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WW2 Flashcards

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Japanese Internment

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we would send Japanese to these internment camps if we thought they were hostile of spys

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Pearl Harbor

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  • a unique situation
    - The Navy was playing war games a month before the attack
    - Japanese spies got this info and used it on the guys on Pearl Harbor
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Largest concentration of japanese in America at the time

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west coast

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What did Congress do from the fear of a Japanese invasion

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put the American Japanese in internment camps
- they provided housing
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The elastic clause

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congress can do anything for the good of the country (very vague)

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The Coramotzu Case

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The Japanese who got stuck in the internment camps fought for their civil rights
The Supreme Court said Congress hod the power to put theirs.

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7
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What kind of pilots were the Japanese pilots

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Elites of the Japanese Empire

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What were the Pilots ready to do if their aircraft was damaged or ran out of amo

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they were ready to die in the plane by crashing it into the U.S. boat

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9
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What did the Japanese have in their fighter planes?
Why?

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Ancestors Samaries Sword

They would use to commit suicide for the empire if they where caught.

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10
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How did the Japanese view the emperor?

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as a god

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11
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Who does Geoge Marshel want to fight in Japan?

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George MacArthur

  • he was the leading general in the Philippines
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12
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Who were the generals in the Atlantic theater?

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Ike

Geroge S Patton
Monty (Montgomery)
Ohmar Bradly

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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  • he fought in the Atlantic theater
  • he was MacArtor’s right-hand man in the Philippines
  • gets picked by Marshell to go fight the Germans
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14
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Victory Gardens

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People would grow food in their backyards

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15
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Rashon Books

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Books with things that the govt thinks a family needs to survive so we can put the rest of resources for the war effort

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16
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What did the woman do when they couldn’t wear pantyhose

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they wore cream to look like they had pantihose on

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17
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WE CAN DO IT

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Rosie the Riveter
- She was Elinor Otto

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18
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Cigarettes

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  • the currency of soldiers
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19
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What did soldiers get from the Red Cross

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A Box
- Rashons
- toilet paper
- Cigarettes

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20
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What was the biggest cigarette of the war?

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Lucky Strikes

French Prostitutes would take these as currency

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Lend Lease act

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this was a way we gave British supplies

  • we would lend England war materials and they would eventually “give it back”. and England would pay for it
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What did England have many sailers when British soldiers were stuck in Dunkirk, France

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they had to go pick up the soldiers and have the escape

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23
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Who told FDR and the super weapons in Germany

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Albert Instine told him that Germany had the atomic bombs.

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24
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After Pearl Harbor what fleet do we have left?

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the fleet in the Philippines.

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25
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What happened to the fleet in the Philippines

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We had to flee to Australia

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26
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How many U.S. soldiers were left behind in the Philippines

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11,000

they were captured.

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27
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What did Hitler do to Stalin?

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He goes to attack Stalingrad

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28
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What makes America so good at manufacturing? (War Machine)

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Natural Resources

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29
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New Technology

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  • coding machine
    - Enigma (Germany coding machine)
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30
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Church Hill
What does Church Hill do when he finds out that they crack the German code out of bombing London

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He lets them bomb London so the Germans don’t know we crack their code.

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31
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What kind of code did we make so the Japanese couldn’t break

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Navaho
We used the Navaho people as communication people
(Wind talkers)

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32
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Manhattan Project

3 locations:

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Nuclear bomb:

  1. Design Planning:
    University Of Chicago
    - they worked under the football field
  2. Building Fase
    Oak Ridge Tennessee
  3. Testing
    Los Alamos
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33
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What does Hitler build to protect his new empire

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the Atlantic wall

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34
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Vichy Government

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Puppet government that bent the knee to Germany?

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35
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Charles de Gaulle

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President of France after the war

Also led the French resistance during the war
- highly organized resistance

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36
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First battle against Hitler (for America)

Why does Hitler want North Africa?

What commander was out of their

A

North Africa

the oil reserves

Patton (Ol blood and guts)

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37
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Italians, what did they think of the war?

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They didn’t want to fight

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38
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June 6th

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D-Day Invasion Normandy France

39
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What happens to Patton before the invasion

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Ike used his as a decoy to trick the germanys on where they were going to invade France

40
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Conferance in Tehran

A

Iran

Church Hill, FDR, Stallin make a plan to pinch Hitler from 3 sides of GErmany

41
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D-Day

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  • Took months of planning
  • Took place in Normandy
    - Ohmaha beach
42
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What was the decoy on D-Day

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Pattons men
Throws off Germany

43
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Landing Crafts on innovation day
(D-Day)

A
  • Higgins boats
  • Most men didn’t make it out of the boats
  • some waited in the water but there were deep pots and died by drowning
44
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What was the battle plan of taking Ohmaha Beach?

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Km by km slowly take over the area through the weeks.

45
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When the American troops reach Paris What did the French Underground do?

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The French Underground takes credit of liberating Paris when really it was the British and American troops who did all the heavy lifting.

46
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When Winter sets in what happens to many of the WW2 men?

A
  • they didn’t have propper winter gear
  • they had to fight in the worst conditions ever
47
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What did Hitler do when he started to run out of men because he was losing men in Stalin Grad?

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  • Enlisted WW1 vets
  • elementary schoolers
  • anyone he could get to fight
    ( One last stand)
48
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Battle of the Bulge

A

Hitlers last stand
- it worked for Hitler for a little bit
- ( big push)
- However, the Allies take over

49
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What country suffered the most during WW2

A

Russia
- Stalingrad is a waiting land
- people were brutalized by the Germans

50
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What did the Russians do to Germany during the closing of WW2

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  • Village to village the the soldiers would rape everyone from 8 - 80 yrs
51
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What happened to Hitler during the closing of WW2

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  • He became more isolated in his bunker in Berlin
  • Matter of time would close in on Berlin
  • he commits suicide with his girlfriend Eva Brond
  • Commits suicide after he gets married to her.
52
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Meeting of Yulta

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  • this takes place when the war is nearly over
  • Stalin, Church Hill, and FDR meet in a resort village (Yalta) on the black sea
  • Stalin invited American and British Deligation to rebuild Europe
  • ( How to take build up Germany)
53
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4 Zones of Germany

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Zone 1 - Russian (Communist)
Zone 2 - France ( Democracy)
Zone 3 - U.S.A ( Democracy)
Zone 4 - Great Britain ( Democracy)

  • Berlin is in Zone 1 (Russia)
54
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What would the 4 zones of Germany lead up to?

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The split of Germany into 2 halves
- East Germany
- West Germany

55
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How did Stalin win some votes in Yalta?

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  • thanks FDR for the help in the war
    - Russia uses American-made weapons and tanks to fight

Makes FDR a chairmen of the meeting (MIddle guy)

56
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Who was arguing during the Yalta meeting?

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Churchill and Stalin

  • Churchill knew that Stalin was a dictator and he was lying about not wanting to make other countries communist
  • Wanted FDR to not trust Stalin.
57
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What was FDR’s attitude during the Yalta meeting

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  • FDR wasn’t feeling well
  • didn’t really care when he was at the meeting.
  • Gave Stalin to many concessions.
58
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What was the Yalta Resort like?

A
  • riddled with bed bugs
59
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Even though Germany surrendered who was still fighting?

A

Japanese

60
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How did the Jap’s see the emperor?

A

As a God

61
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What did Emperor Hirohito tell his soldiers (Lied)

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  • An American marine had to kill a member of their family (untrue)
  • Jap-soldiers where indoctrinated and brainwashed.
  • This made the Jap’s fight harder
62
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What branch of the U.S. military fought in the Pacific

A

Mariens

63
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Hirohito

A

Emperor of Japan

64
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Tojo

A

Real general to blame on the war

65
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Doolittle Raid 4/18/1942

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The raid on Japan
- Suicide mission
- A bombing raid on Japan the flee to China
- They had to make the plains as light as possible
- stripped down the plain

  • Successful raid ( a punch back from Pearl Harbor)
  • Japanese get pissed a China for hiding American Piloit so they slotter Chines villages
66
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FDR death?

A

4/12/1945

67
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What secret was kept from Harry S. Truman?

A

we had a super bomb

68
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5/8/1945

A

Germany VE
Victory Europe

69
Q

What did Patton say after the defeat of the Germans?

A

He said that we should go attack Russia

70
Q

America was working on the Super Bomb
What was Germany working on?

A

Intercontinental Ballistic Rocket

71
Q

After the war what race takes place?

A

The Space Race

72
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Where do High German commanders go when the war is over (Flee)

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Argentina

73
Q

Who helps us fight Japan?

A

After the defeat of Germany not to many people helped America fight Japan

74
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How did we gain ground in Japan?

A

Island hopping

75
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Bataan Death March

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76
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Little Boy

A

Uranium Bomb dropped on Japan

77
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U.S.O

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United Service Organization
- make life easier for out G.I.’s
- they would go to safe zones in Europe and help our boys feel better during the war

78
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Andrew Sisters

A

They were part of the U.S.O
-they would go around the military bases and sing to them and put on shows
(Buggie Woogie Bugle Boy)

79
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Fat Man

A

The second Bomb was dropped on Japan
and the would surrender

80
Q

Trumans Plack on his desk

A

“the buck stops here”

81
Q

Lend Lease 9/2/45 Missouri

A

The Japanese surrender

82
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A
82
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When McAurthor is in charge how does the Japanese take his changes to Japan?

A

They liked it

83
Q

Who was our next big enemy after the war?

A

Soviet Union
USSR

84
Q

What was the Cold War?

A

Russians v.s. US in everything

85
Q

How many provinces are in the USSR

A

16 provinces

86
Q

Baby boomers

A

1946 - 1964

kids that were born after the WW2 when the economy was good

87
Q

What happens to the balance of power after WW2

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U.S.A and USSR

Europe’s power has declined.

88
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United Nations

A

Collective Security between the states that joined.

  • all the countries that joined, when they see a bad actor put him down
89
Q

Who the leader of the United Nations
The new leader of the World.

A

The U.S.A

90
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New technology after the War

A

T.V.

91
Q

What did America do with the leftover

A
  • scrapped
  • but into storage
  • and got used to Military ducks.
92
Q

Created vehical in America that can out the war
- where was it used?

A

Jeeps

Post office

93
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A

Jr sam class (22 decks)

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