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Description: Ace your US History and Government Regents exam with this focused collection of essential historical terms and vocabulary! Designed to help you quickly review major turning points, legislation, and foreign policies, this study guide breaks down complex eras into clear, digestible definitions. What's Covered: World Wars & Interwar Era: Isolationism, Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066, Korematsu v. United States, Zimmermann Telegram, and the Selective Service Act. The Cold War & Foreign Policy: Containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Korean War, Domino Theory, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Industrialization & Progressive Era: Industrial Revolution, Laissez-Faire, Urbanization, Robber Barons, Captains of Industry, Sherman Antitrust Act, Muckrakers, and Trust-Busting. The 1920s & Social Tensions: Red Scare and Sacco and Vanzetti. Skip the massive textbook chapters and lock down the vocabulary you need to pass. Download your copy today and boost your grade!

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Isolationist: An Isolationist is a person favoring a policy of staying out of world affairs.

Neutrality Acts: These are a series of acts passed by congress in the 1930s aimed at keeping
the United States out of World War ll.

Lend And Lease Act: This allowed the United States to sell or lend war materials to any country
whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.

Pearl Harbor: On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes attacked the U.S Navy fleet at Pearl
harbor Hawaii calling it a day of infamy that the Americas will never forget.

World War ll: World War ll began in 1939, when German forces invaded Poland. The United
States entered the war two years later after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

Executive Order 9066: This established military zones for the imprisonment of Japanese
Americans and was also responsible for handling the internment process of the Wartime
Relocation Authority (WRA).

Internment Camp: Internment camps are places of confinement especially in wartime.

Korematsu V. United States (1944): The Supreme Court upheld the forced evacuation as a
reasonable wartime emergency measure, Admitted the program was unjust, paid $20,000 to
each of the surviving interned Americans and issued a formal apology.

Cold War: This is the state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after
World War ll.

Containment: This is a US policy after World War ll of toying to keep the Soviet Union from
expanding its area of influence and dominance.

Truman Doctrine: This is President Truman’s promise to help nations struggling against
communist movements.

Marshall Plan (1948): The USA was against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos so from
1948-1952 $13 billion in economic aid was allocated by the Republican-dominated congress for
the rebuilding of Europe under the Marshall Plan.

NATO (1949): This agreement bound the participating nations to act together for their common
defense, Any attack on any one of them, mutual defense, And all of this was coordinated with
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Korea War: This was the conflict over the future of the korean peninsula fought between 1950
and 1953 and the war ended in a stalemate.

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