SS exam vocab
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jplepler14 on May 18, 2010
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CCDS class of 2014, CCDS 2009-2010, CCDS8ScienceSem10910, 8th grade CCDS, 8th Grade CCDS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Letter From Birmingham Jail | Letter from MLK Jr. in jail saying that the African Americans should keep pushing for equal rights |
| 101st Airborne division | Sent in to protect Little Rock 9 |
| 442nd Regiment | Unit in the army during WW2 where Japanese Americans could serve |
| Admiral Yamamoto | Japanese general who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Agent Orange | Chemical sprayed on jungle in Vietnam |
| Alexander Butterfield | Man who told that Nixon recorded conversations |
| Atlantic Wall | German Defenses along the Atlantic coast |
| Bloody Sunday | The day the African American marchers marching from Selma to Montgomery were met at the bottom of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were attacked |
| Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | The two reporters for the Washington Post who reported the Watergate cover up.(answer is alphabetical order by first name) |
| Brown vs. Board | Ruled segregation in schools was unconstitutional |
| Credibility Gap | Gap in trust between the Government and public |
| CREEP | Committee to Re-elect the President |
| Daisy Bates | Member of NAACP, leader of Little Rock 9 |
| Dien Bien Phu | Battle where French were defeated in Vietnam |
| DNC | Democratic National Committee. Broke into(watergate) |
| Domino Theroy | If one country became comunist the surrounding countries would then become comunists |
| Doves | Anti war people |
| Edmund Pettus Bridge | place where bloody sunday occured |
| Eisenhower | President. Ordered 101st airborne divsion in to protect Little Rock 9 |
| Enola Gay | Plane that dropped the A-bomb |
| Bull Connor | Head of police in Birmingham. White Segregationist |
| Executive Order 9066 | Allowed government to remove Japanese Americans in the West |
| Executive Privlage | Nixon ordered this on the watergate tapes |
| Fat Man | 2nd A-bomb dropped |
| Foothold | A strong base on land. The US was trying to gain one on D-Day |
| General Westmorland | General during most of the Vietnam War |
| Geneva Accords | Treaty between North and South Vietnam |
| Gerald Ford | Replaced Spiro Agnew as VP. Later became President for Nixon |
| Greensboro Four | four students that started the sit-ins |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to declare war on Vietnam |
| Hawks | Pro war people |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of North Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | Trail that supplied the Vietcong |
| Hosea Williams | One of the leaders of the Selma march. SCLC member |
| Impeach | charge president with a crime or misdemeanor |
| Internment Camps | Place where Japanese Americans were sent |
| James Bevel | Came up with the idea to use African American children in protests |
| James McCord | One of the five Watergate criminals |
| Jo Ann Robinson | Member of WPC and NAACP. help organize the bus boycott |
| John Dean | member of the White house inner circle who leveled allegations on Noxon |
| John Lewis | Member of SNCC and helped lead the Selma March |
| John Mitchell | Leader of CREEP |
| Judge Sirica | Judge during Watergate criminal trial |
| Kent State | College where Ohio National Guard fired on students |
| Little Boy | Name of the first A-bomb dropped |
| Little Rock 9 | 9 students selected to join a white school |
| Manhattan Project | Project to develop the A bomb in the US |
| MIA | Montgomery Improvement Association |
| My Lai | Place in Vietnam where US troops killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians |
| Napalm | Oil product used to burn down jungles in Vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Leader of South Vietnam at the beginning of the Vietnam War |
| Operation Overlord | The Allied invasion of Normandy in June of 1944. (another name for D-Day) |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | Operation name for the US bombing in Vietnam |
| Orval Fabus | governor of arkansas. tried to stop little rock 9 didnt want integration in schools |
| Pentagon Papers | Secret papers about what the government was keeping from the public |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Stated "Separate but equal". Allowed segregation. |
| Robert McNamara | The secretary of defense for President Johnson |
| Sam Ervin | Created the Senate Select Committee. North Carolina Senator. |
| Saturday Night Massacre | Richardson and his deputy resign. Bork hired and fired Archibald Cox. |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Created by MLK Jr. |
| Senate Select Committee | Group that investigated the watergate coverup and demanded the tapes from Nixon. Created by Sam Ervin |
| Jim Clark | Sheriff who ordered attacks on the marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge |
| Spiro Agnew | Nixon's Vice President, fired. |
| Teach in | Where students and teachers discussed the Vietnam war. |
| Vietminh | Communist Vietnamese in North Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | policy of equipping and training of the South Vietnamese to fight for themselves. Increase US Bombings |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | a law designed to help end barriers to African-American suffrage |
| Washington Post | Newspaper that published articles on the Watergate Break in |
| Watergate Break in | 5 burglars broke into the Watergate Complex attempting to bug the Democratic National Headquarters |
| Woolworth's | Store where sit-ins took place |
| Vietcong | Communist Vietnamese in South Vietnam |
| Munich Pact | The pact between Allies and Germany that gave Germany part Sudentenland to stop Germany from attcacking the Allies |
| German-Soviet Non Aggression Pact | Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union that they would not attack each other. |
| Lend Lease | An act that helped the US economy by selling arms to allies |
| Fascism | Political style used by Hitler in Nazi Germany. It involved having a dictator rule the entire country |
| Sudentenland | Portion of Czechoslovakia claimed by Hitler with the Munich Pact. |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Similar to the SCLC, but mainly students. Their goal was equal rights |
| Emperor Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during WWII. |
| August 8, 1974 | The date of Nixon's resignation |
| December 7, 1941 | The date of Pearl Harbor |
| June 6, 1944 | The date of D-Day |
| Clarence Harris | Owner of Woolworth's |
| Federal Campaign Act Amendments | Rules about campaigning.(Passed because of watergate break in |
| Embargo | When one country stops all trade to another. (US did this to Japan to keep them from getting oil) |
| War Guilt Clause | Made Germany take ownership of the damage they caused in WWII |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
| Adolph Hitler | Dictator of Germany during WWII |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Italy during WWII |
| Civil Liberties Act | Act which made the government pay all survivors of internment camps a total of $20,000 in 1988. |
| Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon | The order of Presidents from Roosevelt to Nixon. (just last names) |
| Franklin McCain | One of the four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins. |
| Isolationist | People who wanted the US to stay out of WWII |
| Interventionist | People who wanted the US to join WWII |
| Communism | A form of government that was used by the USSR during WWII |
| Pearl Harbor | Place that the Japanese attacked in Hawaii. Made the US join WWII |
| Paratroopers | Phase 1 of D-Day. followed by bombings, then invasion |
| Bombings | Phase 2 of D-Day. After Paratroopers, followed by the invasion |
| Anschluss | The combination of Austria and Germany |
| Strategic Hamlet | A fortified town for South Vietnamese citizens to protect them. The idea was created by JFK |
| Office of Price Administration | Group that helped distribute goods evenly during WWII |
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