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Charles lindenbergh
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Nazi Party
World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
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communism
Advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned. -
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Hitler Regime
Hitler shot himself in his suite on April 30 -
apeasement
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s -
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Holocaust
destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. -
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WW2
"The vast majority of the world's countries including all the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis" -
Pearl Harbor Attacks
a military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii -
excuetive order of 9066
The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation. In an atmosphere of World War II hysteria -
Yalta conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin -
korematsu v United States
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case upholding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II -
WAR REFUGEE BOARD
The War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, was a U.S. executive agency to aid civilian victims of the Axis powers. -
D-Day
World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
VE DAY
V-E Day commemorates the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945 -
atomic bomb
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Containment
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism to start -
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Levittown
the mass assembly of homes with cultural standards -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine, Made by U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, declaring economic and military aid -
Marshall Plan
george marshall in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic problems of postwar Europe -
NATO
NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe -
Mass consumerism
Consumerism is rife in many economically developed countries. The mass production of luxury goods, the saturation of media -
RED SCARE
widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state -
MCCarthyism
Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. -
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conformity
behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards -
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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. -
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Space Race
Battle of the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. -
MAD
two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender( ATTACKING OF BOTH SIDES) -
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Cuban Missile crisis
r the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile -
JFK
who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963