Butler Us History Goal 10

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Adolf Hitler

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Leader of the Nazi Party in Germany

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Serviceman's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

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A policy that granted education and low interests loans to war veterans

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Japanese Internment

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All Japanese-Americans were suspected of spying; They were sent to relocation camps

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United Nations

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An organization that replaced the League of Nations; designed to keep world peace

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Winston Churchill

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A leader who met with Roosevelt to create Atlantic Charter

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Harry S Truman

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The president who started the Cold War after meeting with Stalin at Potsdam

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Joseph McCarthy

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The person who led Senate hearings investigating suspected Communists

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Rosie the Riveter

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A mythical women who worked in steel mills during World War II

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Douglas MacArthur

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The leader of the United Nations peacekeeping troops in the Korean War; fired by Truman

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The general of the Allied invasion on Normandy, France on D-Day; The president who warned the U.S. of growing military industrial complex; The first president to discuss the "domino theory"

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National Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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A Post-WWII organization created to establish "collective security" for democratic countries

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Appeasement

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A policy of Britain and France's allowing Germany to take territory to avoid war

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Totalitarian Governments

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These rose to power because of European depression; They took over weak democratic governments

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Containment

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U.S. foreign policy to stop expansion of communism

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Red Scare / McCarthyism

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A mass hysteria caused by fear that communism was taking over the United States

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Marshall Plan

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A plan giving aid to democratic countries in Europe to stop the spread of communism

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Warsaw Pact

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An alliance of the Communist countries of Europe and Asia

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Cold War

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A global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from 1945 to 1990

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Lend-Lease Policy

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A policy by which the United States sold arms to European Allies before entry into WWII

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Embargo of Japan

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The primary cause of Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941

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Stalingrad, D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge

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Turning points in the European Theater in WWII

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Battle of Midway

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A major turning point of WWII in the Pacific

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German invasion of Poland

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An event after Munich Conference that was the immediate cause of WWII in Europe

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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The event that ended WWII