal Supreme Court under Earl Warren
scandal during Nixon administration causing his resignation
US sent peacekeeping forces to former communist country
1991: Soviet Union replaced by noncommunist commonwealth
Republican promises to balance budget and change government
War Powers Act of 1973:
Warren Court:
Watergate:
Bosnia/Yugoslavia:
Break-up of the Soviet Union:
Contract With America:
contested election between Bush and Gore
Soviet leader Gorbachev's pledge to open up Soviet society
economic and cultural interchange
Election of 2000:
Glasnost:
Globalization:
leader of the Soviet Union 1985-1991
Mikhail Gorbachev:
term describing the increase in average age in US
Graying of America:
cabinet position created in aftermath of 911 for national security
Homeland security:
migration of peoples into the US without proper documentation
Illegal immigration:
process of officially charging a government official before removal
conflict over proper sovereignty of Palestine
large businesses that operate in more than one country
Impeachment:
Israel-Palestine Conflict:
Multinational corporations:
free trade agreement between US, Canada, and Mexico North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA):
the spread of nuclear technology to new countries
post 911 congressional act relaxing limits on law enforcement to find terrorists
US led coalition forces liberated Kuwait from Iraq
fundamentalist Islam government removed by NATO forces
pro democracy demonstration in China crushed by government
amendment to education law requiring equal funding based on sex
post 911 foreign policy to rid the world of terrorism
Nuclear proliferation:
Patriot Act:
Persian Gulf War – 1991:
Taliban/Afghanistan:
Tiananmen Square:
Title IX:
War on Terrorism: