History Final pt. 2 Flashcards
illegal transport of alcoholic beverages that became popular during prohibition
bootlegging
a young, modern woman who embraced the new morality and fashions of the Jazz Age
flapper
a group of writers who came of age during World War I and expressed their disillusionment with the era
lost generation
1925 trial for teaching evolution in a public school; the trial highlighted the conflict between rural traditionalists and modern urbanites (John S.)
scopes monkey trial
the rejection of outside influences in favor of local or native customs
nativism
nationwide movement that expressed racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism
second Ku Klux Klan
unofficial advisory cabinet to President Franklin Roosevelt, originally gathered while he was governor of New York, to present possible solutions to the nations’ problems; among its prominent members were Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley, and Adolph Berle
Brains Trust
a public program for unemployed young men from relief families who were put to work on conservation and land management projects around the country
Civilian Conservation Corps
a series of programs designed to help the population’s most vulnerable—the unemployed, those over age sixty-five, unwed mothers, and the disabled—through various pension, insurance, and aid programs
social security
Roosevelt’s plan, after being reelected, to pack the Supreme Court with an additional six justices, one for every justice over seventy who refused to step down
supreme court packing plan
a federal agency tasked with the job of planning and developing the area through flood control, reforestation, and hydroelectric power projects
Tennessee Valley Authority
a program run by Harry Hopkins that provided jobs for over eight million Americans from its inception to its closure in 1943
Works Progress Administration
the policy of giving in to threats and aggression in the hopes that the aggressor will be satisfied and make no more demands
appeasement
the nickname given to the leaders of the three major Allied nations: Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
the Big Three
June 6, 1944, the date of the invasion of Normandy, France, by British, Canadian, and American forces, which opened a second front in Europe
D day
