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America enters WW2 with attack on what?

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Pearl Harbor December 7th 1941

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Germany sweeps through Europe using…

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Blitzkrieg and lightening war

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The battle fought on French port during WW2 and Germany won

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Battle of dunkirk

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Who led Britain to victory in the second war?

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Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill pledging to never surrender to Nazis

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Dunkirk speech

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What was the turning point of European war? Who invades Russia ?

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Stalingrad and after German invasion of Russia

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America invades who in order?

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North Africa, southern italy, Europe, Normanday, on D-day

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What invasions did dwight d Eisenhower plan?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower- invasion of Africa in operation torch 1942-1943 and the D-Day in Normandy

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Soviets taking over Berlin and the protests agasint the wall and it finally destroyed for both sides

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Fall of berlin

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What did hitler start?

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The holocaust

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The what war in ocean?

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Pacific war

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Delivering troops in different areas on shore by battle boat biggest one was Normandy landings

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Landings of amphibious

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U.S forces moved from island to island using each as a base for capturing the next

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Island hoppings

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FDR declining health in fourth term

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FDR death

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Who was Vice President under Roosevelt?

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Harry truman

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Allied submarines were used during the pacific war to defeat japan

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Submarine war and carrier in pacific

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Suicide planes into enemy ships

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Kamikazi pilots

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US ends war by dropping what on cities

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Dropping atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Home front women workforce

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Women play an important roll in workforce, Rosie the riveter and Wendy the welder

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Double v campaign what is it against and “_______ and_______at home”

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Double Victory Campaign, which stood for “Victory Abroad and Victory at Home.” Victory Abroad championed military success against fascism overseas, and Victory at Home demanded equality for African Americans in the United States.

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Philip Randolph wants what forces and who was this granted by? (Hint president)

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Desegregation of armed forces, federal jobs, defense jobs and the last is granted and enforced by FDR

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What order authorized military commanders to exclude civilians from military areas?

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The executive order 9066

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After Pearl Harbor what was all rationed?

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Rationing, coupon books, war bonds, sacrifice at home

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What war had tension between the U.S and Soviet Union?

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The Cold War

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What speech was about the U.S and Britain to act as peace and stability against the soviet communism?
The iron curtain speech
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Who was the known advocate for the containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War?
George Kennan and containment
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What doctrine/policy made foreign policy to support democracies against threats during the Cold War ?
The Truman doctrine
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What provided markets for American goods and created reliable trading partners?
The Marshall plan
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What was the first international crisis in the Cold War?
Soviets blocked railways,road,canals to Berlin: Berlin airlift
30
What happened in 1949 what does china fall to and USSR tests what?
USSR tests a atomic bomb and china falls to communism
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What was the widespread fear of communism and anarchism called?
The Red scare
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The war between north and South Korea where 2.5 million died?
The Korean War
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Who was the commander and general in WW1 and WW2?
Douglass MacArthur
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Strong civil rights and name of president? (Peaceful president)
Truman domestic president
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What bill helped with decent pay, access to good jobs, affordable housing that made families possible?
GI bill and baby boom
36
Famous POC baseball player
Jackie Robinson
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What election did truman win?
Election of 1948 Dixiecrats, Truman wins
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The suspicion of the communist in the government position so this was a safeguard
Federal loyalty program
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People being considered spy’s the spy scares in the Cold War (names of people)
Spy scares - Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Who forged diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union and china?
Richard Nixon - the rise
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Who was the U.S senator that did the widespread investigation of communists in the U.S?
Joseph McCarthy
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Investigated the activities of private citizens for communism and fascists
HUAC- the house of un-American activities committee
43
The blacklist of Hollywood
Hollywood 10
44
The election Dwight Eisenhower won
Election of 1952 - C2K1
45
The checkers speech was what?
Was a speech given six weeks before election by Richard Nixon - the checkers speech
46
Uniformity in American society (suburban houses and cars etc.)
The culture of 1950s
47
The house wife
The role of woman in 1950s
48
The McDonald’s food company CEO
Franchises - ray croc
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The business cycle of GDP growing to a peak 📈📉
Economic expansion and growth
50
Dwight Eisenhower- highways across America
The interstate highway act
51
Famous rock singer who stayed at the Vegas theater and was controversial
Elvis Presley
52
A movement by authors their works explored American culture and politics before war
Beats - Jack Kerouac
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abolish racial segregation discrimination and disenfranchisement
Civil rights movement
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Issues of segregation in public schools
Brown v. Board of education
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The getting rid of discrimination in schools with integrate deliberate speed
Brown II
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Supreme Court first POC
Thurgood Marshall
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Who was the boy that was abducted and lynched from being accused of offending a white lady?
Emmitt Till
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The lady who started the Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa parks
59
POC activist for the civil rights movement and “i had a dream speech”
Martin Luther King
60
2-1 vote of the Alabama intrastate bus segregation was unconstitutional
Browder v gayle overturns plessy v Fergeson

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