Key Period 7b Flashcards
- Black Tuesday
- The final plummet of the stock market
- Closed banks immediately after and aided the day of the great crash
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to many corporations
- Bonus Army
- Promise that the war vets get a raise in their payment for honor
- When denied rouse in protesters
- Hoover orders Douglas Mc Aurthur
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Raised U.S. tariff on imported goods
- Hoovervilles
- Villages of poverty and homeless
- Against Hoover for his neglect on his citizens
- Dust Bowl
- Dust storm that destroyed many of the homes
- Okies where one of the victims
- Okies
- Left homeless and moves to California
- Was rejected and considered a burden by other states
- The 3 R’s
- Relief Recovery Reform
- Programs that improve the lives and living of Americans
- The New Deal
- Domestic programs passed by congress and presidential executives
- First Hundred Days
- First 100 days of a term in the presidency
- Measure of success
- Emergency Banking Relief
-Banks are allowed to have a “vacation” before financially stable
- Fireside Chats
- 30 Radio Addressees by FDR to urge listeners to have faith in the banks
- Successful
- Huey P. Long
- governor of Louisiana ,member of the senate
- Kingfisher, “share our wealth campaign”, redistribution of wealth to rest of Americans
- American Liberty League
-FDR able to push large amounts of legislation through democratic held congress
- National Labor Relations Act
- Protect rights of employees and employers
- Encouragement of bargaining welfare of business for the American economy
- Schechter v. United States
- SCOTUS struck down major new deal programs
- Minimum wage minimum work hours
- Court-Packing Scheme
- Reform of the Supreme Court
- appointing justices to the court who are over 70
- Roosevelt Recession
- 1937
- Due to financial problems Keynesian economics (deficit spending)
- Good Neighbor Policy
- Foreign Policy towards Latin America with America as a “good neighbor”
- Neutrality Act
- Act declaring U.S neutrality to avoid war
- unintentionally repealed when Roosevelt supported England in war
- Cash-and-Carry
- Foodservice chain of American low price warehouse
- Destroyers for Bases
- Roosevelt’s compromise from helping Britain defying neutrality act
- U.S military bases in Britain
- Lend-Lease Act
- Sales and leans of war materials to countries whose defense is vital to the defense of the U.S
- Atlantic Charter
- By FDR and Churchill agreement to not acquire territory after the wwLl
- Four Freedoms Speech
- Freedom of speech, religion, from want, and from fear
- Helped Inspire Americans into patriotism
- FDR
- Pearl Harbor
- Conflict between Japan and America
- General Dwight D.Eiezenhower
- Launched operation overlord
- Supreme commander of the allied powers
- Operation Overlord
- D-Day
- Intense battle that killed millions
- Beach Battle
- Bataan Death March
- Forceful transfer to camp o’Donnell of American prisoners of war by Imperial Japanese army
- Doolittle Raid
- Tokyo Raid
- Air raid by the United States
- First raid to strike the Japanese islands
- Battle of Midway
- Crucial and Decisive navel battle in the pacific theater of World War II
- Island Hopping Campaign
- Strategy to capture pacific island one by one advancing towards Japan
- General Douglas McArthur
- Commanded the island hopping campaigns
- Selective Service Act
- Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I of the enlistment of people.
- Navajo Code Talkers
- Native Americans served U.S Marine corps
- Mission was to send coded messages
- 442nd Regimental Combat Team
- Japanese Americans that fought in Europe during the Second World War.
- One of the most highly decorated units
- Tuskegee Airmen
- African American Air Force
Who fought in WWII
- WAACs / WACs / WASPs / WAVES
- Women contributions to the war
- Voluntary efforts in emergency service, army corps, and air force
- Rosie the Riveter
- Cultural icon of the United States
- Represented American woman who worked in shipyards and factories during the war
- Rationing and Victory Garden
- Taking of items that are in short supply during the war
- Small gardens growing extra food resources for the war
- Executive Order 8802
- Prohibit of racial discrimination in the national defense industry
- First federal action promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States
- FDR
- Bracero Programs
- “manual laborer”
- Series of laws and diplomatic agreements
- United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.
- Zoot Suit Riots
- Series of racial attacks during World War II that broke out in California
- Against migration of immigrants
- Executive Order 9066
- Authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans
- Korematsu v. United States
- United States Supreme Court case concerning Executive Order 9066
- Ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship
- National War Labor Board
- Composition of representatives from business and labor designed to disputes between workers and employers
- It settled any labor difficulties against war efforts
- Office of Price Administration
- Stabilizing of prices and rents
- Froze wages and price administer of a rationing program
- War Production Board
- Supervision of war production during WWII
- FDR
- Big Three
- Unites States, Great Britain, Soviet Union grand alliance
- Stalin, FDR, and Churchill
- Yalta Conference
- Conference of the big three
- Declare war on Japan after surrender of Germany
- Iwo Jima
-Major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed and eventually captured the island from Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
- Manhattan Project
- Research project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War III
- By the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada
- Potsdam Ultimatum
-Issued by the United States, Great Britain and China to Japan offering that country the choice between unconditional surrender and total annihilation
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Atomic Bombs that were created by experiment were set off in Japan
- Apart of the axis powers alliance
- United Nations
- Conference of the big three and including France/ China/ Great Britain/ Soviet Union/ USA as the general assembly
- Security Council
- The main powers of the world
- US, Britain, Soviet Union
- Had veto rights over the general assembly
