AMH 2020: Quiz

The Neutrality acts

-neutrality act of 1935-made it illegal for americans to sell arms to any country in at war. -2nd neutrality act-banning sale of arms to either side in a civil war -neutrality act of 1937-continued the ban on selling arms to warring nations, but also required them to buy all non military supplies from the united states on a "cash and carry" basis...had to have their own ships go to pick up supplies and had to pay with cash

GI Bill of Rights

..., Also known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 gave money to veternas to study in colleges, universities, gave medical treatment, loans to buy a house or farm or start a new business

Marshal Plan

..., George Marshal the US secretary of state saw Europe as very important to the USA, he saw the best way to keep them out of communism is to help restore their countries in 1947, June, and he proposed a plan to provide massive economic aid to Europe

Atomic Diplomacy

..., Soviet belief that the United States was maintaining a nuclear monopoly to scare the Soviets into diplomatic concessions

Berlin Airlift

..., Successful effort by the United States and Britain to ship by air 2.3 million tons of supplies to the residents of the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin from June 1948 to May 1949, in response to a Soviet blockade of all land and canal routes to the divided city.

52-20 Clubs

..., as a returning veteran you are entitled to $20 a week for 52 weeks

Atlantic Charter

1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war

Post War Baby boom

1945 - 1963 - end of great depression and war - No longer need to hold off on having children - American dream formed to an idea of having a house and family

Bataan Death March

April 1942, American soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died en route.

Harry S. Truman

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

Hiroshima

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

Japanese Internment Camps

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.

Yalta Conference

FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War

Truman Doctrine

First established in 1947 after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism.

Adolf Hitler

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)

Blitzreig

Germany's "lightning war" in which fast moving airplanes and tanks were followed by massive infantry forces take the opposition by surprise. Hitler used this method in his invasion of Poland in 1939.

Axis Nations

Germany, Italy, and Japan formed this alliance in the 1930's.

Price Controls

Government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation. Results in a huge black market!

United Nations

International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.

Nagasaki

Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945).

Roy Cohn

Joseph R. McCarthy's staff assistant; called the blitz of publicity "show-biz". American attorney who became famous during McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare.

D-Day

June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.

38th Parallel

Latitudinal line that divided North and South Korea at approximatly the midpoint of the peninsula

Dear John Law

Leads to the highest divorce rate in history. Says that in order to get a divorce, the women needs to get the husbands permission.

Fall of China

Mao Tse-Tung led the Communists in China. Because of the failure to form a coalition government between Chiang Kai-Shek and the Communists, civil war broke out in China after WWII. The Communists won in 1949, but the new government was not recognized by much of the world, including the U.S.

Teheran Conference

Meeting in 1943; Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill; confirmed their defense to crush Hitler

Army-McCarthy Hearings

The Trials in which Senator McCarthey accused the U.S. Army of harboring possible communists.These trials were one of the first televised trials in America, and helped show America Senator McCarthey's irresponsibility and meanness.

Potsdam Conference

The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War.

Coral Sea

This battle was the first win for America in the Pacific, and took over Japan's territory

Pearl Harbor

United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Was attacked on December 7, 1941.

Lend Lease

allows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the U.S."

Manhattan Project

code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II

Richard Nixon

he was elected to be US President after Johnson decided to not to run for US president again. He promised peace with honor in Vietnam which means withdrawing American soliders from South Vietnam

Battle of the Bulge

last German offensive against the invading allies, Germany lost

Joesph McCarthy

was a Republican U.S. Senator became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere.