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Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews -
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Capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership of capital -
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the US during Great Depression and World War II -
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Adolf Hitler
Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocaust. -
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Propaganda
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. -
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Communism
A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. -
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Nazi Party
German political party joined by Adolf Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party became the only legal party and an instrument of Hitler's absolute rule. -
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Red Scare
A period of general fear of communists -
St. Louis
During World War II, the Motorschiff St. Louis was a German ocean liner infamously known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape the Holocaust to disembark in Cuba. However they were denied permission to land. -
U.S Isolationism
The U.S isolating themself from Europe and sating out of the Hitler conflict -
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European appeasement
Europeans accepting German demands in order to avoid conflict -
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Holocaust
the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler -
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Third Reich
The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. -
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Nazi Concentration Camps
prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately. -
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American Home Front
-Enormous task of mobilization; men and women volunteered for service
-Factories converted; "victory gardens" planted; scrap drives and recycling to collect materials
-Some negative effects of patriotism
-Japanese Americans placed in internment camps during the war -
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Soviet Union Containment
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world -
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Final Solution
Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people -
Pearl Harbor
Base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war. -
Executive Order 9066
112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes and businesses -
Korematsu v. United States
1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 to each survivor. -
War Refugee Board
Federal agency created in 1944 to try to help people threatened with murder by the Nazis -
D-Day
Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 -
Atomic Bomb
bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying both cities -
The Yalta Conference
1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war -
nuclear warfare
use of atomic weapons -
VE Day
May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered -
United Nations
An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. -
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Nuremberg Trials
A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity. -
Truman Doctrine
1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey -
Israel created
A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora. -
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Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) -
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 -
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Korean War
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. -
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
The possession of second-strike nuclear capabilities, which ensures that neither of two adversaries could prevent the other from destroying it in an all-out war.