Final Exam Flashcards
Adolf hitler
Rose to power in 1933 quest to dominate Europe and the world
Good neighbor policy
Declared the U.S. Would not depend on military force to exercise its influence in the region (Latin)
Chang Kai shek
Led the Chinese nationalists to fight against the Japanese
Neutrality acts
Avoid entanglement in foreign wars
Spanish civil war
July 1936 nationalist fascist attacked the democratically elected government
Appeasement
British prime minister Neville chamberlain offered an hitter an appeasement that would give hitter Germany if he left Czech alone
Joseph Stalin
Soviet permier
Winston Churchill
British new prime minister vowed he will never surrender to hitler
Battle of Britain
Handed hitlers first defeat being outgunned
Pearl Harbor
December 7 1941- 183 aircraft lifted off six Japanese carriers and attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet
Internment camps
Relocation centers
Selective service act
Register men of age In draft
Rosie the riveter
Advertising women who worked in a war industry
D-day
Largest amphibious assault in world history June 6 1944
United Nations
Mew peacekeeping organization, security council would wield decisive , allied powers China , France , great britiian, the Soviet Union, U.S.
Hiroshima
First bomb and nicknamed little boy
Nagasaki
Fat man , the second bomb
Holocaust
Jews
Cold War
Soviet Union communists
Harry s Truman
Senator of Missouri democratic
Dwight d Eisenhower
General American army
Iron curtain
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic
Containment
Is foreign policy hold in check the the power and influence of the Soviet Union or other nations of communism
Berlin airlift
Confirmed the wisdom of the containment
Hydrogen bomb
Equivalent to give hundred atomic bombs
NATO
Set to counter a soviet threat to Western Europe
CIA
Gather info but also to perform any activities related to intelligence affecting national security
Red scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism
Joesph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin senator avowed that the communist within our borders have been more responsible for the success of communism abroad than soviet Russia
Interstate highway system
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, Interstate Freeway System, Interstate System, or simply the Interstate) is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States
Indian relocations program
was a United States law intended to encourage Native Americans in the United States to leave Indian reservations, acquire vocational skills, and assimilate into the general population.
Sun belt
West and southwest the sun belt epecially boomed in proudution commerce and population
Kitchen debate
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959.
Baby boomers
American birthdate soared between 1945 And 1960 peaking in 1957 with 4.3 births
Billy graham
Nationwide crusades of Baptist minister billy graham
Beat Generation
A small group of primarily male literary figures based in New York City and San Fran
Brown v board of education
laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused of kill jfk
Great society
The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Civil rights act of 1964
that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
American Indian movement
To attack problems in cities where about 300,000
Cesar Chavez
Organized a movement to improve the wretched conditions of migrant agricultural workers
Dolores Huerta
Organized a movement to improve the wretched conditions of migrant agricultural workers
Stonewall riots
were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community
Title ix
Ban sex discrimination in education
Apollo program
Space exploration
Peace corps
Program recruiting young people to work in developing countries
Army of the republic of Vietnam
were the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the armed forces of South Vietnam,
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam leader
Agent orange
Destroy the vietcongs jungle hideouts and food supply
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
All necessary measures
Operation rolling thunder
A strategy of gradually intensified bombing of north Vietnam
My lai
Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968
Benito Mussolini
Fascist leader of Italy since 1922 wanted empire in Africa