Chapter 21-23 Flashcards
Determined: separate is not equal
Brown v. Board of education
Unprecedented growth in population post WWII
Baby boom
Government agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations
Peace corps
Presidency during the “Camelot” era
John F. Kennedy
Guilty of treason
Alger hiss
Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person
McCarthyism
Stood from 1961-1989
Berlin Wall
Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles fro our shore
Cuban missile crisis
Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Post Korea foreign policy regarding communism
Peaceful coexistence
Eisenhower’s belief: communism in Asia
Domino theory
Code name: fat man and little boy
Atomic bomb
Demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender
Potsdam
The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by hitler
Holocaust
Young men used for suicide flights in WII
kamikazes
Securing air bases on less-fortified islands in the pacific
Island hopping
Winter in the Ardennes forest
Battle of the bulge
June 6, 1994- largest amphibious attack in history
D-day invasion
Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa
Operation torch
General of German panzer division
Erwin Rommel
Civil rights protest: I Have A Dream Speech
March on Washington
National war effort limiting various goods
Rationing
December 7, 1941- Japanese attack on pacific fleet
Pearl Harbor
FDR’s program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry
Lend-lease
Erosion of farm lands due to over producing in the 1930’s
Dust bowl
Provisions given to the unemployed during the depression
Bread lines
Share the wealth- socialism candidate
Huey long
Bank accounts insured by the federal government
FDIC
Project to build dams along the Tennessee river
TVA
Helped debt ridden farmers keep their land
AAA
Created jobs and build roads, public buildings and parks
WPA
FDR’s weekly talk with America via radio broadcast
Fireside Chats
FDR’S promise to the American people after the depression
New deal
Fired upon by MacArthur during the Hoover Presidency
Bonus army
Highest tariff in american history: destroyed foreign trade
Smooth-Hawley tariff
Caused by many factors, including the crash of ‘29
Great Depression