Terms : Hide Images
| 428867087 | Axis Powers | in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936. | |
| 428867088 | Bonus Army | 20,000 unemployed WWI veterans that descended on Washington in the spring of 1932 demanding early payment of a bonus due in 1945. | |
| 428867089 | Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire | |
| 428867090 | Committee on Public Information | Created April 1917, It was headed by George Creel. The purpose of this committee was to mobilize people's minds for war, both in America and abroad. Tried to get the entire U.S. public to support U.S. involvement in WWI. Creel's organization, employed some 150,000 workers at home and oversees. He proved that words were indeed weapons. | |
| 428867091 | Congress of Racial Equality | (CORE), founded by interracial group of pacifists in 1942, held sit-ins in northern cities to integrate restaurants and theaters. | |
| 428867092 | Dollar Diplomacy | Foriegn Policy idea by Taft to make countries dependant on the U.S. by heavily investing in their economies | |
| 429614617 | Eighteenth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920 | |
| 429614618 | Emergency Banking Relief Act | (FDR) 1933 , gave the President power over the banking system and set up a system by which banks would be reorganized or reopened., HUNDRED DAYS STARTS | |
| 429614619 | Espionage Act | This law, passed after the United States entered WWI, imposed sentences of up to twenty years on anyone found guilty of aiding the enemy, obstructing recruitment of soldiers, or encouraging disloyalty. It allowed the postmaster general to remove from the mail any materials that incited treason or insurrection. | |
| 429614620 | GI Bill of Rights | 1944 government ensured readjustment rights to GIs after WWI unrest, loans to veterans for higher education and mortgages, unemployment pay, pensions, & job training (contributed to economic prosperity) | |
| 429614621 | Harlem Renaissance | a flowering of African American culture in the 1920s; instilled interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American | |
| 429614622 | HUAC | Congressional Committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the US gov. after WWII; targeted people in the movie industry thought to be Communist, part of the 1950's Red Scare; | |
| 429614623 | Korean War | conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People's Republic of China came to North Korea's aid. After more than a million combat casualties had been suffered on both sides, the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states. Negotiations in 1954 produced no further agreement, and the front line has been accepted ever since as the de facto boundary between North and South Korea. | |
| 429614624 | League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | |
| 429614625 | Lend-Lease Program | By FDR, passed by Congress, which authorized military aid to countries with a promise to somehow return it after the war. U.S. funneled billions of dollars worth of arms to Britain, China, and Soviet Union. | |
| 429614626 | Marshall Plan | Introduced by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in 1947, he proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism. | |
| 429614627 | Moral Diplomacy | foreign policy proposed by President Wilson to condemn imperialism, spread democracy, and promote peace | |
| 429614628 | National Origins Quota Act | This 1924 act established a quota system to regulate the influx of immigrants to America. The system restricted the "new" immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Asia. It reduced the annual total of immigrants. | |
| 429614629 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | |
| 429614630 | Nineteenth Amendment | the constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote. | |
| 429614631 | Office of War Information | a U.S. government agency created during World War II to consolidate government information services. It operated from June 1942 until September 1945. It coordinated the release of war news for domestic use, and, using posters and radio broadcasts, worked to promote patriotism, warned about foreign spies and attempted to recruit women into war work. The office also established an overseas branch which launched a large scale information and propaganda campaign abroad. | |
| 429614632 | Operation Barbarossa | Codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II -- led to USSR joining the Allies | |
| 429614633 | Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force | |
| 429614634 | Sedition Act | Made it a crime to criticize the government or government officials. Opponents claimed that it violated citizens' rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, guaranteed by the First Amendment. | |
| 429614635 | Truman Doctrine | 1947; Truman's statement of a new policy of active engagement to contain communism in response to communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey; persisted long after Mediterranean crisis, setting foundation for Cold War policy | |
| 429614636 | Twenty-first Amendment | Passed February, 1933 to repeal the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). Congress legalized light beer. Took effect December, 1933. Based on recommendation of the Wickersham Commission that Prohibition had lead to a vast increase in crime. | |
| 429614637 | United Nations | International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations. | |
| 429614638 | War Industries Board | This government agency oversaw the production of all American factories. It determined priorities, allocated raw materials, and fixed prices; it told manufacturers what they could and could not produce. | |
| 429614639 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | |
| 429614640 | World War I | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 | |
| 429614641 | World War II | War fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies and the Axis, involving most countries in the world. The United States joined the Allies in 1941, helping them to victory. |
