| A | B |
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| Brown v. Board of Education | overturned Supreme Court decision of "separate but equal" |
| Battle of Midway | turning point in the Pacific Campaign during World War II |
| Tehran, Yalta, and Postdam | meetings of the leaders of the United States ("The Big Three") to determine the workings of the postwar World |
| USS Missouri | the site of Japan's surrender at the end of WWII |
| Manhattan Project | code-named secret US government research program to produce the atomic bomb. |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill's characterization of the military and ideology barrier erected by the Soviet Union that separated Europe . |
| Berlin Airlift | Americans and British used planes to resupply West Berlin to stymie the Soviet blockade. |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Jewish, passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during WWII and gathered info from his brother-in-law |
| Allied strategy in World War II | The allies concentrated on winning the war in Europe (against Germany) before moving onto Asia (against Japan). |
| Douglas MacArthur | Supreme Allied Commander of U.S. troops in the Pacific during World War II; received the Medal of Honor for his role in the surrender of the Philippines and he promised that he would return and he did. |
| Japanese invasion of Manchuria | American reacted by passing the Export Control Act which banned US shipment of airplane parts and fuel to Japan. The act was called the "Moral Embargo" |
| fascism | the political ideology of the Germans |
| containment | American foreign policy advocated by George F. Kennan; encouraged America's effort to stop the spread of communism |
| House Un-American Activities Committee | a committee of the House of Representatives created to investigate allegations of communist activity during the early years of the Cold War. |
| Chinese Communist Revolution | the radical overthrow of China led by Mao Zedong that resulted from the socio-economic and political conditions in China |
| The Beat Generation | young people in the 1950s that rejected the conformity of society |
| America's post-war economy | because of Eisenhower's effort on the federal budget, the economy prospered greatly |
| Racial inequity in World War II | led to FDR's initiative Executive Order 8802 that established the Fair Employment Practices Commission |
| Atlantic Charter | a policy statement published by the United States and Great Britian that stated the ideal goals of the war |
| Lend-Lease Act | Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.'" |
| The Korean War | led to the division of the Korean Peninsula at the 38th parallel |
| America First Committee | advocated continued isolationism in the early years of WWII |
| Office of War Mobilization | created by FDR to coordinate all government agencies involved in the efforts to achieve victory in WWII |
| Executive Order 9066 | signed by FDR and called for the evacuation of anyone of Japanese descent to internment camps in the interior of the United States |
| Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan | provided aid to countries in Europe in order to effect the containment of communism |
| NATO & the Warsaw Pact | military alliances that were lead by the United States and the Soviet Union, respectively |
| Truman’s domestic program | nicknamed the Fair Deal, and included initiatives such as Universal Health Care and the expansion of Social Security |
| Eisenhower’s domestic policies | the most significant portion was the construction of the Federal Highway System |
| William Levitt | the father of modern suburbia whose efforts simplified the construction of homes via mass-production |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | nuclear showdown between the US and the USSR which resulted in the removal of nuclear weapons and the deposal of Nikita Khrushchev |
| CORE & SCLC | fought for racial equality through their use of civil disobendience |
| Allied invasion of France | the largest amphibious military invasion in history that took place at Normandy, France; code named Operation Overlord |
| Montgomery GI Bill | provided education benefits and low-interest home loans to the veterans of WWII |
| collective security | the cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each. |
