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| 6076515964 | new deal | A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. | 0 | |
| 6217990637 | harlem rennaisance | A renewal and flourishing of black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City. | 1 | |
| 6218028186 | Xenophobia | a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers | 2 | |
| 6218034246 | mass media | Forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people. | 3 | |
| 6218036199 | Red scare | A period of general fear of communists | 4 | |
| 6218039119 | Great Migration | movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 | 5 | |
| 6218070733 | united nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | 6 | |
| 6218083979 | pearl harbor | 7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II. | 7 | |
| 6218085446 | Japanese internment | Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States during WWII. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country of their own choosing, the remainder-roughly 110,000 me, women and children-were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior. | 8 | |
| 6218088998 | civil liberties | Constitutional freedoms guaranteed to all citizens | 9 | |
| 6218090703 | atomic bomb | bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying both cities | 10 | |
| 6218105048 | Normalcy | A return to "normal" life after the war. | 11 | |
| 6218107503 | Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s; arrested (1920), tried and executed (1927) for a robbery/murder, they were believed by many to have been innocent but convicted because of their immigrant status and radical political beliefs. | 12 | |
| 6218116735 | Scopes Trial | 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools | 13 | |
| 6218121775 | the lost generation | Phrase coined by Gertrude Stein to characterize the young Americans emerging from WWI. They were experiencing a disenchantment with modern America so they isolated themselves and embarked on journeys of self-fulfillment; included Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald | 14 | |
| 6218124777 | flappers | carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. Many people saw the bold, boyish look and shocking behavior of flappers as a sign of changing morals. Though hardly typical of American women, the flapper image reinforced the idea that women now had more freedom. | 15 | |
| 6218128647 | Hawley Smoot tariff | Charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation. | 16 | |
| 6218132067 | pump priming | economic theory that favored public works projects because they put money into the hands of consumers who would buy more goods, stimulating the economy | 17 | |
| 6218139839 | relief, recovery, reform | Three components of the New Deal. The first "R" was the effort to help the one-third of the population that was hardest hit by the depression, & included social security and unemployment insurance. The second "R" was the effort in numerous programs to restore the economy to normal health, achieved by 1937. Finally, the third "R" let government intervention stabilize the economy by balancing the interests of farmers, business and labor. There was no major anti-trust program. | 18 | |
| 6218149591 | CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps. It was Relief that provided work for young men 18-25 years old in food control, planting, flood work, etc. | 19 | |
| 6218155592 | WPA | Work Progress Administration: Massive work relief program funded projects ranging from construction to acting; disbanded by FDR during WWII | 20 | |
| 6218159529 | Social Security Act | (FDR) 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health | 21 | |
| 6218166563 | Wagner Act | 1935; established National Labor Relations Board; protected the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands. | 22 | |
| 6218174362 | dust bowl | Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. | 23 | |
| 6218183558 | neutrality act | 4 laws passed in the late 1930s that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents | 24 | |
| 6218211558 | appeasement | A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler. | 25 | |
| 6218225155 | America First Commitee | Group formed in 1940 by isolationist to block further aid to Britain | 26 | |
| 6218228331 | Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war | 27 | |
| 6218229823 | Manhattan Project | A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb. | 28 |
