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| Renounced any nation's right to intervene in the affairs of another. It didn't end US interference in Latin America, but it did substitute economic for military |
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| November 9-10th, 1938. A series of attacks against Jews throughout Germany. Homes were ransacked and many were taken to concentration camps |
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| "Lightening War" against Denmark, NOrway, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France. They pinned the English against the sea and forced France to surrender |
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| Joined together the US (FDR), the Soviet Union (Stalin), and Great Britain (Winston Churchill). The goal was to save American lives and end in an alliance so that something like this wouldn't happen again |
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| Meeting to discuss post-war reorganization. Stalin in the driver's seat and concessions he received sold out the Chinese promises made to Chang Kai Shek previously. Laid the foundations for the United Nations. Roosevelt gave away eastern Europe to Stalin |
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| A systematic, state-sponsored extermination of Jews, people with disabilities, older people, etc |
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| Designed to forestall the expected recession caused by the troops return. It rewarded troops for faithful service. It reduced the fear of women taking jobs, and gave veterans priority for jobs, occupational guidance, and 52 weeks of unemployment |
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| Policy uniting military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to contain any further Soviet expansion |
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| The boundary Stalin put in place between communist and capitalist countries in eastern Europe |
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| The policy to support free peoples resisting to submit to communists |
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| Fear of communists and espionage after WWII |
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| Took place in an era when Cold War tension between America and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. People expected Truman to run again but he didn't so it was Dwight D. Eisenhower (popular war hero, Republican) versus Adlai Stephenson (governor of Illinois) |
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| 25 years of economic growth and prosperity. Propelled research in medicine and science. Made lives longer and better. Vast expansion of higher education that enabled many Americans to become middle class. It was over Soviet Russia etc |
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| Military-Industrial Complex |
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| A concept commonly used to refer to policy and monetary relationships between legislators, national armed forces, and the industrial sector that supports them. These relationships include political contributions, political approval for defense spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and beneficial legislation and oversight of the industry. It's a type of iron triangle. |
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| The Soviet blocked the Western Allies railway and road access to sectors of Berlin under Allied control. The goal was for the western powers to let the Soviets provide all the food etc to the city and thus have control. The Western Allies response was to fly in food and supplies to the people in west Berlin. Over 200,000 flights in one year |
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| Albert Einstein warned of Nazi plans to construct an atomic bomb. The project employed 120,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion dollars. Tested on July 16, 1945 |
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| The name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France, and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941-1945 |
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| Dictator in Italy. In power from 1922-1943 |
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| German dictator. Became Chancellor in 1933 and began rearming Germany in 1935 |
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| Won 4 gold medals in 1936 Olympics (held in Berlin) and broke or tied 3 world records |
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| Defeated German boxer Max Schmeling in the first round of their world heavyweight championship fight (boxing). THis was in 1938 |
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| Leader of the Soviet Union |
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| Became president after Roosevelt died |
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| Senator from Wisconsin who was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of communists and Soviet spies inside the US Federal government. One of few senators ever to be censured. |
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| Elected in 1952. Helped end the Korean war, began NASA, helped remove McCarthy, enlarged the scope of social security |
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| American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army |
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| Warned of the Nazi plans to construct the atomic bomb |
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| Head of state of Japan during WWII |
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| Led the communist party of China |
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| Party of the Nationalist party of China, engaged in a long war with Chinese Communist party |
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| Prime minister of UK and led Britain through the first 8 months of WWII |
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