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The Cold War Era: National Security Council (NSC)Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO)The Berlin WallThe Berlin Blockade (Soviet Reaction)The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World BankThe Truman DoctrineThe Marshall PlanRedliningThe NAACP ( significance for this Chapter)LevittownMcCarthyismThe House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)The Korean WarThe National Security Council Paper 68 (NSC-68) 

The resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the removal of American atomic weapons from Italy and Turkey, and the removal of Soviet atomic weapons from Cuba.

The Berlin Wall isolated East Berlin from West Berlin, without challenging the Western Allies within West Berlin itself, leaving the access route between the two slightly open.

World War II Era: D-Day / Battle of NormandyHarlem RiotsWomen in the Workforce (Rosie)Native American CodetalkersThe Manhattan ProjectThe Battle of MidwayThe Atlantic CharterThe Lend-Lease Act The Atomic Bomb(s)The Potsdam DeclarationPresident TrumanPresident FDR (WWII)The Yalta ConferencePrime Minister Winston ChurchillAttack on Pearl HarborJapanese Internment Camps (U.S)Heart MountainThe Battle of the BulgeThe Holocaust / The Final SolutionIsland Hopping Strategy (Military) 

Churches and religious institutions were not important locations to the collective efforts of the Civil Rights Movement, or to memebers of underserved communities.

The Great Depression and New Deal Era: Harlem RenaissanceOligopoly Crisis of ConfidenceThe Great DepressionThe New DealFranklin Delano RooseveltOpen-shop campaignYellow-dog contractsWelfare capitalismCalvin CoolidgeHerbert HooverJ. Edgar HooverDouglas MacArthurWarren G. HardingThe League of Women VotersThe Jazz AgeThe National Origins Act of 1924Multinational Corporations (of this age)Hoovervilles + HooverwagonsEconomic Crash of 1929″Women’s Jobs” vs “Men’s Jobs” as per the textbook”Last Hired, First Fired”The Bonus Army / The Veterans MarchVoluntarismThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)Social Security/ SS ActBenito MussoliniFascism

One of the main Japanese internment camps in the United States was at Heart Mountain, in northern Wyoming, which housed around 10,000 internees at one point.

The election between President Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt resulted in Hoover’s reelection in the year 1932, just before the Great Depression.

Which was one reason why America preferred a “Germany First” postition over alterior strategies during WWII?

Federal housing agencies and private industry worsened the problem of unequal housing post-WWII by a process known as redlining, where they would forbid certain minority communities from purchasing loans and insurance coverage.