WW2
Extreme form of fascism
What is nazism?
Germany, Italy, & Japan
What is Axis Powers?
Failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces in 1961
What is Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between Communist and non Communist life.
What is Iron Curtain?
African-American teenager from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14
What is Emmett Till?
A government that takes total control over every aspect of public and private life.
What is totalitarian?
May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered
What is V.E. Day?
A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
What is Berlin Wall?
1962 crisis that arose between the US and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear weapons in Cuba
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
Protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott?
1939-Secret agreement between Hitler and Soviet Union not to attack one another and to divide Poland
What is nonaggression pact?
1940 law requiring all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service
What is selective training and service act?
Moving supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during a Soviet Blockade
What is Berlin Airlift?
The struggle to gain weapons superiority
What is arms race?
Civil rights organization that advocated nonviolent protest; formed in 1957 by MLK Jr. and other leaders
What is SCLC?
A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.
What is Manhattan Project?
US offensive strategy in the Pacific Theatre
What is island hopping?
Term used to describe a Senator's Anti-Communist smear tactics
What is McCarthyism?
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
What is containment?
1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C. in which protestors called for jobs and freedom.
What is March on Washington?
1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war
What is Atlantic Charter?
1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security
What is Lend-Lease Act?
List that circulated among employers, beginning in 1947, containing the names of persons who should not be hired
What is blacklist?
A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests
What is brinkmanship?
Organization founded by pacifists in 1942 to promote racial equality through peaceful means
What is CORE?