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Roaring Twenties to the end
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History
Undergraduate 2
06/01/2010

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Term
Marshall Plan
Definition

1948

  • massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild post-war (WWII) Western Europe
  • purpose was to bolster capitalist and democratic governments and prevent communist groups from riding poverty & misery to power
Term

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

 

 

 

 

page 839

Definition

1933 

  • President Franklin Roosevelt providing federal money
  • part of the Hundred Days Congress
  • New Deal public works project
  • to provide cheap electric power, full employment, low-cost housing, and enviromental projects
  • after the Great Depression when many needed jobs and homes
Term
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Definition

1933

during the Depression

Part of the Hundred Days Congress

helped farmers meet their mortgages

 

Term

Great Society

 

 

 

 

page 984

Definition

1964-1968

  • President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)'s term for his domestic policy agenda
  • aimed to extend post-war WWII prosperity to all people (economic, welfare)
  • Medicare (older) and Medicaid (low income) established
Term

Malcolm X

 

 

 

 

 

page 989

Definition
  • believe in black power
  • brilliant & charismatic preacher who promoted black separatism and was against "blue-eyed white devils"
  • appealed to younger black kids
  • killed 1965 by rival Nation of Islam gunmen

 

Term

Tet Offensive

 

 

 

 

page 993

Definition

1968

  • during the Vietnamese Holiday (named for the holiday) breaking the ceasefire
  • North Vietnam attacked American forces in S Vietnam
  • US was the winner, N Vietnam did not succeed in controlling cities for long
  • US learned of the strength of the NV army and also learned that the traditional military fighting tactics didn't work well in the VN jungles
Term

Joseph McCarthy

 

 

 

 

page 950

Definition

early 1950s

  • Republican Senator who accused many of being or supporting Communists & communist ideals
  • "McCarthyism" is a label for the dangerous forces of unfairness & fear that democratic society can unleash
  • backfired for him when he attacked the US Army (he went too far)

 

Term

President Bill Clinton (& wife, Hilary)

 

 

 

 

 

page 1056

Definition

elected 1992/first Baby Boomer Pres.

 on wave of anti-incumbent spirit

  • Soviet Union has collapsed & the Cold War is over/US is superpower
  • created Democratic Leadership Council with other centrist democts
  • New Democrat
  • promised to help the economy & fix welfare (costly)
  • made some missteps (health care, gays in military)
  • terrorism in US (Oklahoma City)

 

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