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Axis Powers
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italy germany and japan
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Josef Stalin
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soviet union leader
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Lend-lease act
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only Britian left US trying to help them as much as possible but stay out of the war our first push into the war
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Atlantic Charter
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concept in 1940 by FDR and Chruchill for post war europe if they were to be on the winning side
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Pearl Harbor
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dec 7,1941
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Winston Churchill
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britains prime minister during war
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ISLAND HOPPING
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strategy in pacific=push japan out, fortify island, move to next worked well
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Selective Service ACt
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draft
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D-DAY
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june 6th 1941 normandy
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V-E-DAY
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victory in europe may 8th 1945 gremany and italy out
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Manhattan Project
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A-Bomb
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Hiroshima
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Aug 6 1945 first abomb used in wartime 100,00 dead immediately
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Nagasaki
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Aug 9 1945- 60,000 dead on impact
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V-J-DAY
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Victory in japan aug 14th 1945 war over!
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Yalta Conference
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held in USSR feb 45 finalize plans once war over
soviets into japan 3 months after germans out germany into 4 zones poland free elections united nations |
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Potsdam conference
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in berlin Stalin, Truman, and Clemant Atlee stalin with most power finalize germany
ultimtum to japan surrendur or else |
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Nisie & Isei
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japanese-americans sent to internment camps
in war only sent to europe not japan |
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Operation Overlord
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military name for D-day
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Final Solution
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nazi term for dealing with jewish ppl (holocaust)
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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leader in chine nationalist head of little china
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Mao Zedong
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communist head of big/red china
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Tehran Conference
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nov 1943 captial of iran big 3 meet for 1st time
commit to overlord soviets to pacific plans for germany |
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Fair Deal
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trumans domestic plans
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us steel strike
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postwar wanted raise better working conditions
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taft-hartley act
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limits on labor management relations 80 day cooling off period
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hoover commision
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reorganize overlaps group same things together made more efficient
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national security act
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department of defense
CIA airforce national security council all created |
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GI bill of rights
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assistance to vets edu made college and open market
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election 48
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dewey (lost) vs. truman (won)
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San francisco conference
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wrote charter for UN 5 permanent members veto power 10 other countries
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cold war
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us and soviets after war
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big 5
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us britian soviet union france and italy
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big 5
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us britian soviet union france and china
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truman doctrine
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containment of communism
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marshal plan
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give money to european countries to rebuild bribe to go democratic
keep away communism |
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berlin aircraft
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48-49 supply berlin with EVERYTHING success for truman
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containment
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stop communism
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korean conflict
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devastated after WW2 split with soviets in hopes of reuniting with democracy North invades south 50-53
UN sends in peace keeping troops-passed b/c soviet rep wasnt there that day |
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korean conflict
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devastated after WW2 split with soviets in hopes of reuniting with democracy North invades south 50-53
UN sends in peace keeping troops-passed b/c soviet rep wasnt there that day |
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Gen Douglas MacArthur
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incharge of UN forces in korea openly disobeyed orders
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Pusan Perimeter
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north korea took over all of south except this part
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Inchon landing
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sneak around north korea and forces them back
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Ho Chi Minh
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leader of viet minh in south korea
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Kim IL Sung
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leader of North Korea during korean war
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Syngman Rhee
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leader South Korea during korean war
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HUAC
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house un-american activities committee look and hunt down communists
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Whittaker Chambers
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confessed to being a commie but said he could his house and inside a pumpkin theres microfilm and its Alger Hiss' so alger goes to jail
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Joseph McCarthy
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list of commies that gvt knows about but doesnt do anything about it
never showed anyone but had tons of power at times more power then president tons of press instant hero for fighting communism |
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Millard Tydings
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senator watned to see mccarthys list he says no the he loses his next election
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John Foster Dulles
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sec of state under eisenhower
basically was in charge and ran country |
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Indochina
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area becomes vietnam in 54
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Dien Bien Phu
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battle lost by french
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fidel castro
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leader of cuba 59-present
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Space race
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late 50s sputnik us vs soviets
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brown vs board of edu
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this case rules that schools must desegregate
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cental high school
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all white refused to desegregate after court ruling called in army to guide 9 black students to their classes
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Earl Warren
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chief justice supreme court
rules in brown vs board of edu case death threats people not happy for his decision on that case |
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Rosa Parks
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dec 55 tired wanted to sit on bus wouldnt get up to let a white person sit down started the boycott of buses
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brinksmanship
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see if we can take it all the way then have the opponent step down kinda like chicken
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massive retaliation
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US will use any and all weapons available to them
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MLK
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civil rights activist leader
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sit in
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60s civil rights protests sit at lunch counters until fed
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nikita khrushchev
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stalins successor 56-64
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sputnik
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soviet man made satelite first one launched into space oct 57
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iron curtain
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name given to eastern europe 1 side freedom the other slavery and communism
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Emperor Hirohito
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japans emperor
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berlin blockage
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soviets shut down city nothing in or out
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Forgotten War
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nickname of korean war
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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soviet spies passed atomic secrets to soviets
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Old soldiers speech
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Mccarthy after he was fired b/c he openly violated orders
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hydrogen bomb
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1,000 times more powerful than abomb
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MANIAC
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1st computer
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checkers speech
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nixon about him little dog---slush fund
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consumer society
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economic boom buying and selling more
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culture 50s
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rock and roll elvis bandstand beat movement
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orval faubus
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govenor of little rock (central high) national gaurd surround school not let blacks in
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lebensraum
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living space for germans
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the blitz
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76 nights of bombing germany
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guernica
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pacacos- piece spanish american war
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third reich
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name for hitlers new gvt lasted 12yrs
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warsaw ghetto
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polish jews 1/5 million in area ment for 50,000 sealed ghetto
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zyklon B
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gas used to kill jewish people at camps
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dresden
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cultural center of germany bombed 2 days 50,000 dead no strategic importance
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nuremberg trails
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trials held for hitlers men exposed what hitler tried to do japanese and german leaders sentenced to death
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executive order 9066
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jap-americans moved to west coast
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Warm springs geogia
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FDR dies here
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Enola Gay
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plance carried abomb
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