Details Title: 1914-1948 Description: New Deal/ World War I-II Total Flash Cards: 35 Created: 12/09/2007 11:46:11		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional History Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Tennesse Valley Authority Definition provided jobs gave South electricity Term Social Security Act Definition Designed to provide pension to retired Term Emergency Banking Act Definition Overview of Banks Term Nat'l Industrial Recovery Act Definition let laborers unionize set up codes for fair business Term AAA Definition encouraged farmers to reduce production, gave farmers money for not planting on acres Term Security Exchannge Act Definition regulated transactions, protect investors, and prevent a crash, required regulation of stock Term Emergency Relief and Appropriation Act Definition provided relief for jobles, gave money to people to open business Term Revenue Act Definition Graduated Income Tax, "weapon against wealth" Term Wagner Act Definition established National Labor Relation Board gave people the right to create Unions got rid of "red dot" contracts Term Results of New Deal Definition 1. Save Capitalism 2. Saved Democracy 3. Sustained moral of American people 4. Prepared US for WWII 5. Created Safeguards form American people vs. the worst effects of depression Term Brain Trust Definition Roosevelts advisors, well educated, informal, 'Raymond Moley' Term Father Charles Coughlin Definition radio preacher, first supported FDR and new deal, then changed posistion, radical conservative, anti-semetic Term Pack the Court Definition Scheme Roosevelt used to try and add judges to Supreme Court, faced strong opposition, "take away burned of the elders" by replacing judges over 70.5 years old Term Election of '36 Definition Roosevelt wins in a landside opponent Alf Landon only wins Maine and Vermont Term Election of '40 Definition Roosevelt defeat Wendell Willkie to win an unprecedented 3rd term Voters choose to stay with the more experienced canidate Term 1938 Crystal Night Definition German Thugs destroy Jewish shops and synagogoue. Ninety-one Jews were killed. Term Elanor Roosevelt Definition fought for human rights active first ladt, committed to blacks and poor, advisor to the poor Term 1935 Nuremburg Laws Definition Jews can't be citizens, cant vote, or hold office. Also implaced marriage restrictions on Jews Term 1940 Work Camps Definition Jews were taken from their homes and put in work camps. They had their suitcases stolen and made into slaves to "serve the greater good" Term Zyklon B Definition Used by Germans in the gas chambers to exterminate the Jews b/c bullets would be too expensinve Term 1942 Final Solution Definition The elimination of the entire Jewish Race Term Manhattan Project Definition Project of building the Atomic Bomb Originated in Colombia University then Moved to Chicago University where the atom was split, later moved to Los Alamos, N.M. Term Triple Alliance Definition Germany, Austria Hugry, Italy Term Triple Entente Definition France, England, Russia Term Powder Keg Definition 1. Assassination of Arch Duke Frances Ferinand 2. Arms Race 3. Imperialism 4. Nationalism and Social Darwinism 5. Eco. compition, tarrif up 6. Unrealisitc attitudes towards war 7. Real politks- anything goes to get what you want Term Woodrow Wilson's 14 points Definition 1. Freedom of Seas 2. Reduce Armamnets 3. No secret treaties 4. No or low tarrifs 5. Impartial adjustment of colonial claims 6-13. Nat'l self determination 14. League of Nations Term Treaty Of Versailles (1919) Definition 1. Germany had to disarm itself 2. Germany lost the Saar Baelly 3. Par reperatins (33B) 4. Lose all colonies and European possessions 5. Rhineland dimilitirzed- 15 years 6. "Wa Guilt" clause 7. Polish corridor created 8. League of Nations Term Irreconcilibles Definition Led by William Borah, believed that Treatyof Versailles could under no circumstances work Term Reservationists Definition Led by (Rep.) Henry Baot Lodge, who hates Wilson. Him and the Senate Foriegn Relations Committee can stop the Treat from passing. The Reservationists want a loophole from the League of Nation; they dont want to be getting involved in European affairs. Term United Negro Improvement Association Definition Led by Marcus Garvey. Encouraged blacks to go back to Afirca and not to envy whites Term Reasons for Nativism Definition Compitition for jobs Disillusionment of Treaty of Versailles/Bolesivek Revolution Fear the immigrants won't/can't assimilate Term Red Scare (1919-21) Definition Scare of Communism Attorny General A Mitchell Palmer  "Palmer Raids"- arrested Russians and deported them w/o trial Term Sacco and Vanzetti Definition Italian, gun-owning, anarchists, draft-dodgers that were emplyers of shoe factory convicted and executed for murder Term Boston Police Strike (1919) Definition Irish Cops complain of loew wages, gross stations, no pay for testimony or paperwork. Superattendent: White Anglo-Saxon Term Lindbergh Definition Celebrity, flew Spirit of St. Louis across Atlantic, landed in Paris