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600 BCE
Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jewish people. -
Period: 1215 to
Civil Liberties
Freedoms automatically given to people. -
Propaganda
Ideas that are biased used to influence the public. -
Period: to
Mass Consumerism
Industrial improvement in selling goods & products. -
Period: to
Capitalism
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. -
Period: to
Xenophobia
A fear of immigrants. -
Period: to
Communism
The Soviet Union's ideology. -
Period: to
Charles Lindbergh
A pilot who made the first non-stop flight by himself. -
Third Reich
The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. -
Period: to
Adolf Hitler
German leader of the Nazi Party. -
Period: to
Franklin D.Roosevelt
President of the US during the Great Depression and World War II. -
Period: to
Concentration Camps
Camps that were used by the Nazis to kill groups of people they didn't like or felt superior to. -
Period: to
HUAC
This group accused people of being communists and blacklisted people. -
Appeasement
Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. -
Period: to
Isolationism
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs (Ex: WWII and the United States not participating for awhile). -
The St. Louis
This boat carried Jewish refugees that wanted to escape Nazi Germany and go to Cuba but they weren't let into land there. -
Period: to
The Red Scare
Paranoia communism was going to take over the United States. -
Period: to
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII -
Period: to
The Holocaust
German supremacy against the Jewish. A group called the Nazi's emerged from this hatrid and created a genocide of Jewish people. -
Period: to
American Home Front
Women took the lead of what men left behind & got jobs to take care of their family and etc. -
Period: to
The Final Solution
The Nazis made a mass murdering of Jewish people. An estimated amount of 6 million Jewish people died. -
Pearl Harbor
United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. -
The United Nations
This group was formed after World War 2 and to keep anymore genocides from happening. As well as, to keep the peace between nations. -
Period: to
Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt's idea of containing Japenese-Americans in an Internment Camp because he was paranoid of another attack. -
Period: to
Internment
A prison for a certain group of people for government purposes. -
Koremastu vs. United States
Supreme Court case that upheld the government's wartime internment policy of Japenese-Americans. -
Period: to
Joseph McCarthy
A senator who accused many innocent people of being communists. -
Period: to
War Refugee Board
President Roosevelt made this to help people who were terrorized during the Holocaust. -
D-Day
Allied Powers (United States, Britain, Soviet Union) fought against Nazi Germany. -
Period: to
The Yalta Conference
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill had meeting about post-war plans and fighting against Japan. -
VE Day
United States and Britain celebrate the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. -
The Atomic Board
A weapon that was used to force the Japenese to making an unconditional surrender. -
Nuclear Warfare
Nuclear weapons used to fight a opponent. -
Period: to
The Numbers Trials
This was to punish the people who took place in the Holocaust or genocide. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman stating that he will help any country in need of help to keep away communism. -
Period: to
Levittown
The suburbs where whites lived & conformed throughout their life. -
Period: to
Containment
A plan for helping European nations. -
Period: to
Marshal Plan
A plan for helping European nations. -
Israel
This was given to Jewish people originally for them to enjoy their own land. -
NATO
Treaty between America and Europe. -
Period: to
McCarthyism
The act of accusing innocents as communists. -
Period: to
Conformity
Following society's norms. -
Period: to
The Korean War
The conflict between North and South Korea (United States and Soviet Union tensions). -
Period: to
Civil Rights
The rights of people to be treated equally. -
Period: to
NASA
United States space program. -
Period: to
John F. Kennedy
President helped with civil rights & always tried to find peace. -
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
2 opponents can strike at any moment and war can break out. -
Period: to
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The 1962 conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. -
Period: to
Betty Friedan
A feminist who wrote The Feminine Mystique & fought for women's rights.