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| The foremost pressure group against American entry into the Second World War. |
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| Tried to eliminate trade with “bad” powers meaning countries that were at war. Stay off ships fighting in wars-if you do-no help from America |
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| Person who was researching why America had gone into WWI. Publicly showed how U.S. had been sucked into war |
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| leader of spanish right wing catholic facists |
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| A broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists who are united by opposition to another group. |
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| Ship the Japanese opened fire and sank with U.S. missionaries on board |
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| Lend-Lease Act (March 1941) |
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| Authorizing the president to help out friends |
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| War Powers Act (Dec. 1941) |
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| Empowered the President to make necessary adjustments in the organization of the executive branch with respect to those matters which relate to the conduct of the present war |
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| U.S. intercepts Japanese coded msg. Japan tries to torpedo U.S. carrier fleetU.S. however bombs Japanese carrier fleet 1st |
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| "Non-aggression pact" Soviet Union and Nazi Germany won’t go to war |
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Stalin refuses to evacuate civilians
3 year siege, Soviet refuses to fall |
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| Operation Bar Barossa (May 1941) |
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Germany (Hitler) vs. Soviet Union Hitler breaks non-aggressive pact
Soviet loses around 20,000,000 in WWII
Fascist Germany vs. communist Russia |
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| Battle On the Bulga River, Industrial town, Insult to stalin |
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| Stalin met with Churchill and FDR. Britain and U.S. would open up a western front |
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| Annual meeting of communists to plot the overthrow of democracy and capitalism and how to foster Marx ideas |
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| Western side Democracies ( Churchill and FDR) met with Stalin. Met in Soviet Union. Stalin didn’t want to leave the Soviet Union |
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| Brettonwoods Conference (July 1944) |
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| Established the U.S. dollar as the capitalists world principal currency |
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| International Monetary Fund |
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created fund for emergency money to bolster weak currencies around the world
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| ambassador to Soviet Union- argued communism is a stagnant economic system, no incentive for ingenuity |
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| Truman Doctrine (March 1947) |
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| Document that stated U.S. will give aid to countries that are threatened by communism |
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| Marshall Plan (March 1948) |
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| Provide a program for rebuilding war torn Europe Any aid given to countries must be spent on American goods |
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| Use airplanes to bring supplies to continue rebuilding, brought food to people |
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| An organization of Central and Eastern European communist states. |
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1st Committee Chair for the House Committee on Un-American Activities
(1930’s)-Looking for communists |
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
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| took bomb secrets from brother who worked on the Manhattan project |
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| Anti-communist who supposedly had a list of communists that were members of Trumans party |
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| provide nurseries for poor mothers |
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| leader of Chinese Communists |
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| Chinese Capitalist leader |
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| Leader of Moscow,Russia in 1953 |
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| General Douglass McArthur |
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| In charge of Japan, helps rebuild it after WWII |
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| asks Soviet Union to invade South Korea to spread communism |
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| Egyptian leader seized the Suez Canal (Mediterranean to the Red Sea) which connected Europe to the Middle East |
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| communist who led the Viet Minh independence movement |
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| FBI agent believed communism was the biggest issue, didn’t think racism and civil rights were big issues |
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| Plane pilot, shot down by Soviet Union |
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| pro capitalism, pro-U.S. Cuban dictator |
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| In Guatemala, Cuban revolutionaries trained by CIA. |
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| Southern leader in Vietnam |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia |
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| Operation Rolling Thunder |
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| Massive Bombing in North Vietnam |
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| Attack of South Vietnam when U.S. Embassy was bombed |
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| was the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, by U.S. soldiers and Lt. William Calley |
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| leader of My Lai Massacre |
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| Paris Peace Accords (Jan. 1973) |
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| Withdrawal of U.S. and Allies from Vietnam |
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