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
Relief for the needy
Economic recovery
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