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US History
103
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11th Grade
05/22/2012

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21st admendment
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repealed prohibition
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al capone
Definition
US gangster and bootlegger during prohinition
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anarchists
Definition
people who oppose all forms of government
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assembly line
Definition
divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do
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bootlegging
Definition
alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported illegally
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cotton club
Definition
one of the most famous Harlem nightspots
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flappers
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a young, dramatic, stylish, and unconventional woman that had bobbed hair and drank liquor alot
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
victory gardens, head of the FBI, favored ban of alcohol
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immunity
Definition
freedom from prosecution
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isolationism
Definition
avoiding world affairs
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John T. Scopes
Definition
taught about the darwainian theory of evolution that we came from monkeys
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prohibition
Definition
laws banning alcoholic beverages
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reparations
Definition
payments by the losing country in a war to the winner for the damages casused by the war, germany had to pay them
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sultan of swat
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babe ruth
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victory gardens
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herbert hoover
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volstead act
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enforced prohibiton
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binding arbitration
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neutral party would listen to both sides and decide
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dust bowl
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great plains damaged by droughts
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eleanor roosevelt
Definition
promoted voting for blacks and women
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FDIC
Definition
provided gvmt insurance for bank deposits up to a certain amt
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fireside chats
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radio broadcasts made by FDR
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foreclosed
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taing posesions and evicting families due to nonpayment on morgages
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hobos
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homeless and pennyless wanderer who rode rails
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huey p long
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said to share the wealth
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installment plan
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make a small down payement and pay the rest in monthly installments
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margin call
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demanding the investor to repay the loan at once
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new deal
Definition
roosevelts policies for ending depression
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october 29, 1929
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black tuesday
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shanty towns
Definition
makeshift shack on public land
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stock markets
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a system for buying and selling shares of companies
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adolf hitler
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german leader
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appeasement
Definition
policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace
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aryans
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believed by hitler to be a "master race" desired to rule the world
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blitzkrieg
Definition
lightening war
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fascism
Definition
kind of aggressive nationalism
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isolationism
Definition
avoiding internaional problems
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joseph stalin
Definition
new soviet dictator
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luftwaffe
Definition
german air force
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maginot line
Definition
built by french after ww1 along the german border, made of concrete bunkers
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nazi party
Definition
what was the new political party in germany after ww1
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pearl harbor
Definition
attacked by japanese, brough US into ww2
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reuben james
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american destroyer
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jews
Definition
who did hitler blame for germanys defeat in ww1
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winston churchill
Definition
who was the leader of great britain/england
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harry truman
Definition
who was the leader of US in the beginging of ww2
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FDR
Definition
who was the leader of US at hte end of ww2
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aushwitz
Definition
extermination/concentration camp where 1600000 died
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dday
Definition
begining of operation overlord
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dwight d eisenhower
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command of the US forces in france
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e bonds
Definition
sold to US to help pay for war
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enola gay
Definition
dropped an atomic bomb
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genocide
Definition
deliberate and total extermination of a culture
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gestapo
Definition
german gvmt secret police
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higgens boats
Definition
used at battle of normandy (water to land)
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holocaust
Definition
mass killing of jews and other civilians
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jampanese internment camps
Definition
all people of japanese ancestery went there after bombing of pearl harbor
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kamikaze
Definition
suicide japanese pilots
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kristallnact
Definition
night of the broken glass
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hitler
Definition
leade of nazi party
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manhattan projects
Definition
code name for the american program to build an atomic bomb
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normandy
Definition
beaches in france that were attacked on ww2
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operation overlord
Definition
code name for the planned invasion of france at normandy
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oskar schindler
Definition
saved so many jew
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star of david
Definition
weatig a blueand white armband,showed they were jews
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BRINKMANSHIP
Definition
an opponent to backdown
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cold war
Definition
confratational conflct btwn the US and SU
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fidel castro
Definition
cuban dictator
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headstart
Definition
helped disadvantaged preschooled children
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j edgar hoover
Definition
fbi director
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lee harvey oswald
Definition
man accused of killing kennedy
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marshall plan
Definition
gave aid to european nations to reuild their economies
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medicaid
Definition
provided health assistance to low income familes
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medicare
Definition
health insurance for the elderly
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neil armstrong
Definition
first man to walk on moon in 1969
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nikita khrushchev
Definition
leader of SU by 1956
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peace corps
Definition
organization that sent young americans to perform humanitarian services in these countries
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perjury
Definition
lying when one has sworn under oath to tell the truth
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rosenburgs
Definition
new york couple tht were members of communist party, got arrrested and executed bc they were soviet spys
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satellite nations
Definition
the communist countries of eastern europe remained friendly to SU
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warrren
Definition
investigated assasination of jfk
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warsaw pact
Definition
military alliance in eastern europe
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truman
Definition
who said the buck stops here
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berlin wall
Definition
how did the communist keep east berliners in east berlin
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bay of pigs
Definition
when did the cia trained cuban exiles for them to attack and overthrown cuba
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cuban missle crisis
Definition
13 days when the US was concerned with the missles located in cuba pointed at US
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domino theory
Definition
belief that if vietnam fell to communism, so would the other nations of southeast asia
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freedom riders
Definition
protest the soueths refusal to integrate bus terminals
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ho chi minh
Definition
organized guerilla army
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james meredith
Definition
applied for a transfer to ole miss
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linda brown
Definition
denied admission to her neighborhood school bc of her race
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malcom x
Definition
a symbol for the black power mvmt
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martin luther king
Definition
was elected to lead the montgomery impreovement assosiation
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my lia
Definition
american troops massacered vietnamese civilians
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pentagon papers
Definition
revealed that many gvmt officials during the Johnson admin. privatley questioned the war whie publicly defending it
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rosa parks
Definition
got arrested for trying to sit in front the bus
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saigon
Definition
south vietnams capital that got remae ho chi minh city
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vietminh
Definition
organized by ho chi minh. natinaflist group that united both commmunists and noncommunists in the struggle to expel the japanese forces
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vietnaminzation
Definition
gradual withdrawl of US
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engel vs vitale
Definition
prayer isnt allowed in public school
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loving vs virgina
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cant ban interratial marriages
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miranda vs arizona
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authorites immdiatly give suspects a four fold warning
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plessy vs ferguson
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seperated facilities could be equal and allowed segration to continue
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brown vs school board of topeka kansas
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linda brown, desegregated schools
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