Final exam Flashcards
Aug. 9, 1945
Nagaski
Father of American containment
George F. Keanan
(1942) Japanese-American Internment
Executive Order 9066
The WWII voluntary unit of Japanese-Americans
442nd Company
Germany and Russia to divid Poland
Soviet-Nazi Agreement
Outlawed segregation in public facilities
(1964) Civil Rights Act
Leading physicist on the design of Manhattan Project
Robert J. Oppenheimer
August 6, 1945
Hiroshima
US money to European nations to prevent communist influence
Marshall Plan
Symbol of wartime industrial American women
Rosie the Riveter
Korean War and Vietnam war = US fight spread of communism
Communism
(1985) resulted in 50% reduction of nuclear arms
Geneva Summit
Pearl Harbor (date)
December 7, 1941
US declared war on Japan (date)
December 8, 1941
(1954) US Supreme Court decision that segregated public education was unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
Build up of arms but no fighting
Cold War
Manhattan Project top secret design of atomic bomb
Atomic Bomb
Adolf Hitler was a dictator who could be easily appeased
False
The two Arkansas cities where Japanese interment camps were located. It was determined unconstitutional in 1944.
Rohwr and Jerome
WWII improved US economy more than the New Deal
True
Japan’s decision to bomb Pearl Harbor was completely random without purpose
False
