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Herbert Hoover

Humanitarian and engineer before entering politics

Bonus Army

Group of WWI veterans who marched to Washington to demand early payment of bonuses

D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

Major amphibious Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France during WWII

Inchon Landing

Amphibious invasion led by UN forces during the Korean War

Fireside Chats

Radio broadcasts used by FDR to communicate directly with the American public

New Deal

FDR’s economic program to combat the Great Depression

Relief, Recovery, Reform

Motto of the New Deal

Bank Holiday

FDR’s temporary closure of banks to stabilize the financial system

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Program that provided jobs for young men doing conservation work

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Government agency that insures bank deposits

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Program that built dams and provided electricity in the Southeast

Welfare State

Government system that provides social and economic support to citizens

Harry S. Truman

Nicknamed “Give ’em Hell Harry”

“Give ’em Hell Harry”

Nickname given because Truman was direct and outspoken

Atlantic Charter Meeting Location

Held off the coast of Newfoundland on ships

Atlantic Charter Meeting Participants

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

Atlantic Charter

Agreement that helped form the basis of the United Nations and Allied war goals

Lend-Lease Act

Program where the U.S. supplied arms to Allied nations like Britain

Destroyers for Bases Deal

Agreement where the U.S. gave old ships to Britain in exchange for military bases

Joseph Stalin

Leader who blockaded Berlin

Ngo Dinh Diem

U.S.-supported leader in South Vietnam

Fulgencio Batista

U.S.-supported leader in Cuba

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nicknamed “Ike”

Appeasement

Policy of allowing Hitler to take Czechoslovakia to avoid war

Yalta Conference

Agreement that gave the Soviet Union a buffer zone in Eastern Europe

Manhattan Project

Secret program that developed the atomic bomb

Winston Churchill

Delivered the Iron Curtain Speech

NATO

1949 military alliance between Western nations

National Security Act

Created the Department of Defense, NSC, and CIA

Douglas MacArthur

Led the amphibious landing at Inchon during the Korean War

George Kennan

Developed the idea of Containment Theory

Marshall Plan

U.S. program that provided money to rebuild Europe after WWII