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American First Committee
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The foremost pressure group against American entry into the Second World War.
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Neutrality Act of 1935
Definition
Tried to eliminate trade with “bad” powers meaning countries that were at war. Stay off ships fighting in wars-if you do-no help from America
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Gerald Nye
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Person who was researching why America had gone into WWI. Publicly showed how U.S. had been sucked into war
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Francisco Franco
Definition
leader of spanish right wing catholic facists
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A popular front
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A broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists who are united by opposition to another group.
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U.S.S. Paney
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Ship the Japanese opened fire and sank with U.S. missionaries on board
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Lend-Lease Act (March 1941)
Definition
Authorizing the president to help out friends
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War Powers Act (Dec. 1941)
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Empowered the President to make necessary adjustments in the organization of the executive branch with respect to those matters which relate to the conduct of the present war
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Battle of Midway
Definition
U.S. intercepts Japanese coded msg. Japan tries to torpedo U.S. carrier fleetU.S. however bombs Japanese carrier fleet 1st
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Ribbentrop-Molotrov Pact
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"Non-aggression pact" Soviet Union and Nazi Germany won’t go to war
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Battle of Leningrad
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Stalin refuses to evacuate civilians
3 year siege, Soviet refuses to fall
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Operation Bar Barossa (May 1941)
Definition
Germany (Hitler) vs. Soviet Union Hitler breaks non-aggressive pact
­Soviet loses around 20,000,000 in WWII
­Fascist Germany vs. communist Russia
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Battle On the Bulga River, Industrial town, Insult to stalin
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Tehran Conference
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Stalin met with Churchill and FDR. Britain and U.S. would open up a western front
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Comintern
Definition
Annual meeting of communists to plot the overthrow of democracy and capitalism and how to foster Marx ideas
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Yalta Conference
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Western side Democracies ( Churchill and FDR) met with Stalin. Met in Soviet Union. Stalin didn’t want to leave the Soviet Union
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Harry Truman
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Who took over after FDR
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Brettonwoods Conference (July 1944)
Definition
Established the U.S. dollar as the capitalists world principal currency
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International Monetary Fund
Definition
created fund for emergency money to bolster weak currencies around the world
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George Keenan
Definition
ambassador to Soviet Union- argued communism is a stagnant economic system, no incentive for ingenuity
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Truman Doctrine (March 1947)
Definition
Document that stated U.S. will give aid to countries that are threatened by communism
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Marshall Plan (March 1948)
Definition
Provide a program for rebuilding war torn Europe Any aid given to countries must be spent on American goods
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Berlin Airlift
Definition
Use airplanes to bring supplies to continue rebuilding, brought food to people
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
An organization of Central and Eastern European communist states.
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Martin Dies
Definition
1st Committee Chair for the House Committee on Un-American Activities
(1930’s)-Looking for communists
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Definition
took bomb secrets from brother who worked on the Manhattan project
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Joseph McCarthy
Definition
Anti-communist who supposedly had a list of communists that were members of Trumans party
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Head Start
Definition
provide nurseries for poor mothers
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Mao Tse-Tung
Definition
leader of Chinese Communists
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Chiang Kai Shek
Definition
Chinese Capitalist leader
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Nikita Khrushchev
Definition
Leader of Moscow,Russia in 1953
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General Douglass McArthur
Definition
In charge of Japan, helps rebuild it after WWII
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Kim II-Sung
Definition
asks Soviet Union to invade South Korea to spread communism
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Gamal Nasser
Definition
Egyptian leader seized the Suez Canal (Mediterranean to the Red Sea) which connected Europe to the Middle East
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
communist who led the Viet Minh independence movement
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J. Edgar Hoover
Definition
FBI agent believed communism was the biggest issue, didn’t think racism and civil rights were big issues
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Gary powers
Definition
Plane pilot, shot down by Soviet Union
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Batista
Definition
pro capitalism, pro-U.S. Cuban dictator
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Definition
In Guatemala, Cuban revolutionaries trained by CIA.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Definition
Southern leader in Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Definition
gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Definition
Massive Bombing in North Vietnam
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Tet Offensive
Definition
Attack of South Vietnam when U.S. Embassy was bombed
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My Lai Massacre
Definition
was the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, by U.S. soldiers and Lt. William Calley
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Lt. William Calley
Definition
leader of My Lai Massacre
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Paris Peace Accords (Jan. 1973)
Definition
Withdrawal of U.S. and Allies from Vietnam
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