History Spring Final

Hoover’s response and actions during the great depression

Cut taxes and increased spending for public funds, Revenue Act: imposed taxes

FDR’s response and actions during the great depression

Bank holiday, emergency banking act, New Deal

Effect of the great depression on people

business failed and unemployment increased

Banking crisis

Banks failed, life savings were wiped

Fireside chats

FDR used his radio to keep the nation informed and inspired

Three R’s of the New Deal

Relief, Recovery, Reform

Year of Stock Market crisis

October, 1929

Appeasement

yielding to demands of the aggressor to preserve peace, We allowed hitler to take sudetenland

D-day

June 6, 1944, Allied forces invaded france in Normandy

Start of WW2

September 1,1939, Hitler’s invasion of Poland

Pear harbor

December 7, 1941, led the US to join WW2, live in infamy, was unsuccessful because they missed aircraft carriers, didnt fully destroy the naval base, and cause the US to join the war.

Atomic bomb

dropped in Hiroshima, then Nagasaki

Cold War

Hostility between the US and the USSR, iron curtain

Brown v Board of education

Ended the segregation of separate schools, was held in Topeka Ks

Interstate highway system

created by Dwight Eisenhower

partition of Germany

Germany was divided into four occupied zones: Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. Berlin, the capital city situated in Soviet territory, was also divided into four occupied zones

John F Kennedy

New frontier, created peace corps

Vietnam war

Under Johnsons, it became a full war, Gulf of Tonkin resolution - allows the president to take any necessary measure to prevent aggression. War was not clear cut, many supply lines for vietnam, and south vietnam’s government was corrupt, limited war, Tet offensive

viet cong

pro communist, south vietnamese guerrillas

Space Race

National Aeronautics and space administration, between the US and Russia

Medicare

established in 1965 to help elderly people pay for medicare

24th amendment

outlawed the use of poll taxes

voting rights act of 1965

helped register blacks to vote and outlawed literacy tests

Roe v Wade

declared that laws restricting abortion were unconstitutional

Impeachment

trial not the actual removal, Andrew Jackson and Bill Clinton

Gerald Ford Presidency

Nixon pardon, unelected

25th Amendment

In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or **resignation, the Vice President shall become President**.

Stagflation

high inflation and high unemployment

Nixon Pardon

Gerald Ford Pardoned Nixon of any crimes, this caused his popularity to fall

Watergate affair

Burglary of the DNC office

Carter doctrine

US will resist soviet advances in the persian gulf 

Iranian Hostage crisis

more than 50 Americans taken hostage, they were released the day Reagan was inaugurated

Salt II Treaty

Result of strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) limited the number and kinds of nuclear weapons between Russia and the US

Equal rights Amendment

guaranteed legal gender equality for women

Ronald Reagan presidency

Intra Contra affair, Reagan doctrine - pledged americas support to groups fighting communism in the third world. Increased military

Reaganomics

lowered inflation by increasing the supply of goods,

Grenada

Reagan sent 2000 troops to communist Grenada and won. They set up an anti-communist government

Contras

Groups of anti-sandinista guerrillas that fought communism in Nicaragua

Sandra Day O'connor

First woman supreme court justice

Iran Contra affair

Members of the National Security Council sold weapons to Iran in exchange for releasing hostages in Lebanon. Money from the arms deal was sent to help the contras.

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Star wars, proposed space based defense shield of satellites, missiles and lasers

Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet Leader, called for Perestroika - rebuilding of communist economy and also advocated for glasnost - openness in communist society

US Patriot Act

made it easier for law enforcement officials and the courts to catch, convict, and imprison terrorists

Department of Homeland security

regulated security issues related to US borders ,transportation, and preparations for emergencies

Osama bin Laden

led the al-Qaeda