US History Final

  1. Buying on Margin
    Paying small percent of stock on down payment and rest later
  2. Election of 1932
    • Republican- Hoover
    • Democrat- Franklin D Roosevelt
  3. Entertainment in the 1930's
  4. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
    Federal corporation created dams and power plants to generate electricity and prevent floods
  5. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
    • Gave people insurance on individual bank accounts
    • Made it so people wouldnt loose money if the bank failed
  6. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
    • Gave work to men aged 18-25
    • Built roads, planted trees, flood control
    • 3 million men joined CCC
    • Got $30 a month
  7. Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
    • Increased the prices and decreased production
    • Farmers were pais to grow less crops
    • If there were less crops being grown people would buy more
  8. National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
    Money was sent to states to create schools and building
  9. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)
    Agency that monitors stock market
  10. Dust Bowl
    • OK, KS, TX, CO, NM, were affected by the dust this
    • Farmers couldnt grow crops
  11. Herbert Hoover
    • Republican
    • Took over after Coolidge
  12. FDR
    • Helped get America out of depression
    • Entered US in WWII
    • Died 4th term
  13. Bank Holiday
  14. Huey Long
    • Tried running against FDR
    • Was new deal suporter
  15. Eleanor Roosevelt
    • FDR's wife
    • Humanitarian
  16. Bonus Army
    WWI veterans that wanted their bonus before economy got worse
  17. Hoovervilles
  18. Okies
  19. War of the Worlds
  20. John Steinbeck
  21. Court Packing
  22. 1st Hundred Days
  23. Second New Deal
  24. American Liberty League
  25. Fascism
  26. Holocaust
    The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe
  27. Anti-Semitism
    Anti-jew
  28. Axis
    Japan, *Italy, Nazi Germany
  29. Allies
    • The countries against the Axis
    • USA, GB, SU, Italy
  30. Blitzkrieg
    • Lightning war
    • Very fast attack
  31. Manhattan Project
    • Creation of the atomic bomb
    • FDR started it
  32. Mein Kampf
    • My strugle
    • Hitler wrote it in jail
  33. Interim Committee
  34. Harry Truman
    • Vice-president for FDR
    • Took over when FDR died
    • Ended war against Japan
  35. Nisei
  36. Pearl Harbor
    • Attacked by Japan
    • Started US in WWII
  37. Island Hopping
  38. D-Day
    • June 6 1944
    • US attacked in France at 5 beaches
  39. Nationalism
  40. Benito Mussolini
  41. Iwo Jima
  42. Hiroshima
  43. Nagasaki
  44. Japanese Internment
  45. Winston Churchill
  46. Douglas MacArthur
  47. Operation Torch
  48. Operation Husky
  49. Second Front
  50. United Nations
  51. Iron Curtain
  52. Truman Doctrine
  53. Containment
  54. Marshall Plan
  55. Berlin Airlift
  56. Korean War
  57. 38th Parallel
  58. Federal Employee Loyalty Program
  59. HUAC
  60. Joseph McCarthy
  61. Red Scare
  62. Conformity
  63. Beatniks
  64. Conglomerates
  65. Franchises
  66. Company Men
  67. Betty Friedan
  68. Elvis Presley
  69. Rock n' Roll
  70. Baby Boom
  71. Suburban Growth
  72. Interstate Highway Act
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  74. Modern Republicanism
  75. Consumer Society
  76. Plessy vs. Ferguson
  77. Brown vs. Board of Education
  78. Little Rock Nine
  79. Emmett Till
  80. Rosa Parks
  81. MLK Jr.
  82. Montgomery Bus Boycott
  83. NAACP
  84. Sit-ins
  85. Freedom Rides
  86. Malcom X
  87. Civil Rights Act 1964
  88. Voting Rights Act 1965
  89. Lyndon Johnson
  90. Jackie Robinson
  91. Thurgood Marshall
  92. Doll Test
  93. Selma to Montgomery
  94. Civil Disobedience
  95. John F. Kennedy
  96. Election of 1960
  97. Lee Harvey Oswald
  98. New Frontier
  99. Warren Commission
  100. Peace Corps
  101. Cuban Missile Crisis
  102. Vietcong
  103. Ngo Dinh Diem
  104. Ho Chi Minh
  105. Domino Theory
  106. Dien Bien Phu
  107. Richard Nixon
  108. Vietnamization
  109. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  110. Tet Offensive
  111. Kent St.
  112. Napalm
  113. Agent Orange
  114. My Lai Massacre
  115. Paris Peace Accords
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US History Final
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US History Final
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