test #3 Flashcards
normalcy
people trying to distance themselves from their problems and going back to normal
red scare
the fear that Russia was going to invade our country and have communism take over
Isolationism
Nothing would interfere with America and America would not interfere with anyone else
Washington Naval conference
made sure not one country became too powerful with their navy
Kellogg briand pact
tried to make the war illegal
fordney McCumber tariff
put the tax so high on imported goods that no one could buy anything
Dawes plan
reduced the Germans reparation payments a lot
Teapot Dome scandal
took over oil reserves in return for money W.G. harding
Albert Einstein theory of relativity
space, time, and matter are all relative
Sigmund freud
said to get rid of anything that restrains you, and do whatever makes you happy its okay
Charles Lindbergh
first person to fly solo nonstop across the atlantic from NY to Paris
National Origins act
Restricts the # of immigrants into the country
John T scopes
tried to make evolution legal in school brought much debate on the subject
installment plans
small monthly payments until the objects payed off
speculation
buying on low price and selling it for a higher one for profit
Bull market
stock market characterized` by rising prices and optimism
on the margin
buying a stock but only at a % of the cost often at 30 or 50%
black tuesday
oct 29, 1929 market crash
causes for the crash
- buying stock on credit
- shrinking market
- farming struggles
- loan defaults
work relief
government hand outs
reconstruction finance corp
gave money to businesses to help them out
hawley smoot tariff
raised the tariffs so high that no one could buy anything
bonus army
ww1 vets who wanted the money the government promises
new deal
FDR’s deal to help stop the depression
banking crisis
the banking system was about to collapse so everyone rushed to the banks to get their money out
bank holiday
4 day closing for all banks
fire side chats
fdr would weekly talk on the radio to america about what was happening in the world
CCC
civilian conservation corps. put unmarried men to work in projects under supervision of the army
Pwa
public works administration. built courthouses schools hospitals bridges and other public things
WPA
works progress administration. Employed anyone in almost any job
AAA
agricultural adjustment act. government helps out business
NIRA
national industrial recovery act. guidelines to higher employment = wages and lower unwanted competition
NRA
national recovery administration attempt at industrial planning
Fdic
federal deposit insurance corp. insured bank deposits
TVA
Tennessee valley authority built dams to provide flood control and cheep electricity
social security act
old age pensions and unemployment insurance
court packing plan
in the court anyone over 70 will get someone to help them (helped get fdr what he wanted to get done)
CIO
congress of industrial organizations accommodated unskilled workers… sit down strike
bread lines
provided extra food for people in need
dust bowl
a major drought that caused for dust to fly everywhere because of a lot of wind
Adolf hitler
dictator of Germany during ww2
Fascism
build up everything from the beginning anyone who disagrees gets killed
Benito mussolini
italian dictator ll duce
Hideki tojo
Japanese dictator
Axis powers
Germany Italy and Japan
Joseph Stalin
Russian Dictator, violent communist killed many of his own people
Appeasement
trying to satisfy someone by giving them something
Rhineland
a reign of germany that they tried to get it back
sudetenland
a land west of czechoslovak Germans fled there
Nazi soviet nonaggression pact
Russia and Germany will not attack each other and will split their land
september 1, 1939
start of ww2
Blitzkrieg
lightning war 48 hrs
Dunkirk
a major miracle of 330,000 men are saved
winston churchhill
prime minister of britain
Battle of Britian
hitler bombed Britain and kept doing it to make it easier to invade
Wehrmacht
German armed forces
neutrality act of 1939
countries come to us to buy supplies pay cash and carry them on there own boats
America first committee’s
led by charles lindbergh kept allied sympathy and American involvement in check in check
land lease act
provides weapons and supplies to other countries in battle
Atlantic charter
meeting between FDR and churchill
December 7, 1941
the bombing of pearl harbor
battle of midway
destroyed 4 japanese aircraft carriers
Chester W. Nimitz
US admiral who directed carrier forces against Japan
War production board
stopped construction to save supplies for the war
rationing
only taking a certain amount of supplies in order to conserve them for something
Erwin Rommel
leader of German panzers field marshal earned the respect of his man
Bernard montgomery
British commander took control over war in Egypt
Operation tourch
went to africa to defeat the germans and won
Dwight D Eisenhower
led the African invasion supreme allied commander
Casablanca
went to form a strategy to defeat Germany
Operation Husky
Attacked Sicily
D-Day (operation overlord)
went on the shore of Germany and attacked June 6, 1944
Battle of the bulge
Hitler’s last chance (desperate) killed and captured many Americans Patton gets them out in 2 days
Guadalcanal
the island they landed in Aug 1942 and got in Feb 1943
Island hopping
hopping from island to island and trying to get the best ones
Battle of Leyte Gulf
largest sea battle in history the japanese lost much and we didn’t lose that much
kamikazes
japanese suicide pilots
Iwo Jima
6,800 killed and 21,000 wounded but we still won
Okinawa
very important island that both america and japan wanted but lost many lives
Yalta conference and the big 3
Stalin FDR and churchill came together to do something about the war
potsdam conference
we wanted unconditional surrender of Japan because of this we dropped the atomic bombs
Atomic bomb
A radiated bomb that causes much damage sent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed many
Presidents 19-33
- Rutherford B hayes
- James A Garfield
- chester a arthur
- Grover Cleveland
- Benjamin Harrison
- Grover Cleveland
- William McKinley
- theodore roosevelt
- William Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Harry truman
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Hero
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Awake And Alive
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Not Gonna Die
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Whispers in the Dark
Comatose · 2006
Comatose
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Falling Inside the Black
Comatose · 2006
Rise
Rise · 2013
Sick of It
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Rebirthing
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Never Surrender
Awake · 2009
The Last Night
Comatose · 2006
What I Believe
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Circus for a Psycho
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It’s Not Me It’s You
Awake · 2009
One Day Too Late
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The Older I Get
Comatose · 2006
Fire and Fury
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Yours to Hold
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Would It Matter
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Better Than Drugs
Comatose · 2006
Madness in Me
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American Noise
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Those Nights
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Live Free or Let Me Die
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Salvation
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Say Goodbye
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Don’t Wake Me
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Savior
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Forgiven
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Freakshow
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Looking for Angels
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Skillet
Songs
the new deal and 2 programs that came out of it. What problems did the programs address how did they do this and were they effective?
The aaa, ccc, etc. the new deal tried to supply relief recovery, and reform they were effective but sometimes not in the right way
the 3 reasons that the US stayed isolated in the beginning of ww2. should they have remained neutral or joined the war when they did? why?
- Traditional American stance - rejection of the league of nations
- ww 1 war debt
- great depression
