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1942B - Extra Credit
Term | Definition |
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Causes of Great Depression | Stock Market Crash, bank failures, unbalanced business system, poor distribution of purchasing power, weak economy, and international debt |
Vietnamization | Vietnamization was a new strategy that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. |
Vietnam War Timeline | During the Vietnam War Japan seized French Indochina, Viet Minh was founded, both atomic bombs were dropped, and the first Indochina war began. |
New Deal | A group of government policies created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930's; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for people suffering in the Great Depression. |
McCarthyism | McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. |
SCLC | The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. |
Cold War | The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. |
Bay of Pigs | The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. |
Cesar Chavez | Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. |
The Great Society | The Great Society was a set of domestic programs, whose goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice, in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. |
Saving money during the Great Depression | Budgeting was popular during the great depression, so people would grow their own food, not buy anything that they could not make, and conserve everything. |
The Highway Act of 1956 | The 1956 law declared that the construction of an elaborate expressway system was “essential to the national interest.” |
Korean War | The war, begun on June 25, 1950, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force. |
Freedom rides | A bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities. |
Watergate | Watergate was a major political scandal, which involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee and an attempted cover-up of its involvement, that occurred in the United States in the 1970's. |
Pearl Harbor | On Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked a US naval base, and the United States entered World War II the following day. |
President Truman dropping the Atomic Bomb | On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. |
Manhattan Project | Manhattan Project was the code name for the effort to develop atomic bombs for the United States during World War II. |
WWII and Hitler | Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century because he was the cause of 6 million deaths during what is known as the Holocaust. |
Women and WWII | World War II involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. |
Cuban Missile Crisis | During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. |
President Reagan's presidency | President Ronald Reagan implemented policies to reduce the federal government’s reach into the daily lives and pocketbooks of Americans, including tax cuts intended to spur growth (known as Reaganomics). |
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. |
Reagonomics | The economic policies of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity. |
1950's economic growth in the U.S. | The U.S. economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before. |