APUSH 8 Flashcards
Government spending during depression periods and high taxes during periods of boom. (Tax and Spend) These principles were supported by FDR’s “Brain Trust”.
Keynesian Economics
Governor of Louisiana during the great depression he criticized FDR for not going far enough. His “share the wealth” program demanded all incomes exceeding $1 million be confiscated.
Huey Long
Legislative programs focusing on REFORM begun by FDR in 1935 when the first attempt to end the depression failed.
Second New Deal
Passed by new Dealers, this granted labor the right to organize, and use collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Act established a gov’t board to ensure democratic elections in Unions.
Wagner Act (NLR Act)
2nd New Deal reform measures that outlawed child labor, established a minimum wage, and a 40 hour work week.
Fair Labor Standards Act
Part of the New Deal’s foreign policy which aimed at strengthening U.S. ties with Latin America.
Good Neighbor Policy
Prior to Lend-Lease, FDR’s policy of supplying Great Britain and easing U.S non-interventionist fears of war, while violating the neutrality acts.
Cash and Carry Policy
Passed by congress during WWII it provided money for veterans to adjust to post war life.
GI Bill of Rights
The unofficial U.S. foreign policy adopted after WWI and lasted until the U.S. was drawn into WWII.
Isolationism
June 6, 1944 date of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII opening up a second front in the battle against Germany.
D-Day
Signed by FDR authorizing the War Department to force Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes and hold them in relocation camps for the remainder of the war.
Japanese Internment/
Executive Order 9066
The most expensive and important U.S. research project during WWII, it developed the A-bomb.
Manhattan Project
Truman’s domestic program to head off a post war depression and address important social issues facing the nation.
Fair Deal
The surge in the American birthrate between 1945-1965 which peaked in 1957 with 4.3 million births.
Baby Boom
The economic aid provided to European Nations shortly after WWII to help stop the spread and CONTAIN Communism and rebuild the war torn economies of Western Europe
Marshall Plan
The U.S. foreign policy adopted by the Truman Administration in which the U.S. would limit communism to those countries where it already existed.
Containment
The doctrine, enunciated by Harry Truman in 1947, that the United States would provide economic aid to countries that said they were threatened by communist expansion.
Truman Doctrine
Aggressive action taken by the Soviets to drive western powers out of Berlin which was in the Soviet controlled sector of Germany. Truman ordered an Airlift to break the blockade.
Berlin Blockade 1948
Led by Strom Thurmond southern Democrats who opposed Truman’s desegregation of the U.S. army and his policy toward race-relations.
Dixiecrats
North Atlantic Treaty Organization- a mutual defense pact formed in 1949 by the U.S and major western European countries.
NATO
First artificial satellite launched into space by the USSR in 1957. Began the space race between the U.S. and Russia plus a great deal of hysteria and fear of nuclear war
Sputnik
Southern Christian Leadership Conference was the Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956
SCLC
John Foster Dulles advice and policy during the Eisenhower years to use the threat of nuclear war to prevent war and the spread of Communism. Later called MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction).
Massive Retaliation
First two American citizens executed during peacetime for giving atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets. Like the Alger Hiss Case—controversial case involving another American turncoat who perjured himself before a congressional investigation fueled anti-communist hysteria known as McCarthyism
The Rosenbergs
