| Term | Definition |
|---|
| strategic materials | materials important for fighting in a war |
| embargo | a restriction or prohibition |
| internment camps | prison |
| 442nd regiment | all japanese unit in WWII |
| Pas-de-Calais | the area of france closes to britain |
| d-day | june 6, 1944--attack on normandy |
| omar bradley | the commander of the american forces landing on Omaha and Utah |
| foothold | a starting poiint for gaining territory |
| little boy | atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima from the enola gay 1945 |
| fat man | atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki 1945 |
| v-j day | aug 1945 japan surrenders |
| mussolini | founded italy's fascist party |
| fascism | a kind of aggressive nationalism. nation=more important than individual. |
| blackshirts | fascist army that backed up mussolini |
| USSR | new name for communist russia |
| joseph stalin | new communist USSR ussr dictator |
| adolf hitler | anticommunist who liked mussolini. formed nazi party in germany |
| nazi party | new german political party. nation=more important the individual |
| mein kampf | (my struggle) hitler's autobiography that showed germans should expand their territory |
| storm troopers | nazi military units that intimidated voters |
| sudetenland | an area of czechoslovakia with a large german-speaking population |
| apeasment | the policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace |
| non-aggression pact | germany would fight against britain and france but USSR would be safe 1939 |
| declaration of liberated europe | ageement that asserted the right of all people to choose the form of government in which they live |
| satelite nations | the communist countries of eastern europe |
| iron curtain | an imagery divider between communist eastern europe and anti communist western europe |
| long telegram | a 5,400 word cable message explaining george kennan's containment policy |
| george kennan | the person who wrote the long telegram |
| dean achenson | presidential advisor who thought stalin demanding control of dardenelles was a step towards controlling the mideast |
| NATO | a mutual defense alliance between many anticommunist western europe countries |
| Warsaw pact | a military alliance with USSR and Eastern europe in attempt to copy NATO |
| Mao Zedong | leader of communist forces in China |
| Chaing Kai Shek | leader of nationalist, anti communist, forces in China |
| Eisenhower | president of US personally disagreed with segregation |
| Brown vs Board | 1954-ruled that racial segregation in public schools was not equal, so could not occur |
| orval faubus | governer of Arkansas, he went against his own beliefs and supported segregation of schools to get re-elected |
| 101st airborne | arrived at little roch high school to help african american students enter the now desegregated school |
| sit ins | a form of protest that involves sitting at the white lunch counter and demanding service |
| jesse jackson | a student leader who wanted change in segregation laws |
| ella baker | the student who brought other student leaders together to coordinate sitins through SNCC |
| JFK | US president who ordered the civil rights bill |
| bulll connor | Public safety commisioner who responded with force to nonviolent protests |
| birmingham | city in alabama where violence towards african american nonviolent protests occured |
| letter from a birmingham jail | the letter MLK wrote from jail defending non violent protest methods |
| poll taxes | a fee that must be paid in order to vote |
| sherriff jim clark | sherrif in selma who led armed white police in selma |
| edmund pettus bridge | bridge that led african americans out of selma, and jim clark's police attacked them |
| vietminh | nationalist group in north japan organized by ho chi minh |
| ho chi minh | leader of the nationalist movement , north vietnam, organized vietminh |
| geneva accords | negotiations after the conflict of french and vietminh in dien bien phu---divided north and sounth vietnam |
| ngo dinh diem | nationalist leader of south vietnam--anti communist |
| vietcong | a guerrilla army organized by ho chi minh that fought with vietminh after elections were cancelled |
| strategic hamlets | special villages where vietcong and south vietnamese were held to protect them. |
| robert mcNamara | LBJ's secretary of defense who liked LBJ's involvment in the war |
| OP rolling thunder | 1965--a shift of LBJ's policy in vietnam to BOMBING |
| napalm | jellied gasoline that explodes on contact |
| agent orange | a chemical that kills all vegitation |
| general westmorland | american commander in south vietnam who announced to american public that the vietnam war was basically over, when it wasnt |
| SDS | a student organization that opposed the war in vietnam and held marches |
| hawk | people in america who like the US involvement in vietnam |
| dove | people in america who are against the the war in vietnam |
| judge sirica | leader of criminal trial |
| sam ervin | leader of senate trial |
| john dean | white house lawyer |
| john mitchel | he was accused of ordering watergate breakin |
| james McCord | watergate burglar |
| frank willlis | watergate security guard |
| archibald Cox | special prosecuter fired by Bork |
| alexander butterfield | white house aid who told senate about tapes |
| executive privlege | when soemthing from the white house cannot be exposed because of confidentiality |
| spiro agnew | nixon's VP who took bribes as governer therfore resigned |
| gerald ford | new VP in place of Agnew who eventually became president after nixon resigned |
| impeach | officially charge the president of misconduct |
| bob woodward | reporter from washington post |
| carl bernstein | reporter from wachington post |
| DNC | the office in watergate that burglars broke into (democratic headquarters) |
| washington post | newspaper that tried to keep watergate stories coming |
| CRP (CREEP) | comitee for re election of the president |
| federal campaign act amendments | (passed because of watergate) limited campaign contributions and administered stricter election laws |
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