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The American First Committee was an isolationist group. |
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| took citizenship away from Jewish Germans. |
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| The Neutrality Act of 1935 made it illegal for |
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| Americans to sell arms to any country at war |
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| The first area that Hitler "unified" with Germany was |
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| In the Munich Conference, Britain and France |
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| gave in to Hitler's demands for the Sudetenland. |
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| The Nazi-Soviet nonagression treaty contained a secret deal to |
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| divide Poland between them. |
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| In the Battle of Britain, |
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| the Royal Air Force saved Britain from invasion. |
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| In the Wannsee Conference, Nazi leaders |
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| planned the "final solution" |
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| Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for |
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| U.S. bases on British-held territory. |
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The Fascist militia that supported Mussolini was known as the |
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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on the date |
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| French fortification along the German border |
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| idea that trade between nations helps to prevent war |
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The Doolittle Raid convinced Japanese leaders to attack Midway Island. |
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In the trials for war crimes after World War II, the Japanese emperor was sentenced to death |
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| The cost-plus system sped up war production by |
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| providing larger profits for companies that worked fast and produced a lot. |
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| as a result of a presidential order allowing the military to declare any part of the US to be a military zone, |
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| many Japanese Americans were moved to internment camps |
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| the allies placed inflated rubber tanks, empty tents, and dummy landing craft along the coast of Britain to convince the germans that |
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| the allies planned to land thier invasion forces in pas-de-calais. |
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| a key to the american success at midway was |
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| breaking the japanese navy's secret code |
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| the capture of stalingrad was key to the succes of hitler's strategy to |
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| destroy the soviet economy |
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by putting the germans on the defensive, the soviet forces created a turning point in the war with europe at the battle of |
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| in overall command of the invasion of france |
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| "i felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." |
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| highest-ranking african american officer in the US army |
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| first time the japanese used kamikaze attacks |
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| name for french beach stormed by american invasion forces |
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| bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb |
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| truman said the truman doctrine and marshall plan were essential for |
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| ethel and julius rosenberg were charged with |
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| passing atomic secrets to the soviets |
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| at yalta, the leaders agreed to |
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| divide germany among the four allied powers |
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| the truman doctrine resulted in |
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| a pledge to fight communism |
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| the pursose of the marshall plan was to |
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| help western europe recover |
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| the purpose of project venona was to |
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| crack the soviet spy code |
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| allowed the arrest of communists in case of a national emergency |
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| as punishment for joseph mccarthy, the senate passed a vote of blank, or formal disapproval |
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| FBI head who authorized wiretapping and infiltration of groups suspected of subversion |
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| "an iron curtain has descended across the continent" |
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| border between north korea and south korea |
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| military alliance in eastern europe |
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which world leader set up the blockade in berlin |
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| in his book The Other America, michael harrington wrote about |
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the blank is the practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members. |
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the nation's first computer, used to make military calculations, was called the |
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blank programs tried to eliminate poverty by tearing down slums and erecting new high-rise buildings for poor residents |
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| developed an injectable vaccine for polio |
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| african american singer who recorded hit songs in the fifties |
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| developed an oral vaccine for polio |
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| eisenhower's vice president |
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| "every segment of our population has a right to expect from... government a fair deal" |
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| early computer that handled business data |
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| businesses that expanded overseas |
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| multinational corporations |
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| forcing business owners to hire only union members |
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| kennedy's legislative agenda was called the |
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| kennedy's "flexible response" plan called for |
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| a buildup of conventional weapons |
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| in an effort to increase growth and create more jobs, kennedy advocated... |
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| to get the economy moving, kennedy adopted the supply-side idea of |
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| the office of economic opportunity was a major part of johnson's |
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the way in which states draw up political districts based on changes in population is called blank |
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the blank was lyndon johnson's vision of the more perfect and equitable society the US could and should become |
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| director of the women's bureau of the department of labor in the kennedy administration |
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| chief justice of the supreme court |
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| accused has the right to an attorney during police questioning |
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| congressional reapportionment must follow idea of "one person, one vote" |
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| unlawfully seized evidence is inadmissible at trial |
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| state-mandated prayer in school banned |
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| felony suspects are entitled to court-appointed attorney if unable to afford one on their own |
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| the southern manifesto encouraged... |
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| white southerners to defy court rulings |
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| the kerner commission blamed the majority of the inner-city problems on |
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| white society and white racism |
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| when first established, the southern christian leadership conference set out to... |
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| end segregation and encourage african americans to register to vote |
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| the civil rights act of 1964 did little to... |
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| guarantee the right to vote |
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| helped organize the mississippi freedom democratic party |
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| one of the founders of the congress of racial equality |
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| first african american student to attend the university of mississippi |
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| the vietminh formed initially in vietnam to... |
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| win independence from japan |
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| with the gulf of tonkin resolution, congress... |
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| gave its war powers to the president |
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| as a result of the battle at dien bien phu,... |
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| the french withdrew from indochina |
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| operatin rolling thunder was... |
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| a sustained bombing campaign agianst north vietnam |
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| nixon's special assistant for national security affairs |
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| pro-western leader of south vietnam early in the war who was everthrown in a coup and executed |
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| improving relations with the soviet union and china to persuade them to cut back their aid to north vietnam |
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