| A | B |
|---|
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Germany |
| Benito Mussolini | fasist leader of Italy |
| Winston Churchill | leader of Great Britain |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | only U.S. president elected to 4 terms |
| Harry Truman | decision to drop the Atomic Bomb |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | led the European front during W.W.II and later went on to become President of the U.S. |
| Douglas McAurthur | led the pacific theater in W.W.II |
| Robert Oppenheimer | developed the atomic bomb |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban leader since 1959 |
| Iron Curtain | imaginary line during the cold war |
| Harlem Renaissance | Rebirth of African American literature, music and art in the 1920's |
| Scopes Trial | Biology teacher convicted of teaching the theory of evolution |
| Jazz Age | music styles of the 1920's |
| Assembly line | developed by Henry Ford made automobilies more affordable |
| Charles Lindbergh | crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a solo fight |
| Ku Klux Klan | promotion of white supremacy |
| Bonus Army | W.W.I Veterans marched to washington seeking thier pension |
| Roosevelt's "First Hundred Day's | FDR pushed many programs through congress |
| New Deal | Franklin Roosevelt's programs and ideas |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | wife of FDR she supported him in his political ideas |
| Court Packing | major controversy under FDR where he was accused of packing the supreme court with judges that represent his political views |
| Aryan Race | concidered the supreme race by Adolf Hitler |
| Appeasement | policy used during W.W.II To avoid war, give in to some of Hitler's demands |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Allied Powers | England, Russia and the United States |
| Lend Lease Act | U.S. gave supplies and money to England prior to entering the war |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor "A date that will live in infamy" |
| Hideki Tojo | leader of the Japanese military |
| Joseph Stalin | dicaator of Russia |
| Invasion of Normandy | Also known as D-Day this liberated France |
| Holocaust | the extermination of 6 million Jews in Nazi |
| Island Hopping | Pacific war strategy. |
| Manhattan Project | led by Oppenhimer, led America’s effort to build the atomic bo |
| Internment camps | Japanese Americans were sent to these camps during W.W.II |
| Cold War | conflict between the United States and Russia. The cold war lasted over 40 years |
| Containment | Policy to limit and control the spread of communism |
| Marshall Plan | program of economic recovery in Europe after W.W.II |
| Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | defense pact between the United States, Canada, and ten European countries after W.W.II |
| 38th Parallel | When Communist North Korea attacked South Korea |
| Fidel Castro | leader of Cuba since 1959 |
| Joseph McCarthy | led a crusade against communists in government |
| Berlin Airlift | the Allied forces provided much needed supplies to East |
| William Levitt | used mass production to develop homes after W.W.II |
| Rock and Roll | music of the 1950's |
| Brown vs. The board of Education | Declaring separate but equal facilities were unconstitutional |
| Little Rock Central High School | 9 African American Students were escorted by the National guard to being integration of schools |
| Rosa Parks | her refusal to give up her seat lead to the Montgomery bus boycott |
| March on Washington D.C. | whites and blacks march to support civil rights laws |
| Civil RIghts Act of 1964 | Law prohibiting discrimination in public places and job opportunities |
| Black Panthers | Group that demonstrated political power through militant and sometimes violent actions |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Brought the United States and Russia to the brink of nuclear war |
| November 22, 1963 | John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas TExas |
| Great Society | domestic policy of Lyndon B. Johnson that focused on poverty and civil rights |
| the Tonkin Gulf Resolution | Allowed president Johnson to conduct the war in Vietnam |
| Cause that started World War I | assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
| Yellow Journalism | when major news stories are exaggerated by journalists |
| Teddy Roosevelt | rough rider, trust buster, President that said the United States should "carry a big stick" when it came to foreign diplomacy |
| Central Powers | countries that fought against the allied powers duringWorld WAr II |
| stalemate | when countries are going nowhere in a war- ex. World War I |
| reason U.S.enters World War I | Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare, zimmerman telegraph and the sinking of the Luisitania |
| Richard Nixon | followed Lyndon B. Johnson as President, Watergate scandal, resigns from office |
| guerilla warfare | war strategy used by the Vietcong |
| Kent State | 4 killed by National Guard while protesting the escalation of troops in Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | withdrawl of US soldiers in Vietnam allowing South Vietnamese to replace them |
