American Studies 2 CP Midterm
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- Charles Lindberg
- Made first solo trip in the Spirit of the St. Louis
- KKK
- terrorist group of white sourhterners who used violence to keep blacks from voting
- Kellogg- Briand Pact
- this treaty was signed by 15 nations who pledged not to make war against each other except in self defense
- flapper
- new style of woman
- Cash and Carry
- way around Neutrality act (1937) belligerants buy supplies, pay before hand & carry in their own ships
- Holocaust
- genocide of European Jews by Nazi's
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- former US navy oil reserve secretly leased to priavte oil companies to make a profit
- Casablanca Conference
- planned the strategy of european allies
- unrestricted submarine warfare
- germans state that they will sink any ship whitin british waters without warning
- New Deal
- the 3 main goals made by FDR 1. relief for the unemployed 2. plans for recovery 3. reforms to prevent another depression
- Franz Ferdinand
- Arch Duke of Austria hungary, assasinated
- Yalta Conference
- Meeting between allies -priority would be unconditional surrender of Nazi Forces
- Battles of Iwo Jima/ Okinawa
- 2 of the bloodiest battles that occured as Americans moved closer to Japan
- Francisco Franco
- Spanish dictator who rises into power after Spanish Civil War in 1936
- September 1, 1939
- German troops invaded poland beginning WW2
- sussex pledge
- Agreement with Germany to restrict U-boat Warfare
- Neville Chamberlain
- prime minister of Great Britain before World War II
- GI Bill
- act passed by congress that rewarded veterans of WW2
- Winston Churchill
- Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid
- U-Boats
- German Submarines used to attack US in WW1 and 2
- Calvin Coolidge
- took office when Harding died
- Good neighbor policy
- halted direct intervention with Latin American politics
- Adolph Hitler
- Leader of the Nazi during WW2
- 21st Ammendment
- Repeal of the 18th Ammendment (prohibition)
- consumer economy
- An economy that depends on a large amount of spending by consumers.
- lusitania
- British Ship, sunk by U-boats on May 7th, 1915, killing 128 Americans and causing America to go to war.
- Joseph Stalin
- Became dictator of Russia, believed in Communism
- battle of guadalcanal
- first allied offense in the pacific, invasion of Japanese held island
- Henry Ford
- Invented the Model T automobile, began using the assembly lines to mass produce cars
- Kamikazes
- a Japanese pilot who carried out suicidal attack on a target
- Warren Harding
- 29th president from 1921 - 1923 died in office
- selective service act
- drafting men into military service
- Red scare
- a period of general fear of communists
- central powers
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire
- second new deal
- new set of rules and reforms by FDR
- court packing controversy
- FDR proposal to add up to 6 new judged to the Supreme Court
- island hopping
- strategy of capturing some Japanese islands and avoiding others
- Lend-Lease Act
- US supplied allies with war materials in exchange for military bases
- Atlantic Charter
- a conference b/w FDR and Churchill declared the Allies' war aims,
- October 29, 1929
- The american stock market crash "Black Tuesday"
- laissez-faire
- let people do for themselves, government stays out
- bank holiday
- closing of banks to keep depositers from bankrupting
- Bonus Army
- unemployed WWI veterans who marched tp washington to demand their war bonuses
- Japanese internment
- nearly 120,000 Japanese put to live in specific areas due to fear of them being enemies
- allies in WW1
- Great britain, france, and russia later joined by the US an Italy
- Neutrality Acts
- banned arms sales or loans to countries at war
- Charles Degaulle
- leader of Free France
- brain trust
- Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression
- John J. Pershing
- Lead naval attack on Europe
- vladmir lenin
- leader of russian revolution
- Blitzkrieg
- German military strategy involved armored attacks and air assults
- Dust Bowl
- the area of the Great Plains where wind erosion caused soil loss during the 1930's
- battle of the coral sea
- A battle between Japanese and American naval forces that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.
- Fourteen points
- Wilson's plan for lasting peace in europe
- isolationism
- not participating in foreign affairs
- Communism
- economic system in which all means of production are owned by the government.
- final solution
- decision to murder ANY jew
- armistice
- an agreement to suspend military operations
- Douglas MacArthur
- He defended the Philipines and during WWII he led the army from Australia to defeat Japanese
- Benito Mussolini
- Creator of the Fascist Party in Italy.
- Wagner Act
- made to protect people's right to set up unions
- "He kept us out of the war"
- Wilson's campaign slogan
- Al Capone
- Gangster wanted by the government for the illegal sale of alcohol
- Dunkirk
- a seaport in N France: site of the evacuation of a British expeditionary force of over 330,000 men under German fire
- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
- Where US eventual dropped Atomic Bomb