Vocab
The U.S. policy to preventing the spread of Communism after World War II
Containment
A widespread fear of a potential rise of communism
Red Scare
A series of violent clashes during which mobs of U.S. servicemen, off-duty police officers and civilians brawled with young Latinos and other minorities in Los Angeles
Zoot Suit Riots
The name of the border that separates North & South Korea
38th Parallel
Hitler's plan for the genocide of Jews during World War II
The "Final Solution"
The political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
Iron Curtain
This amendment gave women the right to vote
The 19th amendment
The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
Domino theory
A collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
The research and development undertaken during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons
The Manhattan Project
Fashion and appearance changed a lot for women in the 1920's. They cut their hair and wore shorter, more revealing dresses. Women that took on this style were called...
Flappers
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s
Hoovervilles
A Supreme Court case that ruled that the detention of Japanese Americans was a “military necessity” not based on race
Korematsu vs. US
The final event that forced the US to become involved in WWII
Pearl Harbor
The political practice of publicizing accusing people of being Communists with insufficient evidence
McCarthyism
The artistic movement of African Americans in a neighborhood of New York
The Harlem Renaissance
When two or more groups compete in military superiority
Arms race
An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba
Cuban missile crisis
The U.S. president that made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
Truman
The 3 R’s of the New Deal
Relief, Reform, and Recovery
Repealed the 18th amendment
21st Amendment
An aggressive risk-taking policy where two parties threaten confrontation in hopes that the other will back down
Brinkmanship
The United States policy that provided economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe
The 3 countries made up the Axis powers
Italy, Japan, and Germany
This theory suggests that an economy is strongest when the government stays out of the economy entirely, letting market forces behave naturally
Laissez-faire economics
The person who started the “Back to Africa” movement
Marcus Garvey
A series of laws that tried to keep the United States out of war
Neutrality Acts
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
Truman Doctrine
The countries made up the Allies
Great Britain, France, US, Soviet Union