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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Axis Powers/ Leaders | Military alliance formed between Germany (____________-leader's last name) and Italy (____________-leader's last name), and later Japan (____________-leader's last name) |
| Allied Powers/ Leaders | ________________ (country) (Franklin D. Roosevelt), ________________ (country) (Churchill), ________________ (country) (Chamberlain), and ________________ (country) (Stalin) |
| Palmer Raids | attempts by the Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing _____________, especially anarchists from the United States |
| Appeasement | giving in to an aggressor to avoid ________________ |
| Rations | limits on any kind of goods |
| Segregation | separation of people by category, usually race |
| Taft Hartley Act | law that weakened unions. Federal law allowed for the _______________ to monitor the activities and powers of the labor unions. |
| Braceros | Mexican farm and railroad workers who came to the United States during ___________ (major world event) as a result of a U.S./Mexico agreement |
| Internment camps | While the US was at war with ________, the government rounded up all the Japanese Americans and moved them to detention centers away from the ________ |
| Cold War Alliances | NATO was a military alliance formed between the US and Western European nations to combat the spread of _____________. ___________ was formed between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations in response to NATO. |
| Potsdam Conference | Conference at the end of WWII that resulted in the division of ___________ into four occupied zones. |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Husband and wife that were convicted of providing _________________ (country) with atomic-energy secrets during WWII. |
| ____ Parallel | US and USSR divided Korea on this latitudinal line to create North and South Korea |
| Domino Theory | the idea that the rest of Asia would follow if _________ became Communist. |
| Gulf of ________Incident | an attack on US ships, which led to direct involvement of the US in the Vietnam War. |
| ______ Offensive | Huge assault/ attack launched by the North Vietnamese against important South Vietnamese targets |
| Vietnamization | when the Nixon withdrew US troops and turned over the war to the South Vietnamese |
| War _________ Act | reaffirmed Congress' constitutional power to declare war; set a 60-day limit on President's authority to commit US troops to serve in a foreign conflict |
| Sputnik | Satellite launched by the ______________ (country) , which started the space race |
| New Frontier | __________ (president's last name) plan to fix the economy and help the disadvantaged. |
| ________ Society | Johnson's domestic plan that focused on poverty, Civil Rights, education, and healthcare |
| Organization of Petroleum ___________ (OPEC) | Alliance formed in 1960 by major oil producing countries to maintain high prices by controlling the production and sale of oil. |
| Realpolitick | practical foreign policy advocated by ___________ (president's last name). The country should follow what is best for it regardless of human rights abuses. |
| Strategic _____________________ Talks (SALT) | Talks between U.S. president Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev that led to a treaty limiting the number of ICBM missiles each country could have |
| Détente | period in the 1970s when tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States eased. |
| Watergate | Break-in at the ______________ headquarters, which led to a presidential scandal causing Nixon to resign. |
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