APUSH unit 7

New Deal

A series of programs and projects enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.

Social Security Act

A law enacted in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.

Wagner Act

A foundational statute of United States labor law which guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes.

Dust Bowl

An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to migrate.

Court Packing Plan

A move by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation.

Neutrality Acts

Laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars.

Lend-Lease Act

A program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with war material between 1941 and 1945.

Pearl Harbor

A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00 on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Internment Camps

The forced relocation and incarceration in camps during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast.

D-Day

The landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

Manhattan Project

A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

Atomic Bomb

A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting atoms of uranium or plutonium) or nuclear fusion (fusing atoms of hydrogen into helium).

Zoot Suit Riots

A series of racial attacks in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between sailors and Marines stationed in the city and Latino youths who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored.