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- Foreclosure
- when a person is forced to give up their home or belongings.
- 38th parallel
- the line that sepreates north and south korea
- Tenant Farmers
- people who lived on other peoples lands and worked their fileds for them for the pay of housing and food.
- VE-DAY
- This day occurs on May 18 1945, this is the victory day in europe
- J Robert Oppenheimer
- Oppenheimer worked in a secret laboratory in Los Alamos New Mexico to build the atomic bomb.
- Okies
- people who came from oklahoma during the dust bowl to california for work.
- Speculation
- This si when people thought the stock market was high and doing great even though they weren't
- Fascists
- Fascism is a political movement that consists of a strong controlled goverment headed by a powerful dictator.
- E. Y Harburg
- he wrote the song brother can you spare me a dime
- Aldof Hitler
- Nazi leader of germany
- Flapper
- the modern woman whose liberated lifestyle found expression in dress, hairstyle, speech, and behavior
- TVA
- Tennessee Vally Authority built damns and provided electricity for the areas in the south east vally of Tenneesee.
- Neville Chamberlain
- chamberlain was the british prime minister who met hitler at Munich
- Charles Lindbergh
- the first aviator to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
- Bread Lines
- long lines of men and women who waited for food during the great depression. these lines were set up by churches and community organizations.
- Pearl Harbor
- An airforce base in hawaii that got bombed and destroted by japanese pilots. This led america into war.
- Sinclair Lewis
- he was the first American to win the Nobel Peace prize in literature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Harlem used to be an affluent white suburb in northern Manhattan, but by the end of world war one it became the nations largest and most influential African- American communities
- Franklin Roosevelt
- FD was the president after hoover who helped end the depression with a seris of New Deals. He had a bad case of polio. He was the president to have the longest term in office.
- Zora Neale Hurtson
- A black writer, wrote the book Their Eyes were Watching God during the Harlem Renaissance
- Blitzkrieg
- a german forom of fighting in which the germans bombed with planes, shot with tanks and followed with ground troops. Also called a lighting war.
- Black Tuesday
- occurred October 29, 1929, it is the day the stock market crashed
- The Great Crash
- the day that the stock market crashed and set America (and the rest of the world) into the great depression
- Luftwaffe
- GAF of German airforce
- D-Day
- D-Day was the day of the invasion of Europe , in which a massive attacked was planned to end the war on the atlantic front.
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- This is when Harding gave control of naval oil reserves to the Interior Department, and which was in turn given to two wealthy business men for a bribe of a half-a-million dollars.
- Nisei
- Japanese americans that were sent to intermitent camps.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
- He was the writer who wrote the great gaspy. He ridiculed Americans obsession with money
- Lost Generation
- the young Americans emerging from world war one
- Behaviorists
- psychologists who said that women had the maternal instinct sense but doubted if they were truly
- Pink-collar jobs
- jobs held by women. They were usually low paying jobs like a sales clerk, or secretary
- Chester Nimitz
- Nimitz was the commander of american naval forces in the pacific , he heard that the japaneses were headed to midway in the pacific.
- Bonus Army
- People who demanded their war bonuses. they went to congress to fight it.
- The Scopes Trial
- the scopes trial was a trial that began because john scopes illegally taught evolution in the classrooms
- Joesph Stalin
- Stalin was the communist leader of Russia
- Thomas Edison
- invented the electric light bulb and many other technological marvels
- Hiroshima
- The first japanese city were the first atomic bomb was dropped little boy
- Brotherhood of sleeping car porters
- A workers union composed of mostly African Americans. Was founded by A. Philip Randolph
- Nazi Party
- The nazi party believed in extreme nationalism , racism, and national expansion.
- The Blitz
- The blitz was a long german raid againest egland that occured at night.
- Sheppard Towner Act
- provided federal funds to states to establish prenatal and child healthcare programs
- Benito Mussolini
- Facist leader of Italy
- The Ohio Gang
- Government officials appointed to cabinet offices due to political favors given to Harding
- Margaret Sanger
- a feminist, nurse who promoted birth control because of her experiences of women in the slums who would perform self-abortions, and believed that sex should be enjoyed without the pressures of childbirth
- Fundamentalists
- Fundamentalists were the people associated with the scopes trial that wanted everything to be kept like it was and to interpret the bible literally
- Prohibition
- ban of alcohol
- Billy Sunday
- a professional baseball player, and firm fundamentalist
- Seoul
- Capitol city of south korea
- Enola Gay
- This is the bomber plane who dropped little boy on Hiroshima
- Dust Bowl
- Great dust storms that destroyed the mideastern countryside from over plowing.
- Henry Ford
- introduced the assembly line that made mass production easier
- Warren G Harding
- Republican winner of the 1920 Presidential election; publicly known, but accomplished little
- The New Professional Women
- women of the twenties who were college educated and were fashion designers, educators, and nurses
- Modernists
- The modernists were the fast paced people who wanted to teach evolution
- Nuremberg Trials
- These were the trials in which 23 nations tried the germnay war criminals
- Ku Klux Klan
- A society of white supremacists which hung catholics, jews and blacks. They were revived in the 1920s and had many high ranking officials affiliated with them.
- Normalcy
- for Americans it implied a calming of the wartime madness and a return to the feeling that America was safely insulated and snugly isolated form the chaos of the rest of the world
- Langston Hughes
- He was a poet that captured much of the spirit the movement in a single sentence
- Louis Armstrong
- a jazz trumpet player during the Harlem renaissance
- Penny Auctions
- auctions in which farmers farms were auctioned off very cheaply.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- The presidents wife. She was a strong advertiser of equal rights. She helped FD with many decisions.
- Hoovervilles
- make shift communities set-up by the okies in search of jobs during the depression in the labor camps. Those were named after president hoover.
- Black Cabinet
- Roosevelts secret cabinet that was composed african american members.
- Herbert Hoover
- president of the great depression , before roosevelt. He is often blamed for having caused the great depression.
- Fireside Chats
- Reassuring radio addresses from FDR to the public to let the public know of the nations progress.
- CCC
- Civil Civilains Corps was formed by FDR as a part of the New Deal to give the unemployed jobs.
- The Jazz Singer
- the first motion picture with sound starring Al Jolson
- Hirohito
- Japanese leader who ordered the desruction of pearl harbor.
- Holocaust
- The genocide of over a million people by the germans on concentration camps. 6 million of them were jews.
- Axis powers
- Japan, Germany, and Italy
- Japanese Interment
- This is when the US forced all nesei to move to camps.
- Kamikazes
- Japanese suicide pilots
- General Douglas McArthur
- An american general who commanded th allied forces in the south pacific in WWII
- Manhattan Project
- The building of the atomic bomb
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- An american general who lead Operation Torch in Africa.
- Pyongyang
- Capitol city of north korea
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Book about the great depression , written by john steinback.