Assessment Test Flashcards
Scopes “monkey” trial
The trial between William Bryan and Clarence Darrow over the issue of the teaching of evolution in schools
Dust bowl
the drought and dust storms which traversed the midwest
Harlem renaissance
African american writers, artists, and musicians, such as Langston Hughes, Zora neale hurston, and duke ellington
causes of the depression
- ‘Black Thursday’
- investors begin selling stocks
- ‘Black Tuesday’
- farm and coal industries were depressed
Bonus army
WWI veterans march on Washington to lobby for early payment of verterans bonus -driven out by the navy
scottsboro nine
9 African american boys acussed of the rape of 2 white girls
Works progress administration (WPA)
gave unemployed work in building construction and arts programs
social security
retirement plan for persons over 65 years of age, pensions, disability, payments, unemployment benefits
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
prohibits unfair labor practice and enforced the wagner act, right to unionize, collective bargaining
Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)
(regional public planning) built over 20 dams
Four freedom’s speech
FDR proposed that people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy freedom: of speech, of worship, from want, from fear
US embargo on Japan
1941, president FDR seizes all Japanese assets in the US in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China
Island Hopping
strategy employed by US to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the pacific
pearl harbor
the american naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese (1941)
Bataan
the intense phase of Japan’s invasion of the Philippines during WWII
Midway
a crucial and decisive naval battle in the pacific theater of WWII
Iwo Jima
major battle in which the US armed forces landed and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese imperial army
Okinawa
82- day long battle, amphibious assault in the pacific war during WWII
European Theater of Operations (ETO)
US army formation which directed US army operations in parts of Europe from 1942-1945
Atlantic charter
endorses self-determination of all nations, basis of the united states
Battle of Britain/blitz
air campaign by the German air force against that United Kingdom in 1940
Normandy/ D-day
the landing and invasion of German- occupied Western Europe by allied forces
Barbarossa
Nazi Germany’s invasion of the soviet union during WW!!, June 22,1941
Battle of the bulge
a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France
Tuskegee Airmen
group of African american military pilots who fought in WWII
442nd regimental combat team
a fighting unit composed almost entirely of american soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in WWII
Interim committee
secret high level group created for the urging of the leaders of the Manhattan project to advice on matters pertaining to nuclear energy
Marshall plan
american initiative to aid europe, $13 billion to rebuild european economics
Truman doctrine
established that the US would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations
