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30 BCE
Anti-semitism
Prejudice against Jews -
Propaganda
biased ideas, used to promote ones point of view on a topic -
Capitalism
An economic system based on private property and free enterprise. This is basically saying that People had control over their property and this promotes Democracy. -
Civil Liberties
Citizens protection against government actions -
Internment
Confinement usually during times of war -
Communism
A theory claiming that Industries belonged to the state. -
xenophobia
hatred to "aliens" or foreigners. -
The Nazi Party
the political party founded in Germany brought to power by Hitler. -
Mass Consumerism
People had money to spend on gods and spent it on manufactured goods -
Charles Lindbergh
American pilot who flew across the Atlantic-Ocean without stopping.He also supported isolationism -
Isolationism
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs ex. The US during the first quarter of WWII -
The Holocaust
the Nazi (Political Party) way/plan of killing Jews under the leadership of Adolf Hitler -
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Germany caused WWII and the Holocaust and he was a part of the Nazi Party -
Third Reich
another name for Nazi Germany -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the US during the Great Depression and World War II and established New Deal to help the country with the Great Depression. He also led the country to victory against Germany -
Concentration Camps
places where political prisoners(Jews etc.) are eventually killed or supposed to be killed -
Appeasement
Foreign Policy were you allow a country to do what the country wants to do in order to avoid war -
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
Established by the United States to investigate and disloyalty(communist) in the United States. -
The St.Louis
A ship that people boarded and took to escape concentration camps -
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII who did not support German appeasement -
Pearl Harbor
The United States military base in Hawaii which was eventually bombed by Japan during WWII. Which forced the United States to finally declare war. -
American Home Front
What the United States looked like during a certain time period -
Executive Order 9066
FDR's order to place all Japanese Americans in Internment Camps. The event occurred after the Pearl Harbor bombing -
The Final Solution
Hitler's plan of systematically killing(genocide) the entire Jewish people -
Korematsu v. United States
Supreme court case said that Japanese Internment was legal -
War Refugee Board
The agency created by FDR to help people of the Holocaust -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Germans at France ( Germans conquered France before this) -
VE Day
The Day when German surrendered -
The atomic bomb
A bomb that gives tremendous radiation. The bomb was used by the United States to bomb Japan -
The United Nations
An international organization to promote world peace and cooperation and this would prevent another World War. -
The Nuremberg trials
Nazi leaders were tried for crimes against humanity (Holocaust). -
The Yalta Conference
A meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to determine the fate of the Nazis -
nuclear warfare
The use of Nuclear weapons during the war -
Joseph McCarthy
the United States senator who exposed Communist and establish fear throughout the countries -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's declaring that he would help out countries that were threatened by Communism -
Containment
A U.S. Foreign policy of stopping the expansion of Communism -
Levittown
Built after World War II for returning veterans and their new families. Also, Levittown was in the Suburbs. -
Israel
A country that was established for the Jews to stay after WWII -
Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe -
NATO
A mini version of the United Nations but for the United States. -
The Red Scare
A period of time where the United States felt paranoid about the expansion of Communism (especially throughout the country) -
The Korean War
A proxy-war during the Cold War between, Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United States supported South Korea while the Soviet Union supported North Korea.[ -
McCarthyism
The act of exposing Communist -
Conformity
Agreement/Compromise with rules or laws -
Civil Rights
rights of citizens to create equal conditions for all Americans -
NASA
the agency of the United States government that is a space program and responsible for research about space. -
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
a doctrine of military strategy saying that both countries have the power to destroy one another with their weapons(nuclear in this case) -
John F. Kennedy
President during part of the cold war. He also was apart of the first televised debate between Nixon and Kennedy. -
The Cuban missile crisis
The United States did not want missiles to be placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union. The Soviets eventually withdrew their missiles from Cuba. -
Betty Friedan
The women wrote The Feminine Mystique.