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What slow down the construction of the panama canal?

Yellow, fever, and malaria

What was the panama Canel do military wise?

Allow American naval ships two more quickly go between Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Panama canal economic motivations?

Increase trade by shipping goods, quicker, and more chiefly between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

Demobilization

Returning soldiers to American civilian life after the allied victory over the central powers in World War II

Race riots

Major cities as African Americans move to North in the great migration competed with returning white soldiers for jobs

Bull market

Prices on the stock market kept going up, Americans wealthy, and then to me to speculate or make risky stock purchases. under Sumption. They would make money, no matter what the messages.

Buying on margin

Form of buying with credit, you would give a down payment to a stockbroker who would then cover the rest of the cost for you to buy stock. You would pay them back when you sold your stock as the price increase during the bull market.

Who were the reservationists

Americans full were OK with the league of nations as long as article ex was amended to not be an automatic requirement, but allow for the US to first had a government vote if America come to the aid of another nation

Who were the irreconcilable’s?

American, to refuse to join the league of nations no matter what

Washington naval discernment conference

Attempt to reduce the size of navies in the arms, race or militariasm

Medicaid

Provides health coverage to millions of Americans, including illegible, low income, adult children, pregnant woman, and people with disabilities

Medicare

Federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older

Headstart

Program to help meet the emotional social health, nutritional and psychological needs of preschool age children from low income families

Department of housing and urban development

Responsible for programs that address America’s housing, needs to improve and develop poor communities and enforce fair housing laws

The great society

Series of social welfare programs instituted by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s trying to eliminate poverty and Racisl injustice

The Watergate scandal

Following a break in at the Democratic national committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex, Nixon attentive to cover it up by lying and resisting investigation which led to discovery multiple abuses by his administration and Nixon resign nation

The Tet offensive

Government to the public that the enemy was nearly defeated, but massive any new text to Vietnam in the middle of the night proves otherwise

Student nonviolent coordinating committee, SNCC

Famous for their sit ins

For power treaty

Signed by US Britain, France, and Japan promise not to expand any further in Asia or try to take any territory in Asian at one of the other countries currently held

Kellogg, Bryan pact

Agreement by many nations that they will not use war as a way to solve issues, but would use diplomacy first

Neutrality acts

Pass in the 1930s to ensure that the US will not become entangled again in foreign complex

Federal loyalty review program

Where are the FBI and government Vesta gator federal employees to see if there were any disloyal communist spicy over 3000 were fired or resign list was also made a group/organizations that the government considered to be a danger

Who were the Hollywood 10?

They were put on trial but HUAC, these 10 Hollywood writers, producers and directors office to testify and were sent to prison and black with it, or put on the list of people that movie studios refuse to hire because they’re suspect a connection to communism

Who is Alger Hiss?

Put on trial about HUAC found to be guilty of lying about his communist activity

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Husband and wife scientist found guilty of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet union and executed

Who is Joseph McCarthy?

Gained fame by claiming to have a list of government employees who are communist is extreme tactics and hurled basis, accusations at many people

McCarthyism

Lost power and same after he an H you AC were shown on TV, accusing the arm forces of harboring communist

HUAC house un-American activities committee

Government committee, that investigated communist

What is an economic boom

Rapid economic expansion

What are the roaring 20s

Economic, prosperity, rapid, social and cultural change in the mood to ask Brent optimism, decorative economic growth and wide, spread prosperity

What is the great depression?

Took place in the 1930s major foreign stock prices something about minx I rate of unemployment, poverty banking, business failures