World War II and Beyond: Objectives
After you have completed this section, you will be able to:
1. Discuss the persecution of Jews under the Nazi regime.
2. Identify ways in which the Nazis tortured Jews in Europe.
3. Explain the significance of the Yalta Conference.
4. Identify significant world leaders following World War II.
5. Explain the significance of the “iron curtain.”
6. Explain the origins of NATO and its role in international relations.
7. Identify ways in which the cold war had an impact within the United States.
8. Describe the origins of the Korean War.
9. Describe the changes that took place in postwar America.
10. Explain the impact World War II had on the American economy.
11. Explain the significance of Truman’s Fair Deal.
12. Analyze the development of civil rights in America following World War II.
13. Define the following terms:
- Holocaust
- Anti-Semitism
- Nuremberg Trials
- Concentration camps
- Kristallnacht
- Wannsee Conference
- Death camp
- War Refugee Board
- Satellite nation
- Iron Curtain
- Cold War
- Containment
- Truman Doctrine
- Yalta Conference
- Marshall Plan
- Fair Deal
- Berlin Airlift
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Collective security
- Warsaw Pact
- House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
- Semites
- Hollywood Ten
- McCarran-Walter Act
- Korean War
- 38th parallel
- Gestapo
- Domino theory
- Sputnikl
- GI Bill
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Montgomery bus boycott