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| Causes of WWII | The 3 causes of World War II are: 1. World War I 2. Economic Problems 3. Imperialism |
| Fascism | State more important than people, because people make the country weak |
| Nazism | Believed in the superiority of the Aryan race with an extreme hatred for Jewish people |
| Communism | Government controls everything in society including the people and resources |
| Militarism | All decisions are made to benefit the military |
| Consequences/Legacies of WWII | creating the United Nations, nuclear weapons, America becomes a superpower, the end of empires, and the advancement of women and race minorities |
| Kristallnacht | night of the broken glass |
| Joseph Mengele | notorious for performing experiments on humans during the Holocaust |
| Other groups of people targeted for death in the Holocaust | homosexuals, gypsies/Roma, Catholics, Blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses, the handicapped, and prisoner's of war |
| Truman Doctrine | Gave money to Turkey to fight communism |
| NATO | organization, whose members included the U.S., U.K., France, and others, said that an attack on one member country was an attack on all |
| The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | United States primary adversary in the Cold War |
| Containment Theory | The policy of not allowing Communism to grow and spread |
| Domino Theory | Keeping a country, like Vietnam, from becoming Communist because then Communism would spread to all the other countries in Southeast Asia |
| Warsaw Pact | The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance was the U.S.S.R.'s response to NATO. |
| Main changes to the American Family during the 1950s | Baby Boom and a different role for women |
| Great Society | Lyndon Johnson's domestic agenda that addressed Civil Rights, Education, Health Care, & Poverty |
| Peace Corp. | Volunteer organization that travels to 3rd world countries to help with basic needs of poor counties; Kennedy's longest lasting legacy |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's domestic agenda that addressed Women's Rights & Economy/Minimum Wage |
