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32 Cards in this Set
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what event ended WWll in europe |
hitlers suicide |
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what event ended WW11 in japan |
hirotiato announced over the radio his surrender |
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how did the convoy system work |
protect, groupships to protect summary |
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what was operation overload |
largest invasion in history D-day |
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after WWll was over, what two areas in the world did the US focus on to rebuild |
europe and japan |
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what was the battle of the bulge |
germans attacked, made a bulge |
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what did gov spend their money on during the great depression verses during WWll |
focused banks, creating jobs, WWll weapons |
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what was the primary goal of the marshal plan |
us economy grew |
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what organization formed because of the berlin crisis |
Nato |
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What were the two causes of the second red scare |
*china became communists *soviet had an atomic bomb |
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why was korea considered a police action |
congress never declared war |
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why did truman fire general macarthur |
made public statements, changing presidents authoriy |
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what is the house of un american committee |
studied domestic communist threats |
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why was the us economy strong after WWll |
demand for consumer goods after the war |
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why did the Us not share the information about the atomic bombs to the soviet union |
didnt trust them |
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what was sputnik |
first satelite built by soviet union |
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what cartoon taught students to "duck and cover" in case of the atomic bomb |
burt the turtle |
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what gov agency taught americans to build bomb shelters |
federal civil defense admin |
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what was the truman doctrine |
help greece and turkey, resist soviet threat |
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who were ethel and julius rosenburg |
arrested for leading spy ring |
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why did the us authorize the berlin airlift |
prevent berlin from being taking over by communist |
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why did americans believe joseph Mcarthy |
senator, look for someone to blame |
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who came up with the polio vaccine |
jonas salk |
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what is NASA |
national airiontics and space admin, incharge of all space exploration |
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who became the soviet union leader after joseph stalin's death |
nikita khrushchev |
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what was the warsaw pact |
soviets responce to nato ussr and eastern europe |
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what was the effect of the cuban missile crisis |
US and USSR took steps to ease the tention |
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what was the great society |
LBJ's slogan |
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how did the us find out about the missiles in cuba |
U2 spy planes, navel blockaid |
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what was the warren commision |
investigation for JFK |
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why did the bay of pigs invasion affect the Us cuban relations |
cuban gov became protector of USSR |
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what was the 24th amendment |
abloished poll tax |
