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- theroy promoted by Fredrick Taylor; held that every kind of work could be broken into series of smaller tasks and that rates of production could be set for each individual task
- Scientific Management
- proposed constitutional amendment
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Group founded by W.E.B Du Bois and other in 1909 to end racial discrimination
- N.A.A.C.P- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- President from 1921 to 1923 (Reb.)
- Warren G. Harding
- Secret society created by former Confererates in 1866 that used terror and viloence to keep Blacks from obtaining their civil rights
- Ku Klux Klan
- group of writers whose works reflected the horrors of the death and destruction of WWI and critized consumerism and superficiality in postwar society
- Lost Gereration
- Production system created by Henery Ford to make goods faster by moving parts on a converyer belt past workers
- Assembly Line
- Religous movement that teaches that the things in the Bible are true
- Fundamentalism
- music combining a variety of musical styles; originated with black musicians in New Orleans and gained jatioal popularity in the 1920's
- Jazz
- complete ban on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol
- Prohibition
- Who are the athlete's of the 1920's?
- Babe Ruth and Jim Thorpe
- When Alber Fall sold all the Navy's oil
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Secretary of Commerce during 1930's era
- Herbert Hoover
- President from 1933 to 1945
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- President Roosevelt programs for helping the U.S economy during the Great Depression
- The New Deal
- Senator during the 30's that said the New Deal was too slow in easing the economic troubles of the nation
- Huey Long
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- Breadlines and Shantytowns
- a noted British economist, many of th New Deal recovery programs were based on therioes of this man
- John Marnard Keynes
- What were sme causes of the depression?
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War debts, foreiners couldnt purchase american goods
the stock market crashed - name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930's after a sever drought struck the region
- "the dust bowl"
- What were some famous novels of the 1030's?
- "Thay sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying"
- New Deal agency created in 1930's to insure bank savings
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C)
- New Deal agency established in 1933; emplaymed yound men on conservation project
- Civilian Conservation Corps(C.C.C)
- New Deal Program made in 1933; built dams and power stations to provide hydroelectric power and flood control to the Tennessee River Valley
- Tennesse Valley Authority(T.V.A)
- created to assist home owners who could not meet their mortgage payments
- Home Owners Loan Corporation(H.O.L.C)
- When Roosevelt wanted to appoint one new justice for each of those 70 or older, up to 6 new justices
- Court-Packing
- Increased tax on rich people
- Revenue Act 1935
- downwaord trend in stock prices
- Bear Market
- upward trend in stock prices
- Bull Market
- belief that success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
- Rugged Indvidualism
- was a major turning point in World War II, and is considered the bloodiest battle in human history and arguably one of the greatest come-backs in military history
- Battlec of Stalingrad
- June 6, 1944, WWII allied invasion of france
- D-Day
- line defenses built by France along its border w/ Germany after WWI
- Maginot Line
- WWII battle in which the Japs. advance to New Guinea
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- WWII battle in which the Allies defeaed the final German offensive
- Battle of the Bulge
- secret French organization who opposed the Germans
- The Resistance
- pldge signed by U.S president Roosevelt and British prime miniter Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war
- Atlantic Charter
- national policy of avoiding involvement in the affairs of other nations
- Isolationism
- pact by U.S and 14 other nationa that outlawed war, except for self-defence
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- led the British in WWII, and pushed German troops out of Egypt and into Libya
- Bernard Mongomery
- Commander of of U.S forces and launched counterattacks on south koean capital
- Douglas MacArthur
- Commander of the German Afrika Korps
- Erwin Rommel
- commander of U.S Pacific Fleet
- Chester Nimitz
- 6 week struggle for control of Key pacific island that resulted in an Allied victory
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- bloody battlr in the Pacific during WWII; resulted in an Allied victory
- Battle of Okinawa
- world 1st offical satelight; launched bt Soviet Un. (1957)
- Sputnik
- president of U.S 1945-1953, 1953 got fired by MacArthur
- Harry Truman
- won election of 1952 and promised to end WWII or Americans
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Surpreme Court ruling that established "separate-but-equal" doctrine for public facilities
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- 1954, declared racial segragation illegal in public schools
- Brown vs. Board of Eduacation
- alliance formed in 949 by the U.S , Western European nations, and other countries to help defend eachother in case of attack
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization(N.A.T.O)
- What made the growth of the Suburbs?
- The population increased because of the baby boom, cities wer become over crowded, it was noisey in the city and dirty
- long power struggle between U.S and soviet Un., waged mostly on economic and political fronts, rather than on battle field
- Cold War
- Eisenhower offered military aid to any Middle Easterm nation seeking help in resisting communist aggression
- Eisenhower doctrine
- What were some satellite countries?
- Soviet Union
- operatiom in which British and U.S planes carried food and supplies to West Berlin, which had been cut off by Soviet blockade
- Berlin Airlift
- U.S foreign policy during the Cold War tht sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communist
- Containment
- U.N that imclude 5 permient memebers and 10 rotating members...Soviet, Britian, France, China, and U.S were perminent
- United Nations Security Council
- U.N that include all member nations
- Untied Nations General Assembly
- British forces withdrew from ______Jewish leaders rapidly proclaimed the new state of Israel
- Palestine
- Law that gave judges the power to end some stricks, outlawed closed-shop agreements, restricted unions' political contributions and required leaders to swear they were not communists
- Taft-Hartley Act
- law that made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
- Civil Rights Act of 1957