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Ch 20-23
WWII, Beginning of Cold war & 1950's
Term | Definition |
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Aggressive actions & Build up to WWII | Germany invades Poland |
Appeasement | giving into the unjust demands of a belligerent leader in order to avoid war |
Neutrality Acts | no weapons needed to help |
Axis Power | Germany, Italy & Japan |
Nazi Extermination Camps | jewish men, woman & Children were sent to camps to be killed |
Manhattan Project | code name for the Nuclear Bomb, the project was set up to build a bomb |
Island Hopping | Military strategy used in WWII on the Japanese Islands |
Kamikaze | Suicide Bombing |
Total War | unrestricted in weapons, territory and bombing |
superpowers | Russia and US's strong economy that can over power military |
iron Curtain | Boundary dividing Europe into 2 separate areas leading to the soviet union to block itself from the western curtain |
containment | geopolitical strategy to stop expansion of an enemy |
Berlin Airlift | 48-49 prevented west berlin from falling into control of the soviet union |
Korean War | North invades the South |
HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee created in 1938 to investigate Communist ties |
Alger Hiss | American government official accused of being a spy in 1948 |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg | married couple convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951 |
Sputnik | The first satellite |
Levittowns | Suburbs in NY, NJ in the 1950s |
Joe McCarthy | WI Senator famous for accusing people of being communist |
U-2 | Spy plane that got captured |
UN | United Nations, known for its peace keeping body |
Rock & Roll | Music that was in that 1950's such as Elvis Presley |
Television | Becoming more popular and played shows such as I love Lucy |
NATO | Members that agreed to set up relief efforts to aid people that had been attacked |
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