American St. II Mid-term review
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- V-J Day
- August 15, 1945
- V-E Day
- May 8, 1945
- Scopes Trial
- 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
- appeasement
- policy of giving in to a competitor's demands in order to preserve the peace
- Nazism
- an extreme form of facism shaped by Hitler's fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority
- Fascism
- political philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the nation or and ethnic group, and the supreme authority of the leader over that of the individual
- National Recovery Act (NRA)
- when the sharp decline of industrial prices in the early 1930s had coused many business failures and much unemloyment - this was invented to bolster those prices
- Harlem Renaissance
- african american literay awakening of the 1920s, centered in Harlem
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- federal project to provide enexpensive electric power, flood control, and recreational opportunities to the Tennessee River
- Battle of Stalingrad
- turning point of the war, "carpet bombing"- bombing a large number of bombs in a wide area
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
- established in 1933 to raise farm prices through government financial assisstance
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- insured bank deposits
- Battle of the Bulge
- WWII battle in which German forces launched a final counterattack in the west
- jazz
- used to descibe the 1920s
- Manhattan Project
- secret american program during WWII to develop an atomic bomb
- Sedition Act
- made it illegal to obstruct the sail of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything "disloyal" about the American form of government
- Russian Revolution
- collapse of czar's government in Russia in 1917, after which the Russian monarchy was replaced with a republican government
- D-Day
- June 6, 1944
- League of Nations
- international organization formed after WWI that aimed ensure the security and peace for all its members
- Versailles Treaty "Irreconcilables"
- the senators that opposed the treaty, wanted to impose reservation or restrictions
- Hoover and the Depression
- people blamed him for the Depression - mocked him - "Hoovervilles" were shanty towns with stacks of scrap material
- Prohibition
- a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
- buying on credit
- (installment plan) customer makes partial payments
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- established by Congress in 1933, this program put more than 2.5 million young men to work restoring and maintaining forests, beaches, and parks
- African-American migration
- in 1870, fewer than 1/2 a million of the nation's 5 million African Americans lived outside the South
- Stimson Doctrine
- not recognizing the territory that Japan conquered as Japan
- Battle of Britain
- this was called an intense attack
- reparations
- payment from an enemy for economic injury suffering during a war
- Social Security Act
- system established by the 1935 Social Security Act to provide financial security in the form of regular payments to people who cannot support themselves
- Pearl Harbor
- December 7, 1941
- FDR and Churchill's strategy
- win war in Europe 1st, Pacific 2nd, and secure Africa
- 19th Amendment
- the alliance that worked for suffrage split, weakening its ability to push bills through congress
- Battle of Midway
- 1942 WWII battle between the US and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific
- "codetalkers"
- provided an important secure communications link in several key battles of WWII