amerian history exam 3

what are the 3 goals of the first new deal

reform, relief, recovery

what were the goals of the second new deal

end unemployment, support labor unions and direct government intervention in business, establish social security welfare

alphabet agencies

FERA, CCC, CWA, TVA

FERA

Federal Emergency Relief Agency: government will pay you to buy food/rent if it is evident you tried to get a job

CCC

Civilian Conversation Corps: paths in national parks

CWA

Civil Works Administration: plumbing, sewers, repair roads

TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority: dams and electricity

Crash of 1929

black thursday: 6 mil stocks drop, black tuesday: 16 mil stocks dropped

election of 1983

more republicans than democrats elected into congress, which weakened Roosevelts “new deal”

appeasement

pay off the threat in munich 1938, doesnt work

lend lease

allowed the US to lend or lease war supplies to anny nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States”

Pearl Habor

Japan attacks US base dec 7, 1941

Japanese Internment Camps

the forced relocation by the US government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during WWII

Manhattan Project

developed and deployed the world’s first atomic bomb before Nazi Germany; bombing Hiroshima was planned before the first bomb tested

the cold war

a period of hostility and tension between the US and the union of soviet socialist republics from 1947-1989

how did the US look at the end of WWII

The US became one of the largest, most powerful economic, military, and social influence in the world

containment

foreign policy strategy committing to the US to resisting the expanding influence of the USSR and communism

who used containmnet

truman

atomic bombs

powered solely by nuclear fission - the splitting of atoms

hydrogen bombs

get their power from a combination of fission and its opposite - binding of atoms

iron curtain

imaginary line dividing europe between soviet influence and western influence in germany

who introduced the interstate higway act? what was it?

eisenhower, it created highways all the way across america

what is mutually assured destruction

principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated

what was the significance of the Cuban Revolution

communism came to cuba and fidel castro took over, cutting relations with the US

what is the world bank

IMF and World Bank helped nations to rebuild, you need to have a democracy

describe the impact of the second world war on the home front of the united states paying specific attention to economics and migration. what change, in your opinion, was the most significant?

the war ended the great depression, but started the migration to cities for factory jobs (rosie the riveter)- the second great migration was when the southern african americans moved up north for more factory jobs

define the cold war and the major two nations involved in it. what were the major advantages of those two nations? why did they engage in a cold war

USSR: soviet union and the communism, largest army and eastern europe; and the USA: largest economy, only nuclear power, contain the communism. ???? US: strategy: containment, truman doctrine, marshall plan

dust bowl? when did it happen? what kind of impact did it have?

overworked soils across the great plains went everywhere in the 1930’s. it was bad times

describe three significant qualities of the united states in the 1950’s

economy, technology, culture

truman doctrine

going around and finding countries on the verge of becoming communist and helping them keep capitalism

marshall plan

rebuild europe and help them with our money