The Move to Global War
This army supported Japan's military dictatorship and expansion.
The Kwantung Army
The main goal of this leader's rise to power was to "Make Germany great again"
What are the two main ideologies that battled during the Cold War?
Communism v. Capitalism
This Supreme Court ruling in 1954 declared that US school should desegregate with "all deliberate speed"
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
This president escalated the Vietnam War as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lyndon B. Johnson
This area of China was invaded by Japan in 1931, the Japanese viewed it as "their only means of survival"
Manchuria
This leader focused on making his communist nation industrially superior to western nations.
Josef Stalin
This ideology pledged aid to Greece, Turkey and any other country that sought economic support to fight communism.
Truman Doctrine
This leader was known for being the first to publicly use the term "Black Power" in 1964.
Stokely Carmichael
This president changed the way the US and the USSR negotiated with each other after a near fatal clash in the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Who gave the order to attack China in Manchuria?
The Japanese Military (not the government!)
This leader's goal was to free his country from capitalist and colonial oppression by the United States.
Dividing this country at the 38th parallel was a compromise reached in settling a dispute.
Korea
The ideology advocates for unity and political self-determination for black people, especially in the form of a separate black nation.
Black Nationalism
This president created a policy of Detente, which carried on for the rest of the Cold War.
Richard Nixon (with help from Kissinger)
Which countries were in the Tripartite Pact?
Germany, Italy, Japan
Used by Stalin and Castro, these legal proceedings were often used to prove to the public that people had committed crimes against the government. These cases were usually rigged against the accused.
Show trials
This document said that the USSR was a dangerous and expansionist state that wouldn't cooperate with the USA.
Kennan Telegram
John F. Kennedy
This president struggled to gain the support of the American people as a result of an economic downturn and bleak midterm elections in 1948
Harry S. Truman
This treaty opened trade with the west.
The Treaty of Kanagawa
In contrast to other authoritarian leaders we've learned about, this authoritarian leader was actively supported by the United States through the 1980s.
Augusto Pinochet
This is the theory that if one country falls to communism, the countries around it will fall too.
Domino Theory
This organization was instrumental in engaging students in the Civil Rights Movement - they organized sit ins, marches and movements across the country that led to major legal and cultural reforms.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
This president focused on national energy policy and domestic issues - he struggled with the foreign policy demands of the Cold War.
Jimmy Carter