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Agricultural market act

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June 1929

To help farmers help themselves, largely through producer cooperatives . Set up federal farm board

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Grain stabilization cooperation

Cotton stabilization corporations

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To bolster sagging prices and by buying surpluses.

But prods still dropped

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Hawley smoot tariff

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Started out to help farmers

High tariff bout 60%

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Muscle shoals bill

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Designed to dam the TN river, embraced authority of TVA

Vetoed

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Reconstruction finance corporation

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Government lending bank. Provided indirect relief by assisting insure companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, state and local governments

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Norris- La guardia Anti junction act in 1932

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Outlawed yellow dog contracts and forbade federal courts to issue injunctions to retain strikes boycotts and peaceful picketing

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Bonus expeditionary force

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Converged on capital in 1932
Veterans wanted early payments of pension
Set up public camps

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Battle of Anacostia Flats

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General Douglas macarthur got bonus army out of Washington using tear gas, harsh

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Stimson doctrine of 1932

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Us would not recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force

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Al smith

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Against FDR for democratic nomination in 1932

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Brain trust

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Small group of reform minded intellectuals, helped FDR

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Emergency banking relief act of 1933

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Gave the president the power to regulate blinking transactions and foreign exchange and reopen solvent banks

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Glass steagall banking reform act

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Separated banks for savings from banks for gambling

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Civil conservation corporation (CCC)

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Provided outdoor employment in Government camps for young men that may have become criminals otherwise

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Federal emergency relief act (FERA)

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Immediate relief

Administration led by Harry Hopkins

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Agricultural adjustment act

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Paid farmers not to farm, bought surpluses

Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional

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Home owners loan corporation (HOLC)

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Designed to refinance mortgages on nonfarm homes

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Civil works administration (CWA)

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Branch of FERA
Provided temporary jobs during the winter,
Slow and criticized

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Father Charles coughlin

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Catholic priest that began broadcasting social justice

Anti new deal

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Huey long

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Senator Proposed idea to give everyone $5000 at cost of prosperous

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Dr. Francis Townsend

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Sid every senator over 60 should receive $200 a month as long as they spend it in the month

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Works progress administration (WPA)

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Objective was employment on useful projects, buildings, bridges, roads,
Launched by Hopkins

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National recovery administration (NRA)

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Immediate and long term relief, to assist labor, unemployed,and industry

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Schechter decision

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Supreme Court declares NRA un onstitutional

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Public works administration (PWA)

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Intended for industrial long range recovery and unemployment relief. Headed. By Harold l Ickes. Projects like highways public buildings, parkways

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Soil conservation and domestic allotment act of 1936

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Withdrawal of acreage from production achieved by paying farmers to plant soil conserving crops like soybeans or let the land lie fallow

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Second agricultural adjustment act of 1938

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Continued conservation payments

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Frazier lemke fArm bankruptcy act of 1934

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Made possible the suspension of mortgage foreclosures for 5 years
Voided by Supreme Court

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Resettlement administration

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Removed farmers about to loose their farms to better land

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John collier

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Commissioner of Indian affairs

Reserved forced assimilation, Dawes act

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Indian reorganization act of 1934

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Encouraged tribes to establish local self government and preserve native crafts and traditions

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Securities act

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Required promoters to transmit to the investor, sworn information regarding the soundness of their bonds

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Security and exchange commission (SEC)

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Watchdog administrative agency. Stock markets to opts more as trying marts than gambling

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Public utility holding company act of 1935

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Delivered death sentence to bloated growth except where economically needful

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Tennessee valley authority (TVA)

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Result of senator George w Norris
Brought full employment, cheap electric power, low cost housing, abundance of cheap nitrates, restoration of eroded soil, reforestAtion , improved navigation.

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Federal housing administration (FHA)

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Building industry was to be stimulate by small loans to householders for improving dwellings and completing new ones

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United States housing authority (USHA)

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Designed to Lend money to states or communities for low cost construction
Fell short of needs, couldn’t expand because of opposition
Slum areas did shrink as a result

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Social security act of 1935

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Provided for federal state unemployment insurance, specified categories of retired workers were to receive regular payments from Washington.

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Wagner act/ national labor relations act of 1935

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Created new national labor relations board

Reassertion rights of labor to engage in self organization and bargain collectively through representatives

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Committee for industrial organization (CIO)

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Broke from AFL to form Congress of industrial organizations (CIO) led by John lew

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Memorial Day massacre

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1937 republic steel company strike, police fired on crowd

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Fir labor standards act (Wages and Hours bill)

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Industries involved in interstate commerce were to set up min wage and max hours. Outlawed child labor

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Alfred m Landon

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Republican candidate in 1936

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American liberty league

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Wealthy conservatives who organized in 1934 to fight socialistic new deal schemes

45
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20th amendment

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Lame duck

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Owen j Roberts

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Conservative Justice that started voting more on liberal side

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Hugo black

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New justice for new deal

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Keynesianism

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Program to stimulate economy by planned deficit spending

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Reorganization act

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Gave president limits powers for administrative reforms including key new executive office in the White House

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Hatch act of 1939

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Barred federal administrative officials except highest policy making officers from active political campaigning and soliciting
Forbade federal funds used for political purposes and collection of campaign contributions from people receiving relief payments

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Haile salssie

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Emperor of Ethiopia that called on League of Nations for help when Italy invaded but no help came

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Anti Comintern pact

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Completed a Berlin Rome Tokyo axis

Aimed at Soviet Union

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Walter millis

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Wrote America’s road to war 1914-1917 in 1935

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Veterans of future wars

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Parody formed by college students, wanted $1000 before they went to war. Pacifists.

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Gerald Nye

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Headed a committee that spent Two years investigation American munitions dealers

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First Neutrality act

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Banned sale of arms to nations at war

warned American citizens not to sail on belligerent ships

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Second neutrality act

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Added a ban on Loans

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Third neutrality act

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Made these prohibitions permanent and required on two-year trial basis that all trade other than munitions be conducted on a cash and carry basis

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William Borah

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Led fight against league of Nations responded the chances for war in Europe were remote

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John Nance Garner

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Roosevelt vice Pres.

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Nonaggression treaty

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Between Russia and Hitler Nazi Soviet pact let Germany avoid two front war Russia got part of Poland

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Revised neutrality policy

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Replaced arms embargo with cash and carry regulations belligerents would be able to purchase more supplies in America but pay cash and transport them in own ships

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American first committee

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Formed by isolationists to protest the drift to war included Charles Lindbergh Robert a Taft Thomas Roberts m Hutchins

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Committee to defend America by aiding the allies

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Formed by non-isolationists also known as the white Comanche wanted unlimited assistance to England short of war headed by william Alan White

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Wendell Wilkie

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Republican candidate in election of 1940

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Lend lease

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America could lend and lease goods and weapons to countries fighting against aggressors

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Chiang Kai shek

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Nationalist leader of China

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Greater East Asia company prosperity sphere

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Controlled by Japan

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Tripartite pact

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Pact between Germany Italy and Japan a defensive treaty that confronted the US with possible to Ocean war

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Gen. Hideki Tojo

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New premier of Japan send envoys to America with new peace proposals

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Cordell hull

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Secretary of State sent Tenpoint replied to Tokyo that data demand for Japan to withdraw from China

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Gen. Erwin Rommel

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Leader of Afrika korpse pushed Britain into Egypt and threatened Suez Canal

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Douglas Mac Arthur

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American general tried to block Japan’s conquest of the Philippines escape to Australia

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Combined Chiefs of staff

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US and Britain partnership headquartered in Washington directed Anglo-American military operations cooperation between Roosevelt and Churchill. Signed declaration of the United Nations

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Charles de Gaulleros

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General leading free French government in exile

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Soviet Union beat Germany. Germany could never take the offensive again

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Chester Nimitz

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American admiral from Hawaii directed at key Japanese islands in the Central Pacific

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Battle of the coral sea

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American naval forces blocked Japan near Australia

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Battle of Midway

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Turning point in the war

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Henry J Kaiser

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Constricted huge west coast shipyards to meet demand for cargo vessels and landing craft

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War production Board

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Headed by Donald Nelson allowed business rapid depreciation huge tax credits for new plants and awarded lucrative cost-plus contract permuted goods

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Office of economic stabilization

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Headed by James Byrns used political judgment to settle disputes between agencies and keep all groups happy

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Frank Knox

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Sec. of navy Racist

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A Philip Randolph

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Black leader threatened march on Washington deforce president and racial discrimination and defense industries and government employment to integrate Armed Forces

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Belle isle

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Recreation Park in Detroit where a racial fight broke out then a full-scale riot were 23 blacks and whites died. Fight finally ended by Fiorello LaGuardia Mayor of New York

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Blue Devils

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Mexican-American 88th division

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Zoot suit riots

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Riots in Los Angeles white sailors attacked Mexican-American youths

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Harry Truman

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Roosevelt vice Pres. in 1944 election because more moderate then Henry Wallace

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Political action committee

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Headed by Sidney Hillman door-to-door drives to register millions of workers and families

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Thomas E Dewey

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Republican candidate in 1944

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D day

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June 6 during the night three divisions parachuted down behind German defenses at Don British and American troops thought their way sure at five points along 60 mile beach fighting Germans

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Battle of the Bulge

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Germany burst through weak point in Adrian forest delayed Eisenhowers advance to Germany but we can German resistance in West

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Teheran,Iran

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Conference with Chris about Churchhill and Stalin Stalin reaffirmed his commitment and indicated that Russia would enter war against Japan once Germany was defeated

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Yalta

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Stalin refused to give up communistic domination of Poland and Balfanz but agreed to Roosevelts request for declaration of liberated Europe Stalin promised to enter Pacific war three months after Germany surrendered Roosevelt offered extensive concessions in Asia

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Potsdam conference

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Churchill and Truman issued call for unconditional surrender warning Japan faced utter destruction

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Manhattan Project

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The US had been developing the atomic bomb based on vision of radioactive uranium and plutonium. Truman dropped it following advice of Secretary of War Henry else Stimson on Hiroshima and then Nagasakino

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