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Final Study Guide Hy 121Roosevelt's Four Freedoms - correct answer ✔✔"Essential human freedoms," freedom of speech,
freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear
Hitler's Final Solution / Holocaust - correct answer ✔✔The mass extermination of "undesirable" peoples,
slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, and above all, Jews.
Rosie the Riveter - correct answer ✔✔The female industrial laborer depicted as muscular and self-reliant
in Norman Rockwell's famous magazine cover
G I Bill of Rights - correct answer ✔✔The legislation that provided money for education and other
benefits to military personnel returning from WWII
American Indians during WWII - correct answer ✔✔some 25,000 served in the army. Insisting that the
U.S. lacked the authority to draft Indian men into the army, the Iroquois issued their own declaration of
war against the Axis Powers. Thousands left reservations for jobs in war industries. many did not return
to the reservations. some took advantage of the GI bill.
U.S. Propaganda on Japanese - correct answer ✔✔government propaganda and war films portrayed the
Japanese foe as rats, dogs, gorillas, and snakes, bestial and subhuman.
Japanese American Internment - correct answer ✔✔Executive Order 9066, in Feb 1942, authorities
removed more than 110,000 men, women and children to camps far from their homes, nearly two thirds
of them American Citizens. The order did not apply to people of Japanese descent in Hawaii.
Bombing for Hiroshima - correct answer ✔✔On August 6, 1945 an American plane dropped an atomic
bomb that detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, a target chosen because almost alone among major
Japanese cities, it had not yet suffered damage. Nearly every building was destroyed. approximately
70,000 died immediately.
, Bombing of Nagasaki - correct answer ✔✔On August 9, 1945 the United States exploded a second bomb
killing 70,000 people.
Freedom Train - correct answer ✔✔Originated in 1946 with the Department of Justice, it opened to the
public in Philadelphia, it was a traveling exhibition of 133 historical documents, bedecked in red, white
and blue, embarked on a 16 month tour that took it to more than 300 American cities. among the
documents were the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg
Address.
Policy of Containment / George Kennan - correct answer ✔✔Early in 1946, in his famous Long Telegram
from Moscow, an American diplomat advised the Truman administration that the Soviets could not be
dealt with as a normal government. The communist ideology drove them to try to expand their power
throughout the world. He laid the foundation for the U.S. to prevent any further expansion of the soviet
power.
Iron Curtain - correct answer ✔✔Winston Churchill declared that this had descended across Europe,
partitioning the free West from the communist East.
Truman Doctrine - correct answer ✔✔President Truman's program announced in 1947 of aid to
European countries, particularly Greece and Turkey, threatened by communism.
Marshall Plan - correct answer ✔✔It aimed to combat the idea that capitalism was in decline and
communism the wave of the future. It defined the threat to American security not so much as the Soviet
military power but as economic and political instability, which could be breeding grounds for
communism.
Marshall Plan (dictionary) - correct answer ✔✔U.S. program for the reconstruction of post-World War II
Europe through massive aid to former enemy nations as well as allies; proposed by General C. Marshall
in 1947
NSC 68 - correct answer ✔✔this 1950 manifesto described the Cold War as an epic struggle between
"the idea of freedom" and "the idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin." The survival of
the Free World.
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