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Why did WWII begin?
Because Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.
Allies, Axis powers.
2 sides during WWII
America´s role in entering the war?
Because of pearl habor which was bombed by the Japnese.
American´s role before entering the war?
Lead and lease.
U.s demand to end war under Truman
Unconditional surrender
What was the Manhattan Project?
Secret organization that made the atomic bomb.
Where was the atomic bomb used?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Black Americans during WWII.
fought in the war in hopes for equality.
Navajos during WWII?
Used code.
Japanese Americans during WWII?
Were put in camps were they could not make money.
Women during WWII?
They worked to help men at war and put their kids in daycare?
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt met and discussed the post war world.
Post WWII super powers.
USA, and the soviet union.
Iron curtain
Border that divided east Europe in soviet control and western Europe.
U.S control to communism after WWII.
containment.
What happened to Germany after WWII?
It was divided into 4 section US, Soviet Union, Britain and France and airlifts were used to ship supplies.
What is Nato?
an alliance formed to band the countries together one for all.
Marshal plan
economic support to help nations so they do not fall and then become communist.
cause of the Korean war
north Korea invaded south Korea
outcome of the Korean war
Korea was divided
house unAmerican actives committee
investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
Culture of the 1950´s
2 different realities the older generation wanted to be traditional the younger generation wanted to rebel
Bay of pigs invasion
CIA trained cuban exiles to try and overthrow castro
Start of the Cuban missile crises
Soviet union sent nuclear weapons to Cuba
End of Cuban missile crises
Missiles were pulled out of Cuba and American missiles pulled out of turkey.
Plessy vs Ferguson
Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
Brown vs. the board of education
segregation in school.
Montgomery bus boycott
people boycotted riding busses til they were desegregated
Little rock
School were busses bussed African american kids to a white school and the president called the national guard because it went so bad.
Shocking images of civil rights
lynching and Emmett til
Influenced american society
helped create progress.
Kennedy vs Nixon debates
Nixon was sweaty on tv and Kennedy won
Great society
focused on helping groups of people but people argued the government was too involved.
Vietnam war
Vietnam was colonized by France
Geneva accords
was started to secure peace and self government in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
Domino theory
The belief when one country falls to communism all the other will.
Arguments in expanding the war
prevent fall of communism but it was unwinnable and it was pointless to be there
Agent Orange
Spray sprayed in the jungle on plants that would effect the air and later linked to giving people cancer
How military progress was determined
body count so the side that killed more people were ahead
Tet offensive
an offensive by the Vietnam forces in south Vietnam
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