Baby
Boom
30 million war
babies were
born between
1942 and 1950.
Barack
Obama
2008; Democrat; first African American
president of the US, health care bill; Gulf
of Mexico oil spill disaster; economy:
huge stimulus package to combat the
great recession, is removing troops from
Iraq, strengthened numbers in
Afghanistan; repeal of Don't Ask Don't
Tell; New Start treaty with Russia
Bataan
Death
March
Japanese forced about
60,000 of americans
and philippines to march
100 miles with little food
and water, most died or
were killed on the way
Battle of
Argonne
Forest
1 million American soldiers
fought in the final Allied
offensive. Heavy German
fire killed more than
100,000 Americans, but in
the end, the Allies were
victorious.
Battle of
Midway
1942 World War II battle
between the United
States and Japan, a
turning point in the war
in the Pacific
Beat
Generation
Group of writers of the
1950s, led by
Kerouac, focusing on
alienation, conformity,
and materialism.
Benito
Mussolini
Fascist dictator of
Italy. He led Italy to
conquer Ethiopia
and joined Germany
in World War II.
Berlin
Airlift
Airlift in 1948 that
supplied food and fuel to
citizens of west Berlin
when the Russians
closed off land access
to Berlin.
Betty
Friedan
1921-2006. American
feminist, activist and
writer. Best known for
starting the "Second
Wave" of feminism through
the writing of her book
"The Feminine Mystique"
Bill
Clinton
1992 and 1996; Democrat; Don't Ask
Don't Tell policy implemented by
Congress, Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1993, Travelgate
controversy; Operation Desert Fox (4 day
bombing campaign in Iraq); Scandals:
Whitewater controversy, Lewinsky
scandal (impeached and acquited),
Travelgate controversy, Troopergate; first
balanced budget since 1969
Billy
Graham
An Evangelist
fundamentalism preacher
who gained a wide
following in the 1950s with
his appearances across
the country and overseas
during and after the war.
Black
Panthers
A black political organization
that was against peaceful
protest and for violence if
needed. The organization
marked a shift in policy of the
black movement, favoring
militant ideals rather than
peaceful protest.
Blitzkrieg
"Lighting war" typed of
fast-moving warfare
used by German
forces against Poland
in 1939
Brown v.
Board of
Education
1954- court decision
that declared state laws
segregating schools to
be unconstitutional.
Overturned Plessy v.
Ferguson (1896)
Causes of
Great
Depression
Higher US tariffs,
Overproduction of food,
buying on margin,
market speculation,
stock market crash,
bank failures
Higher US tariffs,
Overproduction of food,
buying on margin,
market speculation,
stock market crash,
bank failures
Yellow journalism,
imperialism, Spain
brutality to the
Cubans, explosion
of the USS Maine.
Causes
of WWI
1. A system of alliances divide Europe
into two parts 2. Nationalism was very
prevalent in the countries of Europe 3.
Militarism or reliance on military strength
4. Imperialism and the conquering of
countries in Asia, South America, and
Africa 5. The assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand by the Black Hand
Cesar
Chavez
1927-1993. Farm worker,
labor leader, and
civil-rights activist who
helped form the National
Farm Workers
Association, later the
United Farm Workers.
Charles
Lindbergh
Completed the first
non- stop solo flight
across the Atlantic
Ocean, traveling from
New York to Paris
Chester
A Nimitz
Navy commander
(coral sea,
Midway, Solomon
Island, Philippine
Sea)
Chicano
Mural
Movement
Began in the 1960s in
Mexican-American barrios
throughout the Southwest.
Artists began using the walls of
city buildings, housing projects,
schools, and churches to depict
Mexican-American culture.
Chinese
Exclusion
Act
(1882) Denied any
additional Chinese
laborers to enter the
country while allowing
students and merchants
to immigrate.
Clarence
Darrow
A famed criminal defense
lawyer for Scopes, who
supported evolution. He
caused William Jennings
Bryan to appear foolish
when Darrow questioned
Bryan about the Bible.
Cold
War
A conflict that was
between the US and the
Soviet Union. The nations
never directly confronted
each other on the
battlefield but deadly
threats went on for years.
Communist
Revolution
in China
Revolution led by Mao
Zedong and the Red
Guards whose focus was
to establish a society in
which all people were
equal, also called the
Cultural Revolution
Concentration
Camp
Liberation
As Allies
advanced,
Holocaust came to
light; Hitler's racist
"final solution"
Consumer
Credit
A type of credit granted
by retailers that is used
by individuals or families
for satisfaction of their
own wants
Containment
American policy of
resisting further
expansion of
communism
around the world
Court
Packing
Attempt by Roosevelt to appoint
one new Supreme Court justice for
every sitting justice over the age of
70 who had been there for at least
10 years. Wanted to prevent
justices from dismantling the new
deal. Plan died in congress and
made opponents of New Deal
inflamed.
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
An international crisis in October 1962,
the closest approach to nuclear war at
any time between the U.S. and the
USSR. When the U.S. discovered Soviet
nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John
F. Kennedy demanded their removal and
announced a naval blockade of the
island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev
acceded to the U.S. demands a week
later.
Dawes
Act
1887 law which gave all
Native American males
160 acres to farm and also
set up schools to make
Native American children
more like other Americans
D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000
Allied troops landed along
a 50-mile stretch of
heavily-fortified French
coastline to fight Nazi
Germany on the beaches
of Normandy, France.
Delgado
v. Bastrop
1948-Parents of Mexican American
students in Texas sued on the
premise that "Separate but Equal"
was created to segregate White
and Black student, not Mexican
American. The decision stated that
segregation was illegal for Mexican
American.
Detente
A policy of reducing
Cold War tensions that
was adopted by the
United States during the
presidency of Richard
Nixon.
Dollar
Diplomacy
Foreign Policy idea by
Taft to make countries
dependant on the U.S.
by heavily investing in
their economies
Dolores
Huerta
Taught farmworkers how to
become citizens and how to
vote; earned more money to
buy food and clothing for
them; worked with Cesar
Chavez to form the National
Farm Workers Association
Domino
Theory
A theory that if one
nation comes under
Communist control, then
neighboring nations will
also come under
Communist control.
Douglas
MacArthur
Army commander in
Pacific; at Bataan "I
shall return" retook
Philippines and led
rebuilding after WWII
Dust
Bowl
Region of the Great Plains
that experienced a drought
in 1930 lasting for a
decade, leaving many
farmers without work or
substantial wages.
Dwight
Eisenhower
Top Allied commander
in Europe supervised
the invasion of
Normandy and the
defeat of Nazi Germany.
Later 34th president