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Spring Final
Review for second semester U.S. History final
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History
11th Grade
06/15/2015

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Define the Dust Bowl
Definition
the Great Plains experienced intense soil erosion and dust storms in 1930
-mainly farmers suffered
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Mount Rushmore
Definition
1927 - M.R. started to be built
-Roosevelt's idea in the New Deal - to help build the country
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Hoover Dam
Definition
March 1931- H.D. built. Biggest concrete structure on Earth.
-dam creates Lake Mead which helps CA produce more food than any other states
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Germany
Definition
WWII takes USA out of Great Depression
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Joe Lewis
Definition
Famous black boxer who gave USA hope, he fought against German boxers and Hitlers cruel remarks
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Causes of The Great Depression
Definition
1. Overproduction
2. Unequal Distribution of Wealth
3. Easy Credit
4. Stock Market Speculation
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More Causes of The Great Depression
Definition
1. "Black Tuesday"
2. those who bought their stocks on margin, ended up losing their $
3. Dow Jones - average value of the stock companies
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Federal Reserve
Definition
The Fed is the central banking system of the US created in 1913
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Smoot-Hartley Act
Definition
1930- cut imports in 1/2 - reduce trade w Europe
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Results of Great Depression
Definition
1. recession becomes depression
2. US depression will not end until start of WWII
3. global depression will facilitate rise of fascism, nazism, militarism
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Father Charles Coughlin
Definition
used radio to promote fascist policies and promote anti-Semitism - 30 million listeners
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Governor Huey Long
Definition
tax business, wealth redistribution, socialism
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FDR Background
Definition
39 yrs old - gets Polio and is never able to walk again
-cousin to Teddy Roosevelt
-Governor of NY
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FDR and the Depression
Definition
comes to office in 1932 which was the worst time of the G.D.
-USA has lost confidence in the govt. + banks
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Fireside Chats
Definition
FDR's way to calm the people down over the radio
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Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
Definition
gives all banks days off allowing histeryia pass and to regroup
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The New Deal
Definition
FDR's domestic programs
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FDR's 3 goals with the New Deal
Definition
1. relief to poor
2. recovery (financially)
3. try and prevent something like this from happening in the future
Term
Brain Trust
Definition
guide him, legislation that tells him what laws need to be passed
Term
CCC
Definition
men hired, fed, and paid, to work to enhance nature
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The First Hundred Days
Definition
15 major pieces of legislation are passed
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Second New Deal
Definition
Social Security Act - everyone has one
Wagner Act -gives unions more powers
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Rise of Labor Unions
Definition
increased during the G.D.
Term
Blue Collar Workers
Definition
Republican unions, still around today
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NIRA
Definition
"Sick Chicken Case" court found that executive branch (FDR) had over stepped
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Agricultural Adjustment (AAA)
Definition
raised prices for struggling farmers
Subsidies- $$ from govt. to pay farmers to NOT grow things
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Homeowners Loan Corp. (HLC)
Definition
to refinance home mortgages currently to prevent foreclosure
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Farm Credit Admin. (FCA)
Definition
grants credit through regional banks and local associations
Term
Treaty of Versailles
Definition
Germany faces economic collapse
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Washington Naval Conference
Definition
military conference called by Harding to discuss naval disarment with China, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Britain, Netherlands, and Portugal
Term
Fascism
Definition
people think it's a good idea after they were hit hard by WWI
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Nazism
Definition
more extreme version of Nationalism
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Nye Committee 1917
Definition
convinced millions of people that the bankers who had lent money to European allies had been "merchants of death" and had tricked the country into war
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Neutrality Act
Definition
1935- Outlaws sales of arms
1937- continues sales restrictions
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FDR - Quarantine Speech
Definition
talks about isolating the aggressors to stop aggression
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Chamberlain
Definition
Prime Minister of England
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Cash and Carry
Definition
allowed the British to come to America with cash, buy supplies, and then take them back to Europe
-FDR is trying to remain neutral and not get back into the war
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Beginning of WWII
Definition
starts in 1939 - 2 years before USA gets involved
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Battle of Britain
Definition
Britain bombed and attacked by Germans
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RAF
Definition
Luthuafa planes are out fired
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Lend/Lease Act
Definition
we give British anything they need to survive but British must pay
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Atlantic Charter
Definition
agreement that allows the UN to form
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Definition
brings the US into the war
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Hitler
Definition
chancellor of Germany
-started WWII with the invasion of Poland
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FDR
Definition
elected to get the US out of depression
-goes to congress and asks to declare war on Japan
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Joseph Stalin
Definition
leader of USSR
-leader of communist party
-joined allied side after Hitler invades Russia
-ruled USSR with iron fist
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Mussolini
Definition
fascist - sides with Hitler
-believed Italians were the best
-wanted to create greatness of the Roman Empire
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Churchill
Definition
prime minister of Great Britain
-allied with US
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Emperor Hirohito
Definition
emperor of Japan
-surrendered Japan from the war
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General Eisenhower
Definition
hero of WWII - created D Day
-supreme allied commander of the Europeans
-becomes president of the 1950s (after Truman)
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Mac Arthur
Definition
supreme allied commander of the pacific
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Patin
Definition
famous general
-led operation Torch
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Tojo
Definition
supreme leader of Japan
-planned the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Gobbles
Definition
organized Nazi propoganda
-Hitler's right hand man
Term
When did Pearl Harbor get bombed?
Definition
DECEMBER 7TH, 1941
Term
When does US declare war?
Definition
December 8th, 1941
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Admiral Chester Nimitiz
Definition
commander in the pacific
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Baatan Death March
Definition
78,000 prisoners of war were taken and had to walk to a Japanese prison camp
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James Doolittle Raid
Definition
16 B-25's bombed Tokyo, Japan to lift off US morals
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Battle of Coral Sea
Definition
Japan cut off US supply lines in the pacific by attacking Australia
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Battle of Midway
Definition
turning point of war in Pacific
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Island Hopping
Definition
was the key to winning the war in the Pacific
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Operation Torch
Definition
November 1942 - will take the pressure off Stalin who betrayed Hitler and the Red army in USSR
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Battle of Passerine Pass
Definition
US lost against Rommel
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Convoy System
Definition
set up to protect ships in the Atlantic from the German U-boats
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Casablanca Conference 1943
Definition
allies decide to bomb Germany and invade Sicily and Italy
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Yalta Conference - Feb. 1944
Definition
agreement reached!
-roosevelt and stalin agreed to division of Germany after war
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D-Day
Definition
allies began to prepare to invade France = Operation Overlord
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D-Day (cont.)
Definition
target- region of Normandy
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Kamikazi
Definition
fight to death (Bushido tradition)
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Battle of the Bulge - Dec. 1944
Definition
LAST Germen offensive
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V-E Day - May 8th, 1945
Definition
hitler commits suicide rather than be captured by Red Army who enters Berlin first
NO MORE WAR IN EUROPE
Term
Manhattan Project
Definition
development of the Atomic Bomb
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V J Day - August 15ht, 1945
Definition
victory in Japan, war is over
Term
Cost Plus Contracts
Definition
govt. would pay all the costs to make a product plus a % of the cost as profit for the company
Term
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Definition
loaned companies money to convert war production
Homefront
Term
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Definition
FDR creates this
-1st civil rights agency est. by the federal govt. since reconstruction era
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The Bracero Program
Definition
started in 1942 to bring over 200,000 Mexicans to harvest food
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Liberty Ships
Definition
CHEAPER, EASIER TO BUILD, HARDER TO SINK
-welded instead of riveted
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Navaho
Definition
code talkers
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African Americans
Definition
Tuskegee Airmen
Term
Japanese Americans
Definition
442 infantry Regiment
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Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
Definition
women joined the war in clerical and nurse positions
Term
West Germany
Definition
DEMOCRACY
-US, Britain, and France combined zone into one nation
Term
East Germany
Definition
COMMUNISM
-soviets
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Federal Republic of Germany
Definition
western part of Germany officially became a new nation
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German Democratic Republic
Definition
created by Soviet Union (East Germany including East Berlin)
Term
History of Distrust
Definition
Western Allies had appeased the growing power of Hitler in the hope that he would destroy the Soviet state for them
Term
Yalta Conference - Feb. 1945
Definition
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
-agreed to split Germany into 4 pieces
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Postdam - July 1945
Definition
big three: US, Great Britain, and the USSR met at Potsdam near Berlin
Term
Iron Curtain
Definition
division of Europe between the East and the West
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Truman Doctrine - March 1947
Definition
policy of CONTAINMENT
-OFFICIAL BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR
Term
Cold War Meaning
Definition
-to the US and Western Europe = CONTAINMENT
-to the USSR = SPREADING INFLUENCE
Term
What did the Truman Doctrine propose?
Definition
US would protect any nation from communist aggression
Term
Eisenhower as President
Definition
believed large scale wars were too expensive so a NEW LOOK was needed
Term
New Look
Definition
US couldn't contain communism through small wars
NUCLEAR THREAT
Term
Sputnik
Definition
world's first artificial satellite
Term
Brinkmanship
Definition
the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down
Term
Popular Culture of the 1950's
Definition
-sun belt
-consumer society
-1950's family: BABY BOOM, stay at home moms
-youth culture
-youth subculture emerges
-new era of mass media
Term
Vietnam War
Definition
1964-1973
Viet Cong = North Vietnamese Communists
Term
Ho Chi Minh
Definition
leader of Viet Cong
Term
Ngo Dinh Diem
Definition
SOUTH Vietnam Nationalist leader
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France vs. Viet Minh
Definition
French defeat 1954 at Dien Bien Phu
Term
Kennedy Years
Definition
-has to face losing a nation to communism
-DOMINO THEORY
Term
Johnson takes over
Definition
doesnt want democrats blamed for communist takeover of Vietnam like Truman was blamed for China
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Definition
allows presidents to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against US and prevent further aggression." GAVE WAR POWER TO PRES.
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Johnson's Solution
Definition
-limited war
-strategy = bomb, ask for talks, bomb again
-bloody stalemate ensues
Term
Election of 1968
Definition
1. Hubert Humphrey
2. Richard Nixon
3. George Wallace
Term
Nixon Years
Definition
Nixon Doctrine - Vietnamization
Secret Bombing of Cambodia and Laos
Term
War Powers Act
Definition
reel in presidents by requiring them to inform Congress within 48 hours of sending troops abroad
Term
Nixon believed in...
Definition
"Peace With Honor"
continued to BOMB
Term
Outcome
Definition
anti-war movements
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE UPSET
Term
Civil Rights Movement after 1945
Definition
Discrimination in the US hurt our propaganda battle against the Communists
Term
Jim Crow World
Definition
"separate but equal" facilities = LEGAL
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Out of School and Into the Buses?
Definition
the arrest of Rosa Parks DECEMBER 1955
Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott
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African American Churches
Definition
backbone of early civil rights movement
Term
Little Rock High
Definition
9 black students enrolled in an all white school
-white families were so upset
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The BIG 4
Definition
MLK - SCLC
Roy Watkins - NAACP
Witney Young - National Urban League
James Farmer - CORE
Term
New Frontier
Definition
-higher minimum wage
-increase in spending for education
-help for migrant workers
Term
The Warren Court 1953-1969
Definition
expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power and federal power
"ONE MAN, ONE VOTE"
Term
Kennedy Foreign Policy
Definition
CONTAINMENT
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Assassination -- NOVEMBER 23RD, 1963
Term
The Great Society
Definition
POVERTY, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION
Term
Post Civil War Amendments
Definition
13th- slavery ILLEGAL
14th- everyone is granted equal rights
15th- voting rights for EVERYONE no matter what race or gender
Term
ASSASSINATIONS
Definition
-JFK 1963
-Malcolm X 1965
-MLK April 1968
Term
Race Riots
Definition
begin in summer of 1965
Term
Kenner Commission
Definition
set up by LBJ, blames white society and racism for problems in the inner cities
Term
Chicago Movement
Definition
focus on holding discrimination
HAD LITTLE IMPACT
Term
"Black Power"
Definition
growing tensions between Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Term
Black Panthers
Definition
party led by Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver
Term
Malcolm X
Definition
black muslims/nation of Islam.... advocated black supremacy
Term
1968 Olympics
Definition
athletes raised clenched fists on podium --- highlight of Civil Rights movement
Term
Decline of the Civil Rights Movement
Definition
Vietnam replaces Civil Rights as the liberal crusade
Term
Regents of University of CA vs Bakke
Definition
1978! bars quota system for college administration. END OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Term
Women's Movement
Definition
second great awakening early 1800's WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Term
Suffrage
Definition
19th amendment passage in 1920
Term
SOCIAL PRESSURES
Definition
-early marriage
-babyboom
-stay at home moms
-nuclear family
-media portrayals of gender
Term
Roe vs Wade
Definition
decided a woman with her doctor, could choose abortion in 1st 3 months of pregnancy without restrictions
Term
Title IX
Definition
educational amendments passed in 1972 banned gender discrimination in education
Term
Phyllis Schlafly
Definition
OPPOSED modern feminism
Term
Glass ceiling
Definition
where women rise in a corporation and can see the top but cannot get there
Term
Free Speech Movement
Definition
1964 - led by Mario Savio and started at Berkley
Term
Richard Nixon! AGAIN
Definition
CHECKERS SPEECH - it was about his dog but he isn't going to get his dog back :(
Term
Kitchen Debates
Definition
July 1959 Eisenhower sent Nixon to the USSR
DISCUSSION GOT HEATED AS THEY ENTERED A MODEL KITCHEN EXHIBIT
Term
ELECTION OF 1968
Definition
Richard Nixon narrowly won the election
Term
The 1960's? WHAT HAPPENED?
Definition
it began as an era of optimism and possibility but ended in DISTRUST AND DISUNITY
Term
Southern Strategy
Definition
to pray on the Southern whites
republicans get the democratic votes
Term
Silent Majority
Definition
Nixon campaigned on the "silent majority" - the hard working Americans who paid taxes and desired a restoration of "law an order"
Term
Foreign Policy - Vietnam
Definition
Nixon Doctrine - VIETNAMIZATION
Secret bombing of Cambodia and Laos
War Powers Act
Term
Shuttle Diplomacy
Definition
secret negotiations
Term
Detente Results
Definition
-US/Soviet tensions ease
-SALT 1 - limits nuclear arms
-ABM treaties
Term
Domestic Policy - New Federalism
Definition
system which directed money and power away from the federal bureaucracy and toward states and municipalities
Term
Revenue sharing
Definition
federal govt. gives $$ to local state agencies
Term
Mixes record on Civil Rights
Definition
pro Affirmative Action but fought busing
Term
Daniel Ellsberg
Definition
revealed govt. papers to the press
Term
Stagflation
Definition
when inflation and unemployment rise the economy remans stagnant
Term
What did Ford create?
Definition
WIN (Whip Inflation Now)
Term
Helsinki Accords
Definition
a series of agreements made on European security
Term
Carter: Energy Crisis
Definition
new Cabinet created: The department of energy
Term
Three Mile Island
Definition
a partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor at 3 MILE ISLAND
Term
What happened at the 1980 Olympic Games?
Definition
America boycotts it
Term
Carter's Legacy
Definition
considered one of the WORST Presidents
Term
New Rights and Ronald Reagan!
Definition
dont trust the federal govt.!
want them to keep out of private life/business
WEST ALLIES WITH SOUTH
Term
Political Realignment
Definition
New Deal Coalition
Term
Reagan Coalition
Definition
midwest small towns
wealthiest americans
white southerners
Term
Reaganomics
Definition
kept interest rates high, massive tax cut
Term
Sandra Day O'Connor
Definition
1st FEMALE member of the Supreme Court
Term
William Rehnquist (Supreme Court member)
Definition
conservative head justice
Term
TWO TERMS!!!?
Definition
landslide victory for REAGAN
Term
Star Wars Defense (SDI)
Definition
made weapons that could shoot missiles out of the sky before they reach US shores
Term
INF Treaty
Definition
improved relations with the Soviet Union (beginning of the end of the cold war)
Term
Gorbachev
Definition
could now focus on his own economic and political problems
Term
Berlin Wall
Definition
1987- Reagan makes a speech and said "Gorbachev tear down this wall"
TORN DOWN TWO YEARS LATER IN 1989
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