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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Washington Naval Conference of 1921 | the desire to decrease in armory (weapons, military) |
| Charles Evans Hughes | led the Washington Naval Conference and made the Five-Power Treaty |
| Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922 | Called upon all parties to put a 10 year ban on military stuff. Also to accept a ratio for balance of naval power |
| Nine-Power Pact of 1922 | Dealt with China and open door policy. They would declare to leave China alone and let everyone trade with them. |
| The Dawes Plan of 1924 | Germany stopped paying reparations in 1923 because they couldn't afford it. They lowered Germanys reparation amount and asked banks and wealthy people to pump some money into Germany |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 | Highest tariffs for that time |
| Kellogg-Braind Pact of 1928 | Addressed an international call to outlaw war. Over a dozen nations signed this Pact |
| Buying on Margin | only have to put down a little money and rest is paid by loans |
| "Black Tuesday" | October 29, 1929 Stock Market Crash |
| Herbert Hoover | Ran in the election of 1928. He was a Republican, ran against Alfred E. Smith |
| Alfred E. Smith | Ran in the election of 1928. He was a Democrat, ran against Hoover |
| Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 | Highest rates passed in U.S History |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation of 1932 | biggest government intervention during peace time |
| Federal Farm Bureau of 1929 | Help farmers during the Great Depression |
| Revenue Act of 1932 | was a way to pay for all the subsidies. Taxes of rich people and gas |
| Bonus Army of 1932 | Marched to congress to try to get their bonus pay early. |
| 21st Amendment | overturned Prohibition |
| gold standard | America went off the gold standard and switched to currency instead of a dollar being equal to gold |
| First New Deal of 1933-1935 | Created "Bank Holiday, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act and National Industrial Recovery Act, and Public Works Administration |
| Second New Deal of 1935-1937 | Created National Labor Relations Act, Social Security Act, Works Progress Administration, and Wealth Tax Act |
| National Labor Relations Act | Designed to increase consumer spending by allowing workers to get better wages |
| Social Security Act | Gave purchasing power to the needy. It set up a pention plan so people can retire at 60 |
| Works Progress Administration | Another round of public works job. It was to employ the unemployed |
| Wealth Tax Act | Designed to pay for the acts created by the second new deal. Targeted wealthy people. |
| Court-Packing Scheme of 1937 | Hoover asked the Supreme court to make a separate section for people sitting on the supreme court over 70 |
| Emperor Hirohito of Japan | Emperor of Japan. He wants to increase consumption and ditch the open door policy to get China. He also builds up the navy |
| Adolf Hitler | appointed chancellor of Germany. He didn't like Communism and Jews |
| fascism | the needs and interests of an individual is not as important as the needs and interests of the government |
| Benito Mussolini of Italy | hated communism and wanted a roman empire, taking over the mediterranian |
| Good Neighbor Policy | FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region |
| Josef Stalin of Soviet Union | Communist leader of Soviet union. Did not like capitalism |
| Rape of Nanking of 1937 | Japanese invaded China and raped the women and took all the resources of the land |
| Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain | one who met with Hitler at the munich conference to sort things out with Hitler's reckless acts |
| Munich Conference of Sept. 1938 | P.M. Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler and asked him to stop taking over other countries. Hitler agreed but 6 months later took over rest of Czech. |
| "Appeasement" | give leader what he wants so he will not retaliate |
| Non-Aggression Pact of Aug. 1939 | was between Germany and Soviet Union. They won't invade each other and gets half of Poland |
| Invasion of Poland of September 1, 1939 | was by Hitler and this starts WWII |
| Allied Powers | United Kingdom, France, Soviet Union, United States, China |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Prime Minister Winston Churchill | P.M. of Britain. Asked U.S for credit and escorts for British merchant ships. |
| Battle of Britain of Aug.-Oct. 1940 | Hitler wanted to take over Britain. Hitler eventually gave up. |
| Tripartile Pact of Sept. 1940 | Italy, Germany, and Japan came upon an agreement to help each other out when attacked |
| Nye Committee of 1934 | set up to study the causes of why the U.S was in WWI |
| Walter Millis's The Road to War of 1935 | suggests that Great Britain and France made Germany look worse than they were |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | was a way to give weapons and ammunition to cash paying countries. |
| Lend-Lease Program of March 1941 | the authorization of military supplies or anything else to countries who we fancied |
| Atlantic Charter of August 1941 | list of principles to be upheld to keep fascist countries away. |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. |
| Executive Order 9066 of Feb. 1942 | put Japanese in internment caps. About 120,000 were in the camps |
| Admiral yamamoto | Commander in Chief of the Japanese Fleet. |
| General Douglass MacArthur | Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific |
| Battle of Midway of June 1942 | put the allies back in power. The U.S broke the code so they knew they were going to midway. |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | in charge of European zone |
| Tehran conference of Dec. 1943 | Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and FDR meet here in Iran to talk about operation overlord |
| Operation Overlord of June 4, 1944 | tricked the germans into thinking two invasions would happen where they wouldn't |
| Operation Fortitude | George S. Patton led this operation into Germany to find Hitler and the others toward Berlin |
| Enigma Machine | machine that made codes for Hitler. He thought we hadn't broken it but we had |
| D-Day of June 6, 1944 | Invasion of Normandy |
| Battle of the Bulge of Dec. 1944-Jan. 1945 | last attempt to weaken allied forces. We beat germany and had a clear path to Berlin |
| Yalta conference of Feb. 1945 | Churchill, FDR, and Stalin met again to see who gets to take revenge on Berlin. Stalin gets to after he agrees to help fight japan. |
| Liberation of Nazi concentration camps | Americans go to concentration camps to let the people free and we make the germans walk through them to see what their leader had done. |
| V-E day of May 8, 1945 | Victory of Europe |
| Harry S. Truman | comes into office after FDR dies |
| Manhattan Project | research for nuclear weapons, it was in Los Alimos, NM |
| "Atomic Diplomacy" | to control other countries out of fear we might use it on them |
| Atomic bomb of Hiroshima of Aug. 6, 1945 | First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| V-J Day of Sept. 1945 | Victory over Japan |
| U.N. General Assembly | was made up of different countries that can have a representative sit in at the meetings to discuss things |
| Security Council | made up of U.S, Great Britain, France, China, and Russia. More powerful than the General Assembly |
| Atomic bomb of Nagasaki of Aug. 9, 1945 | Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| Percentage Deal of Oct. 1944 | broke up countries between stalin and Great Britain, was created on a napkin, never happened |
| Rio Pact of 1947 | Between U.S., Latin American nations, and Canada. All agreed to come to each others aid to fight communism |
| Morgenthau Plan | wanted to wipe out Germany's industrial community to make it farmland |
| Postdam Conference of July 1945 | Germany is sectioned up into 4 pieces of influence between U.S, Great Britain, France, and Soviet Union |
| George Kennan-"Long Telegram" 1946 | He was an expert on the Soviet after the war. He said Soviets were naturally aggressive, hypermasculine, and cant be talked to reasonably |
| "containment" | must contain the threat of communism before it spreads to other countries |
| Truman Doctrine of 1947 | U.S must extend both military and/or economic aid to any nation that is neglecting communism internally or externally |
| National Security Act of 1947 | created several agenices: department of defense, national security council, center for intelligence act. |
| Marshall Plan of 1947 | wanted to prevent countries that were not doing well economically falling to communism. |
| Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949 | was done by Soviet Union. They tried to stop aid going to Germany |
| Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949 | in response to the blockade to get supplies to the people of Germany. Made Soviet Union give up |
| Division of Germany of 1949 | Stalin separated his half of germany with a wall |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of 1949 | U.S, Canada, Iceland, Great Britain, Turkey, and a big chunk of Europe. Was security to fight Europe |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the People's Republic of China. Was communist |
| Chiang Kai-shek | was fighting agaist Mao but had to flee to Taiwan |
| NSC-68 | National Security Council #68. said soviets would seek world domination, could launch nuclear attack, U.S must not negotiate with them |
| Korean War of 1950-1953 | Communist North Korea invades South Korea. Americans gets scared and U.N leads a peace plan in Korea |
| General Douglas MacArthur | led the peace plan in Korea, President ordered him to send arms and troops to South Korea Did not seek congressional approval for the decision *Set the precedent of waging war on executive authority alone |
| 2nd Red Scare | fear of communism being in the U.S was big after Korean War |
| Executive Order 9835 of 1947 | dealt with communism in the U.S. Enabled the FBI to do extensive background checks |
| "Venona Files" | contained transmissions between Moscow and certain U.S. cities. We did have spies working for stalin in certain parts of the govt. |
| House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | created to look into communist acts, they focused a lot on the hollywood movies |
| "5th Amendment Communists" | were made to testify and most went to jail, they were blacklisted in hollywood |
| Alger Hiss | testified before HUAC, |
| Whittaker Chambers-"Pumpkin Papers" | testified against Hiss and had documents to persecute him |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenburg | spies in the U.S. working for the Soviet Union and they were executed |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | claimed he had a list of 205 people who were communist in the state department. He said there were communist in the army |
| Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954 | He accused people in the army of being communist |
| Joseph Welch | attorney for the army to fight McCarthy |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | put forward civil rights, she met with A. Philip Randolph, to talk about civil rights for blacks |
| A. Philip Randolph | leader of a labor union for blacks, wanted to put together a march on washington |
| Fair Employment Practices Commission of 1941 | FDR put forward this plan and this stopped Randolph from marching on washington |
| Executive order 9981 of 1948 | it called for the integration and equality in the Armed Forces |
| Adlai Stevenson | Democrat running against Eisenhower and Nixon in election of 1952 |
| Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon | Republicans in election of 1952 |
| K1C2 | Korea, Communism, and Corruption. This was Eisenhowers plan |
| Domino Theory | if one nation falls, the other nations will too. |
| Massive Retaliation | they let the Soviet Union know that if they threatened any U.S. interest, the U.S. is willing to use muclear weapons to deal with them. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | came to power in Russia after stalin dies |
| Warsaw Pact of 1955 | like NATO but they agree not to let capitalism into their countries |
| "open skies" | mutual aerial surveillance. The U.S. can fly over the Soviet Union to see their nuclear centers and the Soviet Union can do the same. |
| "de-stalinization" | Khrushchev's plan to change things, he let political prisoners go and changed the industrialization to things Russia needed |
| P.M. Mossadegh/ Shah Pahlavi in 1953 | CIA got rid of Mossadegh and put in Pahlavi in Iran. |
| Gamal Nasser in 1956 | leader of Egypt, U.S. gives him money but takes it away when he accepts money from communist |
| Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957 | military aid and troops in order to protect any middle eastern country that feels threatened by communism |
| Jacobo Arbenz/ Castillo Armas in 1954 | CIA steps in and gets rid of Arbenz and puts in Armas |
| Fulgencio Batista/ Fidel Castro | Batista is a dictator, Fidel overthrows him and sets himself up as a dictator |
| Che Guevara | makes Fidel a communists |
| Ho Chi Minh | leads resistance inside Vietnam against France. He is communist |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | U.S. picked leader for S.Vietnam. |
| National Liberation Front | troops that fought the Viet cong troop in S.Vietnam that were from N.Vietnam |
| Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren | picked by Eisenhower b/c he thought Warren would be conservative |
| Thurgood Marshall | brought the Brown v. BOE to the supreme court saying segregation was wrong |
| Brown v. BOE in 1954 | Warren claimed that segregation was unconstituional |
| Brown II in 1955 | said that de-segregation had to happen with all deliberate speed |
| Rosa Parks in Dec. 1955 | she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | wanted redemption and reconciliation for the U.S. |
| "passive civil disobedience" | breaking the law in a peaceful, nonviolent way |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | An organization founded by MLK Jr., to direct the crusade against segregation. Its weapon was passive resistance that stressed nonviolence and love, and its tactic direct, though peaceful, confrontation. |
| "southern Manifesto" in 1956 | they said that the Brown cases were an abuse of power |
| Gov. Orval Faubus | didn't allow de-segregation to occur in Arkansas |
| Desegregation of Central High School in 1957 | 9 students were picked to go to a white school to start de-segregation |
| Richard Nixon | did not win the election of 1960, Kennedy did |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's plan, supports civil rights, pushes for a space program, wans to cut taxes, and increase spending for defense and military |
| the "Greensboro 4"-Feb. 1960 | 4 black freshman that go into a white restaurant and asked to be served and are denied, do it over and over again |
| Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee of 1960 | a group to support non-violent desegregation |
| "Freedom Rides" | blacks that rode a bus city to city to try to bring about change |
| Birmingham March of 1963 | march for desegregation. many people were beaten and JFK sent in troops to protect them |
| March on Washington of Aug. 28, 1963 | many people met at the Lincoln memorial in support for bill on civil rights |
| MLK Jr.'s famous "I have a dream" speech | gave this speech at the Lincoln memorial in support for bill on civil rights |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961 | CIA was training at the bay of pigs but castro knew about it and met them there |
| Operation Mongoose of 1961-1962 | meant to destabilize cuba, they were trying to discredit castro. 30 attempts to get rid of him and all failed |
| quarantine | it was a blockade from cuba. no more shipments to cuba and told the soviet union they needed to move their missiles out of cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis of Oct. 1962 | a very tense 13 day stand-off between the U.S. and soviet union. the soviets backed down first |
| the "red telephone" | a land line between moscow and the white house in case tension rised they could negotiate |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | assassinated Kennedy in Dallas by shooting him |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | sworn into the presidency after JFK died |
| the "Johnson Treatment" | a saying for how Johnson got what he wanted always |
| Civil rights act of 1964 | forbid job discrimination, prohibited any discrimination in public facilities |
| barry goldwater | accused Johnson of being soft, was johnson's opponent in the election of 1964 |
| "daisy girl ad" | aired on TV against goldwater, scarred americans and they voted for johnson |
| "the great society" | social programs: National endowment for the arts, museums, education facilities, endowment for humanities |
| "war on poverty" | to eradicate poverty: medicare and medicaid, expanded social security, HUD, food stamp program, free legal aid to the poor |
| voting rights act of 1965 | federal oversight over all elections in the south, removed discriminatory measures so blacks could vote |
| Freedom march from selma to montgomery, AL in march 1965 | march to promote voting for blacks |
| "bloody sunday" on march 7, 1965 | when the freedom marchers were attacked by the police and americans saw this happen on TV |
| gulf of tonkin incident of aug. 2-4, 1964 | U.S. ship was fired upon by the N. Vietnamese |
| gulf of tonkin resolution of 1964 | gave Johnson unlimited power to deal with this problem, he didn't need a declaration of war |
| Gen. william westmoreland | he requested more military aid in S.Vietnam |
| black nationalism | a belief in the separate identity and racial unity of the African American community |
| malcolm x | was for black rights but in a violent way if necessary |
| James earl ray | convicted of killing Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and sentenced to 99 years in jail |
| hubert humphry | Johnsons vice president and was running for president, is a democrat, election of 1968 |
| robert kennedy on June 5, 1968 | was running for the election of 1968 when he was assassinated by a palastinian |
| richard nixon | Republican running in the election of 1968, he wins |
| nixon doctrine | the U.S. will not do the majority of fighting in countries threatened by communism, will provide aid |
| paris peace accord of jan. 27, 1973 | it re-establishes the 17th parallel in Vietnam |
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