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Hist 106
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Four Freedoms | freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. |
| Good Neighbor Policy | FDR policy making peace with latin America to establish trade routes |
| Isolationism | United States reluctancy to join war but support allies powers |
| Neutrality Acts | laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars |
| Lend-Lease Act | was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. |
| Axis Powers | Italy, Germany, Japan |
| D-Day | (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. |
| Holocaust | was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews |
| GI Bill of Rights | Benefits to vets turned college into business created middle class |
| Bracero program | brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States |
| Zoot suit riots | pitted European American servicemen stationed in Southern California against Mexican American |
| Japanese-American internment | forced about 110,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes and live in internment camps |
| Korematsu v. USA | concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship |
| Second Great Migration | migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West. |
| Double V | stood for two victories for black Americans: a victory at home and a victory abroad. |
| V-E Day | Victory of the WW2 |
| Manhattan Project | development of atomic bomb during ww2 |
| Potsdam Conference | Big 3 meeting Truman, Churchill, Stalin Final talks about readjustment |
| Yalta Conference | Started cold war FdR,Churchill, Stalin End of WW2 |
| Bretton Woods conference | established world bank system to reduce world finial system and stop countries from delving their money. FDR |
| United Nations | Was made in 1945 to have better system of allies FDR |
| Atlantic Charter | which defined the Allied goals for the post war world FDR |
| Cold War | a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. |
| Containment | policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad |
| Long Telegram | Mr. X telegram saying only US can be stop Russian Communism |
| Truman Doctrine | purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War |
| Marshall Plan | Basically a new deal for Europe to get Tham back on their feet/ promote capitalism |
| NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization a group to protect against communist |
| NSC-68 | 66-page top secret National Security Council (NSC) policy paper drafted by the Department of State and Department of Defense and presented to President Harry S. Truman |
| Korean War | 50/50 split of communist and capitalism We tried to help south but china was helping north we tried to bomb bask but Truman was like nah. |
| Decolonization | leaving countries we colonized and taking out troops |
| Fair Deal | an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress |
| Operation Dixie | AFL brought unions to south and start revolution strikes |
| Taft-Hartley Act | is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. |
| Dixiecrats | Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights. |
| McCarthyism | is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence |
| Hollywood Ten | In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting |
| Army-McCarthy Hearings | series of hearings to see is McCarthy was telling the truth or not |
| McCarran-Walter Act | deport immigrants or naturalized citizens engaging in subversive activities. |
| Modern Republicanism | which preserved individual freedom and the market economy yet insured that government would provide necessary assistance to workers who had lost their jobs or to the ill or aged |
| Sputnik | was the first orbiting satellite and Russians sent it up their |
| Interstate Highway System | was built in the modern republic deal but it was a response to cold war fears |
| Massive retaliation | military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. |
| MAD | Mutual Assured Destruction |
| LULAC | League of United Latin American Citizens |
| Brown v. Board | desegregate schools and public places |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | After rosa parks large black population boycott bus company |
| SCLC | was the first major civil rights organization to originate in the South and was one of the guiding forces behind the black freedom |
| Southern Manifesto | in opposition to racial integration of public places |
| Massive resistance | to unite white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies |
| Sit-ins | Preformed but students to spark contrivers |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s |
| Freedom Rides | were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States |
| Congress of Racial Equality | an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. |
| March on Washington | political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | invasion of Cuba to stop communist ways went really bad |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning missile in hostile areas |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, |
| Voting Rights Act | aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote |
| Great Society | Program reforms and government aid to poor |
| War on Poverty | to show that white poor people were the nations true poor receiving aid |
| Black Power (Brown Power/Red Power …) | a movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. Students for a Democratic Society |
| Gulf of Tonkin resolution | Gave LBJ to bomb and fuck up countries without declaring war “blank Check” |
| Tet Offensive | A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War |
| Busing | is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) | between US and Russia to cap military power |
| Détente | is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. |
| MyLai Massacre | We fucked up and killed and burned a bunch of civilians |
| Pentagon Papers | All the information the presidents knew about nam that were leaked to show public |
| War Powers Act | is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. |
| Watergate | A scandal were Nixon’s people try to break into democrat office to see what they were doing |
| Stagflation | is defined as slow economic growth occurring simultaneously with high rates of inflation |
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