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Banks reclaiming property when loan payments can no longer be made
Foreclosure
The name given to Tuesday, October 29, 1929 when the stock market collapsed triggering the Great Depression
Black Tuesday
Government funds given directly to the public to provide assistance for living expenses
Govenment Relief
Marketplace where business shares are bought and sold
Stock exchange
Those wandering, unemployed, homeless drifters during the Great Depression
Hobo
World War 1 veterans who mached on Washington DC in 1931 demanding their promised bonus pay for military service
Bonus Army
Federal programs creating jobs, relief, and regulations, developed by FDR’s administration to combat the Great Depression
New Deal
Practice of government spending more money than the budget has for income
Deficit Spending
Frequent radio adress given by FDR to the American public to calm their fears about the Great Depression
Fireside Chats
New Deal program that provided flood control and electricity through hydroelectric dams throughout the mid southern region
TVA
New Deal program that provided a small retirement pension for elderly, widowed spouse, and surviving children
Social Security
First female member of the Pesidential Cabinet, served as FDR’s secretay of labor
Frances Perkins
Law that established protections for workers
Fair Labor Standard Act
New Deal Program that provided local constuction jobs
WPA
New Deal program to provide jobs fo young men ages 18-26
CCC
The practice of speading infomation in an attempt to influence one’s opinion
Propaganda
Heir to the Austia-Hungarian thone whose assassination in 1914 set off World War 1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This 1917 incident revealed Germany’s attempt to incite Mexico to attack the United States
Zimmermann Telegram
Name given to newly developed German Submarine
U-Boat
An intense loyalty to one’s nation
Nationalism
An ocean line sunk by German submaines nearly causing the United States to enter World War 1
Lusitania
The practive of a government forcing military service upon thei citizens in time of war
Draft
The state of warfare that existed as a stalemate between sides
Stalemate
This political group took over Russia after the Russian Revolution and established a communist government in Russia
Bolsheviks
Those powers who fought against German aggession in Europe during World War 1
Allied Powers
The goals for world peace as outlined by US Pesident Woodrow after World War 1
14 Points
The concluding peace document that settled World War 1
Treaty of Versailles
Leader of the Bolshevik party in Russia who staged the 1917 Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
US president during World War 1
Woodrow Wilson
European powers who supported German aggression in Europe
Central Powers
The concern after World War 1 that European communists were attempting to infiltrate the US government
Red Scare
Organizations established after World War 1 for nations to work out their political differences
League of Nations
U.S. agency created to monitor communists
FBI
Commander of US forces during World War 1
John J. Pershing
Nickname given to U.S. World War 1 soldiers
Doughboys
Most decorated U.S. soldier in World War 1
Alvin York
Agreement between warring factions to cease shooting
Armistice
Used to finance U.S. involvement in World War 1
Bonds
Nickname given to the countries at the Paris Peace Conference
Irreconcilables
Name given to area between the trenches
No Man’s Land
International meeting of world powers designed to limit naval buildup throughout the world
League of Nations
The development and expression of African American art in the United States following World War 1
Harlem Reneissance
African American jazz musician made popular with his trumpet New Orleans sound
Louis Armstrong
Popular New York Yankee baseball player and sports celebrity known for his many homeruns
Babe Ruth
Those people who oppose all forms of government and authority
Anarchists
The movement of southern black populations to northern cities within the United States after World War 1
Great Migration
Young, flashy, dramatic, unconventional women of the 1920’s
Flappers
American pilot who flew the first nonstop Transatlantic flight in 1927
Charles Lindbergh
Secret bars that served illegal alcohol
Speakeasy
Type of motion picture that changed pop culture in 1921 - 1929
Silent Film
First talkie movie produced
The Jazz Singer
Belief that Native born people are superior to immigrants
Nativism
This amendment granted women the right to vote
19th Amendment
1920s innovation that provided prople information, entertainmen, and an avenue for advertisement
Mass Advertising
Advocated Negro Nationalism and to move “Back to Africa”
Marcus Garvey
Scandal during the Harding administation in which the Secretary of Interior sold public oil reserves for private profit
Teapot Scandal
Production process designed by Henry Ford in which the process of production was broken down into seperate tasks requiring unskilled labor
Assembly Line
American post World War 1 foreign policy which called for the United States to remain out of European affairs
Isolationism
Republican President who took office upon the death of President HArding, known for his quiet demeanor and support for business
Calvin Coolidge
American entrepreneur who successfully produced automobiles through the use of mass roduction and assembly line production and created the largest industry in the 1920s
Henry Ford
The 1925 trial that pitted the morals of New Morality against those of Fundamentalism
Scopps Monkey Trial
Chicago gangster who made his fortune off of bootleg whiskey during Prohibition
Al Capone
A long period in the economic cycle with no economic activity
Recession
Building projects financed by the government during the Great Depression consisting of small shanty towns made of scap lumber
Hoovervilles
When the public rushed at once to withdraw their deposits from banks
Bank Run
Area throughout the Midwestern US that experienced years of drought followed by severe winds that blew top soil away
Dust Bowl
Hoover’s administration attempt to battle the Great Depression which made loans to banks, railroads, and agricultural institution
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Republican President elected in 1928 who was in office during the Stock Market crash, did not believe the federal government shhould support the economy
Herbert Hoover
New Deal program that federally insured one’s bank deposits up to a specific amount
Government Safety Net
New deal program that provided a government watchdog agency over Stock Market transactions
Security Exchange Commission
World economic system in which the government controls major parts of the economy
Socialism
World economic system in which the resouces, means of production, and profits are realized by private individuals in a free markey exchange of goods with no government intervention
Capitalism
World economic system in which the government contols all aspects of the economy including resources, labor, production, and distribution
Communism
A tactic used by labor to walk off the job, closing down production in an effort to get management to meet their labor demands
Strikes
Democratic President elected in 1932 who supported New Deal programs intervening in the economy in order to combat the Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR’s plan for putting Supreme Court justice on the cout that support the New Deal
Court-Packing Plan
The allied nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War 2
Axis Powers
The allied nations of the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union during World War 2
Allied Powers
German nationalist and anti-communist political party who supported Hitler in the 1930’s
Nazis
The 1939 agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union promising not to attack each other and to divide Poland
Soviet Non-Agression Pact
German form of a modern mechanized military force known as “lightning war”
Blitzkrieg
Name of Hitler’s biography “My Struggle” in which he outlined Germany’s future racial and political policies
Mein Kampf
US naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, drawing the US in World War 2
Pearl Harbor
US foreign policy that allowed for arms to be loaned or rented to warrng nations in which the US had inteests
Land-Lease Act
Fascist dictator of Germany elected as Germany’s Chancellor by the Nazi party
Adolf Hitler
Fascist dictator of Italy known as “El Duce”
Benito Mussolini
Emperor of Japan during World War 2
Hirohito
Britain’s Prime Minister during World War 2
Winston Churchill
Dictator of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death, led the Soviet Union during World War 2
Joseph Stalin
Nickname given to a US soldier during World War 2 signifying him as a “government issue”
G.I.
Naval battle in the Pacific in which the Japanese were pushed back and American supply lines were kept intact; turning point in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
The Japanese forced march of Allied prisoners in the Phillipines in which thousands died due to starvation, disease, and exposure
Bataan Death March
1942 US domestic policy in which Japanese-Americans were forced to relocate at established internment camps
Japanese Amercian Relocation
Fierce battle between Germany and Soviet Union in which the German forces began to retreat; turning point in European theatre forcing Germany to be on the defensive
Battle of Stalingrad
US economic policy during World War 2 to reduce consumption of vital products needed for the war effort
Rationing
1944 Allied invasion at Normandy, France to open a second western front against Germany
D-Day
Nickname of the Allied countries from United States, Britain, and Soviet Union
Big Three
Last major German offensive maneuver in 1944 that was ultimately turned back by US troops under General Patton
Battle of the Bulge
Major battle in the Pacific war against Japan in which US fought hard to win control of the island to be used as a refeuling base
Battle of Iwo Jima
The US Naval commander in the Pacific theatre against Japan
Chester Nimitz
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