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50 Cards in this Set
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What is fascism?
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a kind of aggressive nationalism that believed the nation was more important than the individual
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What is isolationism?
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the belief that the United States shoud avoid international commitments that might drag the nation into another war
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Who are the Axis Powers?
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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What is Anschluss?
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the unification of Austria and Germany
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What is appeasement?
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the policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace
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What started World War II?
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Germany invaded Poland
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What is blitzkrieg?
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lightning war (used large numbers of massed tanks to break through and rapidly encircle enemy positions)
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What was the Battle of Britain?
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German air force, Luftwaffe, launched an all-out air battle to destroy the British Royal Air Force
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What was the Wannsee Conference?
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Nazi leaders met in a Berlin suburb to determine the "final solution of the Jewish question"
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What was the biggest concentration camp?
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Auschwitz
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What was the Lend-Lease Act?
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the United States would be able to lend or lease arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States" U.S. could send weapons to Britain if Britain promised to return or pay rent for them after the war
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What could automobile factories do during the war?
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they could build artillery, rifles, mines, helmets, pontoon bridges, cooking pots, and dozens of other pieces of military equipment
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What was the Double V campaign?
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the campaign urged African Americans to support the war in order to achieve a double victory; a victory over Hitler's racism abroad and America's racism at home
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Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
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the first African American unit in the army air force (the 99th Pursuit Squadron)
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How did World War II effect women and African Americans in the U.S.?
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it oppened job opportunies for both and women served in the war as nurses
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What was the Cold War?
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an era of confrontation and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted 40 years
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How was Germany divided?
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Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones, Great Britain, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and France would each control a zone
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What was the loyalty review program?
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all federal employees had to be screened because of the fear that Communists had infiltrated the governement
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What did Joseph R. McCarthy do?
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he claimed to have a list of Communists in the state department, no one else ever saw the list
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What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
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the seperate-but-equal doctrine; laws segregating African Americans were permitted as long as equal facilities were provided for them
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What were sit-ins?
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a form of protest first used by union workers in the 1930s; ment to shame restaurant managers into integrating their restaurants
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Who was Thurgood Marshall?
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an African American attorny that worked on the Brown v. Board of Education case
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What was the Brown v. Board of Education about and what was the result?
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Linda Brown was denied admission to her neighborhood school; ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
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What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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a boycott of Montgomery's buses on the day Rosa Parks appeared in court
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What was the crisis in Little Rock?
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the school board in Little Rock won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High (a school with 2,000 white students)
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What was the violence in Birmingham?
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Bull Connor used force on protesters, ordering police to use clubs, police dogs, and high-pressure fire hoses on the demonstrators (including women and children)
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What happened during the March on Washington?
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech
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What was black power?
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one interpretation was that physical self-defense and even violence were acceptable in defense of one's freedom
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Who was Malcom X?
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a symbol of the black power movement
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When and where was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
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April 4, 1968 on his hotel balcony in Memphis
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What was the domino theory?
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the belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, so too would the other nations of Southeast Asia
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What was the Massacre at My Lai?
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an American platoon under the command of Lieutenant William Calley massacred possibly more than 200 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the hamlet of My Lai
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What were the Pentagon Papers?
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the documents revealed that many government officials during the Johnson administration privately questioned the war while publicly defending it
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What brought the U.S. into World War II?
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Pearl Harbor
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What made Ngo Dinh Diem an unpopular leader in South Vietnam?
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his discrimination against Buddhism
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What was the effect of the Tet offensive on Americans?
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they started to doubt the war
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Why was the decision in Brown v. Board of Education a significant step toward ending segregation?
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it was the first case that found segregation illegal
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What were two changes in the focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s?
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they stopped focusing on a small part of segregation and focused on the whole thing
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What was the long-term goal of the Cold War?
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to stop the spread of communism
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What caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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Rosa Parks' arrest
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What was the domino theory?
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the belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, so too would the other nations of Southeast Asia
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What was the Massacre at My Lai?
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an American platoon under the command of Lieutenant William Calley massacred possibly more than 200 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the hamlet of My Lai
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What were the Pentagon Papers?
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the documents revealed that many government officials during the Johnson administration privately questioned the war while publicly defending it
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What brought the U.S. into World War II?
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Pearl Harbor
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What made Ngo Dinh Diem an unpopular leader in South Vietnam?
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his discrimination against Buddhism
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What was the effect of the Tet offensive on Americans?
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they started to doubt the war
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Why was the decision in Brown v. Board of Education a significant step toward ending segregation?
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it was the first case that found segregation illegal
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What were two changes in the focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s?
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they stopped focusing on a small part of segregation and focused on the whole thing
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What was the long-term goal of the Cold War?
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to stop the spread of communism
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What caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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Rosa Parks' arrest
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