History of the United States

  • Propaganda

    information used to excite and audience even if it might not be true
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    World War 1

    many conflicts led up to it but it mostly started after the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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    The Red Scare

    everyone was scared of communsim and for the spread of it
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    Treaty of Versailles

    a peace treaty that ended WW1
  • Anti- Semitism

    Was the prejudice against Jews
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    German Territorial Aggression

    it was the aggression against Poland
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    European Appeasement

    when european countries didnt want to be part of war
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    USA- Isolationist

    when the US wanted to avoid war in anyway possible
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    Adolf Hitler

    The leader of the Nazis and the Holocaust
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    The Nazi Party

    The party that promised the Germans help in the time of need in there own way
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    Third Reich

    a term to describe the Nazi regime in Germany
  • St. Louis

    A ship that carried many Jews t Germany since the U.S didn't want them in the country
  • Germany invades Poland

    when Germany invaded Poland because they wanted more land and wanted to have more countries on their side
  • WW2-europe

    when Hitler attacked Poland they countries came together to fight back
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    The Holocaust

    The mass killing of many Jews at the time when Hitler was ruling Germany
  • Pearl Harbor

    caused Americans to want to be part of War and it started because Japanese have been playing an attack for a while and finally did it
  • WW2- USA

    When Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the U.S Joined in to help fight back
  • Executive Order 9066

    an order about Japanese Internment camps
  • Atomic Bomb

    When Japanese didn't want to surrender they dropped the bomb so the wouldn't have to.
  • Yalta Conference

    Discused what to do with Germany after war
  • United Nations

    allies of nations to keep peace and prevent war
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    Nuremberg Trials

    Trials after WW2 to make the laws of war
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    Rival Superpowers

    when the Soviet Union and the U.S had many tensions and conflicts after WW2
  • Truman Doctrine

    He wanted to stop the Soviet Union and the spread communism
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    Cold War

    after Germany surrendered The US was uneasy about the Soviet Union so many conflicts and tensions happened between them which led to this
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    Containment

    used to contain/ stop the spread of communism throughout the U.S
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    Red Scare

    when people were accused of being communist in their jobs and ect.
  • Marshall Plan

    Gave money to the poor countries so they could get more power
  • NATO

    countries that banded together because they didn't like communism(27 countries)
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    Mass Consumerism / Conformity / The Baby Boom

    Time where everyone got /had the same things and the time when husbands came back from war which led to the "baby boom"
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    Korean War

    when North Korea fought South Korea which led to the U.S and Soviet Union getting involved in the problem
  • Sputnik

    A satitlite made by the Soviet Union that they sent into space which led to the Arms and Space Race
  • NASA

    Americas ways of getting back at the Soviet Union for getting into space first
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    JFK

    The president that stood for peace and progress to make the U.S a better place and he eased cold war tension which caused Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    when the U.S found there were missiles in Cuba so America got scared about it