Ch 23-28 (US History) Flashcards
Model T
Developed by Henry T
aka The Tinlizzie
Assembly Line
Created by Henry Ford
Goods rolled past workers on a conveyer belt
Auto-touring
Leisure time traveling/seeing friends
aka cruising
Al Capone
Gangster of the 20s
Controlled sales of liquor during prohibition
Flappers
New woman of the 20s
Smoke, drank, and partied
Defied female norms
Prohibition
Cant manufacture, sell, or transport liquor
18th amendment (1919)
Begins prohibition
21st amendment (1933)
Repealed the 18th amendment
No more prohibition
Speakeasies
illegal bars
Scopes Trial (1925)
Trial of John Scopes
A science teacher prosecution for teaching the theory of evolution
Jazz
Popular music of the 20s
Originated with African Americans
Writers of the 1920s
wrote about society’s flaws: lost of morals, horror or death/destruction from WWI
Palmer Raids
Anti-communist raids led by A Mitchell Palmer
Red Scare
Panic over communist threat
Reason for fearing communists in 1920s
Russia was just taken over by Lenin & Bolsheviks
People feared it will spread to the US
Black Tuesday (1929)
The day of the stock market crash
Causes of the Depression
Living on credit
Paying it back with little money
Bad farming techniques
Poor investing in stock market
Trade barriers
Failures of key industries
Effects of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Lack of food–> breadlines/soup kitchens
Dust Bowl
Lack of jobs
Suicide rates increase
Lack of desire to go to school
No marriages or kids
Bank Holiday
FDR closed all banks to stop the withdraw of money
Hoovervilles
Under President Hoover
Shanty Towns
Homes were being made of cardboard
Laissez Fair & Hoover
“hands off” or “less gov intervention”
Hoover (as a republican) thought things would fix itself
Bonus Army Marchers
WWI veterans marched to DC wanting to get their bonus pension to feed their families
Turned away by the Hoover Admin
Hawley-Smoot Tarrif
Raised US import duties
Goal: protect American farmers from foreign competitors
Caused other countries to retaliate
Reason for global trade decline
New Deal
FDR slogan
“Every American will get a chance to succeed”
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Provided loans for businesses
Dust Bowl
1930s
Name given from a severe drought
Happened in Great Plains area
Black Blizzard
Top soil blown by winds–> caused errosion
Correction Efforts of the Soil
Government paid farmers to practice conservation techniques
Farmers got proper instruction
CCC planted more than 200 million trees
Packing the Court
Congress declared some of FDR New Deal details unconstitutional–>FDR tried to add another judge (on his side) to the court
Anti-semitism
Hostility and Prejudice toward Jews
Adolf Hitler
Killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust
Benito Mussolini
Leader of the Fascist Party
Believed military government should be in control
Black Shirts
Followers of Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Got rid of anyone in his way in the communist/red party
Nazi Party
Led by Hitler who rose to power in the 1930s
Brown Shirts
Followers of Hitler
Francisco Franco
Spanish General
Dictator
Ruled Spain from 1939-1975
Start and end of WWII
1939-1945
Appeasement
To give in/satisfy
Allies gave into Hitler to avoid problems
why WWII began
Germany invaded Poland
Blitzkrieg
“lightning war””’
Fast type of air raid used by Germany
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powers
Britain, USSR, France, US
why Japan wanted an empire in East Asia/Pacific
More resources
Reduce dependency on imports
Battle of Guadalcanal
Turned the tide of war in the Pacific
Doolittle’s raid
Moral booster for the US
1941
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
US enters WWII
Atomic bomb dropped on…
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
VE Day
“Victory in Europe Day”
End of WWII in Europe
VJ Day
“Victory in Japan Day”
Ending WWII in Pacific/overall
Manhattan Project
when US built the nuclear bombs
Potsdamn Conference (1949)
Meeting of Henry Truman (US), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), Joseph Stalin (USSR)
Divided Germany into four zones of occupation
Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949)
Wartime trials held in which allies prosecuted German military leaders
Adolf Eichmann
Major organizer of the Holocaust
Executed by hanging
Hideki Tojo
Army officer
Prime Minister of Japan
Invaded Manchuria (1937)
United Nations
International peace organization between all nations
Zionism
Movement to establish a Jewish Nation
