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Treaty of Versailles
The Allied Powers created this treaty after WWI, which reduced Germany's arm, forced them to pay reparations and punished/blamed Germany WWI. This lead to the economic depression in Germany, which allowed the rise of the Nazi party. -
St. Louis
The St.Louis was a boat carrying people, especially Jews away from Germany to escape persecution from the Nazi party, however, the escape was only temporarily effective. -
Election of 1932 (Germany)
It was a massive win for the Nazi party as they gained 230 seats in the government for their party -
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The Holocaust
The Nazi's mass genocide of people who weren't German, especially Jews that killed millions with survivors that were in ill condition after being rescued. -
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The Neutrality Acts
The United States decided they would remain neutral to the turmoil that was happening in Europe and Asia. -
Annexation of Austria
The Nazi invasion of Austria, through military force, that made Austria part of the Nazi party. -
HUAC
An organization influenced by McCarthyism to accuse people and punish them for being communist even if they weren't communists. -
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Munich Conference (1938)
A conference between Great Britain, France, and Italy which allowed Germany to annex Czechoslovakia -
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project is the development of a nuclear bomb in World War two -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler uses military force to invade Poland on September 1st initiating World War two. -
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The Red Scare
Fear of being taken over by communism and fear of communism in the United States because people feared that their democracy and freedom were threatened. -
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Lend Lease Act
The United States no longer traded with Japan, and the lack of oil caused Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. -
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Hitler invasion of the Soviet Union
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union breaking the non-aggression pact that the countries had initially had, which was code-named Operation Barbarossa. -
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Emmett Till
A fourteen-year-old who was accused of insulting a woman and was the victim of racist mob murder. -
Atlantic Charter
The statement of American and British goals at the end of World War Two. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on an American war base in 1941 that immediately sparked American support to join World War two. -
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American Efforts on the Homefront
Americans at home were trying to help people at the battlefront by working and making weapons to supply them with resources they needed to win. -
Executive Order 9066
The order executed by FDR that forced anyone of Japanese descent to be put into internment camps in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was a woman symbol of the woman workforce during World War two encouraging women to join the workforce to help the Americans at war. -
Korematsu v. United States
A Supreme Court case argued if the internment of Japenese Americans was constitutional or not which the court ruled that it was constitutional. -
War Refugee Board
An organization created by FDR to protect people whose homes were destroyed during the war and to help displaced people. -
GI Bill
A way of giving war veterans a way to supply themselves with what they need which included affordable health care and affordable housing. -
D-Day Invasion
The Allied power's invasion of Normandy which was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
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Baby Boom
A time period after World War Two where soldiers returning from the war started creating families and 78.3 million babies were born during this time, it was possible because the GI Bill allowed them to be able to afford family expenses. -
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Yalta Conference
The discussion of the reorganization of postwar Germany. -
V-E Day
The victory in Europe day; celebrating the day that the Nazi party accepted unconditional surrender. -
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The first use of nuclear weapons on a country on Japan in the military bases, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
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Nuremberg Trials
A series of trials deciding how the leaders of Germany would be punished for their actions in World War Two. However, some leaders managed to escape. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Prime Minister, Winston Churchill's speech condemning the Soviet Union's actions in Europe. -
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Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Plans to contain the expansion of communism in Europe by providing economic and military aid to countries that were destroyed in World War 2. -
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Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' ability to access to Berlin during the Cold War. -
NATO
An organization formed by many countries during the time of the Soviet Union to prevent the expansion of communism. -
Levittown
A place in the suburbs that represented conformity because all the houses were the same and white people came from the cities to the suburbs and they had traditional values. -
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McCarthyism
A way of accusing people of being communist and punishing them by blacklisting them created by Joe McCarthy. -
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The Korean War
A war between North and South Korea where North Korea invaded South Korea and the Soviet Union was supporting communist North Korea, while the United States was supporting capitalist South Korea. -
Election of Eisenhower
President Eisenhower's landslide victory over his opposition to make him the 42nd president of the United States. -
Brown v. the Board of Education
A court case that decided that segregation of schools was unconstitutional; the schools were supposedly equal but weren't equal in quality. -
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Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist groups signing a treaty in Warsaw, Poland during the Cold War. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
A time when African Americans refused to ride the bus and found other ways of transportation in order to protest discrimination of African Americans. -
Sputnik
The first Soviet satellite that was launched into space that orbited the Earth until it came back down into the atmosphere. -
NASA
An American government organization that deals with aeronautics and space travel and discoveries. -
Election of JFK
JFK's election to make him the 44th president of the United States in an election against Nixon -
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Bay of Pigs
A failed invasion of Cuba under JFK's presidency, and rose tensions for the Cold War. -
The Feminine Mystique
A book written by Betty Friedan described the lives of women under conformity and described how they were unhappy and uncomfortable with their lives being regular housewives and doing housework. -
JFK’s Assassination
The assassination of the president of the United States, JFK; the killer still remains undetermined.