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American History
Semester 2 review
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11th Grade
05/20/2016

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Term
Legislative
Definition
makes laws
Term
Executive
Definition
enforces laws
Term
Judicial
Definition
interprets laws
Term
Prohibition
Definition
outlawed the sale of alcohol
Term
Speakeasy
Definition
illegal tavern
Term
Bootlegger
Definition
somebody who illegally transported alcohol
Term
Fundamntalism
Definition
someone who interprets the Bible literally
Term
Al Capone
Definition
gangster during the prohibition
from Chicago
Term
Flapper
Definition
woman in the 20s
short skirts
bobbed hair
Term
Charles Lindbergh
Definition
first person to fly solo across the Atlantic
Term
Georgia O'Keefe
Definition
artist of the American Southwest
Term
Hemingway
Definition
most famous writer of the day
Old Man of the Sea
Term
Harlem Renaissance
Definition
flowering of the African American culture
Term
Langston Hughes
Definition
African American poet
Term
Loius Armstrong
Definition
jazz trumpet player
Term
Speculation
Definition
buying stocks in the belief that the prices will go up
Term
Buying on Marging
Definition
borrowing money so you can buy more stocks
Term
Black Tuesday
Definition
the day the stock market crashed
Term
Great Depression
Definition
massive economic downturn of the late 20s and 30s
Term
Shantytown
Definition
shacks people lived in during the Great Depression
Hooverville
Term
Soup Kitchen
Definition
low cost or free food given to needy people
Term
Bread Line
Definition
line of people waiting for free food
Term
Bust Bowl
Definition
drought on the Great Plains
topsoil blew away
Term
Herbert Hoover
Definition
President that got us into the Great Depression
Term
FDR
Definition
president that helped the US out of the depression
Term
New Deal
Definition
FDR program during the depression
Term
Elanor Roosevelt
Definition
FDR's wife
activist for black people & women's rights
Term
WPA
Definition
Works Progress Administration
New Deal program that provided jobs to the poor
Term
Social Security Act
Definition
New Deal gave money to elderly, unemployed, and widowed
Term
Orson Welles
Definition
War of the Worlds
Actor
Term
Steinback
Definition
author of The Pearl and Grapes of Wrath
Term
Gone With the Wind
Definition
famous movie based on a book written by Margaret Mitchell
Term
FDIC
Definition
insured bank deposits
Term
Tennessee Valley Authorithy
Definition
constructed dams and power plants
Term
Stalin
Definition
Soviet Union leader who killed 30 million
Term
Totalitarian
Definition
government who has complete (total) control over the lives of citizens
Term
Mussolini
Definition
fascist leader of Italy
Term
Facism
Definition
strong military dominated government by a dictator
Term
Hilter
Definition
fascist leader of Germany
killed 6 million Jews
Term
Nazism
Definition
philosophy of extreme nationalism, racism, and military expansion
Term
Winston Churchill
Definition
prime minister of Great Britain
didn't want to appease Hitler
Term
Appeasment
Definition
giving someone something to keep them happy
Term
Blitzkrieg
Definition
lightening war
Term
Charles de Gaulle
Definition
French renaissance leader
Term
Holocaust
Definition
systematic murder of Jews and other groups
Term
Kristallnacht
Definition
Night of Broken Glasse
Term
Genocide
Definition
killing of an entire group
Term
Ghetto
Definition
part of a city where Jews were concentrated
Term
Concentration Camp
Definition
Nazi prison camp for Jews
Term
Axis Powers
Definition
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Term
Allies
Definition
US, USSR, and Great Britain
Term
Lend-Lease Act
Definition
gave weapons to allies on promise of later payment
Term
WAAC
Definition
women that served in WWII as nurses and drivers
Term
Manhattan Project
Definition
building of the Atomic Bomb
Term
War Production Board
Definition
government agency that decides what factories should produce
Term
Rationing
Definition
government decides how much of certain goods people can get
Term
Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
President
US general during WWII
Term
D-Day
Definition
invasion of Normandy beach
Term
George Patton
Definition
brilliant US commander of tanks
Term
Battle of the Bulge
Definition
last German offensive
Term
VE Day
Definition
day the Axis Powers in Europe surrendered
Term
Harry S. Truman
Definition
president that dropped the atomic bomb
Term
Douglas McArthur
Definition
commander of US forces in the Pacific
Term
Chester Nimitz
Definition
leader of the US Navy in the Pacific
Term
Kamikaze
Definition
Japanese suicide pilots
Term
Oppenheimer
Definition
helped design the A-Bomb
Term
Hiroshima
Definition
where the first atomic bomb was dropped
Term
Nuremberg Trials
Definition
sight of the German war crime trials
Term
GI Bill
Definition
government gives home and education loans to veterans
Term
Internment
Definition
confinement or restriction of movement during war
Term
United Nations
Definition
international group formed to keep world peace
Term
Satellite Nations
Definition
countries that surrendered to the Soviet Union and were controlled by them
Term
Containment
Definition
stopping the spread of Communism
Term
Cold War
Definition
time of hostility without violence between the US and USSR
Term
NATO
Definition
Us defense alliance with Canada and Western Europe
Term
Berlin Airlift
Definition
City in Germany was blockaded so the US flies in supplies
Term
Chiang Kai-Shek
Definition
Chinese nationalist leader
went to Taiwan
Term
Mao Zedong
Definition
Chinese Communist leader
Term
Blacklist
Definition
list of people that people are not supposed to work with in Hollywood
Term
Joseph McCarthy
Definition
US senator from Wisconsin that led a communist witch hunt
Term
Brinkmanship
Definition
US policy on the edge of war
Term
CIA
Definition
US agency formed to spy on other countries
Term
Warsaw Pact
Definition
USSR's security alliance with Eastern Europe
Term
Khrushcev
Definition
leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Term
Thurgood Marshall
Definition
first black US Supreme Court justice
lawyer that won Brown vs. Board of Education
Term
Brown vs. Board
Definition
court case that outlawed segregation
Term
Rosa Parks
Definition
wouldn't give up her bus seat
Term
MLK, Jr.
Definition
most influential civil rights leader
peaceful
Term
SCLC
Definition
civil right group formed by MLK
Term
Sit-in
Definition
protest where people peacefully refuse to leave
Term
Freedom Riders
Definition
people that traveled South against segregation
Term
James Meredith
Definition
first African American to attend Ole Miss
Term
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Definition
law that made it easier to register African Americans in the South
Term
Malcolm X
Definition
Muslim civil rights leader
originally believed in separatism
Term
Black Power
Definition
slogan started by Stokely Carmichael to encourage African American pride
Term
Black Panthers
Definition
civil rights organization that had no problem with violence
Term
Ho Chi Minh
Definition
Vietnamese communist leader
Term
Vietminh
Definition
Vietnamese people who fought against the French for independence
Term
Domino Therory
Definition
if one country falls to communism they all will
Term
Vietcong
Definition
South Vietnamese guerrillas
Term
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Definition
trail from North Vietnam and goes to South Vietnam and goes through Laos and Cambodia
Term
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Definition
broad powers to wage war in Vietnam
Term
William Westmoreland
Definition
US commander in Vietnam
Term
ARVN
Definition
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnamese Army
Term
Napalm
Definition
Petroleum based bomb
Term
Agent Orange
Definition
Defoliant used in Vietnam
Term
Dove
Definition
people who produce peace
Term
Hawk
Definition
people that believed in the war in Vietnam
Term
JFK
Definition
President
Assassinated
enforced the civil rights act
started the peace corps
Term
Nixon
Definition
president
scandal
got us out of Vietnam
Term
Watergate
Definition
scandal where Republicans broke into the Democratic headquarters
Term
My Lai
Definition
massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians
Term
Vietnamization
Definition
Nixon's plan to turn over the fighting to the South Vietnamese
Term
Kent State
Definition
anit-war protest where the National Guard shot 4 people
Term
Feminism
Definition
belief that women are equal to men
Term
Counterculture
Definition
young people that rejected mainstream beliefs
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