1920s 1930s 1940s
Quota System - US immigration limit
Warren G. Harding - president, caught with scandal of teapot dome
Calvin Coolidge - president, citizenship to natives, didn’t do much
19th Amendment - women can vote
Teapot Dome Scandal - bribery scandal involving harding cabinet, big oil companies and corruption
Albert Bacon Fall - known person in teapot dome scandal, vice president, only person convicted
"Silent Cal" - averted and avoided the depression, seen as silent
Fundamentalism - form of religion, strict belief in scripture (very literal)
Scopes Trial - science vs religion on evolution
Second Wave of the KKK - antisemitism, anti catholic
Speakeasies - illegal hidden bars
Bootlegging - illegal making of alcohol
Sacco and Vanzetti - anarchists charged with murder and were executed
The Lost Generation - writers after ww1
F Scott Fitzgerald - great gatsby
Chicago White Sox - rigged to lose their baseball game for money
Al Smith - catholic who ran for president but lost because kkk hated him
Charles Curtis - first native vice president, first native in office
Installment Buying - purchase is made and paid throughout given period with interest
Buying on Margin - paying only a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest to make a stock purchase. borrowing money from broker to buy stock
Over-Speculation - buying too many stocks hoping to sell at a higher price in a short period of time, regardless of risk involved
Black Tuesday - start of great depression
Hawley-Smoot Act - High protective tariff resulted in retaliatory tariffs in other countries, which strangled international trade. signed to protect US farmers from foreign competitors
Great Depression - stock market crash that affected millions
Herbert Hoover - in office during great depression, didn’t do much
Hoovervilles - shacks and towns nicknamed after Hoover
Trickle Down Economics - increasing wealth of rich would trickle down to society for more money earned
Bonus Army March - demonstrators and veterans of ww1 protesting for money promised
Dust Bowl - severe dust storms from overgrazed lands, 8 years
Okies and Arkies - people who traveled to west coast from dust bowl
FDR - 1930s president with 3 Rs
First 100 Days - Create as much as possible to begin addressing the issues of the Great Depression. Leads to creation of the “Alphabet Agencies”- groups that targeted particular industries and individuals to provide “The 3 R’s” of the New Deal. (allied offenses that ended ww1)?
Fireside Chats - weekly radio message from FDR
Relief - improved lives, helped bring relief
Recovery - long term employment plans, jobs
Reform - guard against another great depression, economic stability
Court Packing - reorganized and changed size of supreme court
Works Progress Administration - new deal agency that employed millions to carry out public projects
Civilian Conservation Corps - work relief program that allowed jobs for men in outdoor jobs
Eleanor Roosevelt - first lady, activist for social problems
Puerto Rico - we gave them stuff?
Indian Reorganization Act - decreasing control of natives, increasing native government and responsibility
Frances Perkins - first woman in presidential cabinet
War of the Worlds - alien invasion story on radio
Albert Lebrun - president of france during invasion by germany
Third Reich - nazi germany, german state in ww2
Adolf Hitler - dictator of Germany
Nationalism - advocacy and support for own country
Racial "Purification" - policies to keep aryan race at the top
Appeasement - giving into demands to keep peace
Lebensraum - german expansionism and nationalism
Non-Aggression Pact - german and soviet agreement to not fight
Fair Labor Standards Act - law of minimum wage, overtime pay, no child labor
Anti-Semitism - hatred of jews
Nazism - political party in germany
Aryan Race - concept of keeping aryan race pure
Nuremberg Laws of 1935 - made jews legally different from others, racist laws
Kristallnacht - night of broken glass, antisemitic violence
Final Solution - plan of genocide, holocaust
Neutrality Acts - kept US out of war
Invasion of Poland - joint attack on poland by soviet union and germany, beginning of ww2
Blitzkrieg - lightning war, surprise attack to avoid long battles and war
Cash and Carry - sold military supplies to britain and france on a cash and carry basis
Battle of Britain - british air force defended britain against germany
Luftwaffe - german air force
Destroyers for Bases - ships sent to britain in exchange for land rights on british possessions
Lend-Lease Act - allowed US to lend or lease war supplies to allies
USS Panay - US ship attacked by japan in china
Attack on Pearl Harbor - december 7th 1941 japan attacked
Siege of Stalingrad - nazis trapped in struggle with soviets in control for stalingrad
D-Day - june 6th, 1944
Normandy - region of northern france, d-day landing
Battle of the Bulge - ardennes offensive, last major german offensive during ww2
Battle of Midway - major naval battle in june in pacific theater
Battle of Iwo Jima - flag raised, one of last major battles of japan and us war
Battle of Okinawa - bloodiest battle of pacific, operation iceberg, island of okinawa
Dwight D. Eisenhower - supreme commander of force in europe, 5 star general
George S. Patton - general in army who commanded in europe, US 7th army
Higgins Boat - boats that arrived at normandy
Omaha Beach - 1 of 5 beach landings of normandy, casualties were higher here
PPSh-41 - german firearm
Conscientious objector - fighting but no killing or guns
Dunkirk - operation dynamo, evacuation of allies from the city's beach
Battle of Britain - successful defense of Great Britain against destructive air raids from Germany
Battle of Berlin - one of final battles, fall of berlin, soviets attacked and took the city