APUS History Review
A quick review for my exam
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- Democrats
- their philosophy war the stamp of Andrew Jackson, believing the federal government should be limited in power, except to a degree that it worked to eliminate social and economic arrangements that entrenched privilege and stifled equal opportunity.
- Civil Rights Movement
- movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
- Dawes Plan
- A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success.
- Fair Deal
- President Truman's program of social reform, a program that create jobs,build home public and end job discrimination aginast africian americans.
- korean war
- The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
- Wagner Act
- created NLRB to administer Wagner Act; provide employees the right to select a union with exclusive power as the collective bargaining agent, outlaws certain management unfair labor practices.
- Non-Intercorse Act
- US trade with everyone except Britain and France
- Macon's Bill #2
- Trade with either France or Britain, whoever is nicer.
- Manhattan Project
- code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
- Five-Power Compromise
- established limits, gave Japan naval supremacy
- Yalta Conference
- "The Big Three", when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in February of '45
- Harry Truman
- became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)
- Munich Conference
- 1938-Meeting between British,French,and German leaders in which Germany was given control of the Sudetenland in exchange for German leader Hitler's promise to make no more claimes on European territory
- Isolationalism
- A policy of avoiding political or military involvment with other countries.
- Pearl Harbor
- base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter WWII
- Mckinley Tariff
- highest proposed tariff ever proposed to congress
- Kellog-Briand Pact
- Pact of paris, 15-nations to settle conflict and renounce war. Not effective, didn't provide enforcement measures
- National Security Council
- a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security
- Hartvard Convention
- Federalists gang up on US, win the war. Feds dissapear
- Glass-Steagall Act
- established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation
- Neutrality Acts
- in event of war, US exports of military components were to be stalled for 6 months (to stop ships leaving US to transport arms to enemies)
- Federalists
- supporters of the stronger central govt. who advocated the ratification of the new constitution
- New Deal
- The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
- D-Day
- planned June 5th June 6 1944 Germans occupied Normandy France Germans though it would occur at Calais and goal was to liberate Paris
- Marshall Plan
- US gave money to Western Europe to rebuild after World War II, resist communists
- Taft Hartley Act
- 1. outlawed "closed shops and required union leaders to sign loyalty oath 2. required 80 day cooling off period before strike
- joseph mccarthy
- United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
- 21st Amendment
- Repealed prohibition.
- John Maynard Keynes
- English economist who favored increased federal spending to stimulate the economy
- Homestead Strikes
- In 1892, 13 men were killed in a battle between striking steelworkers and strikebreakers at Carnegie's steel plant in Pittsburgh
- Washington Conference
- Was an agreement between the US, England, Japan in 1921 to limit the size of their navy
- Herbert Hoover
- 31st President of the United States, in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
- Whigs
- support parliament, religous toleration, and trading companies and new money professions
- Gibbons vs. Odgen
- Odgen given steamboat monopoly by state. Gibbons given same by Congress. Gibbons won, Congress can overpower