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USH2 final VOCAB
Vocab for history final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The closing of U.S. Banks from March 6-10 1938 in order to open on more sound footing | "Bank Holiday" |
| The price for farm products that gave them the same buying power that they had between 1909 and 1914 | Parity |
| A radio message delivered by FDR in which he gave Americans reassurance during the war | Fireside chat |
| The period between March and June of 1913 during which of much of FDR's new deal legislation was passed by congress | "Hundred Days" |
| Measures designed to provide immediate remedies for economic evils caused by the depression | Relief |
| Measures designed to stabilize the economy during the first two years of the Depression | Recovery |
| Measures designed for long term changes to prevent future crisis | Reform |
| A small group of Reform minded intellectuals who advised FDR and wrote most of the New Deal | "Brain Trust" |
| Spending of public funds beyond the amount of earnings | Deficit spending |
| A budget in which spending is equal or less than income | Balanced budget |
| Permission to use an unlimited amount of money authority | Blank Check |
| Engaging in trivial or useless work | "Boondoggling" |
| Highly centralized political system in which the ruler has complete control and allows no opposition | Totalitarianism |
| attempting to preserve peace by yielding to the demands of an aggressor | Appeasement |
| German for "lighting war" a rapid coordinated attack by land and air forces | Blitzkrieg |
| America's Pacific strategy, involving the capture of bases leading to the possible invasion of Japan | "Island hopping" |
| A totalitarian political system based on an extreme form of nationalism | Fascism |
| The countries located in a north/south line from Berlin to Rome | "Axis" powers |
| Measures designed to preserve resources essential to the war effort by limiting their consumption | Rationing |
| Surrender in which the Victor accepts no terms from the loser | Unconditional surrender |
| Prohibition of all imports and exports | Embargo |
| Japanese term for "divine wind", refers to Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes | Kamikaze |
| To take an area under control by force or legislative act | Annexation |
| glorification of military strenglth | Militarism |
| Post-WWII era of tension between the world's super powers: United States and U.S.S.R | "Cold War" |
| Conflict in which military objectives are determined primarily by political considerations | "Limited war" |
| Policy of preventing the extension of communism to countries were it did not already exist | Containment |
| Image used to refer to the fact that Eastern Europe was dominated by the USSR after WWII | Iron Curtain |
| Doctrine stating any first use of nuclear weapons would be met with an overwhelming military response, "M.utually A.ssured D.estruction" | "Massive Retaliation" |
| Civil rights policy involving the integration of blacks and whites into society | Desegregation |
| Practice of making sweeping unfounded charges against innocent people | "McCarthyism" |
| Movement of whites from the cities to the suburbs in the post war economic boom | "White flight" |
| Belief that the fall of one country to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors | "domino theory" |
| Post WWII increase in the birth rate in the U.S. | "Baby boom" |
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