Final Study Guide for AMH2020 WORLD WAR II US isolationism between the wars general causes of WWII following Germanys invasion o Treaty of Versailles o hilters actions o failure of appeasement o failure of league of nations o 70 of Americans thought it was a mistake to enter World War I o 95 said the U S should not participate in another European war o 67 said the U S should not join the League of Nations began sept 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany Fascism was an ideology which glorified the military denounced international Rice of Fascism organizations and cooperation and considered war an acceptable means for achieving national goals Hitler s Germany and Mussolini s Italy adopted aggressive foreign policies involving war as an intended even desirable method World War II military campaigns WWII impact on minorities and women military operations employed during world war II o Created industry opportunities for women o performed important work for the war and did jobs that usually only men would do o Rosie the Riveter o lost jobs after the war was over due to veterans o ww2 opened opportunities for African Americans Double Campaign Victory Appeasement Appeasement the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict governed Anglo French foreign policy during the 1930s Code Talkers strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater Code talking however was pioneered by Cherokee and Choctaw Indians during World War I victory abroad This campaign was orchestrated by the Pittsburgh Courier a weekly black newspaper that helped influence public opinion among black Captain Marvel proved to be one of the most popular superhero comics of the Golden Age regularly outselling the adventures of Superman during the 1940s The sales of comic books increased markedly during World War II Japanese Internment Camps to evacuate the west coast stood for two victories for black Americans a victory at home and a Mussolini was the leader of Italy Hitler was the leader of Germany FDR signed executive order 9066 ordering all Japanese Americans o This resulted in the relocation of approximately 120 000 people many of whom were Hitler and Mussolini Golden Age of Comics American citizens to one of 10 internment camps located across the country o last camp closed march 1946 Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday December 7 1941 Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States during World War II representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II many of whom produced munitions and war supplies Tuskegee airman forces flying with distinction during World War II statement that Germany was responsible for beginning World War I It reads as follows Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles known as the War Guilt Clause was a were the first black servicemen to serve as military aviators in the U S armed War Guilt Cause o The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies Cold War and the Fifties General overview of culture and television in the fifties o I love Lucy father knows best the ozzie and Harriet show leave it to beave American ideals women are being told they have to be a mom and a housewife nuclear familieS very white shaping the ideal American family General Overview of the differences between US and Soviets nuclear and space race o 1945 hiroshima and Nagasaki o 1949 USSR atomic bomb o 1952 US H bomb o 1955 USSR H bomb o 1956 US U 2 spy flights o 1957 Sputnik Launched o 1958 American Explorer 1 pre presidential campaign is was an active cold warrior Kennedy s Campaign and Presidency 1960 won a strong victory for the Democratic Party Won during the cold war tensions First televised election and he ran against nixon Bay of Pigs killed or captured and Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure of the operation Cuban Missile Crisis supply nuclear missiles capable of protecting the island against another U S sponsored invasion 1 400 exiles landed at Cuba s Bay of Pigs on April 17 The entire force was either Khrushchev reached a secret agreement with the Cuban government to o Khrushchev agreed to take remove missiles in return America has to pledge that the wouldn t reinvade Cuba was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro s 26th of July Movement and Cuban Revolution its allies against the US backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista o Leaders Fidel Castro and Nikita Khruschev o The revolution began in July 1953 and continued sporadically until the rebels finally ousted Batista on 1 January 1959 replacing his government with a revolutionary socialist state They represented the great divide between the United is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from Berlin as a symbol of the cold war States and the capitalist democratic west and the Soviet Union and its allies amongst the Communist bloc of nations Fidel Castro 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008 Containment was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect was a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War united states policy to prevent the spread of communism Nikita Khruschev Marxism the political economic and social principles and policies advocated by Marx Domino Theory Nationalism Military Industrial Complex Eisenhower warned American because he believed that comprises a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are especially a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value dialectical materialism the class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society Communism used to make and transport products such as land oil factories ships etc and there is no privately owned property the policy and monetary relationships which exist between
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