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| 6248742767 | Installment Plans | Companies used advertisement to get people to buy goods over an extended period of time, without having to put down very much money at the time of purchase. With this plan people could purchase automobile, household appliances, homes, furniture, and other items. | 0 | |
| 6248742768 | Bonus Army | Thousands of World War I veterans, who insisted on immediate payment of their bonus certificates, marched on Washington in 1932; violence ensued when President Herbert Hoover ordered their tent villages cleared. | 1 | |
| 6248746286 | National Origins Act 1924 | Severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. | 2 | |
| 6248749568 | Roosevelt's Court Packing Plan | Roosevelt's proposal in 1937 to "reform" the Supreme Court by appointing an additional justice for every justice over age of 70; following the Court's actions in striking down major New Deal laws, FDR came to believe that some justices were out of touch with the nation's needs. Congress believed Roosevelt's proposal endangered the Court's independence and said no. | 3 | |
| 6248751346 | Agricultural Adjustment Act | New Deal legislation that established the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) to improve agricultural prices by limiting market supplies; declared unconstitutional in United States V. Butler (1936). | 4 | |
| 6248751347 | Manhattan Project | Research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. | 5 | |
| 6248754407 | Huey Long | "The Kingfish" began political career in Louisiana where he developed a reputation for being an unscrupulous reformer. As a U.S. senator, he became a critic of President Roosevelt's New Deal Plan and offered his alternative called the Share-the-Wealth program, assassinated in 1935. | 6 | |
| 6248758327 | The Lend Lease Act | Permitted the United States to lend or lease arms and other supplies to the Allies, signifying increasing likelihood of American involvement in World War II. | 7 | |
| 6248760747 | Harding's "return to normalcy" | Republican nominee, campaigned on the promise of a "return to normalcy," which would mean a return to conservative values and a turning away from Presidents Wilson's internationalism. | 8 | |
| 6248765312 | Effects of the radio | Served as the basic communication until 1920. Companies like, National Broadcasting Company(NBC), Radio Corporation of America(RCA), Columbia Broadcasting System(CBS) would broadcast. News, commercials, and sports heard by everyone. | 9 | |
| 6248769495 | Characteristics of Republican Presidents of the 1920s | Focused on big business and making money. Republican policies generally gave corporations free rein, raised protective tariffs, and cut taxes for the rich. | 10 | |
| 6248769496 | Wagner Act | Gave workers the right to bargain through unions of their own choice and prohibited employers from interfering with union activities. Also created a National Labor Relations Board of five members to supervise plant elections and certify unions as bargaining agents where a majority of the workers improved. | 11 | |
| 6248771403 | Hoovervilles | Squalid settlements that sprouted across the country to house the destitute and homeless. | 12 | |
| 6248773999 | Tennessee Valley Authority | Designed to bring electrical power and jobs to one of the poorest regions in the nation. | 13 | |
| 6248778821 | Sacco and Vanzetti | Criminal case of immigration and radicalism. Italians, Sacco a shoemaker and Vanzetti a fish peddler, Stole $16,000 and killed the paymaster and his guard. Sentenced for political ideas and ethnic origin rather than crime. Executed August 23, 1927. | 14 | |
| 6248782380 | Harlem Renaissance/Jazz Age | African American literary, artistic, and musical movement of the 1920s and the 1930s centered in New York City's Harlem district; writers Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen active during movement. | 15 | |
| 6248784298 | Japanese relocation | Executive Order 9066. All Japanese removed from their homes and placed in internment camps, mostly in California. Essentially concentration camps with barbed wire and small cabins; not allowed to marry outside race, and forced them to attend segregated schools. Japanese immigration stopped. | 16 | |
| 6248784299 | Battle of Midway | Turning point of the Pacific war that demonstrated elements of modern warfare. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander, steered fleet towards Hawaii's westernmost inhabited islands; hoped to render Pearl Harbor helpless. Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of central Pacific, reinforced with planes and aircraft carriers. Japan lost 4 of their best aircraft carriers; Americans lost a carrier and a destroyer. | 17 | |
| 6248788601 | Causes of the stock market crash | People borrowing money to invest in commodities, mass production government policies, gold standard | 18 | |
| 6248788617 | Palmer Raids/Red Scare | Response to Red Scare, after several bombings A. Mitchell Palmer became convinced that there was a well-organized Communist terror campaign at work. The federal gov't launched a campaign of raids, deportations, and collecting files on radical individuals./Fear among many Americans after World War I of Communists in particular and non citizens in general, a reaction to the Russian Revolution, mail bombs, strikes, and riots. | 19 | |
| 6248792786 | The Ku Klux Klan in the 20's | Revived in the 1910s and 1920s stressed white, Anglo-Saxon, fundamentalist Protestant supremacy. | 20 | |
| 6248795723 | "lost generation" | Ernest Hemingway's novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) depict a desperate search for "real" life and the doomed, war-tainted love affairs of the young Americans of the "lost" generation. These novels feature the frenetic, hard-drinking lifestyle and the cult of athletic masculinity that became the stuff of the public image. | 21 | |
| 6248795724 | Flappers | A model of new feminism derived from the way fashionable young women allowed their galoshes to flap around their ankles. American individualism. | 22 | |
| 6248795725 | D-Day | June 6, 1944, when an Allied amphibious assault landed on the Normandy coast and established a foothold in Europe from which Hitler's defenses could not recover. | 23 | |
| 6248799287 | Dr. Francis Townsend | Began the Townsend Recovery Plan which would pay $200 a month to every citizen over 60 who retired from employment and promised to spend the money within each month. | 24 | |
| 6248802212 | FDR's "banking holiday" | Allowed financial panic to subside with the Emergency Banking Relief Act, which permitted sound banks to reopen and provided managers for those who remained in trouble. FDR has "fireside chats" over the radio where he insisted it was safer to keep your money in a reopened bank rather than at home. | 25 | |
| 6248804102 | Roosevelt's first 100 days | A session that lasted from March 9 to June 16 where Congress received from the president, and enacted 15 major proposals with unprecedented speed. Pass of Emergency Relief Act, Economy Act, establishment of the CCC, abandon gold standard, Pass of FERA, AAA, EFMA, TVA, FSA, HOLA, NIRA, Banking Act, and the Farm Credit Act. | 26 | |
| 6248804103 | Characteristics of Second New Deal | It concentrated on using deficit spending. It was meant to add more federal relief assistance to those that needed it for the long term rather than a short fix. | 27 | |
| 6248811601 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki (rationale) | Chose Hiroshima because it was a major assembly point for Japanese naval convoys, a center of war industries, and headquarters of the Second General Army. Enola Gay dropped bomb nicknamed Little Boy. Chose Nagasaki after originally wanting Kokura but it was too devastated. Bockscar dropped bomb names Fat Man. | 28 | |
| 6248815260 | The Smith-Connally Act | Authorized the government to seize plants and mines useful to the war effort. | 29 | |
| 6248815261 | Rationing | People saved goods to help with the war effort; also had "victory gardens" where they grew their own food in their backyard. | 30 | |
| 6248818798 | Social Security Act | Centerpiece was a pension fund for retired people over the age of 65 and their survivors. Also set up a shared federal-state unemployment-insurance program, financed by a payroll of tax on employers | 31 | |
| 6248822801 | Arsenal of Democracy | During WWII, A slogan used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast delivered on 29 December 1940. | 32 | |
| 6248829304 | Destroyers for Bases | On September 3, 1940, FDR approves the this deal with Great Britain. Through this deal, the United States transferred destroyers to the British Navy in exchange for leases for British naval and air bases. | 33 | |
| 6248829321 | Cash and Carry | A policy requested by FDR at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939, subsequent to the outbreak of war in Europe. It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936. | 34 |
