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History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bull market | stock market prices go up |
| bear market | stock market prices go down |
| deficit spending | new deal=debt after fdr leaves |
| welfare state | gov.=in charge of economic security |
| new deal | pollocies by fdr to end great depression |
| fdic | social security and exchange commision still exist |
| tennessee valley authority | builds electricity for tennessee dam |
| wpa | gives people jobs |
| social security act | takes parts of wages so you can have them when you retire |
| stock market crash | started the great depression |
| election of 1932 and 1936 | 32-36 fdr won by landslide vs hoover |
| hundred days | special sessions of congress |
| herbert hoover(depression) | blamed for not ending depression |
| fdr(depression) | newdeal and election of 42 |
| john steinbeck | grapes of wrath |
| bonus army | soldiers who protested for their money back |
| bank run | everyone rushed to the bank to save their money |
| dust bowl | hurt the great plains |
| fireside chats | fdr would talk live on the radio for announcements |
| purpose of new deal(3 r's) | relief recovery feform |
| appeasement | giving in to keep peace |
| rationing | controlling amount of goods given |
| internment | forced imprisonment |
| genocide | wipe out a race |
| lend lease act | involved but not fighting |
| selective training and service act | 1st peace time draft |
| battle of britain | raf won and had radars |
| december 7 1941 | pearl harbor |
| june 6 1944 | d day(biggest invasion in history)success |
| december 1944 | battle of the bulls |
| may 8 1945 | victory in europe |
| hiroshima and nagasaki | atomic bombs |
| august 15 1945 | japan surrenders |
| winston churchhill | leader of britain |
| fdr(ww2) | 4x elected but died b4 war was over |
| joseph stalin | dictator of russia |
| macaurthur(ww2) | general of pacific theater |
| munich confrence | metting that determined who got what parts of germany and made peace |
| axis powers | germany and japan |
| manhattan project | atomic bomb |
| cold war | us and soviets compete for world power |
| containment | stop expansion of communism |
| red scare | americans feared the communists in russia |
| black listing | refusing to hire a person |
| massive retaliation | use threatsof nuclear war to stop the overall war |
| brinkmanship | willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down |
| truman doctrine | contain the spread of communism by aiding countries in need |
| marshall plan | help aid countries affected by ww2 |
| gi bill | lowered intrest rates on loans |
| federal highway act | highway that goes through the whole country |
| berlin airlift | flew food to berlin during a blockade |
| korean war | war btween n and s korea |
| u2 incident | a spy plane that was shot down |
| truman(ww2) | refussed to let communism spread |
| marshall(ww2) | secretary of state |
| mac arthur(ww2) | made fun of truman and was fired after reigning 7 yrs in china |
| rosenberg couple | spys who were executed |
| senator mc carthy | created mc carthyism and accused people of communism |
| south korea(seoul) | the usa supports them |
| north korea(pyongyang) | soviet satillites(ruled by russia) |
| moscow ussr | capital of russia |
| satillite nations | small places rulled by ussr |
| iron curtain | btween russia and soviet union |
| nato | made peace |
| warsaw pact | aliance with eastern europe because nato allowed germany to have arms |
| huaac | held hearings to find communists |
| sputnik | first space shuttle in space |
| nonviolent resistence | mlkj believed that peacefullness is the only way |
| filibuster | keep talking until rioters leave |
| brown vs board of edjucation | ended racial segregation in public schools |
| civil rights act of 1964 | outlawed descrimination in house sales and rentals |
| central high crisis | 9 black kids who got to go to an all white school |
| july 20 1969 | man on the moon with apollo 11 |
| khrushchev(brt) | fell from power after cuban missle crisis |
| johnson(brt) | signed voting rights act of 1965 |
| mlkj | i had a dream speach |
| space race | russia vs. usa into space |
| great society | lyndon b johnson |
| seperate but equal | reversed by the brown vs board of edjucation case |
| domino theory | if 1 country becomes communist all the surrounding 1s do the same |
| guerillas | warfare |
| detente | better relationship with ussr |
| executive privilage | tape recording white house meetings |
| embargo | u sell to a certain country |
| stagflasion | stagnant inflation |
| gulf of tolken resolution | ended gulf of tonken |
| 26th amendment | lowered the voting age |
| camp david accords | vacation location for president |
| gulf of tolken incedent | what started the vietnam war |
| tet offensive | vietmanize new year attack |
| election of 1968 | nixon |
| my lai massacre | many inocent vietmanize people were killed by accident |
| kent state university | 4 students shot on campus |
| christmas bombings | promise no war but they lied |
| january 27 1973 | paris peace accords signed |
| watergate | men working for nixon robbed a federal place |
| nixons resignation | about to be impeached |
| fall of saigon | n korea was captured |
| iran hostage crisis | many americans were taken hostage in iran for 444 days |
| ho chi minh | apart of congress and was against communism |
| ngo dinhdiem | leader of s vietnam |
| rfk | assasinated |
| nixon(nam) | resigned |
| humphrey | vice president for johnson |
| kissinger | head of national security and supreme court |
| ford | short presidency |
| carter | won on 2nd try against ford |
| vietcong | army for vietnam |
| ho chi minh trail | laos supply road |
| napalm | machine to cut down obstacles in vietnam forests |
| agent orange | acid poured on vietnam forests to expose hiding places |
| hawks and doves | war and peace |
| pow | prison of war |
| mia | missing in action |
| vietnamization | help vietnambe non communist but we failed |
| opec | arabia would export petroleum |
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