Us history Final

To study for final

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

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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