ACE SECOND US HISTORY FINAL 1920s, Great Depression, World War II

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