Post War Ameica ? Flashcards
Monday, 8 December 1941?
Monday, 8 December 1941 – the USA went to war against Japan.
Thursday, 11 December 1941 ?
Hitler and Germany declared war against the USA.
6 June 1944 ?
The D-Day landings happened along the coast of Normandy. The Allies had been planning this for months. The event came as a shock to the Germans – they didn’t believe the Allies would attack in Calais. Germany fought back powerfully, but the Allies were much stronger – they had more soldiers and supplies.
Dropping the atomic bomb ?
By the summer of 1945, Japan had lost almost all the land it had taken control of in the Pacific. The Japanese soldiers were retreating. There was a possibility that the Allies would attack Japan, but that would lead to many people being killed. Japan was not willing to stop fighting. As a result, the President of the USA, Harry S Truman, took the decision to use the atomic bomb to bring the war to a quick end.
6 August 1945 ?
6 August 1945 - an atomic bomb dropped over the city of Hiroshima, killing 70,000 people.
9 August, 1945 ?
9 August, 1945 - an atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki, killing 40,000 people.
15 August, 1945 ?
Japan surrenders and the war ends.
Fair deal ?
The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. More generally the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953.
America dream ?
the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
McCarthyism ?
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
Slavery in the USA was abolished in 1865, but black Americans did not have equality, why ?
The Ku Klux Klan attacked and lynched black people.
Black people were not allowed to use white public facilities such as schools and parks. This was called ‘segregation’.
Segregation ?
,Black people were not allowed to use white public facilities such as schools and parks. This was called ‘segregation’.
The Civil Rights Movement gave black Americans legal equality, to do what ?
The Civil Rights Act (1964) outlawed segregation in schools, public places or jobs.
The Voting Rights Act (1965) gave all black people the vote.
The Fair Housing Act (1968) banned discrimination in housing.
What are Jim Crow laws ?
Jim Crow’ laws were passed in the southern states. They denied black people equal rights. Black people and white people were segregated. Black people were not allowed to use ‘whites only’ public facilities such as schools and parks.
What are KKK ?
The Ku Klux Klan was formed. Set up during reconstruction of the South after the Civil War in 1865, it aimed to promote ‘white supremacy’ by intimidating, attacking and lynching black people.
