Mr. V. - Final Exam Review 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Stalingrad | Turning point in war in Europe |
| Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany |
| Cold War | The hostile (competitive) yet nonviolent relationship (rivalry) between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies from between 1945 till 1990ish.. |
| Containment | policy recognizing the possibility that Eastern Europe was already lost to Communism |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947 declaration by President Truman that the U.S. would support nations that were threatened by Communism |
| Yalta Conference | Leaders agree to split Germany in Four Zones and Create United Nations |
| Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the extension of Communist control over Eastern Europe |
| Marshall Plan | Plan for ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF EUROPE |
| Berlin Airlift | airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance formed by Soviet Union with satellite nations in Eastern Europe as a response to NATO |
| Korean War | the Korean peninsula, fought between 1950 & 1953 which eventually ends in a stalemate |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |
| Rosenbergs | Charged with spying and giving atomic secrets to the USSR. |
| HUAC | HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE |
| Hollywood Ten | who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood |
| blacklist | List of people who employers agree not hire |
| ICBM | Inter-continental Ballistic Missile |
| Sputnik | The first artificial satellite sent into space, launched by the Soviets. |
| Duck and Cover | What you should do in case of a nuclear attack... |
| I Love Lucy | most watched TV show in the 1950's |
| Baby Boom | a sudden dramatic increase in birthrate in the U.S. from between the late 1940's through the early 1960's |
| American Dream | OWN YOUR OWN HOME Live in the SUBURBS Have more Children Buy a Car Shop at a Shopping Center! |
| Affluence | to have a abundance of money, property, and other material good or riches |
| Rock 'n' Roll | Music popular among teenagers during the 1950's |
| Elvis Presley | King of Rock 'n' Roll |
| Beats | Literary rebels against conformity and consumer culture |
| National Defense Education Act | 1958 measure designed to improve science and mathematics instruction in schools |
| Overproduction | make too much of something causing the price to go down |
| Herbert Hoover | President during the BEGINNING of the Great Depression |
| Speculating | investing in a risky business in hopes of making a large profit |
| Reasons for Stock Market Crash | Stocks Overpriced due to speculation Massive Fraud Illegal Activity Margin Buying |
| Hoovervilles | nickname given to shantytowns in the United States during the depression. Named after Pres. Hoover who was blamed for the Depression |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed |
| Dust Bowl | a region in the central and southern Great Plains where drought and high winds caused much of the soil to blow away. Storm clouds extended hundreds of miles. |
| Lend Lease Act | supplying other countries during WWII |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President of the US for the majority of WWII |
| Torch | operation to take back Africa from the Axis powers |
| Overlord | operation to take back Europe from the Axis powers |
| Mussolini | Leader of Italy during WWII |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of Soviet Union during WWII |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| Holocaust | the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler |
| Hiroshima | place of first atomic bombing |
| Nagasaki | place of second atomic bombing |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| appeasement | Satisfying the demands of Adolf Hitler in an effort to maintain peace and stability. it doesn't work |
| Anti-Semitism | policies, views, or actions that harm or discriminate against Jews |
| Zapruder Film | Film of JFK assassination |
| Warren Commission | Group that concluded Oswald acted alone in killing the President |
| Dallas | City JFK was shot and killed |
| Black Panthers | a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites |
| black separatism | belief that Black Americans could only improve their lives by forming a separate society |
| Brown vs Board | supreme court ruled segregation in school was unconstitutional |
| Bus Boycott | form of protest in which protesters boycott the buses for over a year. |
| Malcolm X | Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965. |
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