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REVIEW FOR 9 WEEKS TEST World War II/ Cold War

REVIEW FOR 9 WEEKS TEST World War II/ Cold War. Important Events of the Cold War Truman Doctrine- 1947 Berlin Airlift- 1948 Korean War- 1950 Sputnik-

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  • REVIEW FOR 9 WEEKS TEST World War II/ Cold War
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  • Important Events of the Cold War Truman Doctrine- 1947 Berlin Airlift- 1948 Korean War- 1950 Sputnik- 1957 Building the Berlin Wall- 1961
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  • Berlin Airlift Was a program that was used the transport supplies to blocked West Berlin.
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  • Cuban Missile Crisis Khrushchev was forced to pull out their missiles out of Cuba, even though the Fidel Castro wanted to keep them in Cuba.
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  • Sputnik Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, initiating the Space Race.
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  • NASA was established in 1958
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  • Space Race The Space Race led to an increase in spending in math and science.
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  • GI Bill The GI Bill was created to provide education funding for returning World War II soldiers in order to create a better educated and more productive workforce.
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  • In God We Trust In God We Trust is the official motto of the United States which can be found on paper currency since 1956 & the coins since the 1860s.
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  • Polio Vaccine Polio an infectious disease caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestinal tract, was once the leading cause of disability in the U.S. The polio vaccine was created by Jonas Salk in 1955.
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  • The Beat Generation the Beat Generation reflected new ideas about society in their music and literature
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  • World War II WWII began in 1939 when Germany attacked Poland.
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  • Leaders During WWII Hitler= Nazi Mussolini= Fascism Tojo= Communist Stalin= Communist
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  • Pearl Harbor The US entered WWII because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December 7 th 1941. The US Air Force and Navy was weakened in the Pacific due to the destruction left behind after the attack.
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  • Mobilization The US had to mobilize (move) our soldiers and weapons in order to fight in the Europe and the Pacific.
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  • Executive Order 9066 Executive Order 9066 placed Japanese Americans into internment camps because the US government considered them to be a threat to national security.
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  • Rationing Rationing- limits how much of NEEDED SUPPLIES & PRODUCTS a civilian can purchase. The government controlled this by enforcing the use of rationing coupons.
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  • War Bonds & Victory Gardens Civilians bought war bonds to help the US government pay for the war. Victory Gardens were planted by types of civilians (rich, middle & lower class) to help do their part in assisting in the war effort to send food to our soldiers overseas.
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  • Rosie the Riveter The purpose of this poster was to try and get women working in the factories.
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  • General George Marshall Was the Army Chief of Staff who organized the war effort from Washington D.C.
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  • Flying Tigers The Flying Tigers were former US pilots who volunteered to fly with the Chinese Air Force and their actions were considered patriotic.
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  • Partitioning of Germany 1945 The Potsdam Conference led to the division of Germany into sections occupied by the US, the USSR, the UK and France.
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  • D-Day Invasion of Normandy
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  • Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway is considered a turning point in WWII because the Japanese lost a lot of their air craft carriers in which they were not able to keep up with in the War in the Pacific.
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