History U.S. II Final

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Mein Kampf

Battle of Iwo Jima

Potsdam Declaration “July 1945.”

Truman’s warning to Japan to accept un conditional surrender or face, “prompt and utter destruction.”

Hiroshima

Site of first nuclear strike on Japanese industrial city.

Nagasaki

Site of second nuclear strike against Japanese industrial city; use of nuclear weapons made it possible for U.S. to avoid bloody invasion of Japan itself.

Holocaust

Was only after defeat of Nazi Germany that he world learned profoundly shocking realization of full extent of horrors of the death camps.

Truman Doctrine

Truman’s Stance against Stalin’s Russia; U.S. to support any country resisting armed takeover by communist agents or forces.

Containment (Kennan)

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

38th Parallel (Korea)

Inch’on Landing

Chinese Counterattack

“Mac Arthurs firing”.

Venona Project

Election of 1960

Peace Corps

Bay of Pigs Invasion (Operation Trinidad).

Cuban Missile Crisis

Warren Commision

Adolf Hitler

Winston Churchill

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Harry Truman

George F. Kennan

George C. Marshall

Douglas MacArthur

Mathew B. Ridgway

John F. Kennedy

Nikita Khrushchev

Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack Ruby

Battle of Midway

Battle of Guadalcanal

Allied Air Campaign against Germany ( 5 points, bullet points.)

Operation OVERLOAD (D-day, Normandy invasion.)