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US II History Final
Final Review
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History
11th Grade
06/13/2012

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Red Scare
Definition
Fear of communism
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President Coolidge
Definition
Republican, VP 1920, President 1924, honest, good rep, pro big business, secretary of treasury
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President Harding
Definition
Republican, President 1920 election, capitalist, best people for job but hired crooks, corrupt (bad cabinet)
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Babe Ruth
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1920, 60 home runs in one seaon
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Babe Ruth
Definition
1920, 60 home runs in one seaon
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Scopes Trial
Definition
Evolution vs. Creation, Evolution in education, Evolution lost
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William Jennings Byran
Definition
Defended creation in trial
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1948 Election
Definition
Truman vs Dewey, Dewey won in news, Truman actually wins, surprise votes, speeches in last week of voting
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
African American Culture 1920s
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W.E.B DuBois
Definition
Pro civil rights, wrote "the crisis"
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Langston Hughes
Definition
poet, harlem reniassance
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Clara Bowe
Definition
20s movie actress
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Charlie Chaplin
Definition
20s actor
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Lost Generation
Definition
Soldiers back in 50s from war, adjust to new generation
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Dust Bowl
Definition
Great Plains, drout, winds picks up dry dirt, clouds of dust, 20s
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Henry Ford
Definition
made automobile, assembly line, treated employees well, racist, model-t car
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Rudolph Valentino
Definition
Heartthrob actor 1920s
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KKK
Definition
racist group causing murder and destruction
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FDR
Definition
never nationalized banks, inaugural address stated gov involvement, fireside chats on radio put hope in people, "nothing to fear but fear itself"
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
Dec 7, 1941 - attack by Japanese on Naval Base
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Battle of the Coral Sea
Definition
preventing japan from seizing australia
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Battle of Bulge
Definition
Last effort of germans, US victory
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Stock Pooling
Definition
Adding $ from stocks together, joined investments in stocks
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Stock Market Crash
Definition
Signal the beginning of great depression, Black Thursday (October 24, 1929) Stock prices plummet
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President Herbert Hoover
Definition
ask business to lay off workers + stop cutting salaries, limited gov. action, tax cuts & building projects, DOESNT WORK
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Rugged Individualism
Definition
poor? your own fault, get money yourself, earn your money
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Hooverville
Definition
boxed homes for the poor
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Unemployment in Great Depression
Definition
25%
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Bonus Army
Definition
World War I vietnam gathered in DC demand early cash payment, police shooting, bad for Hoover's rep
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The New Deal
Definition
Emergency Banking Act, Social Sec
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Emergency Banking Act
Definition
FDR inaugurated, declares "national bank", all banks close, can only reopen with his inspection & approval, puts trust back in banks, more $ put in banks
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Social Security Act
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1935, provide general welfare by establishing old age benefits, unemployment, maternity, and the disabled
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US and Japan - China
Definition
USA & Chna 30 yrs free trade under open door policy, japan threatens china, japan invades china
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Rape of Nanking
Definition
rapes and murders by japanese to chinese people
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US Embargo on Oil
Definition
japan allies w/ germany and italy, invade indo-china to expand, us bans trade on oil w/ japan, japan needs oil to survive
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Mussolini
Definition
Italy
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Hitler
Definition
German faschist, killed jews/manipulated his country
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Birth of a Nation
Definition
1st us full length film
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Court Packing Plan
Definition
FDR wants to put more judges on supreme court to get New Deal approved, doesn't work
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Unique Fact FDR
Definition
ran 4 terms
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US Strategy in WWII
Definition
germany before japan
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Cash & Carry
Definition
trade during war- come to US, pick up yourself, pay in cash
NEUTRALITY
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Tojo
Definition
Japanese fascist
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Franco
Definition
Spanish fascist
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Battle of StalinGrad
Definition
in russia, turn germans around in defeat
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D-Day
Definition
operation overlord, eisenhower, june 6h 1944, normandy
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Isolation
Definition
alone, neutral, cut off
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Intervention
Definition
intwined, involved, together
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Executive Order 9066
Definition
FDR - Jap/US citizens taken away to camps during war
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Eugenics
Definition
science of breeding a master race
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Domino Theory
Definition
1 nation falls to a country, all fall
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Lend Lease Act
Definition
lending war materials to other countries, want back at end of war, avoiding loans
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Axis
Definition
Germany, Japan, Italy
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Allies
Definition
US, Russia, GB
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Henry Kaiser
Definition
built ships, libertyship carried cargo and troops, provided daycare for worker's children, low cost health care
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Rosie the Riveter
Definition
poster girl for woman empowement during wwII
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Dec 7 1941
Definition
Pearl Harbor
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Definition
Cities US drops atomic bomb
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Holocaust
Definition
mass genocide of a particular group of people
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Manhattan Project
Definition
atomic bomb plan for japan
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Island Hopping
Definition
attacking each individual island, douglas mcarthur
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What ends the Great Depression?
Definition
WWII
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GI Bill of Rights
Definition
FDR & Truman, soldiers in WWII get free education and other benefits
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Yalta Conference
Definition
Stalin, Truman, Churchill; Nuremburg
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Women during WWII
Definition
filled positions men left behind during war, first time encouraged in work force
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Jackie Robinson
Definition
first black MLB star
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Truman Doctrine
Definition
containment of communism, stop spread
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Cold War
Definition
competition of capitalism vs communism
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Korean War
Definition
South VS North, US in south contain North's communism, china communist, south and north remain capitalist vs communist, mcarthur wanted to nuke full on war, truman says no
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Truman & Civil Rights
Definition
broke military segregation
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Berlin Wall
Definition
1961, west side of germany capitalist, east communist, separation and containment
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Berlin Aircraft
Definition
bring supplies to people in communist germany, make capitalists look like heros
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NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Trade Organization, concern for ALL countries
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"The Great Fear"
Definition
scare of communists in USA
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Joseph McCarthy
Definition
caused scare, accused everyone of being a communist
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Eisenhower warned..
Definition
military industrial complex
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Conformity
Definition
everyone be the same
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"Duck & Cover"
Definition
method used in schools and homes as a defense in the case an atomic bomb would be dropped
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materialism
Definition
self worth valued by materials
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Traditional Roles
Definition
women in home, dad makes money
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Modern Republicanism
Definition
Eisenhower, change for US but no change foreign
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Religious Revival
Definition
"under god" in pledge of allegiance
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Sunbelt
Definition
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the South and Southwest (the geographic southern United States).
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Feminine Mystique
Definition
book about feminism written by Betty Friedan in 1963
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Beatnik Movement
Definition
non conformist, pre-hippies
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Jack Kerouac
Definition
"father" of the beatnicks
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