| A | B |
|---|
| Munich Conference | 1938 meeting in which French and British leaders gave in to Hitler in order to preserve peace |
| Battle of Coral Sea | 1942 clash northeast of Australia in which US forces stopped the Japanese advance for the first time |
| D Day | beginning of the ALlied invastion of France in 1944 |
| Battle of El Alamein | British victory in Egypt that stopped German advance through North Africa |
| Maginot Line | Fortified wall that France built along its border with Germany |
| Battle Leyete GUlf | largest naval engagement in history, which ended in a decisive defeat for Japan |
| Battle of Atlantic | long fight between Germany and the Allied Powers for control of ocean trade routes |
| Holocaust | Nazi Germanyh's systematic attempt to kill the Jews of Europe |
| Manhattan Project | secret US program that developed an atomic bomb |
| Battle of Britain | German and British air forces fight for air supremacy |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning war used by German Froces against Poland |
| Lend Lease Act | law let US loan weapons and supplied for war to Brtian and S. Union |
| braceros | Mexican workers authorized by US gov to enter the US during WWII |
| Baltaan Death March | faced march of tens of thousands of America and Filipino prisoners during WWII Bataan Peninsula internment camps |
| kamikaze | WWII Japanese pilots crash planes with explosives into allied ships |
| Cold War | struggle between the US and the SOviet Union for global power |
| Taft Hartley Act | outlawed closed shops required union leaders to take an oath that they were not Communists |
| Yalta Conference | meeting at which Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin made plans for the postwar world |
| containment | US policy to conjtrol the spread of communism by reacing quickly to Soviet backed aggression |
| Long March | 6,000 mile 12 month retreat by Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong to escape a Chinese Nationalist army attack |
| United Nations | international organization created after WWII to resolve conflicts peacefully |
| Dixie Crats | Nickname of States Rights Party joined by southern Democrats upset with Truman's civil rights policies |
| Truman Doctrine | US policy to provide economic aid to help other nations fight communism |
| blacklisting | refusing to hire suspected Communists |
| GI Bill of Rights | offered veterans educational benefits and affordable home and business loands |
| Nuremburg Trials | war crime trials of Nazi officials |
| Berlin Airlift | joint effort by US and Britain to fly food and supplied into Berlin blocked by Soviets |
| Internal Security Act | law that arrested suspected communist groups |
| 38th parallel | divided country |
| Army McCarthy hearings | 1950 tv hearings investigating McCarthy's charges of communists in US military |
