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Post WW2 & Cold War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| World War 2 Causes | The Great Depression, and Hitler. The Great Depression was when lots of countries were suffering because of damage from WWI so the money made from war could repay their debts. |
| Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 | series of laws that provided Americans could not ship weapons, loan money, travel on belligerent ships, extend credit, or deliver goods to any belligerent countries; they were high tide of isolationism, and all were repealed between 1939 to 1941. |
| Lend-Lease Act (1941) | President to offer military supplies to nations "vital to the defense of the US"; ended US neutrality (economic war against Germany); Hitler began to sink American ships (limited scale) |
| Pearl Harbor | 7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II. |
| War Bonds/Liberty Bonds | Sold by the government to raise money for the war effort. |
| Rosie the Riveter | A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part. |
| Rationing | Huge part of the war. Things such as rubber, nylon, etc were rationed for the war effort. |
| Japanese Internment Camps | The forcible relocation of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944. General Eisenhower(future president) invaded. |
| Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | on August 6 and August 9, 1945; this effectively ended the US war with Japan in World War II. Japan surrendered. |
| Nuremberg Trials | A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity. |
| Cold War (1945-1991) | A war of words and threats between the United States and the Soviet Union that was marked primarily by a political and economic, rather than military, struggle between the two nations. |
| United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |
| Divided Germany/ Berlin | Germany was divided into four zones after WWII: Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France would each occupy a zone, as well as a zone of Berlin, which, although in the Soviet's zone, was also divided. |
| Truman Doctrine (1947) | stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to resist internal left-wing (and therefore it was assumed "communist") movements and prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. |
| Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world. |
| Marshall Plan (1947) | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe on condition they wouldn't go communist. Helped contain communism in Europe |
| Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |
| NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | A 1949 defense alliance for protection. Initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations. NATO was to discourage Soviet aggression. |
| Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO. passed under Eisenhower. |
| Space Race | A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union. After Sputnik it led to NASA. US became the first on the Moon. |
| Sputnik | First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race. |
| Espionage | the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. |
| Bay of Pigs | In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) | an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. |
| Detente | A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon. |
| Arms Race | USSR and The US competition to create bigger, stronger, and more destructive weapons. |
| U2 Incident | in 1960 the USSR shot down a US spy plane. The U2 plane was designed to spy on his country. Eisenhower admitted the U2 was commonly used for high altitude spying. |
| Berlin Wall | 1961- the wealth West Germany had was embarrassing to the soviets, many East Germans and East Berliners were heading west for a better life. A wall of concrete replaced the barbed wire. |
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