Jazz Age - WWII
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43 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Warren G. Harding | Elected in 1920. Horrible choice of a cabinet. Teapot Dome Scandal. Dies of a heart attack. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Takes over for Harding and adopts policies that help prosperity. Quiet Guy. |
| Charles G. Dawes | Plan to help Germany pay back its reparations to Britain to France was proposed by him. |
| Henry Ford | Uses the assembly line first in his plant at Highland Park, Michigan. |
| Charles Lindbergh | Made the first transatlantic solo flight in 1927. |
| Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge. Cooperative Individualism where the govt. encourages business to forms trade unions. Wins election of 1928 against Alfred E. Smith. |
| Ernest Hemingway | Writer that defines the Lost generation with books such as For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms |
| Marcus Garvey | Negro Nationalism, wants blacks to go back to Africa. Seperation and Independence from whites. |
| John Steinbeck | Writes books about poverty and misfortune. Grapes of Wrath. California. |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury. Writes in Multiple first person narrative. |
| Grant Wood | American Gothic painter that focused on the rural midwest and south. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Elected to four terms. President during great depression. Fireside chats. President for most of WWII. Democrat. Suffered supposedly from Polio |
| John Maynard Keynes | His economics say that that govt should spend heavily in a recession to jumpstart the economy. |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader after Lenin Dies. Fights with Trotsky for power. 5 year plans. |
| Adolph Hitler | Fascist leader in Germany. Nazi. |
| Neville Chamberlain | Appeasement was his main thing when dealing with people such as Adolph Hitler. He was Prime Minister of Britain. |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain that would not give in to Hitler which resulted in the Battle of Britain. |
| Admiral Chester Nimitz | Leader of Navy in the Pacific. |
| Gen. Douglas MacArthur | Leader of the Army and Marines in the Pacific. |
| Gen. George S. Patton | Leads the tank corps through Africa and Europe. |
| Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower | Draws up the D-Day attack plan. Eventually becomes president. |
| Supply-side Economics | economic theory that lowering taxes will boost the economy and invest the money more therefore increasing the tax revenue without raising taxes |
| Nativism | hostility towards immigrants |
| Prohibition | Achohol is no longer allowed. |
| Great Migration | Migration of Blacks from the south to the north during WWII to work in factories. |
| Harlem Renaissance | The Arts within Harlem become very prominent for black equality |
| Speculation | act of buying stocks at great risks with the anticipation that the price will rise. |
| Dust Bowl | The Middle of the U.S. has a drought and it turns the great plains into a sand and dust bowl |
| Securities Exchange Commission | Regulate the stock market and prevents fraud |
| Works Progress Administration | Headed by Harry Hopkins. Largest public works program of New Deal. Includes the Federal Number One. |
| Wagner Act | Guarantees the right to organize unions and to bargain collectively. |
| Social Security Act | Security for the older retired workers and for unemployed workers. Collect when you stop working at 65. |
| Court-Packing | FDR wanted to add more Supreme Court Judges so they would stop striking down his acts |
| Fascism | headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition |
| Isolationism | A national policy of avoiding involvement in the world |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan, and originally Russia, but that changes when Germany invades Russia. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lighting War conducted by the Germans in which they bomb strategically, send tanks, and then send in the infantry. |
| Wannsee Conference | The conference where the Nazis decided to use concentration and extermination camps to kill jews and other minorities. |
| Lend-Lease Act | Allows U.S. to lend or lease arms to any country who was seen as vital to the defense of the United States. |
| Battle of Midway | Turning point for the U.S. in the Pacific |
| D-Day | The invasion of France at Utah and Omaha Beach by American forces |
| Manhattan Project | The Project to make the atomic and hydrogen bomb. |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | At Hiroshima and Nagasaki they use the atomic bomb in order to conclude the war |
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