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- Herbert Hoover
- President when the depression started
- NYA
- National Youth Admin.: Set up job progams for the young people and helped them continue thier education.
- deficit spending
- using borrowed money to fund goverment projects
- Sit-Down Stikes
- when srtiking workers woulkd remain inside the plant sitting down so factory owners could not hire strikebreakers to do the work
- AFL
- American Fedriration of Labor: organized labor unions
- VJ day
- Victory in Japan september 2nd, 1945 treaty signed on S.S. Missouri.
- Iwo jima and Okinawa
- Islands took over in pacific for goal of invading main land japan, the overwhelming amounts of death made it so we weould drop A-bomb
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Man who led US troops in North Africa
- Bonus army
- WWI veterans went to D.C. to get thier bonuses but the national guard came out on them.
- Operation overlord
- code name for D-Day
- FDIC
- Federal Deposit Insurance Company: Protected the money of depositors in insured banks.
- Cold war
- caused when Russia broke promise to turn countries democratic but made them communist
- isreal
- country formed for jewish people created tension with palistan
- WPB
- War productiion board
- New Deal
- FDR's plan to fight the depression and get the economy back on top
- Dust Bowl
- Central part of country many people left for California on route 66 to find not many jobs.
- cuases for dust bowl
- bad soil conservation, no roots holding soil in place, and drought
- PWA
- Public Works Admin.:Created jobs by having people build highways,bridges and other public works
- D-Day
- June 6th 1941, When the Allies(usa,uk,can.) invaded the beaches of Normandie France.
- CCC
- Civilian Conservation Corps:Hired young men to plant trees, build dams, and work on other conservation projects.
- Axis
- Italy, Japan, Germany
- Hiroshima
- first city A-bomb dropped on
- Social Security Act
- Provided workers with unemploymentinsurance and retirement benefits.
- WAC
- women's army corp gave women jobs in war effort
- Blitzkreig
- lighting warfare used by hitler
- dictators
- Mussolini-Italy Hitler-Japan Stalin-Russia
- AAA
- Agricultural Adjustment Admin.:Regulated farm production and promoted soil conservation
- Poland
- where Hitler invaded afterwards england and France declared war
- France
- major allie power Germany took over
- Battle of the Bulge
- Germany's last offensive
- lend lease act
- when usa was nuetral and we would "lend" the allies weapons
- nuremberg trials
- the trilas of top Nazi officials
- NRA
- National Recoverey Admin.: Regulated industry and raised wages and prices.
- Wagner Act
- Protected labors' right to form unions and set up board to hear labor disputes.
- GI bill of rights
- educational and economical help to veterans
- Court packing
- The suprmeme court did not agree with FDR's programs so he trys to add 6 justices to supreme court.
- sicily
- first place America invaded in europe
- Pearl Harbor
- December 7th, 1941 a suprise attack on a naval base in Hawaii by the japanese
- WPA
- Works Progress Admin.:Established large scale national works programs to create jobs.
- Bussiness Cycle
- The cycle of economy Peak(high Point) Contraction(decrease) Trough(low point where we were during the depression) Expansion (going back up) Peak
- buying on the margin
- invesators paid a small part of stocka as dwn payment but borrowed the rest
- austria
- first place Hitler invaded
- Marshall Plan
- gave more than 13 billion to boost economies of europe
- Brain Trust
- the group of rosovelt's smart advisers
- TVA
- Tennessee Valley Authority.:Planned deveploment of the tennessee valley Region
- Fireside Chats
- When FDR would go on radio and explain his polocies the public trusted hi m more becuase he said it in a friendly way.
- bracero program
- hiring of mexicans for much needed jobs during the war
- interment
- the interment of japanese americans during WWII for fear of them being spys
- Election Of 1932
- FDR won
- island hopping
- us by US in pacific strategey of going from small island to small island with the evntual goal of getting to mainland Japan
- United Nations
- formed after war because league of nations was not effective
- Black Tuesday
- October 29, 1929 day of stock market crash
- Battle of Midway
- turning point in war
- zoot suit riots
- When californians and Zoot suiters fought over jobs
- Big 3
- Rosovelt, Churchill, and Stalin
- Doolittle raids
- air bombing strikes over Tokyo
- Nagasaki
- second city A-bomb droppped on
- appeasment
- Letting Hitler invade one country but not any more but when he does we do the same thing
- Nazi Death Camps
- Places set up to kill the jewish people all in poland
- first 100 days
- Relief, Recoverey, and reform or the 3 r's
- FERA
- Federal Emergency Relief Admin.: provided federal money for releif projects for unemployed.
- Kamikaze
- Japanese suicide bombers name after Divine Wind
- Public works projects
- Goverment funded projects to build stuff as roads and dams etc.
- Manhattan Project
- code name for building of A-bomb
- Zoot suit
- long suit worn mostly by mexicnas in California
- speculation
- buying and selling stock on the hope of making easy money
- VE Day
- Victory in Europe May 8th 1945
- REA
- Rural Electrification Admin.:Brought electricity to rural areas.
- Rome-Berlin Axis
- Hitler and Mussolini agreement to be allies
- facism
- Extreme patrioism and nationalism usually linked to racism, italy was the first to have this type of goverment