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4.Ideas that are spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. It was used a lot in World War I and World War II. Political cartoons are an example of how this was used.
8.Also known as the Desert War, this took place in the North African desert. It was fought between the Allied and the Axis forces for the Suez Canal and the Middle East oil resources
9.The last major European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin and of Germany. The Allies divided Germany as a symbol of Germany’s defeat. This was one of the most important symbols of the Cold War.
13.Opposed to war or any part of that. It succeeded in limiting violence and eventually forcing the Nixon administration to make peace.
14.A meeting between US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. This meeting set basis and direction for the rest of the war. It established terms of unconditional surrender.
17.Broad-based rights and freedoms that are guaranteed at the federal level by the Constitution and other federal law. They guard citizens’ rights and freedoms.
18.A social, political, and economic ideology that put the government over the individual. Productions are collectively owned and directed by the state.
20.Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. It was the first day of a military attack. It was also the turning point of World War II.
21.Supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II. He led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.
22.A war between North Korea and South Korea. The North invaded the South in June of 1950. This was the start of the war.
23.A meeting attended by Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. They agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
26.The Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969. Important decisions were made about unconstitutional segregation policies during the Civil Rights Movement.
27.President Harry Truman established this so that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal forces. Truman wanted to contain Communism threats in Greece and Turkey.
28.The practice of making accusations of treason without proper evidence. It showed the extreme anti-Communist movement that occurred in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. It also brought the Second Red Scare in the United States.
29.A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. It provided a variety of benefits for veterans.
30.A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for authority in spaceflight. It was a representation of communism vs capitalism.
31.Also known as the European Recovery Program, was an American plan to aid Western Europe. The United States gave $13 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
32.The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. It is so that individuals receive equal treatment in a number of setting and regardless of race, gender, age, disability, national origin, religion, or certain other characteristics.
33.The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. The threat of this has been with us for several decades. It has become an urgent national problem.
34.Cuban refugees and CIA launched an invasion on the south coast of Cuba. The attack was an attempted failure to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro.
35.A Republican Senator of Wisconsin. He tried in to expose communists in the US government. He was the most enduring symbol of the “Red Scare.”
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1.An African-American who advocated social change through non-violent means. He helped shaped the American civil rights movement.
2.The strategy of capturing some islands and going around others. The United States used this on Japanese-held islands in order to invade Japan.
3.A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the positioning of nuclear missiles in Cuba. It was one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War and may have resulted in a nuclear war.
5.Any weapon in which explosion results from the energy released by the reaction of atomic nuclei. The United States used these in the final stages of the World War II. This made countries look at the United States differently.
6.A meeting that took place in Germany. It was attended by Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. It divided Germany into to four parts.
7.An alliance of nations that have pledged to respond together to an attack against any other member. It defended Western Europe from attacks by the Soviet Union. It was introduced after World War II.
10.A war in Southeast Asia. It was between communist North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam. South Vietnam was supported by the United States and North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China.
11.The founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States.
12.An economic system based on private property and free enterprise. There is open competition in free market.
15.The “happy days” because the war was over, the veterans were home and a lot of them got home and educations on the GI plans. Family stability was highly valued, birthrates rose.
16.A military strategy to stop the expansions of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism aboard.
19.One’s personal information is protected from public search. It is basically “the right to be left alone.” It is a human right to be left alone by the government.
24.The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in near countries. The United States feared that non-communist in South Vietnam would fall to the communist government in the north.
25.Japanese attacked the American naval base on December 7, 1941. This act of war brought the US into WWII on the side of the allies against the axis powers

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