Vocab 7-B

Question 1

Irreconcilables

Answer 1

A hard core of isolationist senators who bitterly opposed any sort of league; also called the “Battalion of Death”

Question 2

Versailles treaty

Answer 2

Controversial peace agreement that compromised many of Wilson’s Fourteen Points but retained his League.

Question 3

Red scare

Answer 3

promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism.

Question 4

Open shop

Answer 4

a company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union.

Question 5

Volstead act

Answer 5

Prohibition act

Question 6

Immigration act

Answer 6

limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States as of the 1890 census,

Question 7

League of women voters

Answer 7

civic organization that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs

Question 8

Great Depression

Answer 8

Widespread and intense economic depression in the USA

Question 9

Bonus army

Answer 9

Army of WW1 veterans who organized a march on Washington to demand that their army bonuses be paid early because of the depression. They were shot at by the federal army

Question 10

New deal

Answer 10

FRD’s policy towards the Great Depression, turning the country around

Question 11

Fireside chats

Answer 11

Speeches given by FRD by radio to the American people about various topics

Question 12

Emergency banking act

Answer 12

Act that declared an eight-day bank holiday to restabilize the banks

Question 13

tennessee valley authority

Answer 13

Federally owned corporation to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression

Question 14

national industrial recovery act

Answer 14

Us labor law that authorized the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.

Question 15

Social security act

Answer 15

Created social security

Question 16

national labor relations act

Answer 16

protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining to prevent strikes during the depression

Question 17

congress of industrial organizations

Answer 17

federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955

Question 18

new deal coalition

Answer 18

alignment of interest groups and voting blocs in the United States that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates

Question 19

Dust bowl

Answer 19

Area of the Midwest that was appeared by bad farming practices

Question 20

court packing

Answer 20

Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme courts majority

Question 21

fair labor standards act

Answer 21

establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards

Question 22

Blitzkrieg

Answer 22

Germany’s war plan, “lighting war”

Question 23

neutrality act of 1939

Answer 23

lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.

Question 24

Axis powers

Answer 24

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 25

lend lease act

Answer 25

Supplied Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945 on credit

Question 26

Atlantic charter

Answer 26

Between Britain and the us, established postwar plans and the creation of the UN

Question 27

War powers act

Answer 27

federal law intended to check the president’s power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.

Question 28

Operation torch

Answer 28

The allies plan to regain the African territories of the axis

Question 29

Operation overload

Answer 29

The plan to land in Normandy to redirect Nazi attention to both the soviet and French front

Question 30

D Day

Answer 30

largest seaborne invasion in history. Part of operation torch in Normandy

Question 31

Battle of the bulge

Answer 31

Last major German fight

Question 32

Eastern front

Answer 32

The fighting ground at Europe

Question 33

Island hopping

Answer 33

Americans plan to overtake japans island territories one by one by overtaking islands

Question 34

Holocaust

Answer 34

The brutal genocide of minority groups, especially Jews, during WW2

Question 35

Yalta conference

Answer 35

meeting of the heads of government for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe’s postwar reorganization