Term | Definition |
bull market | stock market prices go up |
bear market | stock market prices go down |
deficit spending | new deal=debt after fdr leaves |
welfare state | gov.=in charge of economic security |
new deal | pollocies by fdr to end great depression |
fdic | social security and exchange commision still exist |
tennessee valley authority | builds electricity for tennessee dam |
wpa | gives people jobs |
social security act | takes parts of wages so you can have them when you retire |
stock market crash | started the great depression |
election of 1932 and 1936 | 32-36 fdr won by landslide vs hoover |
hundred days | special sessions of congress |
herbert hoover(depression) | blamed for not ending depression |
fdr(depression) | newdeal and election of 42 |
john steinbeck | grapes of wrath |
bonus army | soldiers who protested for their money back |
bank run | everyone rushed to the bank to save their money |
dust bowl | hurt the great plains |
fireside chats | fdr would talk live on the radio for announcements |
purpose of new deal(3 r's) | relief recovery feform |
appeasement | giving in to keep peace |
rationing | controlling amount of goods given |
internment | forced imprisonment |
genocide | wipe out a race |
lend lease act | involved but not fighting |
selective training and service act | 1st peace time draft |
battle of britain | raf won and had radars |
december 7 1941 | pearl harbor |
june 6 1944 | d day(biggest invasion in history)success |
december 1944 | battle of the bulls |
may 8 1945 | victory in europe |
hiroshima and nagasaki | atomic bombs |
august 15 1945 | japan surrenders |
winston churchhill | leader of britain |
fdr(ww2) | 4x elected but died b4 war was over |
joseph stalin | dictator of russia |
macaurthur(ww2) | general of pacific theater |
munich confrence | metting that determined who got what parts of germany and made peace |
axis powers | germany and japan |
manhattan project | atomic bomb |
cold war | us and soviets compete for world power |
containment | stop expansion of communism |
red scare | americans feared the communists in russia |
black listing | refusing to hire a person |
massive retaliation | use threatsof nuclear war to stop the overall war |
brinkmanship | willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down |
truman doctrine | contain the spread of communism by aiding countries in need |
marshall plan | help aid countries affected by ww2 |
gi bill | lowered intrest rates on loans |
federal highway act | highway that goes through the whole country |
berlin airlift | flew food to berlin during a blockade |
korean war | war btween n and s korea |
u2 incident | a spy plane that was shot down |
truman(ww2) | refussed to let communism spread |
marshall(ww2) | secretary of state |
mac arthur(ww2) | made fun of truman and was fired after reigning 7 yrs in china |
rosenberg couple | spys who were executed |
senator mc carthy | created mc carthyism and accused people of communism |
south korea(seoul) | the usa supports them |
north korea(pyongyang) | soviet satillites(ruled by russia) |
moscow ussr | capital of russia |
satillite nations | small places rulled by ussr |
iron curtain | btween russia and soviet union |
nato | made peace |
warsaw pact | aliance with eastern europe because nato allowed germany to have arms |
huaac | held hearings to find communists |
sputnik | first space shuttle in space |
nonviolent resistence | mlkj believed that peacefullness is the only way |
filibuster | keep talking until rioters leave |
brown vs board of edjucation | ended racial segregation in public schools |
civil rights act of 1964 | outlawed descrimination in house sales and rentals |
central high crisis | 9 black kids who got to go to an all white school |
july 20 1969 | man on the moon with apollo 11 |
khrushchev(brt) | fell from power after cuban missle crisis |
johnson(brt) | signed voting rights act of 1965 |
mlkj | i had a dream speach |
space race | russia vs. usa into space |
great society | lyndon b johnson |
seperate but equal | reversed by the brown vs board of edjucation case |
domino theory | if 1 country becomes communist all the surrounding 1s do the same |
guerillas | warfare |
detente | better relationship with ussr |
executive privilage | tape recording white house meetings |
embargo | u sell to a certain country |
stagflasion | stagnant inflation |
gulf of tolken resolution | ended gulf of tonken |
26th amendment | lowered the voting age |
camp david accords | vacation location for president |
gulf of tolken incedent | what started the vietnam war |
tet offensive | vietmanize new year attack |
election of 1968 | nixon |
my lai massacre | many inocent vietmanize people were killed by accident |
kent state university | 4 students shot on campus |
christmas bombings | promise no war but they lied |
january 27 1973 | paris peace accords signed |
watergate | men working for nixon robbed a federal place |
nixons resignation | about to be impeached |
fall of saigon | n korea was captured |
iran hostage crisis | many americans were taken hostage in iran for 444 days |
ho chi minh | apart of congress and was against communism |
ngo dinhdiem | leader of s vietnam |
rfk | assasinated |
nixon(nam) | resigned |
humphrey | vice president for johnson |
kissinger | head of national security and supreme court |
ford | short presidency |
carter | won on 2nd try against ford |
vietcong | army for vietnam |
ho chi minh trail | laos supply road |
napalm | machine to cut down obstacles in vietnam forests |
agent orange | acid poured on vietnam forests to expose hiding places |
hawks and doves | war and peace |
pow | prison of war |
mia | missing in action |
vietnamization | help vietnambe non communist but we failed |
opec | arabia would export petroleum |