APUSH 7b vocab

Double V

The slogan African Americans adopted, encouraging them to enlist in the military to defeat fascism abroad and achieve equality at home.

Frances Perkins

Part of FDRs "brain trust", she was the first woman ever to serve in the president's cabinet

Holocaust

Hitler's "final solution" to the "Jewish problem" in Europe. A systemic genocide of the undesirable population.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

A reform program of the New Deal which was created to regulate the stock market and to place strict limits on the kind of speculative practices that had led to the Wall Street Crash in 1929. It also required full audits of, and financial disclosure by, corporations to protect investors from fraud and insider trading

Pearl Harbor

This event on Dec 7th, 1941by Japanese pilots led the U.S. to declare war on Japan.

Workers Progress Administration (WPA)

A relief program from the Second New Deal which spent billions of dollars to prove people with jobs. In its first year of operation it employed 3.4 milion men and women on infrastructure projects and plaid writers, artists, actors, etc. to paint murals, perform plays, etc.

Internment Camps

Upheld in Korematsu vs. U.S., followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. rounded by Japanese Americans and put them into these.

Yalta

The postwar conferences where the Big Three met and divided Germany into militarized zones, established free elections in the liberated eastern European countries, agree the soviet union would enter the war against Japan, and agreed that the United Nations should become the new international peacekeeping organization

Lend-Lease Act

FDR permitted Britain to obtain all the US arms it needed on credit. The president equated this act with lending a neighbor a hose when their house is on fire

Office of Price Administration

Wartime agency which regulated almost every aspect of civilian life by freezing prices, wages, rents, and by rationing commodities such as sugar, meat, gas, etc.

Hawley Smoot Tariff

In 1930 Herbert Hoover attempted to fix the economy by passing this however all it did was halt trade between countries and ultimately sink the globe further into depression

Herbert Hoover

The president during the Great Depression who is criticized for doing too little too late. He preached self-reliance and community volunteerism as means to combat the economic downturn.

Harlem Renaissane

The artistic revolution of African Americans writers, poets, musicians, etc. in the 1920s

D-Day Invasion

The allied drive to liberate France which began on June 6th 1944 which was the largest invasion by sea in history

Birth of a Nation

The KKK created this silent film to reach large audiences and increase membership using mass media

Quota Laws

Congress passed these two laws that severely limited immigration by setting restrictions based on nationality

Good Neighbor Policy

FDR’s foreign policy towards the nations of the Western Hemisphere by the way of increased presence in Latin America, continuation of Pan-American Conferences, while simultaneously ensuring the US as the protector/leader of the Western Hemisphere.

Bank Holiday

In 1933, FDR’s first action as president to address what he saw as the greatest threat facing the American economy

United Nations

The international peacekeeping organization created after WWII which is still around today

Social Security Act

A reform program from the Second New Deal passed in 1935, it created a federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of payments from the employees and employers throughout people’s working careers that would then be paid out once the person turns 65

Huey Long

One of the most radical and critical demagogues of the New Deal ear who proposed the “share our wealth” program that proposed a minimum annual income to be paid by taxing the wealthy.

War Production Board

This wartime agency controlled the news about troops movement and battles and produced propaganda about the “Good War”, the “four freedoms”, etc.

The social security act

A reform program from the Second New Deal passed in 1935, it created a federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of payments from employees and employers throughout people’s working careers that would then be paid out once the person turns 65

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

A reform program of the New Deal which gave both the building industry and homeowners a boost by insuring bank loans for building an purchasing houses. While this allowed many new families to purchase homes safely, this is a prime example of how minorities did not benefit from the New deal programs since this program used “rediling” to define neighborhoods where African Americans lived

Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC)

A reform program of the New Deal, this guarantees individual bank deposits.

Hiroshima

On August 6th, the US dropped this first atomic bomb on this Japanese city

Hitler/Nazi Party

Rose to power in the 1920s Germany due to their horrible economic conditions and resentments of the Treaty of Versailles

New Deal

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s plan/program to get the country out of the Great Depression which was rooted in the “The Rs”

Appeasement

THe word to describe the unspoken foreign policy of the League of Nations and other world leaders towards Germany during their increasingly aggressive actions during the 1930s

Assembly Line

Henry Ford perfected this system for manufacturing automobiles and allowing for mass production across industries

Modernism

This new way of thinking that challenged fundamentalism, taking a critical view of the religion and believed in evolution

Black Tuesday

On October 29th, 1929 - the day when the stock market crashed is also known as…

Poland

The invasion of this land by Germany in 1939 marked the aggressive start to WWII as Germany broke the Munich

Island Hopping

After the victory at Midway, the US adopted this strategy to get within striking distance of Japan

Emergency banking relief act

Arecovery program of the New Deal which authorized the government to examine the finances of banks closed during the bank holiday and reopen those judged to be sound

Fireside chats

Roosevelt used the radio to broadcast these to assure listeners that the banks were safe and that the government is doing all it can to fix the economy