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WWII
Definition

single largest event in world history

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Wilson belief on wht should be done with Germany
Definition

"Germany for the germans"

-helped draw map of territorial changes after wwI

 

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Hitler annexes  austria
Definition

-austria excited bc in depression

-said that it was part of germany

 

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Hitler annex Sudetenland
Definition

correct wilsons mistake

-it was part of germany also

-include rhineland

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Appeasement
Definition

-sept 1938 

-met w chamberlin adn french italian prime ministers.

-give germany sudetenland or he'll take it by force

give him what he wants in hope that he'll stop there

give him an incha dn he'll take a mile (takes czechoslovakia 6 months later)

basically feeding your friends to the gator in hopes that he'll eat you last

FDR response: Good Man, prevented war

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Stalin
Definition

soviet union dictator

-saw germany pushing east towards SU

 

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Nazi Soviet Pact
Definition
non aggression bn nazis and soviets
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China (meanwhile)
Definition

attacking manchuria

-rape of nanking

-WWII begins at diff times in diff places

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US reaction to both
Definition
thank God for the atlantic and pacific
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Spirit of St. Louis
Definition

fly across atlantic 

-face of US isolationism

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FDR memorial
Definition

him in wheelchair. wasnt very public abt it

"i hate war"

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1935-37 Neutrality acts
Definition

cant trade atc with belligerents

keep America out of fire zone

(prevent what happened in WW1

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Polish Collapse
Definition
sad army- still on horseback while germany is in tanks
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Magnots 
Definition

basically big wall in France to keep out germans 

-they go around: though Belgium

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Peacetime draft
Definition
able to bring up army quickly 
Term

lend lease 

1941-45

Definition

"arsenal of democracy"-build weapons

meeting isolationists halfway

-Am money pay for Britian to fight, so Am not sucked into war

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Atlantic Charter

1941

Definition

FDR and churchill meet to discuss plans for war and post war 

-recycle Wilsonianism

-disarmament: churchill not planning to uphold bc would be death of british empire

-binds Am and Britain

!!!US IS NOT IN THE WAR YET!!!

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Japan 
Definition

join Germany (white supremists) nazis

-embargo on scrap metal adn oil

-japan and US at impass

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Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

Definition

Yakamodo lead attack- said US will fight back

-US not think possible bc it was a surprise attack and no ultimatum

 

Term
Wannsee Conference
Definition

nazi officials discuss "final solution" for Jews: Hoocaust

-turn concentration camps into death camps

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June 1942
Definition

AM stop Japan offensive powers at midway islands

 

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Grand Alliance
Definition

churchhill

stalin

roosevelt

-resolve hitler and Japan CRUSHED

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Poland fled war
Definition

stalin doesnt trust them 

tried to put his commie officials in charge.

Rosy: "way to rule that country you don't own. Fool. I didn't vote for that shit"

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postwar
Definition

make postwar peaceful and acceptable to all three

-want Germany weak and divided

-might keep Euro poor

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Rosie the Riveter
Definition

WE CAN DO IT!

-am producing planes

-30% women in workforce

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GI Bill
Definition
low interest loans etc and free college
Term

Poles rise up to Warsaw

 

Definition

Warsaw Poles rise up against the Nazis and try to help the Soviet Union.

SU is like HELLL NO. You're not going to claim part of the victory, we want you all to ourselves.

They parked tanks and did not help.

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Iwa Jima
Definition

H Bombs

nagasaki

hiroshima

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Cold War
Definition

"i know it when i see it"

dont really know when it begins

Term
George F Kennan
Definition

diplomat in moscow

-why soviets turning inward and cutting off contact with West

-"long telegram" -explained containment

-containment is unsustainable: cant last forever, US man the frontiers and wait against ideology

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Truman Doctrine
Definition
help those fighting against communism (Greece and Turkey)
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Marshall Plan
Definition

purchases reconstrction af Euro economy

-loan Am money to Euro countries

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Berlin Airlift
Definition

Soviets: "lets blockade this HOE"

US: "BULLLLSHIT. I'ma give them food and supplies"

 

YAY WE WIN.

Term
Nato alliance
Definition

1st Am overseas alliance in long time

-"to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germansdown"

- supported by Am citizens

 

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McCarthyism
Definition

list of commies in govt

"guilt by association"

never caught a real commy

but there were actual traitors :Truman knew

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The Baby BOOM!
Definition

1946-64

ppl optimistic abt future= BABIES

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Levit Town
Definition
cookie cutter homes
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Elvis Pelvis
Definition

powers to impregnate

FEAR IT

-drive identity of baby boomers

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Sputnik
Definition

Russian satelite

-threaten Am supremacy

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N AM war industries
Definition
discriminated against blacks
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A Philip Randalf
Definition

organize beginings of a March on Washington

idea: US not yet in war- blacks want to help but cant

peaceful riot: "let us do our part"

"why hold weapons of freedom in a country that gives us none?"

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FEPC
Definition

ensuring blacks ot get jobs

"victory on 2 fronts"

-fepc and war

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MYDEL
Definition

publishes study "AN Am dillema"

-gap b/n Am ideals and Reality

Am race relations

how to reconcile horrible pains of relations with promise of Am life

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Jackie Robinson
Definition

Brooklyn Dodgers

-1st black player in big leagues

-integrate sports W&B

Term
4 essetial Rights
Definition

"to secure these rights"

-anti lynch

-vote

-safety and security

-conscious and expression

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MARGOL
Definition

idea to attack segregation:

"if you want seperate, pay for equal"

-black schools funded less

-attack top of pyrimid: graduate students

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Gaines 

MO

38

Definition

black want to go lawschool in MO

-build "lawschool" for him to go to

not equal

Term

Sweatt 

TX

50

Definition

UT lawschool

-go to school in basement

not equal

Term

McLaurin

OK

50

 

Definition

dental education

given seperate desk

not equal

Term
Earl Warren
Definition

Brown v Board of Education

-Jim Crow needs to die

-seperate can never be equal

 

-massive resistance of whites

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The doll test
Definition
black kids in segregated schools think white better prettier and smarter
Term
white reaction to desegregation
Definition

massive resistence of white south

"you and what army?"

rise of KKK

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Brown Decision
Definition
desegregate with all deliberate speed
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Potsdam Conference 

1945

Definition

churchill, truman, stalin

-figure out post war order, peacetime treaties, countering the aftermath of war

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Yalta conference
Definition

churchill, truman stalin

discuss Europes postwar reconstruction

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Black Tuesday-Black Thursday
Definition

great stock market crash of 29

-vote of confidence on the Mon. 

-tuesday 10 bil $ of paper value vanish

-does not mean factories/farms no longer function

-idea that markets never going back to good times

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unemployment rate 1933
Definition

25%

highest ever

Term
Hoover villes
Definition
ppl build shanty house bc their real homes forclosed 
Term
Hoover's idea
Definition
"We can work our way out of this"
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Hoover's Golden Goose/key
Definition
Can't risk giving non working people money, because then they will go off and be lazy asses and never work again... thus ruining the American Dream and culture forever.
Term
Biggest difference in congressional election between the demos and the repubs
Definition
BOOZE. poor people always buy booze... also they wanted to tax it for revenue.
Term
RFC (Reconstruction finance corporation)
Definition
agency established during the great depression, granted SAL governments aprrox 2mill to help/build roads/RR/banks/mortage
Term
NRA (National Recovery Agency)
Definition
set minimum wages and maximum weekly hours, as well as minimum prices at which products could be sold.
Term
Wickard v. Filburn
Definition
No, you can not grow more wheat...it affects the interstate commerce wheat prices.
Term
Schecter v US (1935)
Definition
Bad, Bad Farmer, you.... selling your SICK CHICKENS!
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PS... Roosevelt tried to get 6 more Supreme Court Justices...
Definition
Just so you know...
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Battle of Midway
Definition

June 1942

AMERICANS DESTROYED THE JAPANESE offense.

 

PS...turning point in war

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Guess what Japanese-Americans
Definition
YOURE GOING TO CAMP!
Term
1941 American Embargo
Definition
stopped selling steel, oil and cotton to Japan because they made a pact with Germany...and that pissed us off.
Term
When did US join war?
Definition

New Years Day, 1942

RAAWWRRRRR 

Term
percentages of American resources going to war
Definition

15% Americans use to fight against the ASIANS

85% to Europe, for the brits to fight off the dirty, dirty NAZIS

Term
Stalingrad
Definition

Nazis v Soviet Union

this was a turning point in the war, made Nazi victory in the East impossible

Term
Kursk
Definition
Largest tank battle
Term
Manhanttan Project
Definition
Resulted in the development of the first atomic BOMB
Term
Tehran Conference
Definition

1st meeting of the BIG 3 during the war...

central aim was to plan the final strategy for attacking the Nazis, by opening a second front

Term
Cairo Conference
Definition

addressed the allied position against Japan

attended by Rosey, Churchy, and some chinese dude. Stalin was being a little bitch and was like "HELL NO i'm not going, china man is gonn' be there."

Term
They go in this order...
Definition

Long Telegram

containment

Truman Doctrine

Marshal Plan

Berlin Airlift

Term

D-DAY

June 6, 1944

Definition
Hitler was now fighting a 2 front war. HE GOIN' DOWN.
Term
breakdown of the homefront workforce
Definition

30% women

15% teen

40% Af Americans

Term

Hiroshima 8/6/45

Nagasaki 8/9/45

Definition
BOOM.
Term
Why did the Allies win the war?
Definition

American industrialization was the bomb, but like literally.

Also our culture was quite industrial and hard working and we have resources, which help.

Term
Enola Gay
Definition
plane that dropped the 1st A-BOMB
Term
Victory Bonds
Definition
bought by ordinary US citizens and helped fund the war
Term
Sept 1949
Definition

Sad day

Soviets now have their very own Atomic Bomb

no more monopoly for US

Term
1957 Little Rock Central
Definition

1st major scene of civil rights movement

"Little Rock 9" turned away by US soldiers when tried to enter school

Term

4 College Guys in a woolworths

1960

Definition

"WE WANT A BURGER"

sit-in

Term
US GDP increase
Definition

~218 Billion: 1946

~1 TRILLION: 1970

Term
SCLC
Definition

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

MLK was a part of it

predominately membered by preachers and such

Term
SNCC
Definition

Student nonviolent coordinating committee

predominately made up of students.

organized sit-ins and freedom rides

Term
CORE
Definition

Congress On Racial Equality

challenged Jim Crow on Public transportations

Term
Freedom Rides
Definition

took place on greyhound interstate bus system...

first one was in 1961

Term
Burmingham church 1963
Definition
a molatov cocktail was thrown at a black church, it burned down and killed 4 girls
Term

March on Washington

1963

Definition
like a BAJILLION people went to washington and heard about the dream that MLK had the night before
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