Lend-Lease Act

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Lend-Lease Act
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..., allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
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Yalta Conference
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1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war.
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Manhattan Project
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code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
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Executive Order 9066
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2/19/42; 112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes & businesses, 600K more renounced citizenship; demonstrated fear of Japanese invasion.
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Korematsu vs. U.S.
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In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the government's policy of detaining Japanese Americans in internment camps, even when there was no specific evidence that they posed a danger to American security. The Court justified the policy as a military necessity in wartime.
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Iron Curtain
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A term popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union's policy of isolation during the Cold War. The barrier isolated Eastern Europe from the rest of the world.
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Truman Doctrine
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..., First established in 1947 after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism.
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Containment
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A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
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HUAC
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The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda,
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McCarthyism
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..., 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.
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Brinkmanship
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A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests.
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Sputnik
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The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US.
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GI Bill
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1944- gave benifits to to WW2 veterans including financial assistance for veterans wanting to go to college, buy a home, prefered treatment to veterans who wanted to apply for government jobs
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Beat Generation
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Group highlighted by writers and artist who stressed spontaneity and spirituality instead of apathy and conformity.
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Taft-Hartley Act
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..., Act that provides balance of power between union and management by designating certain union activities as unfair labor practices; also known as Labor-Management Relations Act (LMRA)