History exam

Munich Conference

Representative of Britain, France, Italy and Germany met in Munich to decide what to do’s about Germany invading Czechoslovakia

Vladimir Lenin

The ma who created the Union of Soviet Republics (USSR)

Reichstag

the lower house of the German parliament

Anschluss

The unification of all German-speaking people

Sudetenland

An area of Czechoslovakia with a large German speaking population

Neville Chamberlain

Prime minister of Great Britain during hitler’s demand of unifying German-speaking countries

Maginot Line

It was built as a permanent line of defense against the attacks on France from Germany; it ended up being useless

Germany invaded Poland

September 1, 1939

Blitzkreig

Lightening War

Winston Churchill

British prime minister who delivered a defiant speech, vowing they would never surrender

Luftwaffe

German Air force

The Battle of Britain

in August and September 1940, Germany and Britain engaged in an air battle known as

6 million

number of European Jews killed in the Holocaust

Neutrality Act of 1935

The act made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war

Neutrality Act of 1937

This act continued the ban on selling arms, but also made them buy on a “cash and carry” basis

of speech, of worship, from want, from fear

Roosevelt spoke to Congress about these Four Freedoms

Hemispheric Defense Zone

Roosevelt developed the idea of a ___ declaring the entire western half of the Atlantic was part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral.

The Atlantic Charter

Meeting where Churchill and Roosevelt committed both nations to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas

Pearl Harbor Bombing

December 7, 1941

Nuremberg Laws

These laws took citizenship away from Jewish Germans, banned marriage between Jews & Germans, barred Jews from holding public office or voting, etc.

Eisenhower

He was named supreme cormander of the Alled powers

Operation Overlord

Code name for Battle of Normandy

D-Day

June 6th, 1944

Paratroopers

Soldiers that were trained to jump out of an aircraft and parachute into combat

Atlantic Wall

Nazi German fortification built to defend against an Allied attack-spanned across the Western coast of Europe

Merville Battery

This was captured by the British paratroopers and gliders-it led to the Battle of Normandy being an Allied Victory

Omaha

Bloodiest beach in Normandy

Omaha

The bloodiest and biggest battle of WW2-huge turning point and win for the Allies

Franks

Jewish family who resettled in Amsterdam and while hiding the daughter kept a diary

St. Louis Affair

May 27, 1939-930 Jewish refugees on board a ship headed for the U.S., but was denied

Double V

Campaign to urge newspaper readers to support the war and win a double victory over Hitler and racism in America

WASPs

About 300 women serving as ___ made more than 12,000 flights to deliver planes to the war effort

WBP

This organization was created to direct priorities and production goals during World War II

Rosie the Riveter

The great symbol of the campaign to hire women in World War II

Douglas MacArthur

commanding officer of the Philippines during World War I!

Bataan Death Camp

60,000 - 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners forced to walk to a Japanese POW camp

Battle of midway

turning point of war in the pacific

Erwin Rommel

German general nicknamed "Desert Fox"

Convoy

Cargo ships traveling in groups escorted by warships

Battle of The bulge

This battle put the Germans on the defensive-turning point in World War 2 for the Allies

D-day

Largest beach landing in history during World War Il

Douglas MacArthur

General was fired by President Truman

U-2

Type of American Spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union

Warsaw Pact

Military alliance formed in Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union

NATO

Military Alliance between Europe and U.S.; collective defense

Elvis Presely

50's teens found their first rock 'n' roll hero in this music and movie star

Thurgood Marshall

African American lawyer for the Brown Family and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice

John F. Kennedy

A president that stood for civil rights but was assassinated before he could sign any legislation into law

Bloody Sunday

Violence that was televised during the Selma March became known as

Voting Right Act of 1995

The act that was passed in 1965 that ensure equat Voting rights

Kerner Commission

The commission that blamed racism for inner-city problems (but then nothing was done about it)

Memphis, Tenessee

City where MLK, Jr. was assassinated

Plessy vs Ferguson

This court case declared segregation to be Constitutional as long as facilities were equal

Little Rock Nine

crisis between Arkansas governor and African American students who wanted to attend a white school

Woolworths

Restaurant/ store where the first sit-ins took place

Brown vs Board

Court case that declared segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

Letter from Birmingham Jail

MLK wrote this in defense of nonviolent protest

Alabama Governor, George Wallace

Man who stated, “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”

March on Washington

250,000 demonstrators gathered near Lincoln Memorial to keep pressure on Civil Rights legislators

Civil Rights Act of 1964

The most comprehensive civil rights law Congress had ever enacted

Watts Riot

Uprising in an African American neighborhood in Los Angeles

Black Power

A term that has many meanings: physical self-defense, but also that African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle

Malcolm X

Man who became a symbol for the black power movement

Black Panthers

Organization that called for an end to racial oppression and for control of major institutions in the African American community, such as schools, law enforcement, housing and hospitals

17th Parallel

This parallel is significant to the history of Vietnam

Lyndon B. Johnson

President who officially sent troops to Vietnam

What country did American troops invade in order to Destroy Vietcong bases there

58,000

Approximately how many Americans were killed in Vietnam

1968

The assassination of both MLK Jr. RObert Kennedy , and Pres. Johnson announcing he wasn't going to run again happened in the year

MLK Jr

In April 1968, James Earl Ray was arrested for killing

MLK Jr.

In April 1968, James Earl Ray was arrested for killing

NYC, DC, Pennsylvania

The three places where the attacks on Sept. 11th happened

Vladimir Putin

Who was the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks?