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History Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ray Kroc | Founder of Mcdonalds |
| Robert F. Kennedy | Former US Attorney General, Assassinated while running for President in 1968 |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader of China |
| Neil Armstrong | First man to walk on the moon |
| Babe Ruth | Considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time |
| Albert Einstein | Encouraged and discouraged the building on the atomic bomb |
| Malcom X | Civil Rights Activist |
| Ho Chi Mihn | Communist leader of North Vietnam |
| John Glenn | First American to orbit Earth |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | Man charged with assassinating JFK |
| John F. Kennedy | US president who began sending military advisors to Vietnam |
| Richard Nixon | US President who pushed for Vietnamization and pulled American troops out of Vietnam |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | US President responsible for part of the escalation of the Vietnam War; Sent thousands of troops to Vietnam after Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed |
| Viet Cong | Communist guerilla fighters from South Vietnam who were helping North Vietnam fight against the South and the US. |
| Agent Orange | Herbicide used to clear out vegetation in the jungle in order to expose the Viet Cong |
| Napalm | Jelly-like substance that was dropped from planes and burned uncontrollably |
| Warren G. Harding | President, "return to normalcy" Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Red Scare | Intense fear of Communism |
| Communism | Citizens had no rights, Government owned all land & property |
| Isolationism | Avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries |
| Laissez-faire | "hands-off" approach to the economy |
| Bonus Marchers | A march in Washington in attempt to receive early pensions |
| Evolution | Focus of Scopes Trial |
| Flapper | Rebellious women who liked wild actions |
| Black Tuesday | When the Great Crash took place |
| Bootleggers | People who illegally made and sold alcohol during the 1920s |
| Harlem Renaissance | African American literary awakening of the 1920's |
| Henry Ford | Brought great changes by using the assembly line to make cars |
| Amelia Earhart | First woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Charles Lindberg | First to fly nonstop from NY to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis |
| Herbert Hoover | President who was blamed for not doing enough to prevent the Great Depression |
| Al Capone | Gangster criminal in the 1920s |
| Duke Ellington | Very popular black musician in the 1920s |
| Dust Bowl | Drought and dust storms; Caused vegetation to dry out |
| Jazz | Type of music created during the 1920s |
| Mass media | print & broadcast methods of communicating info to large numbers of people |
| Douglas McCarthur | American general; Promised to return to the Philippines |
| George Marshall | Army Chief of Staff for US during WWII |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President; Offered a "New Deal" |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Ordered to lead the Allied Invasion of Europe at Normandy |
| George Patton | American General who led troops to attack at Sicily |
| Kamikazes | Suicide bombers used by Japanese |
| Fascism | Philosophy that places the importance of the nation above the importance of the individual |
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese attacked this place on December 7, 1941 |
| Appeasement | Giving into someone's demands in order too keep peace |
| D-Day | Invasion of Europe at Normandy |
| Yalta | Members of the "Big 3" who decided what to do after WWII |
| Battle of the Bulge | Marked Hitler's last counterattack; took place in Belgium and Luxembourg; largest battle in western Europe |
| Battle of Midway | Battle that marked the last time Japan was able to launch any offensive operations in the Pacific |
| Bataan Peninsula | American soldiers were forced to withstand brutal conditions as they marched 60-90 miles |
| Dunkirk | Where one of the greatest rescues In the history of warfare took place |
| Iwo Jima | After this battle, US Marines raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi |
| Nagasaki | Where US dropped atomic bomb after Hiroshima |
| Manhattan Project | The Secret plan to build an atomic bomb |
| Domino Theory | If one country fell to Communism, its neighbors would too |
| Sputnik | Artificial satellite launched into space to orbit Earth |
| Kristallnacht | Night when Nazis destroyed Jewish stores, homes and synagogues |
| Holocaust | Mass murdering of 6 million Jews |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility towards Jews |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | Invasion of Cuba; Backed by US but failed |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Ensured rights of black people |
| Berlin Airlift | Provides supplies to areas of West Berlin |
| Auschwitz | Death Camp that enclosed Jews |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | US & Soviet Union were close to nuclear war |
| Berlin Wall | Structure built in 1961 to keep East Berliners from escaping to the West |
| Jackie Robinson | 1st black to play major league baseball |
| Martin Luther King Jr | Tried to achieve civil rights for blacks; spoke of a dream; assassinated by James Earl Ray |
| Joe McCarthy | Accused many US Gov. Officials of being communist |
| Rosie the Riveter | Attracted women to the workforce during WWII |
| Alger Hiss | Accused of being a Soviet Spy |
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