History Exam 2 Term Identifications

The president whose 1920 campaign promised a return to “normalcy.”

Warren G. Harding

The federal oil reserve at the center of a major political corruption scandal during the 1920s.

Teapot Dome

The 1925 Tennessee trial concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools.

A consumer practice in which buyers purchase goods immediately and pay for them in periodic installments.

Installment Credit

The New Deal program that developed the Tennessee Valley through dams, electricity generation, flood control, and employment.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

The 1919 peace agreement that imposed terms on Germany but failed to resolve many of the problems left by World War I.

Treaty of Versailles

The 1942 executive order that authorized the exclusion and forced removal of Japanese Americans from designated military areas.

Executive Order 9066

The American strategy intended to prevent the expansion of Soviet and communist influence.

Containment

The congressional committee that investigated alleged communist influence in American political, cultural, and institutional life.

HUAC

John Kenneth Galbraith's 1958 book criticizing the contrast between private affluence and public squalor.

The Affluent Society

The practice of denying mortgage credit and other financial services to particular neighborhoods, often on explicitly racial grounds.

Redlining

An early durable gay rights organization founded in Los Angeles in 1950.

Mattachine Society

The 1964 congressional resolution that gave President Johnson broad authority to expand American military involvement in Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

A political slogan popularized by Stokely Carmichael that emphasized Black political self-determination.

Black Power

President Carter's 1980 declaration that an outside power's attempt to control the Persian Gulf would threaten vital American interests.

Carter Doctrine