history 100

Francis Townsend plan

200 a month for elderly “once you turn 60, you are required to retire”

FDR

president during the depression, created new deal, very popular

Father Charels Coughlin

Radio Priest, spread anti semetic ideas

Huey Long

governor of Louisiana, share the wealth, corrupt and forced his workers to give 10% of their pay

Carl Weiss

Killed Huey Long

Alf Landon

ran against FDR in 1936

Works Progress Administration

Job program, built roads and cities, hired artists

Social security

workers pay taxes → money goes to current retirees,

Tennessee Valley Authority

provided electricity to poor areas, helped develop rural communities

14th amendment

birthright citizenship

puppet government

government controlled by outside powers

political extremism

rise of radical groups (Nazi) to out throw government

espionage

spies

adolf hitler

born in austria, failed painter

Weimar republic

germany’s government after ww1

beer hall Munich putsch

nazis try to overthrow the government

mein kampf

my struggle, Hitler wrote in prison

Nazi Party

nationalist Socialist Democrats

Aryan race

white blonde, ideal and perfect

Brownshirts

helped hitler

Joseph Goebbles

minister of propaganda

Paul Hindenburg

Leader of Weimer republic

Nuremburg laws

laws against jews (wear star of david, banned from professional jobs, cannot intermarry, seperation)

Rhineland

region that was a part of Germany until taken away, they take it back

Sudetenland

Northern part of Czech republic

start of ww2

Hitler kidnaps polish people, puts them in uniforms and frames them for invading

Zoot suit

formal suit won by mexican americans, started a riot

Winston Churchill

prime minister

Blitzkreig

lightning war, military strategy used by Germany, panicked and disorganized

Blitz

germany bombs england nightly to get them to surrender

sept 1 1939

poem by W. H. Auden written in response to the Poland Invasion by germany

Vichy Govt

authoritarian French state that collabed with Germany

Maginot Line

800 mile long concrete defense system built by france

land lease act

lend britain 50 land destroyers for englands naval bases

Axis powers

Germany, Japan, Italy

Allied powers

china, soviet union, usa, uk

Rape of Nanking

japan raping women in china

comfort women

asian women that would be transported across japanese army to be raped

battle of britain

royal air force defending against attacks from germany’s planes

operation barbarossa

hitler broke the non-aggressive pact, invasion of the soviet union

SS

most extreme nazis led by heinrich himmler

Zyclon-B

gas used to kill people by the Nazis

Hirohito

emperor of japan

Yamamoto

admiral of the Navy

Tojo

leader of the army

office of war mobilization

ration goods

tuskeegee airmen

african american fighter pilots

code talkers

native american radio operators

executive order 9066 (japanese internment)

forced japanese americans into camps

monument’s men

army unit that located and protected priceless european artwork endangered during the war

operation overlord (d-day)

code name for invasion of nazi occupied france

dwight d eisenhower

commander of the allied forces in europe

VE day

germany’s surrender against europe

Manhattan project

secret project that built and tested the first atomic bombs

hiroshima and nagasaki bombings

august 1945 atomic attacks used instead of invading

battle of coral sea

naval battle that blocked japans move toward Australia, strengthening ties

VJ day

Japans surrender ending ww2

Harry S Truman

desegregated the military

J. Robert Oppenheimer

scientific leader for the manhattan project

IPO

first sale of company shares to investers

pump and dump

fraud scheme to infalte the price and sell a stock for profit

buying a stock on margin

purchasing stocks with borrowed money and a small down payment

black tuesday

major stock market crash

oligopoly

market dominated by the large firms controlling the stock market

reconstruction finance corporation

hoover era program that lend money to banks and businesses instead of the people

fdic federal deposit insurance corporation

insures bank deposits against bank failures

fera

send relief money to local governments

civilian conservation corps ccc

work program for young men in conservation projects