-
Period: 515 BCE to
Propganda
Ideas spread to to influence public opinions for or against a cause -
Period: 2 BCE to
Anti-Semitism
A long history of hatred and prejudice of Jews -
Period: 1215 to
Civil Liberties
Constitutional freedoms to citizens -
Xenophobia
A fear or hatred toward foreigners -
Period: to
Communism
-
Civil Rights
the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. -
Period: to
Isolationism
A policy to avoid international affairs -
Charles Lindbergh
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
Period: to
Third Reich
Third German Empire made by Adolf Hitler -
Period: to
European Leaders Appeasement
Turning a blind eye to something, used to avoid conflict such as war -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII -
Period: to
Concentration Camps
Prisons established by Hitler used as a base for the extermination of Jews and Jewish labor -
Hitler
German Nazi dictator during World War II -
The Nazi Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945, that created and supported the ideology of National Socialism. -
HUAC
HUAC is a congressional committee that investigated activities within the US to prevent communism or espionage for the Soviet Union. -
The St. Louis
The St. Louis was a ship carrying 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba to escape the Holocaust. -
Period: to
The Holocaust
The Mass Genocide of Jews -
Period: to
Internment
the state of being confined as a prisoner usually for national security reasons -
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was the prime minister of Britain during the holocaust and during WWII. -
Period: to
Mass Consumerism
Mass production of luxury goods through media and advertisement -
Period: to
Containment
The policy of stopping the expansion and influence a country has on neighboring lands -
Period: to
Conformity
Compliance with standards and traditions -
Period: to
The Red Scare
The fear of the Soviet Union and Communism -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a American base in Hawaii that Japan bombed (December, 7 1941). The result of this bombing was America joining WWII -
Period: to
The Final Solution
The planned termination and final steps to "solving the Jewish question" (killing Jews) -
Executive Order 9066
An order placed by FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) to put all Japanese people and people of Japanese descent under internment camps to avoid espionage. -
Korematsu v. United States
1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. Later in the 20th Century (1988) Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 to each survivor of Japanese Internment. -
D-Day
D-Day was the attack on Normandy Beach by Canada, the Soviet Union, the United States, "France," and Great Britain. In a nutshell it was a allied attack on Normandy Beach against the Axis powers led by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Over a million troops "stormed" the beach to reclaim France. This was a major shift in WWII and probably was a main reason why the Nazis gave up. (June 6, 1944) -
Period: to
War Refugee Board
Established by the United States to help an support victims of the Holocaust -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting between FDR, Winston Churchill, and Stain to plan/discuss the world after WWII. This was in 1945 -
VE Day
VE Day is victory Europe day, the day when the Germans surrendered and when any European nations under Nazi/German control were liberated. (May 8, 1945) -
Period: to
The United Nations
The Union of countries to promote peace and security internationally. -
Period: to
The Nuremberg Trials
Court Case held in Germany which Nazi leaders and war criminals were sentenced or killed -
Period: to
The Atomic Bomb
A bomb dropped in 2 cities of Japan from the United States in order to end WWII -
Levittown
In 1947, William Levitt built Levittown as "inexpensive" homes in suburban NY to relieve the postwar housing shortage. Levittown was known for having a ton of white people and it soon became a symbol to the movement to the suburbs post-WWII. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy that declared that the US would provide economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism. (This mainly helped Turkey & Greece) -
Israel
Israel is a Jewish state/country that was created/founded after WWII to honor/respect the Jews after centuries of diaspora. Israel was a piece of England that was given up to benefit Jews, this plan was suggested by the UN. -
Period: to
Marshall Plan
A United States Program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe -
Nuclear Warfare
Military conflict where nuclear weaponry is used to cause/inflict damage on the enemy. -
Period: to
NATO
A military alliance created and made up of the United States and 12 non-Communist countries allied if threatened -
Joseph McCarthy
An American senator in the 1950s who claimed to have list of communists in American government, but had no credible evidence. McCarthy took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential. "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists. -
McCarthyism
The attacks/accusations, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of beings communists in the early 1950s. -
American Home Front
he American Home Front is often referred to as America post WWII and how each "life" looked like. (Event during the beginning of the Cold War). -
Period: to
Korean War
The Conflict between communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea -
Period: to
NASA
An agency of the US government responsible for aviation and space flight. -
John F. Kennedy
-
Cuban Missile Crisis
The 1962 confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. The US wanted the Soviet Union to take its missiles out of Cuba because they taught it influenced communism in Cuba and they posed this as a threat. -
MAD
A military strategy in which a full-scale of nuclear weapons by 2 opposing sides would have an effect of both the attacker and defender being destroyed. -
Betty Friedan
American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique". The Feminine Mystique was used to criticize the conformity of Woman being domestic wives. Friedan wanted to show Woman's power through the book. -
Capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership of capital.