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APUSH Chapters 24-26
Chs. 24-25 Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fascism | extremely nationalistic, authoritarian form of government |
| Final Solution | Nazi plan to strip Jews of their civil rights and send them to concentration & extermination camps |
| Popular Front | group that preferred an isolationist stance in foreign policy |
| America First Committee | group that supported U.S. intervention in WWII |
| cash and carry program | the U.S. could sell defense articles to nations at war if they paid in cash and transported on their own ships |
| Lend Lease Act | U.S. could sell, lend, or lease defense items to warring nations that would protect U.S. security |
| Atlantic Charter | agreement signed by FDR and Churchill that promoted freedom of the seas and self-determination |
| China | after the Japanese invaded this nation, the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Japan |
| Stimson Doctrine | stated the U.S. would not recognize any territory taken by force, issued after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
| Pearl Harbor | event that radically changed public opinion on U.S. intervention in the war |
| Stalingrad | turning point in the European theater of the war |
| Midway | turning point in the Pacific theater of the war |
| Manhattan Project | secret project to develop and test the atomic bomb |
| Truman | secret project to develop and test the atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | two Japanese industrial cities that were chosen as the U.S. as sites to drop the atomic bomb |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of women who worked in wartime factories |
| American troops | added numbers to the Allied forces that ended the final push toward Allied victory in the war |
| containment | policy proposed by George Kennan to stop the spread of Soviet influence |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. program that provided financial aid to Western Europe, hoping to make communism less appealing |
| NSC-68 | proposed an increase in defense spending |
| Berlin Airlift | U.S. response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin in an attempt to stop the population drain from East Berlin |
| NATO | a mutual defense alliance originally signed by the U.S. and the non-communist nations of Europe |
| Korean War | conflict where the U.S. attempted to stop the spread of communism in Asia, a police action since Congress didn't declare war |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | U.S. policy to resist communism in the Middle East |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | international crisis that began when the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, the U.S. blockaded Cuba, the closest the U.S. came to nuclear war |
| 17th Parallel | temporary dividing line between North and South Vietnam |
| GI Bill | provided loans to veterans to buy homes and paid college tuition |
| Sputnik | led to increased funding for math and science in schools and the start of the U.S. space program |
| postwar America | prosperous era marked by an increase in homeownership and a higher standard of living |
| Senator McCarthy | made accusations of communist subversion, including accusations about the U.S. Army |
| Large corporations | most common way businesses organized and operated during the postwar era |
| The Other America | non fiction piece describing poverty during the postwar period |
| homemaker | role women were expected to fulfill during the 1950s |
| polio vaccine | developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin |
| Beatniks | artists and writers who celebrated spontaneity and freedom, and criticized conformity and materialism |
| Levittown | site of mass produced, affordable homes |
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