| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Benito Mussolini | Italian Facist leader |
| Blackshirts | Facist militia |
| Facism | the act of aggressive nationalism |
| Hitler | German-ferverent anti-communist and admirer of Mussolini |
| Nazism | The thought that a government or race is more important than the individual |
| Blackshirts | Nazi militia (stormtroopers) |
| USSR | Union of the Soviet Socialists Republic (Now Russia) |
| Stalin | Soviet dictator after Vladmir Lenin |
| Mein Kampf | My sruggle- Hitler's autobiography |
| Nazi Party | National Socialist German Workers' Party. Nationalistic and anticommunist. |
| Storm Troopers | Nazi paramilitary units (same as brownshirts) |
| Sudentenland | an area in Czechloslovakia with a large german-speaking population |
| Appeasment | The policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace |
| Nonagression Pact | a pact between Germany and the USSR saying,"You don't mess with me i won't mess with you." |
| Strategic Materials | materails important for fighting war such as: weapons, ammunition, and food supplies |
| embargo | order from a government prohibiting commercial ships from leaving its port |
| internment camps | camps where japanese americans were sent during relocation |
| 442nd Regiment | an integrated regiment involving the 100th battalion, which was an all japonese battalion |
| Pas-de-Calais | The place Germany expected the allies would land |
| Korematsu vs. US | Peopl arguing that the japonese people were losing all of their rights |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944-the day that Allies landed at Omaha Beach... led by Omar Bradley |
| Omar Bradley | The commander of the American forces landing at Omaha and Utah beach |
| Dwight d.Eisenhower | Supreme Allied Commander for the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. |
| VJ Day | August 15th, 1945-the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japonese forces |
| Little Boy | First atomic weapon, explded 1,800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan. Agust 6, 1945 |
| Fat Man | Second nuclear weapon used in warfare, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. August 9, 1945 |
| Manchuria | A rescource rich provence in China. Invaded by Japan |
| Operation Overlord | code name for the planned invasion of France on Normandy |
| Enola Gay | a B-29 bomber that carried and dropped the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the Anglo-American project to develop the atomic bomb |
| General Dewitt | Western Command. Chose to send Japonese to internment camps |
| General Emmons | Hawian command- chose to not deport the Japonese |
| Executive Order 9066 | the order to send the Japonese to internment camps |
| Ruhr valley | First taken by France for war reparations for WWI, then it was taken beck by Germany |
| Brown vs. Board | Court case where it was decided,"In education, separte is never equal." |
| Orval Faubus | Govenor of Arkansas |
| 101st Airborne division | sent to Little Rock to prevent the nine A.A. students to get into the white public school |
| Elizabeth Eckford | one of the Little Rock Nine |
| Daisy Bates | one of the little rock nine-quit school |
| Jesse Jackson | A student leader at NC Aand T. Member of the SNCC |
| Ella Baker | Director of the SCLC |
| JFK | passed the civil rights act of 1964 |
| Eugene "Bull" Connor | Mayor of Burmingham who was for segregation |
| James Meredith | Meredith started a solitary March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, to protest against racism. Soon after starting his march he was shot by sniper. |
| James Bevel | veteren of sit-ins in Nashville, and planner of Birmingham protest marches using children instead of adults |
| Poll taxes | a fee to vote |
| Sheriff Jim Clark | depudized many white citezens to prevent black peopl from registering to vote. Met marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and ordered the attack |
| Edmund Pettus Bridge | Bridge that was crossed during the march from Selma to Montgomery |
| John Lewis | Led march from Selma to Montgomery |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating comittee |
| JoAnn Robinson | started Montgomery bus boycott |
| MIA | Montgomery Improvement Association |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | African Americans stopped taking the buses, hoped to cause economic strain |
| SCLC | southern christian leadership confrence |
| Greensboro sit-in | A sit in at an all white counter, caused it to become integrated, and spurred sit-ins all over the country |
| Letter from a Birmingham Jail | a letter written by MLK during one of his stays in Prison |
| Bloody Sunday | The day the marchers marching from Selma to Montgomery were met at the bottom of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and attacked |
| Voting Rights act of 1965 | act that stated there could be nothing stopping anyone from voting, got rid of literacy tests and poll taxes |
| Plessy vs. Fergusun | The court case where segregation was declared legal as long as it was seperate but equal |
| De Facto Segregation | segregation by beliefs |
| Thurgood Marshall | brilliant AA lawyer, was the lawyer for Brown vs. Board |
| Vietcong | guerrilla army in South Vietnam |
| Strategic Hamlet | special fortified villages created by Diem to protect the villagers from the Vietcong |
| OP rolling thunder | a sustainable bombing campaign |
| Robert Mcnamara | LBJ's defense secretary |
| Napalm | a jellied substance that explodes on contact |
| Agent Orange | a chemical that strips plants of their foliage turning forests to wastelands |
| SDS | students for a democratic society |
| Westmoreland | american commander in South Vietnam |
| Doves | people who want to withdraw from the war |
| Hawks | peopl who wanted to stay and fight |
| Vietminh | nationalists army in North Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of North Vietnam |
| Geneva Accords | Papers that stated that Vietnam will be divided into to: North and South |
| Nigo Dinh Diem | Leader of South Vietnam |
| Gulf of Tonkin resolution | a bill that handed over all war powers to LBJ |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | a network of jungle paths used to send supplies and arms |
| Credibility gap | hard to believe what the government was telling the public |
| Teach-in | informally discussing the war |
| Domino Theory | a belief that if Vietnam fell to Communism so would all of indochina |
| Dien Bien Phu | a battle over that town, ultimately caused France to back out of the war |
| Bob Woodward | reporter for the Washington Post |
| DNC | Democratic National Comitee |
| Washington Post | tried to keep the watergate story alive |
| James McCord | one of the robbers, ex-CIA official, member of CREEP |
| Carl Bernstein | investigator for the Washington Post |
| CRP/CREEP | comittee to re-elect the president |
| Judge Sirica | judge who got McCord to cooperate with the grand jury investigation with the senate select comitee |
| Sam Ervin | established the senate select comittee |
| John Mitchell | former attorney general accused of ordering the Watergate break-in |
| Alexander Butterfield | White house aid who revealed the taping system |
| executive privilege | the principle that white house privileges and conversations should remain confidential |
| Spiro Agnew | Nixon's Vp who was forced to resign |
| Gerald Ford | new VP |
| Impeach | to formally charge |
| Senate Select Commitee | comittee put together by Sam Ervin to uncover the watergate scandal |
| Saturday Night Massacre | an event where Cox was fired |
| Nixon's three charges | Obstructon of Justice, Abuse of Power, and contemp of congress |
| John Dean | member of the White house inner circle who leveled allegations on Noxon |
| Mark Felts | was the insider who provided information to Woodwars and Bernstein |
| Leon Jaworski | second specail prosecutor |
| Archibald Cox | first special prosecutor |
| Robert Bork | Fired Cox |
| enemies list | A list of all the People Nixon did not like |
| Elliot Richardson | refused to fire Archibals Cox, then resigned |
| Frank Willis | security guard at the Watergate complex who found the robbers |
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