Term | Definition |
National Labor Relations Act | federal law that made unions and collective bargaining legal |
Fair Labor Standards Act | legislation that established a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour by 1940 |
Congress of Industrial organizations | labor group formed in 1938 that joined together industrial unions |
sit-down strike | type of strike in which striking workers refuse to work or to leave the factories so that owners cannot replace them |
Southern Tenant farmers union | group formed by tenants, sharecroppers, and farm laborers in 1934 to bring attention to the large problems these groups faced |
Dust bowl | name given to parts of the great plains in the 1930s after a severe drought dried out the region |
Farm Security administration | federal agency created in the 1930s to increase farm ownership by issuing long-term loans at low interest rates |
Indian Reorganization act | legislation that ended land allotment to individual American Indians and allowed some land to be returned to tribal ownership |
black cabinet | group of African Americans who were appointed to significant gov positions by Roosevelt |
regionalist | painters during the 1930s who sought inspiration from regional customs and folk themes |
swing | type of jazz |
Good neighbor policy | foreign policy of promoting better relations with Latin America by using economic influence rather than military |
totalitarianism | political system in which the gov controls every aspect of citizens lives |
blackshirts | group of Italians led by Benito Mussolini that gained power in the early 1920s |
fascism | calls for a strong gov headed by one person and the state is more important than the individual |
Nazis | National socialist party; led by Adolf Hitler |
axis powers | military alliance formed by Italy and Germany in 1936 |
Kristallnacht | "Night of broken glass" Nov. 9, 1938: when the Nazis killed Jews and destroyed Jewish properties |
Neutrality acts | four laws passed in the late 1930s that were designed to keep the US out of international Incidents |
Adolf Hitler | leader of Germany |
Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy |
Joseph Stalin | leader of the Soviet Union |
Francisco Franco | leader of spain |