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Am History Final 09
Mrs Sudduth's Final Study Guide that could "choke a horse"- mr. binder
| Term | Answers |
|---|---|
| New Deal | Roosevelt's policies for ending the great depression |
| Bank Holiday | closing the remaining banks beofre bank runs could put them out of buisness |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the Great Depression; On the Dime; Got sick with Polio |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Regulate the stock market and prevent fraud |
| National Recovery Administration | Enfored the rules of the NIRA |
| Agriculteral Adjustment Administration | pay farmers not to raise certain livestock and certian crops. |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Commission | FDIC; Guaranteed bank deposits up to $2,500 |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | CCC; employed single men, ages 18-25, for natural resource conservation |
| Committe for Industrial Organization | Coordinate efforts to form unions |
| Social Security act | Create unemployment system, disability insurance, old-age pension, and child welfare benefits |
| Benito Mussolini | FOunded Ital'ys Fascist Party |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet Dictator in 1926 |
| Adolf Hitler | Anticommunist and admirer of Mussolini; Leader of Nazis; wrote Mein Kampf |
| Nye Committee | held hearings to investigate the country's involvement in WWI |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Appeasement | The policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britian |
| Battle of Britain | air battle that lasted into the fall of 1940 |
| Albert Einstein | Brilliant Scientist who revolutionized physicis |
| Nuremburg Laws | took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans |
| Lend-Lease Act | US would beable to lend/lease arms o any country considered "vital to the defense of the US"; |
| Liberty Ship | the basic cargo ship used during the war |
| "Double V" Campaign | African Americans should join the war in effort in order to achieve a double victory- Hitler's racism and US's racism |
| Tuskegee Airmen | African American fighter pilots |
| Douglas MacArthur | General who retreated his troops from Philippens to the Bataan Peninsula |
| Midway Island | Turning point of the war |
| Stalingrad | Defeated Germans in 1943 |
| Victory Gardens | americans planted gardens to produce more food for the war |
| DUWK | an ambphibious truck |
| D-Day | the day of the invasion of Normandy |
| amphtrac | amphibious tractor |
| Napalm | jellied gasoline |
| Manhattan Project | the marican program to build the atomic bomb |
| UN | United Nation |
| Cold War | ear of confrentation and competition between US and Soviet Union |
| Iron Curtain | seperated the communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West |
| Containment | keeping communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic,economic, and military actions |
| Long Telegram | Developed by George Kennan; 5,540-word cable message explaining his views of soviet goals |
| Truman Doctrine | tRUMAN'S SPEECH that asked for $400 million to fight communism aggression in Greece and Turkey |
| Marshall Plan | Sec of State George C Marshall proposed the Europen Recovery Program, or ___, which would give European nations to American Aid to rebuild thier economies |
| Berlin Airlift | For 11 months, cargo planes supplied berliners with food, medicine, and coal |
| NATO | nORTHA aTLANTIC tREATY oRGANIZATION |
| Mao Zedong | China communist forces leader |
| Limited War | a war fought to achieve a limited objective, such as containing communism |
| Alger Hiss | a lawyer and diplomat who had served in Roosevelt's administration, attented the Yalta conference, and taken part in organizing the UN, was named by Whittaker Chambers as a Communist Spy |
| Fallout | radiation left over after a nuclear blast |
| Massive Retalliation | threaten to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force |
| covert | hidden |
| Military-Industrial complex | a relationship developed between the military establisment and the defense industry |
| Franchises | A person owns and runs one or several stores of a chain operation |
| Baby Boom | From 1945-1961 65 million children were born in the US |
| Termination Policy | the fed. government withdrew all official recognition of the Native American geoups as legal entities and made them subject to the same laws as white citizens |
| Flexible Response | allow the US to fight a limited style of warfare |
| Sit-ins | a form of protest |
| Brown v The Board of Education | Decreed segregation in public schools was unconstitutional |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of Nationalist movement in vietnam |
| Geneva Accords | temporarily divided Vietnam allong the 17th Parallel |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | nationalist leader of South Vietnam |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | authorizing the president to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US & to prevent further aggression |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | a sustained bombing campaign against north vietnam |
| Agent Orange | a chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs, turning farmland and forests in to wasteland |
| Ho Chi Minh trail | a netwrok of jungle paths |
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