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06/19/2010

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Munich pact
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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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"big three"
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ww2 leaders

 

-Joseph Stalin

-winston churchill

-Franklin Roosevelt

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assault agreements
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brain trust
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FDR's group of advisors
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pump priming
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FDR's action to stimulate the economy during the recession through govenment spending and tax cuts
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harold ickes
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FDR's seceratary of interior responsible for much of the new deal
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appeasement
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-negotiations instead of war

-used in wwII to prevent war with germany

 

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hiroshima
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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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Mussolini
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fascist dictator of Italy
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Hitler
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-dictator of Nazi Germany

-wrote mein kampf

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George Marshall
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Walter Lippmann
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reporter that coined the term cold war
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alger hiss
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bay of pigs
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failed attempt by cia and cuban exiles to overthrow fidel castro
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martin luther king jr.
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most prominent african american civil rights leader
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james meredith
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civil rights movement figure and first black student at university of mississippi
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Robert kennedy
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Vietnamization
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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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"the 100 days"
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FDR's first hundred days in office in which he passed many new deal programs
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stalingrad
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turning point in WWII in which russia defeated Germany in the town of Stalingrad
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united nations
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founded in 1945 after wwII to maintain international peace and security
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u-2 incident
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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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father coughlin
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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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holocaust
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execution of approximately six million jews by the nazis
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blitzkrieg
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method of war with constant movement through enemy lines and continuous support by air
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Dwight Eisenhower
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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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satelite
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harry truman
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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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douglass mcarthur
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indochina
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peninsula in southeast asia comprimised of cambodia laos and vietnam
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