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Capitalism
Capitalism is a system that follows within trading within states or goods, money, and power. -
Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is filled with biased opinions towards other groups of people or a topic. -
Mass Consumerism
Mass Consumerism is the idea of spreading and encouraging money with materials and goods within countries. -
Communism
Communism was a practice that the Soviet Union followed. (Inequality) -
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a Former British Prime Minister who helped Britain through WWII. -
Anti-Semitism
People going against the Jews. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States. He helped the United States push through the Great Depression. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a politician who is German and was the leader of the Nazi Party. Later on, he became a chancellor, taking a head of the Germans. He led the holocaust to go against the Jews. -
Charles Lingdbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American man who made a solo transatlantic airplane that was successful. (Well-known for it) -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was a leader of anti-communist who accused others of communism for the safety of America from communism and the Soviet Union. (Although, this did go out of hand.) -
The Red Scare
The Red Scare is a the paranoia of communism taking over with the Soviet Union. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy is the 35th President of the United States and was a very successful president through the crisis of the war between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
The Nazi Party
The Nazi Party was a party who was led by Adolf Hitler. Also, the Nazi Party supported National Socialism. -
Betty Friedman
Betty Friedman was a writer who was mostly known for writing The Feminine Mystique. She stood up for women's rights and was a successful activist. -
Isolationism
Isolationism is when a country or nation has separated apart from the rest of the world or any other associates. -
Conformity
Conformity means a community that either goes by the same group of people, rules, lives, and etc. Identical lifestyle. -
Third Reich
The Third Reich was the final idea of the regime for Germany. -
Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps is where Nazi's kept Jews to either be murdered or work until death. -
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The Holocaust
Genocide against the Jews. -
Appeasement
Appeasement means putting an end of delay to something. -
HUAC
HUAC is a government agency that worked with the United States House of Representatives. -
The St. Louis
The MS St. Louis was a ship that was meant to carry the Jews to relocate to Cuba but they weren't accepted into Cuba and were sent back. -
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Containment
Containment was a practice in the Americas to oppose communism from spreading. -
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the idea/practice of accusing others of following or practicing communism. (Made by Joseph McCarthy.) -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Hawaii) is best known for it's attack during December 7th, 1941. About 180 Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft attacked the U.S. base (Pearl Harbor). Many lives we lost during this attack. -
American Home Front
The American home front was a time where people supported America during the time of WWII. -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 is they relocated Japanese who lived in America off on paranoia. -
The Final Solution
The Final Solution was a 'solution' in which created a mass murder of the Jews. -
Interment
Internment means having someone or a group of people as prisoners as if they are below someone or something in general. -
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States was a court case in the internment of the Japanese who lived in America. -
War Refugee Board
The War Refugee Board was a U.S. executive agency that would help victims who were civilians within the Axis powers. -
D-Day
D-Day happened on June 6th, 1944 and the Allied forces went and took over/invaded France in the north. -
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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a conference/meeting between Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt (who was the 32nd President of the United States. -
VE Day
VE Day was the 'Victory in Europe Day'. This day celebrated peace and acceptance within the Allies during WWII. -
The Atomic Bomb
The atomic bomb was a nuclear weapon. It was used in Hiroshima to attack the Japanese. -
Nuclear Warfare
Nuclear warfare is the use and support of dangerous arsenal people withhold. -
The United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to keep balance with peace and security within America. -
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The Nuremberg Trails
The Nuremberg Trials was a series of tribunals within the military during the aftermath of WWII. This led to some Nazis being sentenced to death. -
Levittown
Levittown was mostly known for its growth of homes, jobs, education, and family. During the time of development in Levittown, it was thriving a lot. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is a policy (within the Americas) to expand things towards the Soviet Union of freedom. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an idea/plan to help support the West side of European countries to rebuild, help, and renew their system. -
Israel
Israel was where most of the Jews immigrated to and it became a Jewish state. -
NATO
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which is an alliance with North America and Europe. -
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The Korean War
The Korean war was a war between South and North Korea with the leaders of two sides: United States and the Soviet Union. (anti-communist and communist) -
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Civil Rights
Civil rights is rights that people are supposed to have based on freedom, equality, and etc. -
NASA
NASA is an agency that studies the ideas of space. (Also was important to the idea of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.) -
MAD
MAD is a military system that was made to contain or stop the idea of using nuclear weapons. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis is a war to confront the United States and the Soviet Union of their back and forth war and arguments for power. -
Civil Liberties
Civil liberties are the idea of freedom and equality for all. -
Xenophobia
Xenophobia is the fear of others from other regions and countries of the world.