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| 12915888114 | Fordney-McCumber Act | raised tariffs in an effort to protect American industry from foreign competition | 0 | |
| 12915888115 | Weimar Republic | German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy. | 1 | |
| 12915888120 | World Court | 2 | ||
| 12915888116 | Anschulss | Nevill | 3 | |
| 12915888121 | Neville Chamberlain | 4 | ||
| 12915888117 | Non-Agression Pact of 1939 | Deal between Hitler and Stalin recognizing territorial perogatives of each other; Hilter=west half Poland, Stalin=east half Poland; US surprised and disturbed because hoped the two would never come together | 5 | |
| 12915888122 | September 1, 1939 | 6 | ||
| 12915888123 | Miracle at Dunkirk | 7 | ||
| 12915888124 | Fight for Freedom Committee | 8 | ||
| 12915888118 | Committee to Defend America | 1940. advocated american military support for britain to keep the U.S. out of conflict in europe. | 9 | |
| 12915888125 | Japanese Decision Making | 10 | ||
| 12915888119 | Hideki Tojo | Japan's prime minister. ordered attack on pearl harbor | 11 | |
| 13030041830 | George Marshall | United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959) | 12 | |
| 13030041831 | George S. Patton | General in the United States Army who helped lead the Allies to victory in the Battle of the Bulge. | 13 | |
| 13030041834 | Red Army | 14 | ||
| 13030041832 | Battle of El Alamein | 1942-British victory in WWII that stopped the Axis forces from advancing into Northern Africa | 15 | |
| 13030041833 | Meeting at Casablanca | FDR and Churchill decide next step would be Sicily and Italy rather than invasion of France further angering the Soviet Union.l | 16 | |
| 13032286023 | Revenue Act of 1942 | 17 | ||
| 13056145529 | Rosie the Riveter was a symbol of | 18 | ||
| 13062593918 | Thomas Wallace | 19 | ||
| 13062593921 | Harry Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb | 20 | |
| 13062593922 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School | 21 | |
| 13062593919 | D-Day | 22 | ||
| 13062593920 | Battle of the Bulge | 23 | ||
| 13126242761 | Battle of Leyte Gulf | 24 | ||
| 13185439800 | Potsdam Conference | 25 | ||
| 13187048470 | Taft-Hartley Act | Act passed in 1947 that put increased restrictions on labor unions. Also, it allowed states to pass "right to work" laws: prohibited "union" shop (= workers must join union after being hired). It also prohibited secondary boycotts and established that the President has power to issue injections in strikes that endangered national health & safety ("cooling off" period) | 26 | |
| 13187048471 | right-to-work laws | 27 | ||
| 13227984870 | Syngman Rhee | noncommunist dictatorial leader of South Korea who was backed by the United States | 28 | |
| 13227984871 | Office of Defense Mobilization | 29 | ||
| 13252279119 | Mcarthyism | is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence | 30 | |
| 13252279120 | Adlai Stevenson | An Illinois governor and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956. He lost both elections to Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. (p. 580) | 31 | |
| 13252279121 | Richard Nixon | 32 | ||
| 13252647633 | Keynesian economics | 33 | ||
| 13263461264 | UNIVAC | 34 | ||
| 13388952163 | William H. Whyte Jr. | wrote The Organization Man, assailed the similarity many business organizations cultivated in order to keep any individual from dominating. | 35 | |
| 13388952164 | David Reisman, The Lonely Crowd | older generations had been "inner directed" (lived by fixed principles that were important to them and everyone should live by). They judged themselves by how well they lived up to these principles. The 1950s were "other directed" (seek approval from big organizations or groups instead of personal values). Whatever others think of ourselves is how we should look at ourselves. Opens up questions about how to live a normal life | 36 | |
| 13388952165 | Jack Kerouac | 37 | ||
| 13398898022 | Payola Scandal | 38 | ||
| 13462226295 | John Foster Dulles | United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959) | 39 | |
| 13462226296 | Massive Retaliation | policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression | 40 | |
| 13462226297 | Brinkmanship | the willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down | 41 | |
| 13462226298 | Dien Bien Phu | In 1954, Vietminh rebels besieged a French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, deep in the interior of northern Vietnam. In May, after the United States refused to intervene, Dien Bien Phu fell to the communists. | 42 | |
| 13462226299 | Ngo Dinh Diem | American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime caused the Communist Viet Cong to thrive in the South and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. he was killed in a coup in 1963. | 43 | |
| 13462226300 | Fulgenicio Batista and Fidel Castro | 44 |
