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43 Cards in this Set
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victory gard |
Freed up food to be sent overseas to soldiers and refugees |
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Nuremberg trials |
Made permanently the story of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes against humanity |
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Office of war information |
Provided information to people at home troops in the field and Public Enemy territories |
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The International military tribunal |
Tried nazi war criminals |
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The buck stops here |
President Truman most famous motto |
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Executive order 9981 |
Ended segregation in the military |
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The Marshall plan |
Provided economic aid to rebuild |
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The Tuskegee airman |
Where African American combat pilot during world War 2 |
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The TrumanDoctrine |
A policy of using any non military measures to stop the spread of communism |
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The first lady of the world |
President Truman called Eleanor Roosevelt for her many contributions |
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the baby boom |
Was a period of unprecedented population growth in America after world War 2 |
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Inflationary cycle |
leading to spiraling prices due to high demand in the 1950s |
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Julius Rosenberg |
He and his wife where convicted of espionage and executed |
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Thur good Marshall |
He was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court |
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Herman goering |
The head Spokesman of the Nazi defendant he committed suicide the night before his scheduled execution |
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Jackie Robinson |
The first African American to play major league Baseball he paved the way for other black athletes |
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Audie Murphy |
The most decorated American soldier of the war he earned 33 metals while capturing or killing 240 axis soldiers |
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Robert H Jackson |
Do Supreme Court justice was the lead American prosecutor at the nuremberg trial |
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Joseph McCarthy |
This senator investigated the state Department in an effort to root out, communist agents |
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Mao Tse Tung |
After defeating Nationalist advisories he created a communist State in China |
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Iron curtains |
Winston Churchill invested the terms to describe the colony suppose and that took over Eastern Europe |
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United Nations |
A charter sign by 50 nations on June 26th 1945 |
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Economic prosperity of the 1950s |
Was reflected in huge growth of the popularity movies tourism and travel |
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Dwight D Eisenhower |
Served as supreme commander for the allied force in Europe during world war 2 |
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Douglas MacArthur |
Was in charge of the allied forces fighting in the South West Pacific |
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New York City |
Is where headquarters of the United Nations is |
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Japanese American |
Fought valaintly as members of the 442 regimental combat team |
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Security Council |
Is the United Nations most powerful Council |
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Fair deal program |
Present Truman desired to continue tight federal control over the economy |
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NAACP |
Was instrumental in over turning plessy vs Ferguson |
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WASPs |
Freeing the men for combat Duty ferried military Planes |
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The 22nd amendment |
Limited the president to two terms |
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Berlin airlift |
Was an allied effort to airlift supplies to trap citizens |
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Double V signs |
Signify victory over the axis powers and victory over prejudice |
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Atomic weapons |
The Soviet Union developed in 1949 |
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civil defense system |
The entity assisted Citizens to preparing survival of a nuclear attack |
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Potsdam conference |
President Truman miss with the allied leader in German |
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Atlantic charter |
The Western allies pledged mutual support to preserve peace on both sides of the Atlantic |
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North Atlantic treaty organizations |
This organization of Western nations committed to protect territory, political Independence and security of members nations |
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Inter allied declaration |
Great Britain and government exile pledge to work together for security and peace |
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Yalta conference |
President Roosevelt and allied leaders considered prosecution of the German war crimes and whether the Soviet Union would join the United Nations |
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Warsaw pact |
Communist nations formed union in 1955 for their common defense |
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Servicemen rejustment act 1944 |
Known as GI bill the government agreed to pay for college for returning military veterans |
