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Corporation Reconstruction Finance: Program that provided aid to struggling banks and other institutions during the Great Depression
New Frontier: the nickname given to President Kennedy's plans for changing the nation.
James Doolittle: U.S. Army officer
Adolf Hitler: Totalitarian dictaor of Germany
Buying on Margin: Buying stocks with loans from brokers
Manhattan Project: top-secret program to build an atomic bomb durin World War II
Malcolm X: Well-known suppourter of the Nation of Islam and black leader.
foreclosure: When a leader takes over ownership of a poverty from an owner who has failed to make loan payments.
Marshall Plan (1947): Plan for reconstruction of Europe after World War II; announced by the secretary of state George C. Marshall of the US.
Brinkmanship/ Massive Retaliation: A startegy that involves countries getting to the verge of war without actually going to war./ The U.S. willingness to use nuclear force to settle disputes.
Baby Boom: A dramatic rise in the birthrate following World War II.
Battle of Midway: (1942) A key naval and air battle between Japan and the United States in World War 2.
Dien Bien Phu: site of a major battle between the French and the Vietminh in 1954; the french lost the battle and control of Vietnam
Federal Reserve System: Nation's Central bank.
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955): a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system in response to the racial segregation of city buses.
Khmer Rouge: Communits who took over Cambodia in 1975.
Hooverville: Makeshift shantytowns that sprung up during the G.D.
Hollywood Ten: Hollywood writers and directors who were thought to be radicals and called before HUAC; they refused to cooperate and were sentenced to short pprison terms.
Benito Mussolini: Italian Fascist leader.
House Un-American Activities Conference (HUAC): Committee formed in the House of Represenatives in the 1930's to investigate radical groups in the US; it later became known to focus on the threat of communism in the United States during World War 2 and the Cold War.
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945): A world war two battle between Japanese forces invading US troops.
Domino theory: a belief that if Vietnam fell to Communists that other countries of Southeast Asia would follow.
Medicare: A health care program for people over 65.
Tet Offensive: A series of major attacks launched by Communist forces in South Vietnam in 1968.
Black Tuesday: Tuesday, October 29th, 1929, the day that the stockmarket crashed.
Mao Zedong: A leader of the Chinese Communists used their opportunity to gain control of large areas, especially in northern China. At the end of WW2, the defeated Japanese had withdrawn from China.
Swing: a type of jazz music popular in the 1930's.
Yalta Conference (1945): Meeting between FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to reach agreement on what to dow ith Germany after World War II.
Freedom Riders: Activists who challenged segregation in bus terminals in the south in 1961.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 32nd president of the U.S.
Woody Guthrie: American singer and songwriter.
Lucille Ball: Actress and star of the television comedy series I LOVE LUCY, one of the most popular programs of the 1950's.
William Westmoreland: American general in the US Army.
Voter Education Project: group founded in 1962 to register souther african americans to vote.
Freedom Summer: a volunteer project in which college students spent their summer vacation in Mississippi, registering African Americans to vote.
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration; agency in charge of the United States programs for exploring outer space.
Twenty-Sixth Amendment (1971): Lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18
De jure Segregation: Segregation by law.
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961: the failed attempt of cuban exiles backed by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban socialist government and economy.
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an international defense alliance formed in 1949.
Enola Gay: the nickname of the American plane that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War II.
Black Power: African American social movement in the late 1960's that advoated unity and self-reliance to adress injustice.
Smooth-Hawley Tariff Act: Extremely high tariff on farm products and manufactured goods.
Father Charles Coughlin: Catholic priest and popular radio broadcaster
Vietcong: military forces of the National Liberation Front, a group that wanted to overthrow the government in Vietnam.
De facto Segregation: Segregation that exists through custom and practice rather than by law.
appeasement: giving in to the demands of uncompromising powers to avoid war.
John Maynard Keynes: British economist.
Geneva Conference(1954): International meeting in Geneva, Switzerland to restore peace in Indochina
Kerner Commission: Committee appointed to study the cases of urban rioting after violence in Detroit in July 1967.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Wife of FDR, social reformer, writer, and diplomat
Civil Rights Act of 1964: Act that signed into law on July 2nd, 1964 that banned discrimination in employment and in public accomedations.
Little Rock Nine: Nine african american students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Postdam (1945): Conference between leaders of the Allies near the end of World War II.
Huey P. Long: Louisana politican and senator
Sunbelt: The Southern and Western portions of the United States.
Voting Rights Act of 1964: Civil Rights law that banned literacy tests and other practices that discouraged blacks from voting.
Barry Goldwater: American politican
Berlin Airlift: A program in which the United States and Britain shipped supplies by air to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade of all routes to the city; lasted from 1948-1949.
Jonas Salk: Scientist who developed the polio vaccine in 1952.
Atlantic Charter: FDR and Chuchill meeting that stated that condemned aggression, affirmed national self-determination, and endorsed the principles of collective security and disarmament.
wolf pack: a submarine tactic in which submarines hunt as a group and attack at night
Sputnik: The first artificial satellite; launched by the Soviets.
sit-down strike: a strike in which workers refuse to work or leave the workplace until a settlement is reached.
Neutrality Act: these laws banned arms sales or loans to countries for loans
Lend Lease Act: allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
Erwin Rommel: German general during World War II
Black Panther Party: A group formed in 1966, inspired by the idea of Black Power, that provided aid to black neighborhoods; often thought of as radical or violent.
Ho Chi Minh: Vietnamese revolutionary leader and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969; he wanted to bring communism to South Vietnam.
Robert McNamara: American buisinesman and public official.
final solution: the nazi party's plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union.
Kristalnacht: A German word for broken glass; an event that occured on the nights on November 9 and 10 in which Hitler's nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews, and nearly 100 jews died.
ICBM: Intercontinential ballistic missiles; guided missiles that could travel thousands of miles and strike targets accurately.
Concentration Camp: a detention site created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians.
Neville Chamberlain: British prime minister
Francisco Franco: Fascist dictator of Spain.
John Foster Dulles: Secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
social security: system for providing pensions for many Americnas age 65 and older.
A. Phillip Randolph: African American union and civil rights leader
Containment: US policy adopted in the late 1940's to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets.
Truman Doctrine (1947): President Truman's pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism.
KimI Sung/ Syngman Rhee: Communist leader of North Korea/ Korean leader who became president of South Korea after WWII and led South Korea during the Korean War.
Ho Chi Minh Trail: a network of paths from north to south Vietnam
Tuskegee Airman: Unit of African American pilots that fought in World War II.
Frances Perkins: 1st American woman to head an executive or cabinet department.
Winston Churchill: british prime minister
Warren Commission: A commission headed by cheif Justice Earl Warren to investigate the asasination of President Kennedy.
black cabinet: group of African Americans FDR appointed to key Government positions; served as unofficial advisors to the president.
Transistor/ Integrated Circuit: Small electrical devices that can be found in computers and other machines./ A computer chip that includes a number of transistors and other electronic components.
SCLC: Southern Christain Leadership Conference; a group formed in Georgia in 1957 to organize civil rights protest activities.
Levittown: A new York town of mass-produced homes, which became a symbol for many similar suburban towns built during the post- World War II years.
Zoot Suit Riots: A series of riots in L.A. California during WW2, soldiers stationed in the city and Mexican youths because of the zoot suits they wore.
Marain Anderson: singer who fought discrimination in the 1930s.
My Lai Massacre(1968): a massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilains by American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Chiang Kai-shek: Are called the so-called Nationalist Government that had fled mainland China for the island of Tawain.
Eisenhower Doctrine(1957): Declared the right of the United States to help, on request, any nation in the Middle East trying to resist armed Communist aggression.
Nikita Krushchev: Leader of the Soviet union during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He and President Kennedy signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, temporarily easing Cold War tensions.
Berlin Wall: a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
Inchon: A port city in Western South Korea on the Yellow Sea; site of major battle in the Korean War.
Dust Bowl: Nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by dought and dust storms in the early 1930's.
Alger Hiss: Former U.S. government official who was accused in 1948nof participating in a Communist spy ring.
Hideki Tojo: Japanese nationalist and general
Haile Selassie: emperor of Ethopia
Battle of Okinawa(1945): World War II battle between Japanese forces and invading US troops.
Iron Curtain: term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginery line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in western Europe during the Cold War.
Joseph Stalin: toatlitarian dictaor of the Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover: 31st U.S. President. 1929-1933. Republican
Rosie the Rivetter: a popular symbol for working women of World War II.
Great Society: the term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration.
38th parallel: Line of latitude that divides North and South Korea.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party: Apolitical party created in 1964 with the purpose of winning seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Pentagon Papers: papers that revelaed that government official's had been misleading the American people about the progress of the Vietnam War for many years.
Dorthea Lange: American photographer who recorded the great depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor.
Fair Deal: Plan proposed by President Truman that included a number of programs in tradition of the New Deal.
GI Bill (1944): Act that helped many veterans make a smooth entry into civilian life by providing money for attending college or for advanced job training.
2nd New Deal: new set of programs in the spring of 1935 including additional reforms, new tax laws, new relief programs.
Thurgood Marshall: American jurist
Fidel Castro: Communist political leader of Cuba
McCarthyism: The name critics gave to Joseph McCarthy's tactic of spreading fear and making baseless charges.
hundred days: (1933) the first hundred days of Franklin Roosevelt's term as President.
Dr. Francis Townsend: New Deal critic who focused on the needs of older Americans
Fireside chat: conversational radio adresses given by FDR
Guadalcanal: a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943)
Battle of the Bulge: World War II battle between Germany and the Allied forces; the German advance created a "bulge" in the Allied battle lines, though the Allies eventually prevailed.
Interment: the forced relocation and confinement of Japanese-Americans to concentration camps.
War on Poverty: set of programs introduced by President Johnson to fight poverty.
James Meredith: Civil rights activist who entered the University of Mississippi after being denied admission because of his race.
Rationing: Limiting the amount of certain product each indivual can get.
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency; Collects intelligence information and takes part in secret actions against foreign targets.
blitzkrieg: a German word meaning "lightning war."
Cash and Carry: allowed arm sales to other countries
Warren Court: A term that refers to the years when Earl Warren served as Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court.
Associative State: term for President Hoover's vision of voluntary partnership between buisness associations and the government.
Henry Kissinger: German-born political scientist
Operation Torch: the code name for the Allied Invasion of North Afirca during World War II
Mohondas Ghandi: Leader of India's struggle for independence from Great Britain; he taught nonviolent resistance, which was later practiced by many civil rights leaders in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964): Congressional resulolution that authorized military action in Southeast Asia.
minimum wage: the lowest wage an employer can legally pay a worker.
Hydrogen Bomb: a nuclear weapon that gets its power from the fusing together of hydrogen atoms.
Interstate Highway System: A network of high-speed roads built to make interstate faster and easier.
Medicaid: A government program that provides free health care for poor people.
Silent Majority: Phrase used by President Nixon to describe people who suppourted the government's Vietnam policies but did not express their opinons publicly.
Vietnamization: a plan to end the Vietnam War that involved turnin over the fighting to South Vietnamese while U.S. troops gradually pulled out.
Richard M. Nixon: 37th president of the United States and vice-president of the United States under President Dwight Eisenhower.
Douglas MacArthur: American general, he commanded U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific during W.W.2 and administered Japan after the war ended.
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
Warsaw Pact: A military alliance established in 1955 of the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe.

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