U.S. History B Final
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Holocaust | German Nazi's systematic murder of six million Jews
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terrorism | The use of violence by groups against civilians to achieve a political goal
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al Qaeda | Islamist terrorist organization that launched a series of attacks against the U.S.A.
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Tet Offensive | he January 1968 attack by the Vietcong and north Vietnamese on more than more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam; turning point of the war
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Treaty of Versailles | signed by the Germans after World War I, stated that they had to payback for damages, not build an army, and say they where sorry for the damage they caused
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Stock Market Crash | 1929, when the value of stocks crashed causing a worldwide depression
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Dust Bowl | an area of dry land in the Texas Panhandle where nothing would grow due to a drought, over farming, and poor soil
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Pearl Harbor | Surprise attack by the Japanese, immediate cause of US entering World War Two, Dec. 7, 1941
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Iwo Jima | a small island in the Pacific Ocean that America caputred making it easy to attack Japan
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D-Day | the Invasion of Normandy, largest sea to land invasion in the history of World War II
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VE-Day | Victory over Europe Day, signalled the end of WWII in Europe
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VJ-Day | Victory over Japan Day, signalled the end of WWII in Japan
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rationing | going without so that the soldiers could have what they needed
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Brown versus Education | court case that took the school board of Topeka, Kansas to court to DESEGREGATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Montgomery Bus Boycott | year long boycott of Montgomery, Alabama buses by Africian Americans after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus
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March on Washington | Civil Rights march in Washington, D.C. where MLK, Jr. made his famous "I have a Dream" speech
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 | made it against the law to make someone take a reading test or pay a tax to vote in an election
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television | changed the way we get our news, live action
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Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 JFK and Khrushchev faced off over Soviet missiles in Cuba; very tense time, brought world very close to war
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Manhattan Project | Name of the secret project to build the atomic bomb
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