Studied by 1 person
"BULL MOOSE" PARTY
Theodore Roosevelt's new 3rd political party
Gifford Pinchot
enviromental activist,
Hetch Hetchy Controversy
should water be taken from hetch hetchie to SF? no. Lake should be protected
Hull House-Jane Addams
Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) ("WOBBLIES")
labor union,
Muckrakers
journalists that would find corruption and expose them
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
New Freedom
Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy that, promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters.
New Nationalism
President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to restore the government's trust-busting power
Prohibition (18th amendment)
banned alcohol
Robert La Follette
helped pass primary elections and direct elections of US senators
Social Gospel
protestant mvmnt to help the poor
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY
FIRE
industrial disaster that killed ppl, not able to leave building b/c doors are locked
Allies
Great Britain, France, Russia
Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Dollar Diplomacy
Presidient Taft, linked political power with trade
"GREAT MIGRATION"
migration of AA and others up from south to cities b/c more opportunities due to war
League of Nations
an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations
Ludlow Massacre
The violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado in the on April 20, 1914.
Lusitania
ship carrying US passengers, fired on by german u-boats. Cause for US joining war formally
Nineteenth Amendment
gave w the right to vote
Palmer Raids
raids on suspected communists
Pancho Villa
mexican revolutionary leader
Red Scare
ppl scared of communism and socialism infiltrating their lives/society/gov/schools
Roosevelt Corollary
edited Monroe Doctrine, gave US power to intervene in all countries in the americas to preserve order and protect life
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
led the fight to defeat the League of Nations
Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's post WWI plan, most of which was rejected by European leaders following the war.
Treaty of Versailles
Ended WW1, gave harsh punishment to Ger and blamed Ger for the war
Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple Entente
Britain, France, Russia
United Negro Improvement Association
founded by Marcus Garvey
Zimmermann Telegram
intercepted telegram w/ Ger trying to get Mx to join the war
"AMERICAN PLAN"
WW! health program to fight disease
Harlem Renaissance
AA culture boom: arts, lit, music(jazz), etc
Herbert Hoover
US President, R, when GD started
Issei/ Nissei
Issei: 1st gen JPN immigrants, Nissei: 2nd gen
2nd KU KLUX KLAN
revival b/c immigration and nationalism
Lost Generation
Americans who became disillusioned with society after World War I
Margaret Sanger
United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
National Origins Act of 1924
restricted immigration by using quotas per country
SCOPES "MONKEY
TRIAL"
when evolution was banned in TN but a teacher taught it anyways
Teapot Dome
A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921
The Jazz Singer
first movie with sound
Welfare Capitalism
An approach to labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers' needs without prompting by unions, thus preventing strikes and keeping productivity high
Agricultural Marketing Act
Attempted to help farmers maintain crop prices with a federally sponsored Farm Board
Black Tuesday
1929, stock crash before GD
Bonus Army
WW1 vets marched on WA DC, asking for their bonus checks
Dust Bowl
Great Planes in drought, called Dust Bowl
Tariff Act of 1930
U.S. trade legislation that raised tariff rates on most articles imported by the United States, triggering comparable tariff increases by U.S. trading partners.
Hindenburg
President of Germany who died and was replaced by Hitler
Hoovervilles
Depression shantytowns named after Hoover b/c they blamed him
Life Magazine (GD)
showed parts of GD that would not have been seen otherwise
"OKIES"
ppl (farmers) who migrated from dust bowl
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
supposed to make gov loans to businesses, failed
Scottsboro Case
Nine black teenagers were taken off a freight train in a small town near Scottsboro, Alabama and were accused of raping 2 yt w although there was significant evidence to suggest the women were lying. They were sentenced to death but all regained their freedom.
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
raised crop prices by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted
"BANK HOLIDAY"
FDR shut down the banks
Broker State
role of the government to work out conflicts among competing interest groups
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
industrial workers union
Court Packing Plan (Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937)
added more justices to US supreme court
Eleanor Roosevelt
w's rights and civil rights activist, new deal supporter
Francis E. Townsend - Townsend Plan
play all ppl over 60 pension money every month
John Collier, John L. Lewis
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Leader of United Mine Workers
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
This organization provided for a system of Industrial Self-regulation under federal supervision
Second New Deal
Union protection programs, SSA, aid to farmers/immigrants
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
regulated stock market by restricting margin buying
Social Security Act
monthly pensions for ppl over 65
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
dams and power plants in TN valley, gave ppl jobs and electricity
Atlantic Charter
Eng and US statement of goals for fighting World War II
Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo,
Fascist Dictator of Italy, JPN fascist military leader,
Cordell Hull, Henry Stimson
FDR's secretary of state who promoted reciprocal trade agreements especially with Latin America, Hoover's secretary of st during WW2,
Dawes Plan
A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success.
Good Neighbor Policy
FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war
Lend-Lease Act
US can sell/lend weapons to Eng, but not fully in the war yet
Neutrality Acts
Laws passed that were meant to keep the US out of war
Pearl Harbor
JPN bombed Hawaii and destroyed many ships/planes. One cause for US to join WW2
Washington Conference of 1921
attempted to prevent a global naval arms race
BATTLE OF THE BULGE, GUADALCANAL, D-DAY, Midway, Okinawa
WWII battle in which German forces launched a final counterattack in the west, first U.S. land victory over the Japanese 1943, Allied invasion of France on June 6 1944, turning point for US pacific battle, last major battle in JPN b 4 atomic bomb: us won,
BRACEROS
Mexican laborers
COLOSSUS II
first programable, digital computer that deciphered German codes instantly
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY
(CORE)
Organization founded by pacifists in 1942 to promote racial equality through peaceful means
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
leader of the Allied forces in Europe then was elected to be Pres. of the USA
ENOLA GAY
Airplane that dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima
ENRICO FERMI
1st controlled nuclear chain reaction
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
HIROSHIMA
Japanese city that was hit with the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945
Korematsu v. US (1944)
Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans.
Luftwaffe
German Air Force
Manhattan Project
US atomic bomb project
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
an agency established by Congress to control inflation during World War II
"RELOCATION CENTERS"
concentration camps for JPN Am
"ROSIE THE RIVETER"
W can work in the military too!
Zoot Suits/ Zoot Suit Riots
suits with long loose jackets worn by Mexican Americans/yts would attack them and then the police came and arrested those wearing the zoot suits
Note
Flashcard