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143 Cards in this Set
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Fascism |
extreme nationalism in which the state comes first and individual liberty comes second
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appeasement |
yielding to an enemy's demands in order to maintain peace
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lend-lease act |
US could lend arms to Britain and later the Soviet Union
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D-Day |
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Rosie the Riveter |
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Korematsu vs US |
supreme court decision declaring that the government had the right to keep Japanese Americans in internment camps |
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Pearl Harbor |
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Holocaust |
systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and other minorities |
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Selective Service Act |
law passed to create a national draft |
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Executive Order 8802 |
prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry
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Neutrality Acts |
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Blitzkrieg |
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Nazism |
form of fascism that promoted the belief that Germans and other Nordic people were superior to the other races
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Cash and Carry |
nations had to pay cash for materials and carry them away in their own ships
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Munich Conference |
was between Hitler and the European nations and it was Hitler saying that he wants a little more land because they were treated unfairly. European nations agree to the pact to avoid war
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Tuskegee Airmen |
pilots and their support crew that showed that African Americans could handle the most demanding assignments
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Island Hopping |
US military strategy used in the Pacific
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
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Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower |
in the European Front, D-day and the North African campaigns
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Adolf Hitler |
nazi dictator
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Pres. Harry Truman |
Vice pres. of Roosevelt, became pres. after he died
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Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt |
president during WWII and Great Depression, wanted to get involved in the war
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Joseph Stalin |
soviet union dictator
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Benito Mussolini |
fascist Italy dictator
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Containment |
US foreign policy practice of attempting to restrict the expansion of Soviet influence around the world (communism)
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Communism |
an economic or political system in which the state or the community owns all property and the means of production, and all citizens share the wealth
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Domino Theory |
the belief that if Vietnam fell to the communist, the rest of Southeast Asian would fall like "a row of dominoes"
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Detente |
the relaxation of Cold War tensions between the US and SU and between the US and China that began under Nixon
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HUAC |
congress formed this committee to investigate subversive organizations
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NATO |
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Warsaw Pact |
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Perestroika |
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MAD |
either side would respond to a nuclear attack by launching their own missiles
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Berlin Airlift |
Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin
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Space Race |
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Iron Curtain |
Symbolized the growing barrier between East and West Berlin
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Bipolar World |
US now competes with SU. Countries either side with US or SU, friends during the war b/c of common enemy but after they became our biggest threat
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SALT |
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Blockade |
the SU blocked roads and railroads from the Allies from entering Berlin which was under Western Control
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McCarthyism |
the practice of publicly accusing people of subversive activities without evidence to back up the charges
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Korean War |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Brinkmanship |
willingness to go to the edge, or brick, of war
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SDI (Star Wars) |
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Marshall Plan |
US gave funding to rebuild nations economy
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Truman Doctrine |
help people resist communism
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Nixon Doctrine |
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Realpolitik |
a political policy based on practical rather than idealistic concerns
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Red Scare |
campaign to arrest communists and other radicals who promotes the overthrow of the US government
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Glasnost |
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Bay of Pigs |
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Iran Contra Affair |
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Evil Empire |
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Pres. Richard Nixon |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
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Mao Zedong |
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Fidel Castro |
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Pres. Ronald Reagan |
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Pres. JFK |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Viet Minh |
group formed to oppose foreign occupation and create an independence movement
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
allowed the president to take all necessary measure to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US to prevent further aggression
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Tet Offensive |
a major offensive by Viet Cong and NVA soldiers that resulted in growing opposition among Americans to the war
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My Lai Massacre |
a massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians. Reports of the killings shocked Americans and increased opposition of war
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War of Attrition |
reduce the strength or effectiveness of enemy
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Hawks & Doves |
Hawks- supported US military involvement
Doves- opposed war and promoted peaceful resolution |
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Operation Rolling Thunder |
bomb and airstrike North Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
network of footpaths, roads, bridges and tunnels that passed through the terrain of eastern Laos and Cambodia that NV used to send weapons and supplies to Viet Cong
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Geneva Accords |
split Vietnam into north and south but called for elections to reunify the country. The US back SV financially and militarily
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NVA |
North Vietnamese Army
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Vietnaminization |
SV would gradually take over conduct of the war while American would steadily withdraw
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Vietnam Syndrome |
fear of getting stuck in another quagmire
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War Powers Resolution |
placed strict limits on a presidents power to use the armed forces in hostilities without congressional authorization
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Kent State |
killing of 4 protesters at Kent State Uni by National Guard troops. Reports of the shootings led to increased antiwar protests
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Dien Bien Phu |
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Fall of Saigon |
Capital of SV fell once the US withdrew troops
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Viet Cong |
insurgents in the south who worked to overthrow the nominally democratic but corrupt gov't of SV. They received aid from communist NV
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Americanization |
US sending ground troops to fight the war and it quickly became an American conflict
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Credibility gap |
the difference between the reality of the war and the Johnson administration's portrayal of it
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Tinker vs Des Moines |
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First Indochina War |
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17th Parallel |
division area of North and South Vietnam
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Escalation |
increase
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Ho Chi Minh |
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
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Jim Crow laws |
laws that promoted segregation/discrimination |
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Plessy vs Ferguson |
separate but equal
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Freedom Rides |
protest in which blacks and whites rode interstate buses together to test whether southern states were complying with the supreme court ruling against segregation on interstate transportation
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Greensboro Sit-ins |
protest in which protesters sit down in a public place and refuse to move until served
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Brown Vs BOE |
civil class action suit to fight against segregation in schools to reverse plessy vs ferguson
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passive resistance |
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Title IX |
no person should on the basis of sex be subjected to discrimination under any educational program
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Stonewall Riots |
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poll tax |
way to prevent AA from voting
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segregation |
separation of races
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
boycott that resulted in the integration of Montgomery, Alabama bus system
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Disenfranchisement |
lack of ability to vote
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Civil rights act of 1946 |
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Civil rights act of 1968 |
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civil disobedience |
nonviolent refusal to obey a law that the protester considers to be unjust
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feminine mystique |
written by Betty Friedan, described women who had the things they thought they wanted but were still dissatisfied
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United Farm Workers |
a small union for migrant farmworkers
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literacy test |
way to prevent AA from voting
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executive order 9981 |
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little rock nine |
integrated school systems
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voting rights act of 1965 |
prohibits racial discrimination when voting
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black panthers |
group that demanded economic and political rights and was prepared to take violent action
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NOW |
National Organization of Women, wanted equal opportunity for women in legal reforms and workforce
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Roe VS Wade |
women should be allowed to make their own decisions on body because it is their right to choose
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Betty Friedan |
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Malcolm X |
human rights activist who wanted to use violence
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Cesar Chavez |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
face of the civil rights movement, motivated more to participate, non violent action
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Great Society Reforms |
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Energy Crisis |
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The new right |
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Supply-side economics/trickle down theory |
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national debt |
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reagonomics |
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Iran hostage crisis |
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conservative |
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Moral majority |
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welfare state |
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budget deficit |
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liberal |
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deregulation |
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pres. Ronald Reagan |
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pres. jimmy carter |
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pres. Johnson |
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Al Qaeda |
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Afghanistan |
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Persian Gulf War |
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USS Cole |
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War on Terror |
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Rwandan Genocide |
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Kyoto Protocol |
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PATRIOT Act |
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Yugoslavia |
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Osama bin Laden |
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Pres. Clinton |
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Saddam Hussein |
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Pres. George W Bush |
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Pres. George H. W Bush |
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