Unit 10 World War 2 & the Cold War.
A. Phillip Randolph
started the brotherhood of sleeping car porters he was a leader of civil rights movement
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific
Truman Doctrine
1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
National Interstate and Defense Highway Act
1956 act that provided funds for construction of 42,500 miles of roads throughout the US
Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
Cold War
A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
Island Hopping
A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others
Manhattan Project
Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. Much of the early research was done in New York City by refugee physicists in the United States.
Mandatory rationing
Est. limits on consumption of goods such as rubber, cigarettes, meat, and sugar; common practice in many nations during wartime
Sputnik
First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.
War Mobilization
Getting all the equipment and troops ready to transport to a warzone.
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.
Internment
Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group
McCarthyism
The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Containment policy
US policy to stop expansion of Soviet Union and Communism
Lend Lease Act
allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
GI Bill
law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations