Chapter 21-23 Flashcards
(36 cards)
Determined: separate is not equal
Brown v. Board of education
Unprecedented growth in population post WWII
Baby boom
Government agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations
Peace corps
Presidency during the “Camelot” era
John F. Kennedy
Guilty of treason
Alger hiss
Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person
McCarthyism
Stood from 1961-1989
Berlin Wall
Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles fro our shore
Cuban missile crisis
Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Post Korea foreign policy regarding communism
Peaceful coexistence
Eisenhower’s belief: communism in Asia
Domino theory
Code name: fat man and little boy
Atomic bomb
Demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender
Potsdam
The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by hitler
Holocaust
Young men used for suicide flights in WII
kamikazes
Securing air bases on less-fortified islands in the pacific
Island hopping
Winter in the Ardennes forest
Battle of the bulge
June 6, 1994- largest amphibious attack in history
D-day invasion
Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa
Operation torch
General of German panzer division
Erwin Rommel
Civil rights protest: I Have A Dream Speech
March on Washington
National war effort limiting various goods
Rationing
December 7, 1941- Japanese attack on pacific fleet
Pearl Harbor
FDR’s program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry
Lend-lease