us history two

Rationing

Americans were restricted in the amount of certain goods they could obtain ensure there was enough for the war effort

Office of war info

War bonds rationing victory gardens

Arms race

Competition between us and Soviet Union to achieve superior itt in quantity and quality of weapons nuclear

Strategic arms limitation

Agreements between the us and Soviet Union to slow down arms race

Mutually assured destruction

Both the us and Soviet Union have so many nuclear weapons neither side wants to use theirs as it would result in destruction of both nations

WWII caused by failure of the ?

League or nations

Appeasement

Pearl Harbor

Executive order 9981

President Truman’s order to destantearé the armed forces

Korean War

Part of Cold War

Couldn’t allow communist north Korea to invade South Korea would go against containment policy

38th parallel

Divided north and South Korea

Did the Korean War ever end ?

No only a cease fire agreement was made

Vietnam war

US involved due to fear of domino theory mine country in Asia fell to communism the rest would soon follow

Loose containment

Indochina

Cambodia laos and Vietnam former French colony French had failed to stop the communist uprising leading Vietnam being split into two parts

Pentagon papers

docs leaked through the press revealed President Johnson’s administration has been lying about American involvement in the war and how well the war was going

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

President power to expand us involvement in Vietnam and send more troops Into combat bc ships attack

Panther party

Organization dedicated to protect black people against racism and violence carried out by state and federal governments

Malcom x

More extreme action then MLK, black supremacy sorta toon races and rejected civil rights movements .

NAACP

Create reform using the legal system, civil rights organization

National association for the advancement of colored people

Black power movement

Radical action

Little Rock nine

9 African American students enrolled in Little Rock central high school in Arkansas President Eisenhower had to us troops of 101 airborne to protect students

9/11

AI-QAEDA osama bin Laden

“War in terror” removing saddam hussein from Iraq and taliban government from Afghanistan

Space race

Floridas eastern coast

Flappers

“New women” political views social rights left house more often rejected traditional morals

Great migration

South to north/west

Rosewood incident

Armed white men went to rosewood black community killed black residents and burned the down all because of a white womens accusation that she was assaulted

League if nations

Maintain world peace by preventing wars, through collective security and disarmament and settling in International disputes through negotiation.

Article X

Required that all league of nation members help, defend the territory of all other members and commit to joint military action. If any nation we having their territory, attacked main reason US did not join as it would you like us into European wars

Fourteen points

President Wilson’s ideas on how to end world one based on the principle of justice, all peoples in nationalities