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Period: 515 BCE to
Propaganda (Has been used ever since 515 BCE to Present Day)
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. -
Period: 1 BCE to
Anti-Semitism (Ever Since The Death of Jesus to the Creation of Israel)
A LONG history of hatred/prejudice of Jews -
Period: 1215 to
Civil Liberties
A guarantee of constitutional freedoms to all citizens. -
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Communism (Mid 1800s to Present Day)
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Xenophobia
A fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers "(aliens)." -
Civil Rights
The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. These rights are NOT guaranteed by the US government and constitution. -
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Isolationism
A policy that ANY nation can commit to avoid international affairs. -
Charles Lindbergh
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) -
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The Third Reich
The Third German Empire made by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s -
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European Leaders' Appeasement
Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict. Example: the appeasement that European leaders did during Nazi aggression -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President of the United States during the Great Depression and during WWII. He is known for creating the New Deal, getting America out of the depression, ending WWI as a soldier, and his many influences during WWII. -
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Concentration Camps
Concentration camps were basically prison camps that Hitler established in Nazi Germany. The condition of these "camps" were inhumane and prisoners there normally starved or worked to death, if not they were killed immediately. The majority of the people in these "camps" were Jewish people. -
Hitler
Hitler was the Nazi/German dictator during World War II who "made" or "proposed" the holocaust to happen. -
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 (House Un-American Activities Committee)
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. -
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The Holocaust
The extermination of Jews under Nazi control -
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Internment
the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons. -
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was the prime minister of Britain during the holocaust and during WWII. -
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Containment
The American policy of resisting/stopping expansion of communism around the world. -
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The Red Scare
A period of fear of communists. This caused paranoia in the US and disrupted the lives of many Americans. -
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Mass Consumerism
the spread of deep interest in acquiring material goods and services below elite levels, along with a growing economic capacity to afford some of these goods. -
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Conformity
Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. Unofficial societal forms that "everyone" must follow. -
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The Final Solution
The "solution" to the Jewish question, that involved the systematic killing of Jewish people (genocide). -
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 -
Executive Order 9066
A 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. -
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War Refugee Board (1944 to Present Day)
The WRB was a federal agency created in 1944 to help those during the Holocaust. Groups that were helped, saved, or offered money were normally groups that were threatened with murder by the Nazis -
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) -
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 -
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The UN (1945-2019)
An organization of independent countries and states formed in 1945 to promote peace and security internationally. -
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) -
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The Atomic Bomb
A bomb dropped by an American bomber on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The result of the bomb was the demolition of both these cities and a Japanese surrender that ended WWII. (Harry S. Truman issued for the bomb to be dropped) -
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The Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trial(s) was a series of court cases (held in Nuremberg, Germany) after WWII in which Nazi leaders were prosecuted for aggression, violation of war rules, and crimes against humanity. -
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) -
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Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). -
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. -
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NATO
A military alliance created in 1949 made up of the US and 12 non-Communist countries that support each other if attacked/threatened. -
Nuclear Warfare
Military conflict where nuclear weaponry is used to cause/inflict damage on the enemy. -
American Home Front
The 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). -
McCarthyism
The attacks/accusations, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of beings communists in the early 1950s. -
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. -
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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. The conflict between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was communist and under control of the Soviet Union. South Korea was non-Communist and under the control of the US. The UN & the US helped South Korea. -
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NASA
An agency of the US government responsible for aviation and spaceflight. Created by Dwight D. Eisenhower to help the US with the Arms and Space race. -
John F. Kennedy
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Mutually Assured Destruction (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. -
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. -
Betty Friedan (Feminine Mystique)
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.