Vocab
idea that political events in a country can trigger similar events in others.
Domino Theory
inform of rights at time of arrest.
Miranda v. Arizona
WWI veteran, joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party and becomes Chancellor of Germany. Creates Final Solution to exterminate the European Jews.
Adolph Hitler
becomes new Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII.
Winston Churchill
is the name of Adolf Hitler’s book with his plans to restore power of Germany.
Mein Kampf
Raid was the plan by the Allies to bomb Tokyo using planes from aircraft carriers.
Doolittle
was the name of the massive Allies invasion of France on June 6, 1944 to try to take it back from the Germans. The Allies sent nearly 7,000 ships carrying more than 100,000 soldiers headed for the Normandy coast and at the same time, 23,000 paratroopers were dropped.
D-Day
political and military barrier that separates Communist East from West.
Iron Curtain
minority status increase through preference.
Affirmative Action
established separate but equal.
Plessy v. Fergusson
Fascist dictator of Italy.
Benito Mussolini
British Prime Minister who proclaimed “peace in our time” after negotiations with Germany.
Neville Chamberlin
National ___________________ _____________took place when FDR shut down the banking system beginning on March 6, 1933 to stop bank runs and restore public confidence in the financial system during the Great Depression.
Bank Holiday
was the estimated amount of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust.
6 Million
Battle of ___________________ was known as the turning point for the war in the Pacific for the allies where Admiral Yamamoto transmitted the plans for this attack by radio, using the same code the Americans had already cracked.
Midway
Truman asking Congress for 400 Million Dollars to fight communism.
Truman Doctrine
turn over fighting to South Vietnam and pull out US troops.
Vietnamzation
established separate is inherently unequal.
Brown v. Board of Education
creates a totalitarian state in the USSR.
Joseph Stalin
WWI vets support the bonus bill to get pensions early.
Bonus Army
conference was called in September of 1938 for appeasement when German received the Sudetenland in exchange that German would not invade anymore nations.
Munich
is the event in which nearly 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to march, sick, exhausted and starving- 65 miles to a Japanese prison camp. Almost 10,000 troops died on this march.
Bataan Death March
was the Allies method of taking islands in the Pacific when Admiral Nimitz would advance through the central Pacific by hopping from one island to the next, closer, and closet to Japan.
Island Hopping
Plan was the United States plan to rebuild postwar Europe by giving European nations American aid.
Marshall
tactic of damaging reputations with vague and unfounded charges.
McCarthyism
lawyers for poor defendants.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Prime Minister of Japan, eager to attack U.S. and China.
Hideki Tojo
collections of makeshift homes also known as (Hoovervilles).
Shantytowns
chats were given which was when FDR addressed the nation by radio, 60 million people listened as he informed the public what was taking place in the country while also trying to restore the public confidence in the banking system.
Fireside
is the slogan where African Americans looked for a victory over Hitler and racism abroad and racism here in the United States.
Double V
Conference was a meeting in February of 1945 between FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill to plan a postwar world that included the division of Germany which played an important part in causing the Cold War.
Yalta
was the senator from Wisconsin who served as chairmen of Senate Investigations who once made a surprising statement when he claimed he had a list of 205 men in the states department who were communist.
Joseph McCarthy
group fights French for independence
Vietminh
right to lawyers during investigation.
Escobedo v. Illinois
emperor of Japan, reluctant to go to war with the United States.
Emperor Hirohito
took place when farmers faced struggles like during the Great Depression and couldn’t pay bills and neighbors would ban together to make sure items at the sale would not sell.
Foreclosure Auctions
aggressive nationalism, focus on expansionism and militarism.
Fascism
Navajo _______________ _____________________ was a spoken not written code used from radios to communicate. They transmitted more than 800 messages during the first 48 hours as the marine struggled to get ashore under intense bombardment.
Code Talkers
Conference was a meeting in July of 1945 between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin which involved a fight over reparations in which Truman mentioned the U.S. Atomic bomb which made Stalin concede to American and British troops controlling Germany’s industrial heartland
Potsdam
Berlin __________________ was cargo planes dropping supplies for 11 months to West Berlin.
Airlift