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History Final
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | intense loyalty to a country or group |
| Central Powers (WWI) | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | His assassination was a short term cause of WWI, He was assassinated in Serbia by Bosnian nationals |
| Allied Powers (WWI) | United States, France, Great Britain, Italy |
| Treaty of Versailles | Ended WWI, dealt harshly with Germany, considered a contributing factor of WWII because of the economic impact on Germany |
| League of Nations | group of nations formed to prevent further wars, supported by Wilson but not congress so US did not join |
| Fourteen points | Wilson's plan for points, League of Nations was the 14th |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Gave Women the right to vote |
| Great Depression | A period of economic depression (little economic activity) in the 1930's |
| New Deal | Roosevelt's plan to improve the economy |
| On margin | borrowing money to buy stock |
| Roosevelt/Truman | America's presidents during WWI |
| Churchill | Britain's prime minister |
| Stalin | leader of the Soviet Union |
| Benito Mussolini | Italy's leader |
| Allied Powers (WWll) | Britain, France, Soviet Union, and USA |
| Axis Powers (WWll) | Germany, Italy |
| Pearl Harbor | Location of Japanese surprise attack on the US in which more than 3,400 Americans were killed or wounded |
| Manchuria | part of China invaded by the Japanese during the 1930s |
| Hiroshima | city in which a nuclear bomb was dropped first |
| MacArthur | Allied commander in the Philippines |
| Eisenhower | American general in Europe |
| Bataan | location of a deadly march of American POW's by Japanese soldiers |
| Nuremberg | location of the Nazi war trials |
| Iron curtain | division between communist and non communist Europe |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; defense organization |
| Marshall Plan | Economic aid to war-torn Europe |
| Truman Doctrine | aid to countries fighting communism |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court decision upholding segregation |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme Court decision ruling school segregation unconstitutional |
| Civil disobedience | peacefully breaking the law |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | assassinated on April 4, 1968 |
| Bay of Pigs | a failed invasion of Cuba in which we tried to overthrow Castro |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | When the Soviets tried to install missile launching sites in Cuba and America kept them away |
| Indochina | area in Southeast Asia which includes present day Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, and was controlled by France |
| Vietcong | pro-communist forces in Vietnam |
| Domino theory | belief that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to communism, all would |
| Nikita Khrushchev | soviet leader during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Hot line | communication connection between Moscow and Washington, D.C. |
| Neil Armstrong | first person to orbit the Earth |
| U.S.S Missouri | battleship in which the treaty with Japan was signed |
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