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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and as Führer in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. -
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The Red Scare
A period of general fear of communists -
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JFK
President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis and helped promote peace in the US. -
Charles Lindbergh
made the first solo flight across the Atlantic -
The St. Louis
During World War II, the Motorschiff St. Louis was a German ocean liner infamously known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape the Holocaust to disembark in Cuba. However they were denied permission to land. -
Third Reich
The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. -
HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee, The people who accused people of being communist. -
Winston Churchill
A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. -
The Final Solution
The program to kill all the jews -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. -
Pearl Harbor
A United States military base that was attacked by Japan in order to bring the United States into WWll -
Executive Order 9066
Caused japanese internment -
Korematsu v. United States
Supreme Court case that upheld the government's wartime internment policy -
D-Day
Invasion of Normandy, France -
The Yalta Conference
1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin -
yalta conference
1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin -
VE-Day
The day Germany surrendered -
the atomic bomb
The bomb that was used to end WWll -
The United Nations
A organization for international peace -
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The Nuremberg Trials
One key set of trials held for certain Germans accused of war crimes. -
Joseph McCarthy
United States politician who accused many citizens of being Communists -
Levittown
In 1947, William Levitt used mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in surburban New York to help relieve the postwar housing shortage. Levittow. -
Truman Doctrine
The us would provide aid to any country -
Marshall Plan
The plan for the US to save the people in europe -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
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The Korean War
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. -
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration made after the Cold War. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba -
Betty Friedman
The aurthor who wrote The Feminine Mystique