Unit 8: Important Events Flashcards
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
The trial of two Italian immigrants found guilty for murder on very little evidence. Despite tampering of evidence, obvious prejudice and racism, they were put to death.
Good Neighbor Policy
Our efforts to help relations to our friends in Central and South America. It stated how we wouldn’t meddle with them, not that we would do anything for them, but how we just wouldn’t make things worse for them.
Black Friday
a stock market crash, the most devastating stock crash in US history, kicked off the great depression.
Washington Conference
1943 President Roosevelt and Churchill. Drafted United Nations, launch of Atlantic Charter (similar to 14 pts.), war strategy
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The “No more war because it sucks” pact. It didn’t work and everyone ended up breaking it with WWII, represents the idealism present in FDR’s administration.
Glass-Steagall Act
Goal to put an end to commercial banks engaging in investing depositor funds in the stock market after the market crash. Created FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.) to insure depositors won’t loose money.
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
The note saying that we didn’t recognize any of Japan’s new Japan in Manchuria and China.
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Watch dog of Wall Street: banning stock manipulation, getting ride of unscrupulous brokers, and taking over enforcement of Truth in Securities Act.
Social Security Act
This was part of the new deal where since old people didn’t have an income, we would give them mandatory income that they could spend and inflate the economy.
Schechter vs. US
Made the National Industrial Recovery Act invalidated as the regulations imposed on the poultry industry were deemed unconstitutional.
Works Progressive Admin (WPA)
Extension of the PWA with theater, architecture, projects creating job opportunities. Many different kinds of peoples pockets.. extending revenue markets.
Public Works Admin (PWA)
Goal of job creation. Oversee and fund state-response building projects. Tunnels, bridges, water, sewage systems
Hitler-Stalin Nonaggression Pact
Germany and Russia saying “lets not kill each other k?” It was both of them preserving their armies until Germany would have invaded.
“Quarantine” Speech
FDR, “quarantine the aggressors of nations” as an alternative to american neutrality and isolation. pro-isolationist.
“Lend-Lease”
FDR “Garden Hose” speech. Replace Cash and carry. saying that this was not the time to talk about money in the war, suggested that they were never going to get paid back.
Casablanca Conference
1943 Roosevelt and Churchill; declared war until “unconditional surrender”
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The two sites that we ended up nuking. It was the result of the Manhattan Project and ended the war entirely.
V-E Day
May 8, 1945, the day that the whole of the Axis forces in Europe were destroyed when Germany finally surrendered.
Red Scare
The threat of Russia and communists at the time. This lead to the eventual Cold War.
Volstead Act
The prohibition act, which was an act that backed up the 18th Amendment.