USAP 2nd semester 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hawley-Smoot Tariff | 1930 |
| Bonus Army march on Washington | 1932 |
| Roosevelt elected | 1932 |
| "First Hundred Days" | 1933 |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | 1933 |
| National Industrial Recovery Act | 1933 |
| Wheeler-Howard Act | 1934 |
| Wagner Act | 1935 |
| Social Security Act | 1935 |
| Revenue (Wealth Tax) Act | 1935 |
| sit-down strike at GM | 1936 |
| "Roosevelt recession" begins | 1937 |
| 80 million movie tickets sold each week | 1938 |
| Washington Conference (naval arms) | 1921 |
| Mussolini comes to power | 1922 |
| Dawes Plan | 1924 |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 |
| Japan seizes Manchuria | 1931 |
| Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor | 1933 |
| Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America | 1933 |
| Fulgencio Batista comes to power | 1934 |
| Italy invades Ethiopia | 1935 |
| first Neutrality Act | 1935 |
| Germany occupies Rhineland | 1936 |
| Spanish Civil War breaks out | 1936 |
| Sino-Japanese war breaks out | 1937 |
| Mexico nationalizes American-owned oil companies | 1938 |
| Germany and USSR nonaggression pact | 1939 |
| Germany invades Poland, WWII begins | 1939 |
| Selective Training and Service Act | 1940 |
| Lend-Lease Act | 1941 |
| Roosevelt and Churchill sign Atlantic Charter | 1941 |
| Pearl Harbor, US enters WWII | 1941 |
| Executive Order No. 8802, forbidding racial discrimination by defense industry | 1941 |
| War Production Board created | 1942 |
| Battle of Midway (US victory, turning point) | 1942 |
| Manhattan Project set up to create atomic bomb | 1942 |
| Congress of Racial Equality established | 1942 |
| Smith Connally Act passed following coal miners strike | 1943 |
| zoot suit riots | 1943 |
| Teheran Conference | 1943 |
| DDAy, June 6 | 1944 |
| Roosevelt elected to fourth term as pres. | 1944 |
| US retakes philippines | 1944 |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 |
| Iwo Jima and Okinawa | 1945 |
| Roosevelt dies--Truman | 1945 |
| Germany surrenders | 1945 |
| Potsdam Conference calls for Japan's unconditional surrender | 1945 |
| bombing of hiroshima and nagazaki | 1945 |
| Japan surrenders | 1945 |
| Vietnamese war against France erupts | 1946 |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947 |
| National Security Act reorganizes government | 1947 |
| Communists take power in Czechoslovakia | 1948 |
| Berlin airlift | 1948 |
| NATO founded; USSR explodes atomic bomb | 1949 |
| Mao's communists win power in China | 1949 |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 |
| Eisenhower becomes pres | 1953 |
| Stalin dies | 1953 |
| Geneva accords partition Vietnam | 1954 |
| Warsaw Pact | 1955 |
| Soviets launch Sputnik | 1957 |
| Berlin crisis | 1958 |
| Castro ousts Batista | 1959 |
| Vietcong organized | 1860 |
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