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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Five-Power Pact of 1922 | for every 5 tons of American and British warships, Japan would maintain 3, France and Italy, 1.75 each |
| Kellogg- Briand Pact of 1928 | treaty outlawing war as an instrument of nation policy |
| Burke- Wadsworth Act of 1940 | first peacetime military draft in American history |
| Tripartite Pact | Alliance between Germany and Italy |
| Smith- Connally Act of 1943 | required unions to wait thirty days before stiking an empowered the president to seize a struck war plant |
| Truman's Fair Deal | expansion of social security benefits, raising minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents an hour, ensuring full employment through use of federal spending |
| Taft- Hartley Act of 1847 | Labor- Management Relations Act, Federal government outlawed that you had to be in a union to get hired |
| Development of antibiotics | 1- Louis Pasteur 2- Jules- Francois Joubert 3- Joseph Lister 4- Alexander Fleming (penicillin) 5- Howard Florey 6- Ernest Chain |
| election of 1952 | Truman withdraw from the presidential contest--- Eisenhower chose Nixon as his running mate. Eisenhower won 55 % popular vote |
| election of 1944 | concern for the president's health, nevertheless Roosevelt won |
| Jonas Salk | invented vaccine for polio |
| DDT | Paul Muller in 1939, fertilizer that could kill insects |
| National Security Act of 1947 | a new dept. of defense to supervise all parts of the armed services |
| Fair Employment Practices Commission | summer 1941, investigate discrimination in war industries |
| Dawes Plan of 1924 | American banks would provide enormous loans to the Germans, in return, Britain and France would agree to reduce the amount of those payments |
| Quarantine speech | Roosevelt warned forcefully of the dangers that Japanese aggression posed to world peace, prevented the contagion of war from spreading |
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