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37 Cards in this Set
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The serviceman's Readjustment Act
or G.I. Bill of Rights |
1944 legislation extending benefits;
unemployment pay educational scholarships low-cost mortgage loans pensions job training to returning veterans |
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Conservatives regard capitalism essential to US future;
Liberals regard socialism essential to US future |
This is not a significant difference of conservative and liberal visions for postwar America
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Capitalism;
Free enterprise |
political system for trade is controlled by private owners for profit instead of by the state;
an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control |
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-ideal of social welfare
-envision a world governed by international cooperation -present poverty as chief threat to freedom |
Liberal visions for postwar America
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-ideal of free enterprise
-envision America as dominant power of postwar world -new deal style government(Democratic view: newly empowered labor unions) as chief threat to freedom |
Conservative visions for postwar America
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Led Japanese-Americans to internment camp during WW2
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FDR Executive Order 9066
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-Sought to control Europe
-Violated Versailles Treaty and pursued German rearmament -sent troops to occupy the Rhineland |
Goals/ actions of Adolf Hitler
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Speech, Religion, Wants, Fear
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Four Freedoms
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FDR sought to improve diplomatic relations between US and Latin America
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Good Neighbor Policy
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-The Bretton Woods Conference
-The "Big Three" conference at Yalta -The United Nations planning conference at Dumbarton Oaks |
Plans leading to the postwar international order
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-Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy signed appeasement allowing Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia
-British prime minister: Chamberlain described as "peace for our time" |
1938 Munich Agreement
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June 6,1944: 200,000 American, British and Canadian soldiers landed in Northwestern France in Normandy-->leading to the liberation(free from slavery) of France from German occupation.
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D-Day
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Germany, Italy and Japan
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Axis powers during World War 2
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Manchuria
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What was the province in Northern China did Japan invade in 1931?
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-well-paying jobs
-women took industrial jobs reserved for men -black leaders invoked war against Hitler promoting racial equality at home |
The effects of wartime mobilization on American society
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A woman on magazine covers during ww2 that was portrayed capable of doing a mans job
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"Rosie the Riveter"
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin
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"Big Three"
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The newspaper that pointed out discrepancy between American ideal of Democracy and civil rights reality of racial discrimination in US during WW2
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The Crisis
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strike for peace in 1935 that took place on college campeses
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Pacifism
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Founder of Fascism(dictatorship) that sent troops to invade and conquer Ethiopia
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Benito Mussolini
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-Haunting memories of WW1
-blame for economy on European Jews -ethnic allegiance of Americans of German, Irish, Italian decent |
Americas reluctance to confront rise of Nazism and Fascism in Europe during 1930's
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-Japans attack on Pearl Harbor shock US in entering War
-Allied invasion of Normandy gave US troops assumption of presence in European combat -Truman decision to drop atomic bomb on Japan-->based on fear that US might die in land war |
REASONS us entered WW2
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Hitler undertaking slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, jews in 1941; holocaust
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"final solution"
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December 7, 1941 Japanese planes attacked US in Hawaii
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The naval base at Pearl Harbor
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Branch of government in 1942 sought to mobilize public opinion
- illustrates how the political divisions generated by the New Deal affected efforts to promote the Four Freedoms. -and liberal democrats sought to make conflict "a peoples war for freedom" |
The Office of War Information
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African Americans used this term during WW2 defining the desire for BOTH victory at home against segregation and victory overseas against Germans and Japanese
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Double-V
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Germany invades Poland in 1939 unexpectedly- with no notice where as Poland had no preparation
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Blitzkrieg campaign
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Americas reluctance to confront overseas aggression; 1935 lawmakers passed a series of Neutrality Acts that banned travel on belligerents ships and the sale of arms to countries at war.
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isolationsim
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US allowed to lease arms to allies; signifying involvement in ww2
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lend-lease act
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Japanese forced 78,000 American and Filipino troops to lay down their arms-->the largest surrender in American military history. Thousands perished on the ensuing death march to a prisoner-of-war camp, and thousands more died of disease and starvation after they arrived.
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Baatan "death march"
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1942 Mexicans entered America for agricultural jobs in the Southwest; lasted until 1964 and inhibited labor organization among farm workers since braceros could be deported at any time.
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Bracero Program
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illustrates limit of wartime tolerance
1943-youth being assaulted by police |
zoot suit riots
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Japanese American refused to leave his home for internment
military necessity vs. racial injust |
Korematsu Vs. US
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banned discrimination in defense jobs and established executive order 8802 to monitor compliance.-black and civil war:civil rights movement
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FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission)
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used on hiroshima
Secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb; J. Robert Oppenheimer led the team |
atomic bomb- manhattan project
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Meeting of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to discuss the postwar world 1945; Joseph Stalin claimed large areas in eastern Europe for Soviet domination.
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yalta conference
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international agreement in 1944 by which the American dollar replaced the British pound as the most important international currency,
and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were created to promote rebuilding after World War II and to ensure that countries did not devalue their currencies. |
Bretton woods conference
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