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USH Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| GI Bill | gave education to veterans, gave federal loan guarantees to vets buying loans |
| Operation Overlord | invasion of France |
| Yalta Conference | last meeting of Churchill Stalin FDR |
| 16th Amendment | income tax |
| 17th Amendment | direct election of senators |
| John Rockefeller | oil industry |
| JP Morgan | banking industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | steel industry |
| William Vanderbilt | railroad industry |
| William Randolph Hearst | newspaper, exaggerated |
| Spirit of St. Louis | Charles Lindberg's plane |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | outlawed war but no way to enforce it |
| Palmer Raids | govt trying to find radicals during Red Scare |
| FDIC | insurance for bank accounts up to $5000 |
| TVA | made dams, jobs, hydroelectric power |
| Federal Securities Act | made sure stock info was correct |
| CWA/PWA | govt provided money to make jobs |
| NIRA | set working hours and prices |
| Social Security | old age insurance, unemployment compensation system |
| Isolationism | America during WWII, disconnected from foreign countries |
| Iwo Jima | brought Japan into easy air range of our bombs |
| Midway | AF, 3-4 US Carriers, we knew the Japanese code |
| The Jungle | book written about meat packing companies |
| Muckrakers | writers who wrote about bad working conditions |
| The Grange | farmers, main enemy: railroads |
| Plessy v. Fergusen | it's okay to have "seperate but equal" |
| Gilded Age | USA 1875-1900, good on outside bad on inside |
| Square Deal | Teddy Roosevelt program |
| Margin Buying | paying small amount for down payment and borrowing the rest |
| Bull/Bear Market | stocks rise/fall |
| New Deal | FDR's plan to end Great Depression |