Key Terms
An authoritarian government that embraces both strong nationalism and militarism elements.
What is fascism?
Pushed the US Secretary of State, this plan provided in 13 billion in funds to help rebuild Europe and was aimed at shoring up democracies in the advance of communism from Russia.
Leader of Fascist Italy during WWII.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Junior senator from Wisconsin that gave public hearings and presentations claiming there were over 200 communists in the government and military
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Led D Day as the Supreme Commander of Allied forces, and also served as American president from 1952-1960.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Last conference that included the "Big 3" at the culmination of WWII.
What is Yalta?
Speech given by FDR in defense of democracies and outlining freedoms that everyone in the world should have.
What was the Four Freedom Speech?
Part of the "Big Three", leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Militarist Prime Minister of Japan during WW II.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
Communist leader who seized power in Cuba in 1959 overthrowing Batista?
Who is Fidel Castro?
Agreement between Italy and Germany in the buildup to WWII.
What is the Rome- Berlin Axis?
The American response to the Soviet Union cordoning off the city of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Rose to power in Germany by promising to remake German economy, military, and retake land stripped from Germany during Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Succeeded Stalin as the leader of the USSR in 1956 and agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Bombed on December 7th, 1941 by the Japanese, propelling the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Included 400 million dollars pledged to Turkey and Greece to help the two countries resist the spread of communism.
An agreement between FDR and Churchill to promote economic, political, and military cooperation.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
American diplomat that urged the use of a containment theory of checking the rise of Soviet power and aggression.
Who is George Kennan?
Succeeded FDR as president following his death, and decided to drop the A Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
North Vietnamese nationalist and communist leader that fought the French and later Americans in Vietnam.
This was an American Isolationist group featuring Charles Lindberg that encouraged the United States to stay out of WWII.
What is the America First Committee?
This act diminished the power of unions and allowed right-to-work laws in many states.
What is the Taft- Hartley Act?
Prime Minister that replaced Chamberlain in Britain, and led the country throughout WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Won the 1960 Presidential Election, partly due to his performance on the new American medium of television.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This Executive Order interred Japanese Americans in detention camps during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?