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US History II Sem I
Review for the Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dawes Act | a law in 1887 that Americanized native Americans |
| Wounded Knee | 1890 military round up Native Americans, took their weapons. A battle follows and 300 Natives are killed |
| Homestead Act | offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizens who was head of household |
| Bessemer Process | turning raw materials into steel - led to the growth of building / cities / industry |
| Transcontinental Railroad | a rail road line linking the Atlantic and pacific |
| Imperialism | Wealthier, bigger countries taking over smaller countries |
| Seward’s Folly | The purchase of Alaska by Seward, many thought was foolish |
| Annex | to join or take over |
| Yellow Journalism | sensational writing which exaggerates stories to get readers |
| USS Maine | ship blown up in Havana Bay that leads to Spanish American War |
| Spanish American War | 1898 war in Cuba between US and Spanish |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President 1901-1908 - Fought in Spanish - American War |
| Panama Canal | Canal created to promote trade - USA controlled this for their profit |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Taft's plan to invest in other countries to broker peace. If you spend $ in another country than you will have peaceful relations. |
| Ellis & Angel Islands | Ellis = entry port for immigrants in NY Angel - entry port for immigrants in California |
| Melting Pot | idea of USA joining all types of people, religions, languages, etc. |
| Nativism | favoring native born people |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | US Law that did not allow Chinese to come to US unless teacher or tourists - did not want Chinese |
| Tenements | poor slums where many immigrants lived when in US |
| Social Gospel Movement | Movement to help poor immigrants with housing, child care, etc. In exchange immigrants had to follow religious rules. |
| Gilded Age | Time period "plated" in gold - everything seemed wealthy but was not |
| Political Machine | politicians who sought the vote of immigrants by promising housing, jobs, food, etc. |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | Test to get a job - increased qualifications to get jobs |
| Progressivism | movement to improve the lives of the poor by promoting changes in the workplace, politics, and living condidtions |
| Prohibition | movement to end the sale, use, production of alcohol |
| Muckrakers | Journalists who sought out the "muck" to expose to readers. |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 Act to inform public what was in their food and drugs |
| Archduke Ferdinand | Assassinated in 1914 - set off WWI |
| Allied Powers of WWI | US, England, France |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria - Hungary |
| Lusitania | Passenger boat sunk by the Germans, (allied civilians killed) set in motion US joining WWI |
| Zimmerman Telegram | Secret note from Germany to Mexico seeking their help fighting the Americans, forced US to join WWI |
| Submarine Warfare | German tactic used to attack Allies |
| Alliance System | Nations joining together for mutual protection - led to WWI |
| Militarism | building up of military supplies - led to WWI |
| Nationalism | extreme loyalty to country - led to WWI |
| Sussex Pledge | Pledge by Germans not to use their U-Boats to attack passenger ships. Germans broke this pledge. |
| Trench Warfare | WWI soldiers living in the trenches |
| Stalemate | in war - when neither side can advance |
| Selective Service Act | Act to draft (force) young men into service. |
| Propaganda | Printed materials that was aimed at getting support for WWI |
| Woodrow Wilson | President during WWI - proposed League of Nations |
| League of Nations | Wilson's proposal for a world organization to promote peace. US Congress would not join. Led to United Nations |
| Treaty of Versailles | Post WWI Treaty that gave harsh treatment to Germany |
| Reparations | $ forced of Germany to pay after WWI |
| War-Guilt Clause | Guilt forced upon Germany after WWI |
| Flapper | 1920s emancipated women who rejected the formalities of the previous generation |
| Consumer Society | Society that bought a lot of goods / often on credit. |
| Speculator | person who played the stock market in hopes of getting rich |
| Superficial Prosperity | a false sense of wealth |
| Credit | "buy now, pay late" |
| Herbert Hoover | president 1928-1932, during stock market crash, did not believe the gov't should intervene |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | president 1932-45 - during Great Depression - created New Deal - leader during most of WWII |
| The Great Depression | Stock Market Crash + Dust Bowl |
| The New Deal | FDRs approach to solving the economic crisis - numerous new deal programs put people to work |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's wife - social reformer |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans who protested and wanted their pensions because they were so poor. Hoover gassed them |
| Hundred Days | 1st 100 of FDR's presidency - this is when he began his new deal |
| Brain Trust | FDR's closest advisers who helped create the New Deal |
| Deficit Spending | spending money you do not have |
| Dust Bowl | drought in mid-section of US |
| Black Tuesday | Day of stock market crash |
| Totalitarianism | absolute control by the gov't - denies most rights to citizens |
| Fascism | stressed nationalism and placed the state above the individual |
| Nazism | Fascism + racial purity |
| Appeasement | giving a country their demands so they don't attack - practiced by France and England |
| Neutrality Act | 1933 US law that says we are staying neutral |
| Lend-Lease Act | 1941 US law that allowed the US to "lend" weapons to countries that we deemed vital to defense of the US |
| Non-Aggression Pact | Aug 1939 pact between Germany and Russia in which Russia promised allow Germany to invade Poland while they built up their military |
| Axis Powers | Germany - Italy - Japan |
| Allied Powers | US - England - France - Russia |
| Harry Truman | 1945-52 President during end of WWII - drops bombs on Japan |
| Winston Churchill | Allied leader of England during WWII - Battles Germany - needs allied Help |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of Russia during WWII - part of Axis and Allied powers |
| Adolf Hitler | German Fascist leader during WWII - Axis powers |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian leader during WWII - Axis powers |
| Hideji Tojo | Japanese leader during WWII - Axis powers |
| Pearl Harbor | Attacked by Japanese Dec. 1941 - got US into WWII |
| Stalingrad | sept 42-Jan 43 / Germans vs. Soviets - long battles |
| Battle of the Bulge | Dec 1944 - allied advances (bulges through) German lines in France |
| D-Day | June 1944 - 2 million allied troops land in France - Get troops on the ground 300,000 Germans die and 1.1 million Soviets die |
| Blitzkrieg | German military strategy of "lightening war" - Quick, surprise attacks |
| Holocaust | systematic murder of 11million people in Europe |
| Kristallnacht | Nov 9-10 1938, "night of broken glass" - attacks on Jewish businesses |
| Concentration Camps | Work / death camps for those whom Hitler put to death |
| Midway | June 1942 - Allied victory stopped Japanese from getting too close to US |
| Okinawa G.I. Bill | April 1945-June 1945 - Last step before Japan. Allied victory |
| Iwo Jima | Nov 1944 - March 1945 - Island hopping is getting us closer to Japan. Allied Victory |
| Kamikaze | Japanese fighter pilots who conducted suicide missions. |
| Nagasaki | Second city bombed in 1945 after Hiroshima. Led to Japanese surrender. |
| V-E Day | May 8th, 1945 Victory in Europe Day |
| V-J Day | Sept. 1945 Victory in Japan Day |
| Internment | Rounding up of Japanese Americans because of their possible threat to American security. Put into camps in Middle of US. |
| G. I. Bill | Post WWII bill that gave soldiers $ for school, housing $, in efforts to thank them for their service. |
| Hiroshima | First Japanese city bombed in 1945. First use of atomic weapons. Japan did not surrender then Nagasaki is bombed. |
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