Allied Powers
Axis Powers
A. Philip Randolph
Pearl Harbor
Internment
Mobilization
Wartime Conservation
Rationing
WWII alliance of Germany, Italy,
and Japan
US Navy base in Hawaii attacked
by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941
prompting US to enter WWII
effort to equip soldiers with
weapons and supplies by turning
US industry in to war suppliers
each household received a coupon
book to buy scarce items to help
save for the war effort
WWII alliance of China, France,
Great Britain
founded Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters union that protested
discrimination and got FDR to
order discrimination end in
industries receiving fed. funds
rural prison camps where people
of Japanese ancestry were held
fearing spies and sabotage after
Pear Harbor
nationwide drive to collect
materials to recycle and use in war
production
Lend-Lease
Battle of Midway
D-Day
Battle of Berlin
Atom Bomb
Los Alamos
The Manhattan Project
Marshall Plan
US navy won sea battle against
Japan. Boost to morale and ended
Japanese advance in Pacific
final battle in European theater.
Hitler suicide and city surrendered
secret lab in New Mexico where
atomic bomb was created
European recovery program
spending $13 billion on econ. and
tech. assistance to oppose
communism
lend military equipment and
supplies to any nation the Pres.
said was vital to US defense.- GB
benefitted
Operation Overlord- Allied
invasion of Nazi-occupied France.
Beginning of victory for Allies in
Europe
new weapon developed in US that
would prevent the US from having
to invade the mainland of Japan
code name for the Los Alamos
development of the atomic bomb
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Korean War
McCarthyism
Cuban Revolution
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
US would supply any nation with
economic & military aid to prevent
it falling to Soviet sphere of
influence
Red Scares by Joe McCarthy
alleging communists in govt &
army leading to civil rights
violations
CIA trained Cuban exiles tried to
invade Cuba but was crushed by
Castro
began as fight over French
colonization. US supported France
to stop spread of Communism. US
withdrew
policy to stop the spread of
communism and the basis for US
foreign policy after WWII
1950 the US went to war with
democratic South Korea against
communist North Korea. Chinese
forced US back
led by Fidel Castro making himself
leader and became an ally of the
Soviet Union
Soviets missiles in Cuba led to
conflict with US. JFK ordered
blockade and Soviets backed down
Tet Offensive
Baby Boom
Levittown
Interstate Highway Act
Kennedy/Nixon Debates
TV News Coverage of
Civil Rights
Air Conditioning
Personal Computer
huge growth in population
between mid 1940s and mid
1960s. Largest generation in US
history
authorized construction of
national highway network to
connect every major city in US
1968 Vietcong and N. Vietnamese
launched longest and most
damaging campaign of war. Didn’t
stop US but led to more protests
in US
Long Island master planned
neighborhood of affordable
houses in the suburbs by William
Levitt
Graphic- turned public sympathies
to end segregation and led to new
laws
1960 TV debates where JFK
performed better prompting win.
TV event Changed US politics
early versions in 1970s gave a
glimpse of what tech. would later
connect everyone regardless of
location
led to better work conditions in
skyscrapers urging more urban
development in hot humid
climates
Sputnik I
Jackie Robinson
Harry Truman
Brown v Board of
Education
Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter From a
Birmingham Jail
I Have A Dream Speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964
first black major league baseball
player
reversed Plessy v Ferguson saying
separate but equal was NOT
constitutional- led to Little Rock 9
MLK letter from jail saying victims
of segregation & violence would
not wait longer
1964 LBJ law prohibiting
discrimination on race, religion,
national origin, or gender
Soviets launched this first satellite
in 1957 leading to space race and
emphasis on science educ. and
defense
President who integrated the
army and ended discrimination in
hiring for government jobs
leader of civil rights movement
arrested in Birmingham while
protesting against segregation
1963 MLK speech at Lincoln
Memorial asking for peace and
racial harmony
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
Sit-Ins
Freedom Rides
founded by MLK and ministers to
protest 2nd class citizenship
outlawed requirement for voters
in US to take literacy test to
register to vote – unfair to minor
tactic of SNCC to protest
segregated lunch counters and
spread to other aspects of
segregated society
black college students to speed up
mandated “Brown” changes- over
time became more militant with
“Black Power”
SNCC rode busses on interstate
highways to see if south would
enforce laws against segregation
in public transportation.