history chapter 11 PART TWO

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Herbert Hoover

President during great depression
Blamed for it

Black Tuesday

The stock market crashed
Starts great depression

Okies

People who leave dust bowl and try to find jobs
Many from oklahoma

Patman Bill

Congress wright patman's idea was to authorize government to pay a bonus to ww1 vets for service
Werent supposed to get money until 1945 (Patman wanted to give money now)

Orson Welles

war of the worlds radio show
Martians landing in US
Most people tuned in a few minutes late, didn't hear disclaimer that its not real
People panicked and had heart attacks
Congress created FCC and now everything is regulated because of that

Buying on Margin

They would go into debt for them

Dorthea Lange

photographer who took pictures of migrant workers to draw attention to the desperate conditions in rural america and her most famous picture was called "migrant mother"

Black Cabinet

the black cabinet was a name given to influential black leaders who advised fdr on racial affairs

Grant Wood

American gothic
Depiction of what it's like to be farmer during great depression

New Deal

FDR program to alleviate the problems of the great depression
1. Relief for the needy
2. Economic recovery
3. Financial reform
Fireside chats to talk about it

Huey Long

(the kingfish)
His promise to people was every man is going to be a king
He proposed a program called share our wealth (very popular, little too popular and he gets killed)

Deficit Spending

When the gov spends more money than they take in with taxes
This is what new deal was doing
Got idea from John Maynard Keynes
Hoping that if gov spends money to help people then the people will spend money

New Deal Coalition

the new deal coalition was made to help democrats dominate politics it's like some southern whites and some black ppl and some urban groups and some union guys

Great Purge

In soviet union 1934-1938
Killed a lot of people
Can include best friends and his wife (lied and said she committed suicide)

Aryans

Meaning master race
Hitler said germans were the master race

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Volunteers from US go fight for spanish gov to stop takeovers

Kurt Von Schushnigg

Leader in austria
Hitler wants him to put nazis in government
Trying to bully him
He says okay but when he goes to austria he changes his mind

War Refugee Board

President roosevelt creates this
Task was to get jewish people out of europe

Johnson Debt Default Act

this prohibited foreign loans to any country that had not paid their WW1 debts

Black Market

OPA accidentally created this
sell goods illegally and pay more for these goods

A Philip Randolph

African american labor leader
Organizes march where 10s of thousands of african americans protest discrimination in workplace

JACL

Japanese american citizen league
Formed after WW2
Created to try to get government to compensate people put in camps

Operation Overlord

Allied invasion of normandy france
Eisenhower in charge
D-Day june 6, 1944

Navajo Code Talkers

These were indians hired by the government
Only code in history to never be broken

Island Hopping

Alliance strategy against the japanese
Capture island after island
Eventually close enough to attack japan

Harry Truman

FDR had died on April 12 1945: Truman now president
Have to inform him of manhattan project
He decided to use atomic bomb

General Leslie Groves

Was the leader of the manhattan project

A Robert Oppenheimer

Was the lead scientist on the manhattan project

General MacArthur

Put in charge of japan
Redid their economy into free market system like ours
Wrote new constitution for guaranteed basic rights to people
Women get right to vote

Kamikazes

First used in battle of leyte gulf
Suicide pilots

Battle of the Bulge

Germany's last chance to try and win war
Captured germany before things
germany is weak
Allied troops begin to liberate death camps in germany

General Eisenhower

Operation torch led by general dwight d eisenhower
Invasion of north africa
Also operation overlord
He's in charge of D-Day

James Farmer

forms CORE
Congress of racial equality

WPB

War production board
Industry gets resources they need

Appeasement

Giving into people's demands to avoid war