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agreement permitting Nazi Germany annexation of Checkoslovakia's Sudetenland that was inhabited by ethnic germans
failed attempt at appeasement to get Nazi Germany to not take over checkoslovakia |
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ww2 leaders
-Joseph Stalin
-winston churchill
-Franklin Roosevelt |
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| FDR's action to stimulate the economy during the recession through govenment spending and tax cuts |
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| FDR's seceratary of interior responsible for much of the new deal |
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-negotiations instead of war
-used in wwII to prevent war with germany
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| location of first atomic bomb drop on august 6, 1945 after japanese ignored demands of potsdam declaration |
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| fascist dictator of Italy |
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-dictator of Nazi Germany
-wrote mein kampf |
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| reporter that coined the term cold war |
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| failed attempt by cia and cuban exiles to overthrow fidel castro |
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| most prominent african american civil rights leader |
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| civil rights movement figure and first black student at university of mississippi |
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| Nixon's strategy of withdrawing american troops from vietnam while training south vietnam to take over |
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| federal deposit insurance corp. (fdic) |
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| created by glass-stegal act and covers up to 250,000 dollars in bank deposits |
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| FDR's first hundred days in office in which he passed many new deal programs |
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| turning point in WWII in which russia defeated Germany in the town of Stalingrad |
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| founded in 1945 after wwII to maintain international peace and security |
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| u 2 spy plane that was shot down over soviet union and was denied by eisenhower but pilot francis powers admitted he was a spy |
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| catholic priest thataired over the radio supporting FDR at first but then aired supporting mussolini and hitler |
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| execution of approximately six million jews by the nazis |
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| method of war with constant movement through enemy lines and continuous support by air |
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-supreme commander of allied forces in europe
-first supreme commander of nato
-republican president in 1952-60 |
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-president that took over after FDR died in office
-made decision to drop a-bomb
-used fair deal |
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| peninsula in southeast asia comprimised of cambodia laos and vietnam |
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