Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

Germany, Italy, Japan

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

Germany invaded, breaking their agreement, so Britain and France declared war, starting World War II

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust

Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)

Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition

Is the name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF).

7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II.

The war in the Pacific, most islands were involved, Japan tried to take these islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia.

The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis.

Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.

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.

(FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President of fear for the nation's security.

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

Led the allied invasion of North Africa and planned and executed the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the battle of the budge; Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

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

camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany for the purpose of killing prisoners immediately.

a device or system consisting usually of a synchronized radio transmitter and receiver that emits radio waves and processes their reflections for display and is used especially for detecting and locating objects (as aircraft) or surface features (as of a planet)

- 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II

AFTER its defeat in World War II, Germany was divided into four zones under the control of the United States, Britain, France and the former Soviet Union. The division, nevertheless, was provisional

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

The commander of the United States Navy in the Pacific.

Army Chief of Staff General who pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Also created the Marshall plan for rebuilding Europe.

Famous American General who fought in North Africa and Europe.

Citizens planted gardens to make their own vegetables to conserve more food for the troops

All African American air squadron that will distinguish themselves in combat during WWII

American pilots who volunteered to fight for China

young Navajo men who transmitted secret communications on the battlefields of World War II

a work written about an event by someone who is one or more steps removed from the event

A national policy of avoiding/ abstaining involvement in world affairs

worst period of economic decline in United States history, beginning in 1929-1933 ending with US entry into WWII.

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to a limited supply

worked in factories while men fought, provided supplies, dangerous work

organization founded in 1945 to promote peace

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II

An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.

The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread it's influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s.

A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.

A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.

The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.

A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.

A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.

The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communist in the early 1950s.

Latitude line/boundary between North and South Korea.

35th President of the United States. Was in office during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall.

Communist dictator of Cuba who came into power in 1959.

Failed CIA operation in April 1961to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles.

13 Day period in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear missile were pointed at the United States in Cuba and the US had a naval blockade of Cuba.

A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989, built by Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.

A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans to contain Communism.

Asian nation that turns to Communism in 1949 after the Mao Zedong comes into power and fights with the North in the Korean War.

Soviet leader following World War II, dies in the middle of the Korean War in 1953.

33rd President of the United States. He fired General Douglass MacArthur over disagreements on the Korean War.

Communist leader of China who comes into power in 1949.

Married couple who become the first U.S. citizens put to death for espionage in 1953. They were charged with passing Atomic Bomb secrets to the Soviets.

A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.

Soviet leader from 1955-1964, responsible for putting missiles in Cuba.

The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control

Line of latitude that separated North and South Vietnam

Communist leader of North Vietnam, led the fight against the French and then the Americans to reunify the country

Became president after Kennedy's assassination and reelected in 1964; committed the US more heavily to fighting in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

result of the Korean War

where most protests of the Vietnam War occurred

result of the Vietnam War

scandal involving President Nixon forcing him to resign

Nixon's policy of training South Vietnamese troops to fight so we could leave the war

tactic used by the North Vietnamese to fight the war

quote by Reagan during the war

causes for the Soviet Union collapse

Soviet policy meaning openness

Soviet term meaning Economic restructuring

Clinton

Foreign Policy under George H W Bush

1st Persian gulf war

cause of 1st Gulf War

lifted sanctions against South Africa, full relationship with Vietnam, signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade)

9-11, war in Iraq, War in Afghanistan

legal surveillance of citizens after 9-11

Republicans win Congressional seats during Clinton term with Contract with America

Congress and the President set taxes and spending policy based on GDP, unemployment and inflation

Federal reserve policy on interest rates

tax cuts, increased military spending, appoint justices with judicial restraint, reduce government programs

The world's first space satellite launched by the Soviet Union starting the space race

law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations

30 million war babies were born between 1942 and 1950.

residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas

name for the popular form of music that teens were listening to in the 1950s.

In the 1950s, a person who criticized American society as apathetic and conformist

Kennedy's agenda to increase aid to education, health insurance, to elderly, etc.

An economic system based on private ownership of capital

U.S. government official accused of being a communist spy and convicted of perjury

a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments