US History II Final Exam Flashcards

Question

Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939

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Joseph Stalin USSR Won't attack each other for 10 years Both agree to to attack Poland

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People who want to stay out of the war

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We get 8 naval bases in various locations for 90 years | We loan England 50 ships for this

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Lens England the stuff they need to beat Germany and they will return it at the end of the war John Deere makes a lot of money because of airplane engines

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``` Japanese Tojo was the leader MAGIC was their coding system we broke Not all of our fleet was there FDR gets a declaration of war on Japan ```

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A law the president can pass without congress Requires all Japanese immigrants to report to camps

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Camps that Japanese people were put in after Peral Harbor

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Arrested for violation curfew | Said curfew was illegal under the 14th amendment

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Didn't show up to intern camp | Signed an Oath of Loyalty saying he isn't a threat

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Change lipstick factories to bullet factories

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Don't eat as much food Panty goes we're stopped so the nylon can be used for parachutes Recruits women to work in factories

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"We can do it!" | 19 million women

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Einstein gets a call from FDR about building a bomb. He says no so they get Robert J Oppenheimer

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Helps build the atomic bomb

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Test site in New Mexico

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We are the only ones who's code wasn't broke | Received congressional metal of honor

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In Iran Churchill wants us to control North Africa to protect the Suez Canal so Germans can't get oil

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Massive invasion with US, Canada, British, and Australia, and France and move towards Germany We win!

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FDR, Stalin, Churchill United Nations by FDR Stalin wants to cut the world into smaller parts

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Truman, Attlee, Stalin Truman wants Stalin to join us in the battle sooner July 18, somebody came and told Truman they have a bomb, and Truman threatened Stalin, Stalin said "took them long enough to tell you"

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First Atomic bomb dropping

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Second atomic bomb dropping | Caused them to surrender

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No physic fighting Massive destruction in Europe No food, no coal, nothing

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Submit to a background check if a federal employee | First year, 2,700 people lost their job

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Hunt down communist in America Original job was to hunt down KKK members & Germans Put on TV

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10 directors are put in jail | Don't call their lawyers

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While he was in college he joined the communist party, became friends with communist. The Russia hired him as a spy to give them secret information.

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President of the Carnage fund | Communist spy

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Where Chambers hid special evidence | Proof that Hiss was a spy in 1932 (More than 10 years old) BUT Hiss lied so they have him 10 years in jail

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English captured him Scientist that worked on the American Bomb To save himself, he named names

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Said he just delivered envelopes to his brother-in-law from Fuchs His brother-in-law worked on the bomb as well The brother-in-law was Julius Rosenberg

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Prove information was given | Threw David’s sister, Ethel under the bus saying she is the one that typed up all the information

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Senator up for re-election Elected because he is a WWll hero with two purple hearts Lied both times to get his purple hearts. People find out eventually Needs a reason for people to re-elect him Says he has a list of communist that he will remove if he is re-elected

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Ask McCarthy where he got the list of communist and why hasn’t he turned them in Won’t let him take his seat unless he turns the sheet over Turns his list over two weeks later. Includes 57 names from the FBI that were cleared and kept confidential.

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Brought into McCarthy’s hearing Blamed for losing China to the communist Walks out on McCarthy

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Brought into McCarthy’s hearing Thought to be a Communist because there was a guy on his base that was apart of the Communist Party Brings an attorney and Eisenhower His attorney pulls McCarthy down and questions him

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Public hearings to prove military leaders were communist | McCarthy blames Eisenhower that he is for the Communist (he saved the world, bad idea!)

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Won election Focuses on domestic policy “Captain America”

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A valley the Vietnamese are in. French come to it to attack them. They fail and call us We air lift stuff to the French that are blocked in the valley

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Bonus for anybody who served in the military Choice: $2,000 towards a house or college Enables most Americans to buy homes African Americans mostly picked college over a new home

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Mass produce houses like cars, if they all look the same made them cheap Four different models To purchase, you must be white

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No segregation in Europe. Could eat or go into any building they wanted

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Congress of Racial Equality Based on the beliefs of Gondi Challenge segregation & voting violations Helped out Asians as well Lobby government to make changes to the current laws

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Against a white law school in Missouri. NAACP helps them Supreme Court decision “yes you can separate but you don’t have to have equality”....so Missouri has to have another school or let the Black student in

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Believed that the Supreme Court should be an activist court

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Brown was a little girl Thurgood Marshall Attorney hired for this case Argues that it is harmful to blacks because they are having to be bussed to other another county to go to school Argues that it is harmful to whites because they can’t interact with the blacks Supreme Court says that federal funded schools cannot be segregated

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States that the Supreme Courts decision is a clear abuse of judicial power Promise that they will fight back if schools are forced to be desegregated

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14 year old boy from Chicago goes to visit his Uncle in Mississippi He went to a local store, when leaving said hello to a white girl walking into the store The KKK shows up to his Uncle’s house, kidnap Emmett, beat him to death, and threw him into a river His mom invited the entire US government to his open casket funeral This causes Northern Whites to get on board with the Civil Rights Movement

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School Board decides to desegregate Central High 9 African American students decide to come The governor announces he will not allow his schools to desegregate so he calls in the state military to block the front door from the 9 students Illegal! Eisenhower pulls the troops out and sends in his own troops to make a statement that he will send in the “big” guys Walked the students to class and everywhere for an entire year The governor closed the public schools for two years

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Rosa Parks African Americans stop riding the bus which hurts the business A year later, close to bankruptcy, the bus system desegregates

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(Southern Christian Leadership Conference) Formed by the men who helped with the Montgomery Boycott Coordinates future boycotts Large percentage of ministers Made up of middle class

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Four African students go to a white only lunch counter and ordered a Coke Owner told his employes to not serve them Left after hours and came back next day with 23 other people Day four, 300 African students were waiting for a Coke Goes on for two weeks

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``` Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee Ella Baker was the President of SNCC Mainly African American, but open to all Non-violent acts (sit-ins) Push basic civil rights on campuses Work closely with SCLC ```

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Talked about the race problem Won the election Youngest President

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African American law student who was riding a bus across state lines. At a rest stop (all white) he ordered food and arrested Convicted & appealed all the way to the Supreme Court Argued that segregation laws on the busses were unconstitutional because they were against the Interstate Commerce Act Won the case

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1962, mid year People needed to know how to vote and how important it is Went door to door, explaining to African Americans how to register to vote Drove them to the court house to register

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“the lady that signs hymns” In Mississippi, the entire bus was arrested and put in jail. Released four days later While in jail they were beaten and raped

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April 1963, SNCC boycotts every business in Birmingham that has segregation laws Organize marches that meet every Sunday afternoon and march to the capital Bull Conner decides that the protest marches didn’t get a court order for their “parade” so he arrests them. Uses force: Billy Clubs, Police Dogs, and Fire Hoses

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Over 300,000 people. White and Black | Martin Luther King “I Have A Dream” speech

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``` The KKK blew the church up while the children’s choir was practicing Causes lots of while middle class women to join to SCLC ```

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More for equality than the Kennedys Wanted to end poverty Before, was a Senator in Texas

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College students came to Mississippi to register people to vote - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner go missing in June Johnson calls the Mississippi governor (who doesn’t want to look for the boys) and forces him to do it. After looking for them they find the car and the bodies

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Made it illegal to discriminate through segregation in any public place Gave the Attorney General to power to enforce it

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Welfare plan proposed by Johnson Medical care for all Gov needs to help kids go to school by offering student loans His favorite mistress

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Health insurance for people on Social Security (people over 65) We CARE for the older people, we AID the poor

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Health insurance for people living under the poverty line We CARE for the older people, we AID the poor

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Blocked voting booths in Alabama from African Americans | Creates protests

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March from Selma to Montgomery protesting Jim Clark meets them outside Montgomery on a bridge, uses billy clubs and tear gas because they didn’t have a permit to have a march/protest SNIC comes back two weeks later with a permit

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Johnson agreed and sent it to Congress, then it was signed into law States, it is illegal to have any discriminatory provisions in state constitutions regarding voting. Any regulations have to be approved by the Secretary of State Voter registration in Mississippi goes up by 400%

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Agreement through the UN | French pull out of Vietnam and in their place, an International Control Commission

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Controls the South

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Think they were attacked by North Vietnamese ships Picked up stuff on radar & hear gun fire Nothing hit the ships Stuff on radars were actually whales, gun fire was people shooting them

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Gives the President approval to use force to defend us in Vietnam Johnson has a two week bombing spree

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Gives troops the ability to play offense and attack Vietnamese “kill them all” strategy

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North Vietnamese attacked 36 major cities, take them over, and get the rest of the South Vietnamese to join them Got them for a small amount of time

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William J Fullbright, Senator, Head of Senate Foreign Committee Why are we in the war?

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Student organization marches on Washington against the war | 300,000 people

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0 Americans in a field under the control of Lt. William Calley. Sent the men to My Lai village and look for VC. These 30 men killed 600 women & children, several women were raped multiple times then everything was set on fire. At one point a helicopter flies over and sees what is going on, lands, and tries to stop it. Told if he doesn’t leave, he will be shot. Official Military newspaper “Stars and Stripes” gets pictures and prints them showing that this is a war crime

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Students at Kent State started another protest on May 4, 1970. A sound similar to a gun shot was heard and the National Guard that was protecting the students fired their guns at the students. 11 wounded and 4 killed Causes other colleges to break out in protests therefore lots of them closed down early since the semester was almost over

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Nixon's secret plan revealed! We train the South Vietnamese how to fight so we can slowly remove our troops from Vietnam Estimated 2 years to withdrawal

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Between the US and China and US and North Vietnam

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The US agrees to remove troops over a 6 months while North Vietnamese release our POWs Creates a colocation government with three countries that creates a government for South Vietnam The US signs this with the North Vietnamese and leaves South Vietnam out To make the South happy, Nixon tells them we will fully fund them if they start a war with the North Vietnamese We are now out of the war & the South starts to fight with the North

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North Vietnam comes down into South Vietnam while the South Vietnamese are feeling They hit Saigon in April

US History II Final Exam Flashcards

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