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- Nathan Bedford Forest
- Slave trader, Confederate general, and leader of the KKK
- COLD WAR
- Tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II (2 words),
- BOOTH
- Actor and Confederate supporter who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
- Law which eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes for persons who had voted before 1867 and their descendants; this meant only white men qualified to vote (2 words)
- JOHNSON
- Lincoln's VP; 17th President; impeached because of his unpopular ideas about Reconstruction and held onto he office by one vote,
- BRADY
- Famous Civil War photographer,
- FITZGERALD
- Author of THE GREAT GATSBY; characters included flappers, bootleggers, and movie makers,
- Antietam
- led to emancipation proclamation
- NIXON
- 37th President; resigned because of the Watergate scandal
- 1941-1945
- US in WW II
- HUNDRED DAYS
- First part of FDR's first term during which Congress passed many New Deal programs (2 words)
- FARRAGUT
- Union admiral who captured New Orleans during the Civil War,
- Korean War
- war between North and South Korea; North supported by the Soviet Union and the South by the U.S. and United Nations troops
- BLITZ KRIEG
- "lighting war"
- FERA
- distributed $500 million in federal grants to local state governments for direct relief to the unemployed
- Gettysburg
- Turning point of civil war
- STONEWALL
- Nickname for Southern general who brought reinforcements to Bull Run; killed at Chancellorsville,
- Battle of the bulge
- Gr. last, desperate attack
- CHAMBERLAIN
- British Prime Minister who made the Munich Agreement with Hitler
- HUAC
- targeted people in the movie industry thought to be communist, part of the 1950's Red Scare
- CONTAINMENT
- U.S. strategy in the 1950's aimed at limiting the spread of communism
- CAPITALISM
- Economic system based on private property and free enterprise
- RUTH
- Greatest baseball player of the 1920's,
- Black Codes
- Laws that limited the freedom of former enslaved people
- BLACK CODES
- Series of laws passed by southern legislatures to control freed men and women and enable plantation owners to exploit African American workers,
- ZIMMERMANN
- German foreign minister who sent telegram urging Mexico to join Central Powers against the U.S. in World War I
- CENTRAL POWERS
- Alliance between Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and Germany in WW1 (2 words),
- RED BARON
- German ace (pilot) in WW1,
- conformity
- Going along with the majority or behaving according to standards and rules of society
- MUSSOLINI
- Italian dictator during WW2
- Rutherford Hayes
- Republican candidate for President in 1876
- ROSAPARKS
- American civil rights activist whose arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (2 words)
- LEE
- American general who refused o Lincoln's offer to head the Union army in the Civil War; successfully led several battles until his defeat at Gettysburg; surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House,
- VERSAILLES
- Treaty that ending World War I that required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations,
- IMPEACH
- To formally charge a government official with wrongdoing while in office
- Truman Doctrine
- U.S. policy to give financial and military aid to countries so they could resist communist influence
- NISEI
- Japanese Americans born in the U.S.
- CCC
- producers of cotton and other crops would store their crops in gov. warehouses and were loaned money
- LUCILLE BALL
- Actress and TV star of the comedy series, I Love Lucy,
- GEORGE
- British representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919,
- SHARECROPPING
- System in which landowners provided laborers with the supplies needed for farming in exchange for a portion of their crops
- KOREAN WAR
- War between North and South Korea in the early 1950's; North supported by the SU and South by the U.S. and the United Nations
- AMNESTY
- Official pardon for crime made against the government
- WILSON
- 28h President; proposed the14-Point Plan which included the League of Nations,
- LEE
- American general who refused o Lincoln's offer to head the Union army in the Civil War; successfully led several battles until his defeat at Gettysburg; surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House
- WASHINGTON
- African American leader and educator who was born into slavery and later became head of Tuskegee Institute for career training for African Americans (Booker T),
- FREEDMENS BUREAU
- Set up to help former slaves adjust to their freedom (2 words),
- BULGE
- Battle in late 1944 where Germans mounted last desperate defense against advancing Allies; more than 100,000 casualties; Marked the end of serious German resistance,
- PRESLEY
- Rock'n'Roll star of the 1950's
- Wilderness
- armies could hardly see each other through the woods
- LANGE
- American photographer who recorded the Great Depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor
- Alger Hiss
- state department official accused of passing military information to the Soviets (first and last names)
- HARDTACK
- Hard, tough cracker eaten by both Confederate and Union soldiers,
- LEND LEASE
- Act in March 1941, which allowed the US to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense (2 words)
- MCCLELLAN
- Union general and candidate for President in 1864,
- Jim Crow
- laws passed in southern states which required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place
- MacArthur
- Leader of the U.S. Troops in Korea (last name)
- JOHNSON
- Lincoln's VP; 17th President; impeached because of his unpopular ideas about Reconstruction and held onto he office by one vote
- Freedom Riders
- Young college students who went to the South in the 1960's trying to get African Americans to register to vote
- 12/7/1941
- Pearl Harbor
- BOOTLEGGER
- Person who smuggled or sold illegal liquor
- SELF DETERMINATION
- Right of national groups to their own territory and forms of government
- ROMMEL
- Commander of Axis troops in North Africa, known as the "Desert Fox"
- BERLIN WALL
- Wall built between East Berlin and West Berlin in 1961(2 words),
- Fair Deal
- Truman's programs which called for new housing and employment projects
- SEC
- regulated stock trades and exchanges and punished dishonest stock brokers and speculators
- ASSEMBLY LINE
- Henry Ford's method to mass-produce cars (2 words)
- Guadalcanal
- 1st major victory over J., after 6mo bitter fighting
- FIRESIDE CHATS
- Informal presidential speeches given by FDR in the 1930's (2 words),
- DUBOIS
- African American educator, editor, and writer; helped found the NAACP,
- MERRIMACK
- Confederate ironclad ship
- HARDING
- 29th President elected in 1920; died in 1923; scandals such as Teapot Dome discovered after his death,
- ZIMMERMANN
- German foreign minister who sent telegram urging Mexico to join Central Powers against the U.S. in World War I,
- LUSITANIA
- British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boat,
- EIGHTEEN
- Prohibition Amendment,
- Nina
- Miss Jane's long-time friend
- LIBERAL
- Someone who favors federal government action to bring about social and economic reform
- NAGASAKI
- Japanese city the second to be hit by an atomic bomb,
- Fort Sumter
- first shots of civil war fired here
- TWENTY ONE
- Amendment that repealed the 18th,
- Beatniks
- poets and writers of the 1950's who resisted the "shallowness and conformity" of the 1950's
- GRANT
- Union chief commander at the end of the war; won battles at Vicksburg, Shiloh, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson; 18th President; elected President in 1868 and 1872,
- 1939-1945
- WW II
- AAA
- New Deal legislation which rented land from farmers in order to raise prices - farmer got rent higher prices and rent money (1933); after 1933 law declared unconstitutional, this legislation in 1938 allotted so much land per farmer in order to keep prices high, taking into consideration demands for product in U.S. and around the world,
- PEARL HARBOR
- American military base in Hawaii,
- ANACONDA
- Name given to the Civil War battle strategy to "squeeze" the South and cut off from the rest of the world
- Ulysses Grant
- President elected in 1868 and 1872
- fifteenth
- Amendment which gave African Americans the right to vote (ordinal number)
- LINCOLN
- 16th President; promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates; issued the Emancipation Proclamation; assassinated in 1865
- suburbs
- residential areas outside the city
- Fitzgerald
- Author of THE GREAT GATSBY; characters included flappers, bootleggers, and movie makers
- LINDBERGH
- Popular hero of the 1920's who flew The Spirit of St. Louis nonstop across the Atlantic,
- Rosa Parks
- woman who initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- PICKETT
- Confederate general famous for his unsuccessful "charge" at Gettysburg
- Joseph McCarthy
- Senator who accused hundreds of American citizens as having communist ties; part of the 1950's Red Scare (first & last names)
- INOUYE
- Japanese American who lost an arm in World War II battle; later became U.S. Senator from Hawaii,
- YORK
- Greatest American hero of World War I (from Tennessee)
- CAPONE
- Crime boss of the 20's
- John Kennedy
- President elected in 1960; assassinated in 1963 (first and last names)
- CCC
- 250,000 immediate jobs for men ages 18-25 and paid them $30 a month; fought forest fines; completed flood control projects
- LINCOLN
- 16th President; promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates; issued the Emancipation Proclamation; assassinated in 1865,
- AXIS
- Alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy
- MIDWAY
- Pacific battle victory here gave Allies control of the \central\ Pacific,
- BESSIE SMITH
- African American blues singer poplar in the 1920's (2 words),
- JIM CROW
- Laws passed in southern states which required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place,
- COPPERHEADS
- Northerners who opposed the Civil War
- FORDS THEATER
- Place where Abe Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 (2 words),
- Okinawa
- USA invades ______ and coporal monthus conquers island
- BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION
- Stated in 1954 that it was unconstitutional to maintain separate black and white schools (5 words),
- DUBOIS
- African American educator, editor, and writer; helped found the NAACP
- PATTON
- American general who was involved in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge; known for his great ability in tank warfare
- EISENHOWER
- Allied commander in WW2 in Europe; helped plan the D-Day invasion at Normandy; 34th President,
- PALMER
- Attorney General who ordered raids on homes of suspected radicals and communists during the Red Scare of the 1920's
- BESSIE SMITH
- African American blues singer poplar in the 1920's (2 words)
- SIT DOWN
- Type of strike where workers continuously occupy the plant and refuse to work until management agrees to their demands
- PERSHING
- Head of the AEF during WW1
- DIX
- Organized large numbers of women to serve as nurses during the Civil War; helped change the prison system nationwide by advocating the development of state hospitals to treat the mentally ill instead of imprisonment
- CHAMBERLAIN
- British Prime Minister who made the Munich Agreement with Hitler,
- Rock'n'Roll
- Musical style based on rhythm and blues that became popular in the 1950's
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Supreme Court case which ruled that "separate but equal" was constitutional
- NATO
- Agreement made in 1949 to stand firm against Soviet military threats, made between the U.S., Great Britain, France, and eight other nations
- Coral Sea
- J. vs. USA clash near australia,naval battle, no clear winner
- DEFICIT SPENDING
- Using borrowed money to fund government programs, like in the New Deal
- KAMIKAZE
- Japanese suicide pilot,
- STALIN
- Dictator of the Soviet Union; led the SU through World War II and created a powerful Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe after the war,
- KOREMATSU
- Japanese American who sued the U.S. government that his civil rights had been violated when he was placed in an internment camp
- GETTYSBURG
- Union victory here was the turning point in the Civil War,
- RUTH
- Greatest baseball player of the 1920's
- GEORGE
- British representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919
- AAA
- improved farm prices by cutting production; gov. rented land normally
- ROSIE THE RIVETER
- Advertising character who symbolized women in war manufacturing jobs
- FARRAGUT
- Union admiral who captured New Orleans during the Civil War
- RECONSTRUCTION
- Process, after the Civil War, of bringing the southern states back into the Union
- HUGHES
- Poet of the Harlem Renaissance,
- Elvis Presley
- Most popular rock'n'roll entertainer of the 1950's; known for his bumps and grinds on stage (first and last names)
- SCOPES
- Tennessee teacher accused of teaching evolution,
- ANTIETAM
- Union victory here led to the Emancipation Proclamation,
- NIRA
- symbol is blue eagle; set up codes of fair competition
- LEAGUE OF NATIONS
- Wilson's plan for an international peace organization (3 words)
- NLRB
- created to settle corporate disputes and run union elections
- NEW DEAL
- FDR's program to revive the country from the Great Depression,
- SEC
- Regulated the way companies could issue and sell securities (stocks); power to punish dishonest stockbrokers and speculators (like Martha Stewart),
- poll tax
- fee charged for voting
- NINETEEN
- Women's suffrage amendment,
- KOREMATSU
- _____ v. United States, upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2,
- WAGNER
- Also known as National Labor Relations Act; set up the NLRB to settle corporate disputes and run union elections; when majority of workers in a plant voted to join a labor union, it became the official representative of the workers,
- PERSHING
- Head of the AEF during WW1,
- Battle of the Marne
- 1918, allies stop Gr. invasion at the marne river
- TOJO
- Japanese nationalist and general; he took control of Japan during World War II; later executed for war crimes,
- NATO
- Agreement made in 1949 to stand firm against Soviet military threats, made between the U.S., Great Britain, France, and eight other nations,
- STEINBECK
- Author of THE GRAPES OF WRATH about Okies moving to California to work in the fields,
- BRADY
- Famous Civil War photographer
- GREAT MIGRATION
- Movement of African Americans to the North to seek jobs in the 1920's and 1930's,
- FASCISM
- Term referring to the extreme nationalism and racism in Italy in the 1930's
- Hooverville
- Shanty town of the 30s
- POLAND
- Country whose attack by Germany in 1939 signaled the start of WW2,
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Supreme Court case which ruled that schools must be integrated, even if they were "equal"
- Jackie Robinson
- Miss Jane's favorite baseball player; first African American to play professional baseball
- Scalawags
- White southerners who supported Radical Reconstruction
- JAZZ AGE
- Term used to describe the decade's (1920's) break from rules and traditions (2 words),
- UNITED NATIONS
- International peace organization established in 1945 in San Francisco (2 words),
- Philipines
- USA invades ______ and, after a 3 day naval battle, win. they severely damaged J. navy, making no longer a threat
- SPEAKEASY
- Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition
- GI BILL OF RIGHTS
- Government program that paid for WW2 veterans' education and housing,
- STALIN
- Dictator of the Soviet Union; led the SU through World War II and created a powerful Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe after the war
- COOLIDGE
- VP who became President after Harding's death; 30th President of the U.S.; known for his honesty and pro-business policies
- HARLEM RENAISSANCE
- Period during the 1920's when New York City's Harlem became an intellectual and cultural capital for African Americans (2 words),
- Space Race
- Competition between the U.S. and the Soviets to be the leader in space exploration
- PATTON
- American general who was involved in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge; known for his great ability in tank warfare,
- PERKINS
- First woman to serve in a President's Cabinet; Secretary of Labor,
- Joe Louis
- African American heavyweight boxing champion; favorite of Miss Jane's
- CONSERVATIVE
- Someone who prefers little government action to bring about social and economic reform
- SUDETENLAND
- Area of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hitler claiming the German-speaking people there were being persecuted,
- GARVEY
- Popular African American leader who proposed a "Back to Africa" movement and started the UNIA which urged African Americans to take pride in their heritage
- FDIC
- insured each bank deposit up to $5000
- LANGE
- American photographer who recorded the Great Depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor,
- FLAPPER
- Young woman in the 1920's who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting
- segregation
- separation of people on the basis of racial, religious, or social differences
- PRESLEY
- Rock'n'Roll star of the 1950's,
- Ida Wells
- African American who led the fight against lynching
- Richard Nixon
- Republican candidate defeated in the 1960 Presidential election; later became first President to resign from office
- CHURCHILL
- British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II,
- TENURE OF OFFICE
- Act that led to Johnson's impeachment (3 words),
- Bank Holiday
- closed all banks until gov. examiners could investigate their financial condition; only sound/solvent banks were allowed to reopen
- Midway
- turning point of pacific war part of WW2
- HEMINGWAY
- Ambulance driver in World War I; author of A FAREWELL TO ARMS and THE SUN ALSO RISES,
- SCALAWAGS
- Southern whites in the Republican party during Reconstruction; term has come to mean "scoundrels" or "worthless rascals"
- U2
- U.S. spy plane shot down by the Soviets
- ENOLA GAY
- B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (2 words),
- SAVANNAH
- Sherman's destination when he left Atlanta,
- TILDEN
- Democratic candidate for President in 1876; lost the election by the Compromise of 1877
- CCC
- New Deal agency that put over 3 million young men aged 18-25 to work on conservation and rural improvement projects- received room. board, and shelter + $30 per month; required to send $25 home to families; organization created in 1938 that allowed farmers to store surplus crops in government warehouses until prices improved; farmers could borrow against the crop and pay off the loan when they sold the crop,
- ROBINSON
- American baseball player who was the first Black in the major leagues,
- IWO JIMA
- Pacific island captured by the Americans in March 1945; commemorated by the US Marine Memorial in DC (2 words)
- iron curtain
- term first used by Winston Churchill to describe the barrier of censorship and secrecy between communist countries and the rest of the wester world
- OPERATION OVERLORD
- Code name for the Allied invasion of Europe,
- MCCLELLAN
- Union general and candidate for President in 1864
- HEMINGWAY
- Ambulance driver in World War I; author of A FAREWELL TO ARMS and THE SUN ALSO RISES
- PICKETT
- Confederate general famous for his unsuccessful charge at Gettysburg,
- KENNEDY
- 35th President elected in 1960; assassinated in 1963 in Dallas,
- Warsaw Pact
- agreement among the communist countries of Eastern Europe in response to the formation of NATO
- SHERMAN
- Union commander who waged "total war" across Georgia
- Tilden
- Democratic candidate for President in 1876; lost the election by the Compromise of 1877,
- RANDOLPH
- Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, made up mostly of African Americans; labor leader who, in 1941, threatened a march on DC protesting discrimination against Blacks in defense industries
- PETERSBURG
- Union siege here in VA lasted ten months; some of the first trench warfare used here,
- BABY BOOM
- Sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate after World War II
- Lucille Ball
- Actress and TV star of the comedy series, "I Love Lucy"
- MUSSOLINI
- Italian dictator during WW2,
- MCCARTHY
- Senator who accused hundreds of American citizens as having communists toes, part of the Red Scare of the 1950's
- WPA
- New Deal organization that built post offices, city halls, recreation buildings, roads, school, etc.; also provided variety of jobs for actors, musicians, writers, photographers, etc.,
- Bill Haley
- Had first big rock'n'roll hit: "Rock Around the Clock" (first and last names)
- HOOVER
- Head of the Food Administration during WW1; 31st President, elected in 1928; failed to deal with effectively with the Great Depression; defeated for reelection in 1932 by FDR,
- Ned
- Big Laura's son
- REPARATIONS
- Cash payments by losing country to victorious nations after a war
- SEGREGATION
- Separation of people on the basis of racial, religious, or social differences,
- CORAL SEA
- Pacific battle which stopped Japanese advance on Australia (2 words),
- ANDERSONVILLE
- Civil War prison in Georgia,
- HUGHES
- Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- COOLIDGE
- VP who became President after Harding's death; 30th President of the U.S.; known for his honesty and pro-business policies,
- GRANT
- Union chief commander at the end of the war; won battles at Vicksburg, Shiloh, Fort Henry, and
- Vicksburg
- gave union control of the mississippi river
- NYA
- New Deal agency which gave college students jobs around the campus so they could stay in school; also keep them out of the job market,
- containment
- U.S. strategy in the 1950's aimed at limiting the spread of communism
- THIRTEEN
- Amendment which abolished slavery,
- Hiroshima
- Japanese city the first to be hit by an atomic bomb,
- RED BARON
- German "ace" (pilot) in WW1
- FIFTEEN
- Amendment which granted suffrage to African Americans,
- Jimmy
- Nina's son
- TRENCH WARFARE
- Form of combat in which soldiers dug deep ditches to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions (2 words)
- BOOTH
- Actor and Confederate supporter who assassinated Abraham Lincoln,
- COMMUNISM
- Economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the community as a whole
- ROSIE THE RIVETER
- Advertising character who symbolized women in war manufacturing jobs,
- KENNEDY
- 35th President elected in 1960; assassinated in 1963 in Dallas
- Cold War
- tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union after WW2
- SHERMAN
- Union commander who waged total war across Georgia,
- MANHATTAN PROJECT
- Top secret operation to create the atomic bomb (2 words),
- KKK
- southern society formed in 1866 to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights and to help whites regain power
- baby boom
- sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate after WW2
- PROHIBITION
- Legal ban on alcohol imposed by the 18th Amendmen
- BERLIN AIRLIFT
- Mission during the Cold War in which the U.S. flew supplies to West Berlin after the Soviets blocks roads, rivers, and railroads (2 words),
- FAIR DEAL
- Truman's programs which called for new housing and employment projects (2 words),
- FORD
- American business leader; his moving assembly line could produced cars faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost
- LINDBERGH
- Popular hero of the 1920's who flew The Spirit of St. Louis nonstop across the Atlantic
- FOURTEEN
- Amendment which gave African Americans citizenship in the U.S. as well as in their state,
- NELSON MANDELA?? idk it got deleted
- French premier during World War I; he was the French representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919,
- FLSA
- set up 40 hr. work weeks, established minimum wage, and outlawed child labor
- Reconstruction
- process after Civil War of bringing the southern states back into the Union
- ELEANOR
- FDR's wife; only First Lady with her own statue in DC
- WARSAW PACT
- Agreement among communist nations in response to the creation of NATO,
- BARTON
- Founder of the American Red Cross; she administered care to Union soldiers during the Civil War
- SHILOH
- Important Civil War battle in southwest Tennessee,
- FLSA
- Act that set the normal work week at 40 hours, establish a national minimum wage, and outlawed child labor,
- Pardon
- Amnesty
- SUMTER
- Charleston fort where the first shots were fired,
- Cantigny
- US attacked town of cantigny, captured it, boosted allies morale
- CLEMENCEAU
- French premier during World War I; he was the French representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919
- 38th
- Line of latitude which divides North and South Korea (ordinal number)
- CODE TALKERS
- Navajo troops who used their language to send messages in a code the Japanese were never able to break
- MANASSAS
- Another name for Bull Run,
- BRACERO
- Program that stimulated emigration from Mexico during WW2; US labor agents recruited 1000's of farm and railroad workers
- MCCARTHY
- Senator who accused hundreds of American citizens as having communists toes, part of the Red Scare of the 1950's,
- ROMMEL
- Commander of Axis troops in North Africa, known as the Desert Fox,
- STEINBECK
- Author of THE GRAPES OF WRATH about Okies moving to California to work in the fields`
- FORD
- American business leader; his moving assembly line could produced cars faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost,
- MACARTHUR
- American general; he commanded U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II; later he commanded UN forces in the Korean War; also drove the Bonus Marchers out of DC,
- DAVIS
- President of the Confederacy,
- RED SCARE
- Fear of foreigners and communists,
- W.E.B. DuBois
- African American who believed Blacks should fight segregation; he also felt industrial training would limit them to inferior jobs
- PERKINS
- First woman to serve in a President's Cabinet; Secretary of Labor
- NO MANS LAND
- Area between the trenches in World War I,
- TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
- African American group of pilots who shot down more than 200 enemy planes
- sunbelt
- warmer states in the South and Southwest; population increased significantly here in the 1950's
- ELEANOR
- FDR's wife; only First Lady with her own statue in DC,
- HITLER
- Leader of Germany during WW2
- DUNKIRK
- French port where 300,000 British and French troops were trapped by the Germans; daring rescue by 800 warships, ferries, and fishing boats across the English Channel,
- RATIFY
- Approve
- CHAPLIN
- Actor who popularized the "Little Tramp" character
- MONITOR
- Union ironclad ship
- DUST BOWL
- Nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930's ( 2 words),
- IRON CURTAIN
- Term first used by Winston Churchill to describe the barrier of censorship and secrecy that existed between communists countries and the rest of the world (2 words)
- Radical Republicans
- Republicans who called for a tough approach to Reconstruction; they wanted to punish the South for the Civil War
- Harry Truman
- U.S. President from 1945-1953 (first and last names)
- DAVIS
- President of the Confederacy
- FERA
- Federal agency which distributed 500 million dollars to state and local governments to distribute to the poor and unemployed during the Great Depression,
- EISENHOWER
- Allied commander in WW2 in Europe; helped plan the D-Day invasion at Normandy; 34th President
- VICKSBURG
- Union victory here insured control of the Mississippi River,
- ARMSTRONG
- Important African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpter whose style influenced many later musicians
- KOREMATSU
- Japanese American who sued the U.S. government that his civil rights had been violated when he was placed in an internment camp,
- BORDER STATES
- States - MD, WVA, KY, DE, MO-that allowed slavery but did not leave the Union during the Civil War (2 words)
- Carpetbaggers
- Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to profit financially from the confused and unsettled conditions
- STONEWALL
- Nickname for Southern general who brought reinforcements to Bull Run; killed at Chancellorsville
- Highway Act
- 1956 Congressional action that led to the current interstate highway system
- LEYTE GULF
- Pacific battle fought for control of the Philippines; largest naval battle in history,
- HOOVER
- Head of the Food Administration during WW1; 31st President, elected in 1928; failed to deal with effectively with the Great Depression; defeated for reelection in 1932 by FDR
- GARVEY
- Popular African American leader who proposed a Back to Africa movement and started the UNIA which urged African Americans to take pride in their heritage,
- NIXON
- 37th President; resigned because of the Watergate scandal
- ROSENBERGS
- Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's,
- NORMANDY
- French coast where Allied troops landed on June 6, 1944,
- NRA
- New Deal agency created by the NIRA in 1933 which set up codes of fair competition, minimum wage, 40-hour work week, etc.; declared unconstitutional,
- INOUYE
- Japanese American who lost an arm in World War II battle; later became U.S. Senator from Hawaii
- Thurgood Marshall
- Argued the case for Kansas family at the Supreme Court; later became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court
- Armistice
- agreement to stop fighting
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Federal agency set up to help former slaves
- HARDING
- 29th President elected in 1920; died in 1923; scandals such as Teapot Dome discovered after his death
- POLL TAX
- Fee charged for voting (2 words)
- TRUMAN DOCTRINE
- U.S. policy to give financial and military aid to countries so they could resist communism,
- NYA
- employed college students to grade papers, do chores, and other jobs on campus
- Berlin Wall
- Wall built in 1961 between East Berlin and West Berlin
- ROSA PARKS
- American civil rights activist whose arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (2 words),
- RANDOLPH
- Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, made up mostly of African Americans; labor leader who, in 1941, threatened a march on DC protesting discrimination against Blacks in defense industries,
- DOGFIGHTS
- "Duels in the Sky"
- TOJO
- Japanese nationalist and general; he took control of Japan during World War II; later executed for war crimes
- ROBINSON
- American baseball player who was the first Black in the major leagues
- PLESSY VS FERGUSON
- Supreme Court case which ruled that \separate but equal\ was constitutional,
- ROSENBERGS
- Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's
- Chancellorsville
- battle in Va, CSA won but lost stonewall jackson
- BIG FOUR
- Term to describe the major representatives at the peace conference after World War I
- CARPET BAGGERS
- Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to profit financially from the confused and unsettled conditions
- KKK
- Southern society formed in 1866 to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights and to help whites regain power; revised in the 1920's to terrorize foreigners, Catholics, Jews, etc.,
- RATIONING
- Distribution of scarce resources and products
- TEAPOT DOME
- Scandal during the Harding administration,
- 1914-1918
- WW I
- SOCIAL SECURITY
- Act that provided unemployment insurance and old-age insurance; paid partly by employer and partly by the employee did not cover farm workers and domestic workers,
- Social Security Act
- provided unemployed insurance and old age pension
- TRUMAN
- Elected Vice president in 1944; 33rd President, after FDR's death; led the U.S. through the end of World War II and beginning of the Cold War,
- MARSHALL PLAN
- Program after World War II to help boost the economies of European nations (2 words),
- Tenure of Office
- Act that led to Johnson's impeachment
- U BOAT
- German submarine,
- TVA
- Federal agency established in 933 to develop water-power resources in the Tennessee River valley,
- WILSON
- 28h President; proposed the14-Point Plan which included the League of Nations
- ISLAND HOPPING
- Strategy in the Pacific; attacking and capturing certain key islands and then using these as bases for leapfrogging to others, moving closer and closer to the Philippines and then Japan,
- TVA
- jobs for unemployed; cheap electricity; flood control; recreation opportunities
- ON MARGIN
- Buy stock by paying 10% of the stock price and borrowing the rest,
- Scopes
- Tennessee teacher accused of teaching evolution
- share cropping
- agricultural plan developed in the South after the Civil War; landowner provided tenant with house, tools, etc. in exchange for a "share" of the crop
- BLUE EAGLE
- Symbol of the NRA,
- FDIC
- Insured each bank deposit up to $5,000,
- Grandfather Clause
- Law which eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes for persons who had voted before 1867 and their descendants
- NAZI
- Hitler's political party,
- DIX
- Organized large numbers of women to serve as nurses during the Civil War; helped change the prison system nationwide by advocating the development of state hospitals to treat the mentally ill instead of imprisonment,
- TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
- African American group of pilots who shot down more than 200 enemy planes,
- fourteenth
- Amendment which gave African Americans citizenship
- Lucille Ball
- popular TV comedian of the 1950's; "I Love Lucy" (first and last names)
- NATIONALISM
- Pride in one's country, culture, ethnic group, etc.
- RICHMOND
- Confederate capital,
- 2nd battle of the Marne
- turning point of WW1
- HITLER
- Leader of Germany during WW2,
- EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
- Order issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in those areas in rebellion (2 words),
- Levitt
- Built a housing development with over 17,000 homes on Long Island in New York (last name)
- Eisenhower
- President from 1953-1961 (last name)
- BARTON
- Founder of the American Red Cross; she administered care to Union soldiers during the Civil War,
- TRUMAN
- Elected Vice president in 1944; 33rd President, after FDR's death; led the U.S. through the end of World War II and beginning of the Cold War
- HABEAS CORPUS
- Right to have charges filed or a hearing before being jailed
- CHAPLIN
- Actor who popularized the Little Tramp character,
- D-Day
- allied invasion of normandy, also known as operation overlord
- Berlin Airlift
- Mission during the Cold War in which the U.S. flew supplies to West Berlin after the Soviets blocked roads, railroads, and rivers
- Arms Race
- competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to develop more destructive weapons
- PALMER
- Attorney General who ordered raids on homes of suspected radicals and communists during the Red Scare of the 1920's,
- thirteenth
- amendment which abolished slavery (ordinal number)
- CAPONE
- Crime boss of the 20's,
- ARMSTRONG
- Important African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpter whose style influenced many later musicians,
- EMANCIPATE
- Set free
- 1861-1865
- Civil War
- Andrew Johnson
- Lincoln's Vice President; first President to be impeached
- First battle of bull run
- First real battle of the civil war, fought in Manasses
- WASHINGTON
- African American leader and educator who was born into slavery and later became head of Tuskegee Institute for career training for African Americans (Booker T)
- Iwo jima
- 1945 USA invades this island and plant flag on mt. suribachi
- Rosenberg
- Couple executed for passing military secrets to the Soviets (last name-not plural)
- YORK
- Greatest American hero of World War I (from Tennessee),
- CHURCHILL
- British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II
- BULL RUN
- First real battle fought outside Washington, DC,
- MACARTHUR
- American general; he commanded U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II; later he commanded UN forces in the Korean War; also drove the Bonus Marchers out of DC
- SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
- Lindbergh's airplane,