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Standard 7 - Terms & Definitions COPY Flashcards

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Countries in Eastern Europe between Russia and Gemany that Russia wanted to become Communist. In their minds, this would have prevented another German invasion of Russia

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“Buffer States”

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American fear of Communists infiltrating the US government & movie industry in the 1950’s

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2nd Red Scare

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Dividing line between N & S Korea

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38th Parallel

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AA Leader who threatened to march on Washington if FDR didn’t do something to help black people get jobs during the Great Depression

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A Philip Randolph

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Country invaded by Russia so that it could have a friendly neighbor on its southern border. The US helped a group fight against the Communists - this group later supported terrorism against the US

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Afghanistan

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Term for anti-Jewish feelings.

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Anti-Semitism

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Europe’s policy of allowing Hitler to take over some countries in the hope that he wouldn’t take over any others

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Appeasement

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Term for the large increase in babies born after WWII until the early 1960’s.

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Baby Boom

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Air battle where Britain defended itself against Nazi bombings intended to keep Britain out of WWII

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Battle of Britain

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The last German effort to keep the Allies from invading Germany

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Battle of the Bulge

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JFK’s attempt to send Cuban refugees into Cuba to take the country back from Castro. It failed and most of the men were sent to Cuban prisons.

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Bay of Pigs

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Period when the US flew supplies into West Berlin when the Russians had blockaded it.

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Berlin Airlift

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Barrier built between East and West Berlin to keep people on the Communist side from escaping to the West. It was torn down in the late 80’s.

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Berlin Wall

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Woman who wrote The Feminine Mystique and is credited with launching the feminist movement

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Betty Freidan

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Terms for the main allies in WWII - The US, England, and Russia

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Big Three

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The peace agreement worked out between the leaders of Israel and Egypt with help from Jimmy Carter

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Camp David Accords

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American policy at the beginning of WWII stating that we would sell weapons to anyone who could pay up front and would transport them back to their own countries

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Cash and Carry

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Communist leader of Cuba who overthrew the American-supported dictator in the late 1950’s.

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Castro

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This country - the most populated in the world - became Communist in 1949

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China

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Period of political, economic, and ideological disagreement between the US & Russia from 1945-1992

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Cold War

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Event when Russia installed nuclear weapons in Cuba & JFK worked to get them removed. This was the closest the US & Russia ever came to actual war during the Cold War.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Code name given to the day when Allied forces invaded the beaches of Normandy, France to liberate Europe from the Nazis.

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D-Day

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American policy at the beginning of WWII in which we gave old American ships to England to help fight Germany in exchange for military bases around the world.

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Destroyers for Bases

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Eisenhower’s idea that the US had to keep Russia from influencing events in the Middle East because of how dependent we had become on oil

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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Betty Freidan’s book that is credited with beginning the Women’s Right’s movement in the 1960’s.

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Feminine Mystique

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The systematic destruction of an entire group of people (such as the Jews in WWII)

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Genocide

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Law that gave veterans easy access to loans and paid for their college education

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GI Bill

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Larger than the A-Bomb, this pushed the Arms Race to a new level.

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H-Bomb

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Leader of the Nazis in WWII

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Hitler

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Specific name given to Hitler’s attempt to destroy all the Jews in Europe during WWII

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Holocaust

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Group of people that Americans sent to internment camps during WWII in the American west

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Japanese

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The US supported a leader in this country who was so unpopular that his own people forced him out, then took a number of captives in the American Embassy there for 444 days.

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Iran

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Winston Churchill’s name for the division of Europe between Communist and non-Communist sections

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Iron Curtain

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The US strategy of moving across the Pacific one island at a time until we were close enough to Japan to launch an invasion (WWII)

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Island Hopping

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These were two of the final battles in the Pacific during WWII - In both, the Japanese demonstrated that they would fight to the last man.

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Iwo Jima & Okinawa

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The US got involved in a “Police action” in this country in the early 1950’s to keep Communism from spreading. This country was ultimately divided into two halves - one Communist and one democratic.

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Korea

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The Night marking the beginning of the Holocaust when Germans attacked Jews and burned their homes, businesses, and places of worship.

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Kristallnacht

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American policy at the beginning of WWII in which we let our allies borrow weapons to fight Germany on credit.

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Lend-Lease

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Japan invaded this part of China in the 1930’s and committed unspeakable atrocities against its people.

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Manchuria

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Battle marking the turning point in the Pacific against the Japanese during WWII. After this battle, we were on the offensive.

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Midway

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Fascist Italian leader during WWII.

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Mussolini

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Law passed in the 1950’s that encouraged students to take more math & Science classes

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National Defense Education Act

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Group of allied countries originally formed to fight against the spread of Communism during the Cold War

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NATO

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Laws passed in the US in the 1930’s to keep us out of any wars in Europe

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Neutrality Acts

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Laws passed in Germany in the 1930’s forbidding the intermingling of Germans and Jews

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Nuremburg Laws

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Trials in Germany after WWII in which Nazi leaders who carried out the Holocaust were convicted of their crimes.

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Nuremburg War Crimes Trials

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Code name given to the Allied invasion of Northern Africa to keep the Nazis from getting oil in the Middle East & to retake the Mediterranean Sea

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Operation Torch

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This country was created after WWII to give the Jews an official homeland - their first since AD 70.

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Israel

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Site bombed by Japan before WWII in an attempt to keep the US out of war.

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Pearl Harbor

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Term used for limits placed on how much people could buy during WWII to ensure there was enough for the war effort

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Rationing

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Poster depicting a strong working female used to encourage women to join the workforce during WWII

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Rosie the Riveter

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Senator who led the “witch hunt” for Communists in Hollywood and the government in the 1950’s.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy

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Term for the scientific competition between the US & Russia to be the first to reach the moon

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Space Race

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First manmade satellite in orbit around the Earth - It was Russian

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Sputnik

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Battle that marked the turning point in the conflict between the Russians & Germany in WWII - After this battle, the Russians pushed into Germany

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Stalingrad

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Area around cities that grew as the highway system grew, people wanted to avoid city life, and more people had access to home loans and automobiles

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Suburbs

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Japanese military leader during WWII

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Tojo

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Form of government in which in individual or group of people has total control over every aspect of life within the country

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Totalitarianism

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Truman’s teaching that Communism should be “contained” wherever it existed

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Truman Doctrine

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People during WWII were encouraged to plant these at home to ensure there was enough food for the war effort

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Victory Gardens

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People were encouraged to buy these during WWII to provide the government with money to fight the war

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War Bonds

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Group of allied countries originally formed to fight against NATO if it attacked the Communist countries of the world during the Cold War

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Warsaw Pact

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Term for workers who work primarily in offices with their minds, rather than their hands

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White Collar

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Term for workers who work primarily in manual labor tasks with their hands rather than their minds.

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Blue Collar

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Term for the phenomenon when many white people left cities for the suburbs in order to get away from large numbers of AA’s moving into cities

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White Flight

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Harry Truman used this on Japan so that the US didn’t have to lose a large number of men in a potential land invasion

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A Bomb

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Event in which many Mexicans were beaten in LA because of their “un-American” clothing.

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Zoot Suit Riots

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