| Term | Definition |
|---|
| strategic materials | materials important for fighting in a war |
| embargo | a Government ban on trade with other countries |
| internment camps | camps where Japanese-Americans were sent during relocation |
| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | was the most highly decorated unit in World War 2 |
| Pas-de-Calais | the area of france closes to britain |
| D-day | On June 6th, 1944 ______ happened when Canada, Britain, and the U.S. went and attacked Utah, Omaha, Juno, Gold, and Sword beach |
| Omar Bradley | commander of Utah and Omaha beach |
| foothold | a starting point 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 | The day Japan surrenders |
| mussolini | founded italy's fascist party |
| fascism | a kind of aggressive nationalism |
| blackshirts | fascist army that backed up mussolini |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| 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 | hitler |
| storm troopers | nazi paramilitary unit |
| sudetenland | an area of czechoslovakia with a large german-speaking population |
| appeasement | 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 |
| Eisenhower | president of US personally disagreed with segregation |
| Brown vs Board | to desegregate public schools |
| 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 at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, wanted to see things change |
| Ella Baker | a 55 year old executive director of the SCLC and invited student leaders to attend a convention at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC and urged the students to create their own organization instead of joining the NAACP or the SCLC |
| JFK | US president who ordered the civil rights bill |
| Eugene "Bull" Connor | Running for mayor of Alabama. Doesn't like African Americans |
| 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 (Diem) | nationalist leader in South Vietnam |
| 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 | bombing campaign in North Vietnam |
| 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 | students for a democratic society |
| hawk | want to stay and fight in Vietnam |
| dove | want to withdraw from the war |
| 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 the Washington Post |
| Carl Bernstein | A journalist from the Washington Post |
| DNC | Democratic National Committee |
| 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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