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