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final
vocabulary final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Black Tuesday | stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash |
| Hoovervilles | term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by the homeless during the great depression |
| Dust Bowl | Central and southern great plains during the 1930's when the region suffered from drought and dust storms |
| New deal | policy by FDR; pledged to help the poor American public in the depression and he would provide direct aid to those who needed it |
| Court packing plan | FDR planned to add up to 6 new justices to the 9 member Supreme Court after the court had ruled that some of the New Deal legislation was unconstitutional |
| Kellog-Briand Plan | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war |
| Appeasement | policy of granting concessions in order to keep peace |
| neutral | not taking part or giving assistance in dispute of war between others |
| Cash and Carry | made to aid the Allies without involving the United States in war |
| Lend-Lease Act | passed in 1941 that allowed Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the safety of the U.S. |
| Selective Service Act | passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service |
| Arsenal of democracy | term used to describe industry during WWII; outproduced Germany and Japan by almost two fold |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| rationing | government controlled limits on the amounts of certain goods that civilians could buy at wartime |
| Internment camp | temporary place of imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| Korematsu V.S U.S. | trial for Civil liberties; Supreme Court declared interment was legal during wartime |
| Potsdam Conference | meeting of the U.S., Soviet Union, and Great Britain at Potsdam. New Borders and free elections for Poland, Soviet's right to claim war reparations, and Stalin reaffirms war with Japan |
| Cold War | world wide rivalry b/w the U.S and Soviet Union |
| Iron Curtain | term used by Winston Churchill to describe the border b/w soviet satellites and Western Europe |
| Marshall Plan | foreign policy that offered economic aid to western European countries after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | Truman's plan to help nations struggling against communist nations |
| Berlin Airlift | program in which the U.S and British soldiers flew supplies to W. Berlin during the Soviet blockade |
| Containment | policy of keeping communism contained withing its existing borders; to keep from spreading |
| G.I. Bill | eased tensions on the return of WWII Veterans by providing educational and employment aid |
| Fair Deal | Truman's plan to extend the New Deal reforms |
| House of Un-American Acts of comm. | congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the U.s |
| McCarthyism | negative catchword for extreme,reckless charges of disloyalty |
| Baby boom | increase in births b/w 1945 ans 1964 |
| Sputnik | October 4, 1949 soviet's launched this tiny satellite |
| Levittowns | 1949 William Levitt purchased thousands of acres of farmland and sold the building he built there for under $8000 |
| Brown v.s Board of Education | 1954, Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional; went against Plessy v.s Furgeson ruling |
| Rosa Parks | arrested in 1955 for not giving up her seat to a white passenger on the bus; inspired boycotts and became african american member of congress |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | 1955-1956, protest by african americans in montgomery against segregation in the bus system |
| federal highway act | authorized building of highways thru out the nation, biggest public works project in the U.S. |
| peace corps | provide services to developing countries |
| New frontier | kennedey's plan to improve the economy, fighting racial discrimination, and exploring space |
| Great Society | Johnson's goals in the areas of healthcare |
| Berlin wall | dividing wall b/w west berlin and east berlin (Communist)1961 |
| Vietnamization | nixon's plan for a gradual withdrawal of U.S forces as south vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties |
| Détente | diplomacy adopted by nixon to ease tensions b/w the U.S and the soviet Union, and people's Republic of China |
| SALTI | the treaty for the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and the limits on them |
| NYTimes V.S. U.S | Supreme Court ruled against administration, the study revealed that american leaders involved the U.S in vietnam w/o fully informing the public |
| Camp david accords | 1978 agreements brokered by Carter b/w Egyptian and Israeli leaders that made a peace treaty b/w two nations possible |
| three mile island | nuclear accident on march 28, 1979 |
| Iran Contra scandal | political scandal under reagan that involved the use of money from secret arms sales to Iran illegally the Constras in Nicaraguah |
| supply side economics | thory that government should hold the increase the supply of labor and goods to achieve long-term growth rather than increasing demand through gov't spending |
| strategic defense initiative | nicknamed "star Wars" Reagan's plan to develop innovative defenses to guard the U.s. against nuclear missile attacks |
| Iran Hostage scandal | trade of money for 7 american soldiers that were being held |
| Persian gulf war | war fought b/w the U.s and iraq to free kuwait |
| NAFTA | 1994 set as blockade for N. America |
| Globalization | national economics, politics, cultures, and societies mix w/ those of other nations around the world |
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