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| 70199132 | A. Mitchell Palmer & Red Scare I | ordered Palmer raids on offices and homes of political leaders and union leaders who oppose gov't in response to Red Scare | |
| 70199133 | Sacco and and Vanzetti | 1921 case where Italian anarchists are executed under circumstantial evidence | |
| 70199134 | President Harding | Pres.1921 laissez-faire;"return to normalcy" after Wilson; failed to stop corruption in his adminstration | |
| 70199371 | Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals. Business prospered and people's wealth increased | |
| 70199372 | nativism I | a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones --> KKK | |
| 70628307 | Kellog-Briand Pact I | Agreement between the U.S. and France to abolish war | |
| 70628308 | Washington Naval Conference I | Harding invited several major powers to this event, and for the 1st time in history, powerful nations agreed to disarm | |
| 70628309 | Tea Pot Dome Scandal I | symbol of government corruption under Harding; oil reserves secretly sold to oil companes for $ | |
| 70628310 | Ohio Gang I | Harding's "advisors" who played poker, drank, and smoked with him in the White House | |
| 70628311 | Harlem Renaissance I | a flowering of African American culture in the 1920s; instilled interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American | |
| 70628312 | Causes of Great Depression II | Rugged individualism, speculation, buying on margin | |
| 70628313 | Hawley Smoot Tariff II | charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation | |
| 70628314 | Bank Holiday II | closing of banks for four days during the Great Depression to keep investors from withdrawing all their money and crashing bank | |
| 70628315 | Grapes of Wrath II | Book by Steinbeck about a family of migrant workers working during the Great Depression in the Dust Bowl | |
| 70628316 | Keynesian Economics II | Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes, stating govt. spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms. | |
| 70628317 | Franklin D. Roosevelt II | overcame polio to become President; his New Deal attempted to solve the economic problems of the Great Depression; he was a symbol of hope, courage, and optimism | |
| 70628318 | Works Progress Administration II | 1935; largest public works program of New Deal --> creating 9 million jobs | |
| 70628319 | Tennessee Valley Authority II | New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and provide electrical power to rural areas | |
| 70635378 | Civilian Conservation Corporation II | CCC- provided employment to young men by sending them to camps in national parks, forests, etc | |
| 70635379 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation II | Fed. agency that insures deposited money up to certain amount -->less bank failures --> restores faith in banks | |
| 70635380 | Social Security Act II | created a tax on workers and employers. That money provided monthly pensions for retired people to sustain them from poverty | |
| 70635381 | Agricultural Adjustment Act II | Gave farmers money to reduce crop size to reduce production and bring up the value of crops | |
| 70635382 | Wagner Act II | 1935, also National Labor Relations Act; granted rights to unions; allowed collective bargaining | |
| 70659286 | Isolationism | Quarantine speech on Japan's invasion of China in 1937 --> FDR showed that he was moving the country slowly out of isolationism | |
| 70659287 | Atlantic Charter | secret agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 outlining the two nations' war aims for self-determination | |
| 70672581 | Axis Powers | alliance between germany, italy, and japan because they all wanted empires and they were totalitarian | |
| 70672582 | Lend-lease Act | Program where U.S. supplied Allies vast amounts of war material during WWII --> ended the neutrality between Germany and the US | |
| 70672583 | D-Day | June 6th 1944, Allied forces under Dwight d. eisenhower landed on the beaches of normandy in history's greatest naval invasion --> surrounded Germ. to force surrender |
