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Am. History Final
Question | Answer |
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Major transportation system in the US | Interstate Highway System |
Ended with the coming of WWII | Great Depression |
Used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Atomic Bomb |
From Churchill when Communism took over E. Europe | Iron Curtain |
Limiting food, fuel, etc so that there is enough for the war effort | Rationing |
Policy of not getting involved in world affairs | Isolationism |
Population explosion after WWII | Baby Boom |
Posters and ads to get people to think and do certain things | Propaganda |
Where disputes between countries should be settled | United Nations |
From Johnson focused on stamping out poverty in America | Great Society |
Government with no private property and no economic classes | Communism |
Decalred the right of the US to help Middle East countries to resist Communism | Eisenhower Doctrine |
World leaders after WWII | Superpowers |
If you mess with me I'm gonna blow on you | Massive Retaliation |
Part of a city where Jews were forced to live | Jewish Ghetto |
Where'd you'd find the 38th parallel | Korea |
Plan for reconstruction of Europe after WWII | Marshall Plan |
From Kennedy focused on space | New Frontier |
Where Japanese Americans had to go during WWII | Internment Camps |
Where would you find the 17th parallel | Vietnam |
Provide money and military aid to countries threatened by Communism | Truman Doctrine |
Nazi plan to wipe out the Jews | Final Solution |
Lasted until 1991- the struggle between Communism and democracy | Cold War |
Allied invasion of France to push Germans back | D-Day |
To give up something in order to keep the peace | Appeasement |
Belief that men and women should have equal rights | Feminism |