Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Adolf Hitler
|
Leader of the Nazi Party in Germany
|
|
Serviceman's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
|
A policy that granted education and low interests loans to war veterans
|
|
Japanese Internment
|
All Japanese-Americans were suspected of spying; They were sent to relocation camps
|
|
United Nations
|
An organization that replaced the League of Nations; designed to keep world peace
|
|
Winston Churchill
|
A leader who met with Roosevelt to create Atlantic Charter
|
|
Harry S Truman
|
The president who started the Cold War after meeting with Stalin at Potsdam
|
|
Joseph McCarthy
|
The person who led Senate hearings investigating suspected Communists
|
|
Rosie the Riveter
|
A mythical women who worked in steel mills during World War II
|
|
Douglas MacArthur
|
The leader of the United Nations peacekeeping troops in the Korean War; fired by Truman
|
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
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"
|
|
National Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
|
A Post-WWII organization created to establish "collective security" for democratic countries
|
|
Appeasement
|
A policy of Britain and France's allowing Germany to take territory to avoid war
|
|
Totalitarian Governments
|
These rose to power because of European depression; They took over weak democratic governments
|
|
Containment
|
U.S. foreign policy to stop expansion of communism
|
|
Red Scare / McCarthyism
|
A mass hysteria caused by fear that communism was taking over the United States
|
|
Marshall Plan
|
A plan giving aid to democratic countries in Europe to stop the spread of communism
|
|
Warsaw Pact
|
An alliance of the Communist countries of Europe and Asia
|
|
Cold War
|
A global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from 1945 to 1990
|
|
Lend-Lease Policy
|
A policy by which the United States sold arms to European Allies before entry into WWII
|
|
Embargo of Japan
|
The primary cause of Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941
|
|
Stalingrad, D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge
|
Turning points in the European Theater in WWII
|
|
Battle of Midway
|
A major turning point of WWII in the Pacific
|
|
German invasion of Poland
|
An event after Munich Conference that was the immediate cause of WWII in Europe
|
|
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
|
The event that ended WWII
|