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Chs. 24-25 Test Review

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Fascism   extremely nationalistic, authoritarian form of government  
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Final Solution   Nazi plan to strip Jews of their civil rights and send them to concentration & extermination camps  
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Popular Front   group that preferred an isolationist stance in foreign policy  
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America First Committee   group that supported U.S. intervention in WWII  
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cash and carry program   the U.S. could sell defense articles to nations at war if they paid in cash and transported on their own ships  
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Lend Lease Act   U.S. could sell, lend, or lease defense items to warring nations that would protect U.S. security  
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Atlantic Charter   agreement signed by FDR and Churchill that promoted freedom of the seas and self-determination  
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China   after the Japanese invaded this nation, the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Japan  
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Stimson Doctrine   stated the U.S. would not recognize any territory taken by force, issued after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria  
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Pearl Harbor   event that radically changed public opinion on U.S. intervention in the war  
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Stalingrad   turning point in the European theater of the war  
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Midway   turning point in the Pacific theater of the war  
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Manhattan Project   secret project to develop and test the atomic bomb  
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Truman   secret project to develop and test the atomic bomb  
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki   two Japanese industrial cities that were chosen as the U.S. as sites to drop the atomic bomb  
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Rosie the Riveter   symbol of women who worked in wartime factories  
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American troops   added numbers to the Allied forces that ended the final push toward Allied victory in the war  
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containment   policy proposed by George Kennan to stop the spread of Soviet influence  
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Marshall Plan   U.S. program that provided financial aid to Western Europe, hoping to make communism less appealing  
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NSC-68   proposed an increase in defense spending  
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Berlin Airlift   U.S. response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin in an attempt to stop the population drain from East Berlin  
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NATO   a mutual defense alliance originally signed by the U.S. and the non-communist nations of Europe  
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Korean War   conflict where the U.S. attempted to stop the spread of communism in Asia, a police action since Congress didn't declare war  
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Eisenhower Doctrine   U.S. policy to resist communism in the Middle East  
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Cuban Missile Crisis   international crisis that began when the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, the U.S. blockaded Cuba, the closest the U.S. came to nuclear war  
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17th Parallel   temporary dividing line between North and South Vietnam  
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GI Bill   provided loans to veterans to buy homes and paid college tuition  
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Sputnik   led to increased funding for math and science in schools and the start of the U.S. space program  
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postwar America   prosperous era marked by an increase in homeownership and a higher standard of living  
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Senator McCarthy   made accusations of communist subversion, including accusations about the U.S. Army  
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Large corporations   most common way businesses organized and operated during the postwar era  
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The Other America   non fiction piece describing poverty during the postwar period  
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homemaker   role women were expected to fulfill during the 1950s  
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polio vaccine   developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin  
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Beatniks   artists and writers who celebrated spontaneity and freedom, and criticized conformity and materialism  
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Levittown   site of mass produced, affordable homes  
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