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TWENTY ONE
Amendment that repealed the 18th,
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Period during the 1920's when New York City's Harlem became an intellectual and cultural capital for African Americans (2 words),
RICHMOND
Confederate capital,
U BOAT
German submarine,
MANASSAS
Another name for Bull Run,
BLUE EAGLE
Symbol of the NRA,
GI BILL OF RIGHTS
Government program that paid for WW2 veterans' education and housing,
TVA
Federal agency established in 933 to develop water-power resources in the Tennessee River valley,
SEGREGATION
Separation of people on the basis of racial, religious, or social differences,
JIM CROW
Laws passed in southern states which required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place,
CORAL SEA
Pacific battle which stopped Japanese advance on Australia (2 words),
WARSAW PACT
Agreement among communist nations in response to the creation of NATO,
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,
EIGHTEEN
Prohibition Amendment,
LUSITANIA
British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boat,
FOURTEEN
Amendment which gave African Americans citizenship in the U.S. as well as in their state,
FLSA
Act that set the normal work week at 40 hours, establish a national minimum wage, and outlawed child labor,
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,
ON MARGIN
Buy stock by paying 10% of the stock price and borrowing the rest,
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,
NATO
Agreement made in 1949 to stand firm against Soviet military threats, made between the U.S., Great Britain, France, and eight other nations,
COLD WAR
Tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II (2 words),
NO MANS LAND
Area between the trenches in World War I,
NAZI
Hitler's political party,
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
BULL RUN
First real battle fought outside Washington, DC,
FORDS THEATER
Place where Abe Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 (2 words),
VICKSBURG
Union victory here insured control of the Mississippi River,
TENURE OF OFFICE
Act that led to Johnson's impeachment (3 words),
PEARL HARBOR
American military base in Hawaii,
NINETEEN
Women's suffrage amendment,
FAIR DEAL
Truman's programs which called for new housing and employment projects (2 words),
ANTIETAM
Union victory here led to the Emancipation Proclamation,
PETERSBURG
Union siege here in VA lasted ten months; some of the first trench warfare used here,
RED SCARE
Fear of foreigners and communists,
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,
MARSHALL PLAN
Program after World War II to help boost the economies of European nations (2 words),
KAMIKAZE
Japanese suicide pilot,
VERSAILLES
Treaty that ending World War I that required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations,
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.,
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,
BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION
Stated in 1954 that it was unconstitutional to maintain separate black and white schools (5 words),
OPERATION OVERLORD
Code name for the Allied invasion of Europe,
GREAT MIGRATION
Movement of African Americans to the North to seek jobs in the 1920's and 1930's,
NORMANDY
French coast where Allied troops landed on June 6, 1944,
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Order issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in those areas in rebellion (2 words),
SEC
Regulated the way companies could issue and sell securities (stocks); power to punish dishonest stockbrokers and speculators (like Martha Stewart),
LEYTE GULF
Pacific battle fought for control of the Philippines; largest naval battle in history,
JAZZ AGE
Term used to describe the decade's (1920's) break from rules and traditions (2 words),
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,
UNITED NATIONS
International peace organization established in 1945 in San Francisco (2 words),
SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
Lindbergh's airplane,
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),
BERLIN WALL
Wall built between East Berlin and West Berlin in 1961(2 words),
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
U.S. policy to give financial and military aid to countries so they could resist communism,
ENOLA GAY
B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (2 words),
NEW DEAL
FDR's program to revive the country from the Great Depression,
SAVANNAH
Sherman's destination when he left Atlanta,
ANDERSONVILLE
Civil War prison in Georgia,
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.,
SUMTER
Charleston fort where the first shots were fired,
FIFTEEN
Amendment which granted suffrage to African Americans,
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,
KOREMATSU
_____ v. United States, upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2,
SHILOH
Important Civil War battle in southwest Tennessee,
TEAPOT DOME
Scandal during the Harding administration,
NAGASAKI
Japanese city the second to be hit by an atomic bomb,
HARDTACK
Hard, tough cracker eaten by both Confederate and Union soldiers,
GETTYSBURG
Union victory here was the turning point in the Civil War,
PLESSY VS FERGUSON
Supreme Court case which ruled that \separate but equal\ was constitutional,
FDIC
Insured each bank deposit up to $5,000,
SUDETENLAND
Area of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hitler claiming the German-speaking people there were being persecuted,
BLACK CODES
Series of laws passed by southern legislatures to control freed men and women and enable plantation owners to exploit African American workers,
DUST BOWL
Nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930's ( 2 words),
CENTRAL POWERS
Alliance between Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and Germany in WW1 (2 words),
Hiroshima
Japanese city the first to be hit by an atomic bomb,
MANHATTAN PROJECT
Top secret operation to create the atomic bomb (2 words),
IWO JIMA
Pacific island captured by the Americans in March 1945; commemorated by the US Marine Memorial in DC (2 words)
FERA
Federal agency which distributed 500 million dollars to state and local governments to distribute to the poor and unemployed during the Great Depression,
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,
POLAND
Country whose attack by Germany in 1939 signaled the start of WW2,
MIDWAY
Pacific battle victory here gave Allies control of the \central\ Pacific,
THIRTEEN
Amendment which abolished slavery,
FREEDMENS BUREAU
Set up to help former slaves adjust to their freedom (2 words),
FIRESIDE CHATS
Informal presidential speeches given by FDR in the 1930's (2 words),
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,

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