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SOCIAL SECURITY Act that provided unemployment insurance and old-age insurance; paid partly by employer and partly by the employee did not cover farm workers and domestic workers,
IWO JIMA Pacific island captured by the Americans in March 1945; commemorated by the US Marine Memorial in DC (2 words)
NORMANDY French coast where Allied troops landed on June 6, 1944,
THIRTEEN Amendment which abolished slavery,
SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS Lindbergh's airplane,
SHILOH Important Civil War battle in southwest Tennessee,
RED SCARE Fear of foreigners and communists,
GETTYSBURG Union victory here was the turning point in the Civil War,
BERLIN AIRLIFT Mission during the Cold War in which the U.S. flew supplies to West Berlin after the Soviets blocks roads, rivers, and railroads (2 words),
JIM CROW Laws passed in southern states which required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place,
WAGNER Also known as National Labor Relations Act; set up the NLRB to settle corporate disputes and run union elections; when majority of workers in a plant voted to join a labor union, it became the official representative of the workers,
BULGE Battle in late 1944 where Germans mounted last desperate defense against advancing Allies; more than 100,000 casualties; Marked the end of serious German resistance,
TRUMAN DOCTRINE U.S. policy to give financial and military aid to countries so they could resist communism,
SEGREGATION Separation of people on the basis of racial, religious, or social differences,
FERA Federal agency which distributed 500 million dollars to state and local governments to distribute to the poor and unemployed during the Great Depression,
DUNKIRK French port where 300,000 British and French troops were trapped by the Germans; daring rescue by 800 warships, ferries, and fishing boats across the English Channel,
CCC New Deal agency that put over 3 million young men aged 18-25 to work on conservation and rural improvement projects- received room. board, and shelter + $30 per month; required to send $25 home to families; organization created in 1938 that allowed farmers to store surplus crops in government warehouses until prices improved; farmers could borrow against the crop and pay off the loan when they sold the crop,
KOREMATSU _____ v. United States, upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2,
BERLIN WALL Wall built between East Berlin and West Berlin in 1961(2 words),
FLSA Act that set the normal work week at 40 hours, establish a national minimum wage, and outlawed child labor,
NYA New Deal agency which gave college students jobs around the campus so they could stay in school; also keep them out of the job market,
MIDWAY Pacific battle victory here gave Allies control of the \central\ Pacific,
PEARL HARBOR American military base in Hawaii,
Hiroshima Japanese city the first to be hit by an atomic bomb,
HARDTACK Hard, tough cracker eaten by both Confederate and Union soldiers,
KAMIKAZE Japanese suicide pilot,
FOURTEEN Amendment which gave African Americans citizenship in the U.S. as well as in their state,
BLUE EAGLE Symbol of the NRA,
SUDETENLAND Area of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hitler claiming the German-speaking people there were being persecuted,
TWENTY ONE Amendment that repealed the 18th,
WPA New Deal organization that built post offices, city halls, recreation buildings, roads, school, etc.; also provided variety of jobs for actors, musicians, writers, photographers, etc.,
POLAND Country whose attack by Germany in 1939 signaled the start of WW2,
DUST BOWL Nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930's ( 2 words),
SEC Regulated the way companies could issue and sell securities (stocks); power to punish dishonest stockbrokers and speculators (like Martha Stewart),
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Order issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in those areas in rebellion (2 words),
ISLAND HOPPING Strategy in the Pacific; attacking and capturing certain key islands and then using these as bases for leapfrogging to others, moving closer and closer to the Philippines and then Japan,
SUMTER Charleston fort where the first shots were fired,
ENOLA GAY B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (2 words),
BLACK CODES Series of laws passed by southern legislatures to control freed men and women and enable plantation owners to exploit African American workers,
MANASSAS Another name for Bull Run,
LEYTE GULF Pacific battle fought for control of the Philippines; largest naval battle in history,
GI BILL OF RIGHTS Government program that paid for WW2 veterans' education and housing,
ANDERSONVILLE Civil War prison in Georgia,
GREAT MIGRATION Movement of African Americans to the North to seek jobs in the 1920's and 1930's,
FAIR DEAL Truman's programs which called for new housing and employment projects (2 words),
JAZZ AGE Term used to describe the decade's (1920's) break from rules and traditions (2 words),
FIRESIDE CHATS Informal presidential speeches given by FDR in the 1930's (2 words),
MARSHALL PLAN Program after World War II to help boost the economies of European nations (2 words),
CENTRAL POWERS Alliance between Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and Germany in WW1 (2 words),
FORDS THEATER Place where Abe Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 (2 words),
ANTIETAM Union victory here led to the Emancipation Proclamation,
NINETEEN Women's suffrage amendment,
PETERSBURG Union siege here in VA lasted ten months; some of the first trench warfare used here,
FREEDMENS BUREAU Set up to help former slaves adjust to their freedom (2 words),
FIFTEEN Amendment which granted suffrage to African Americans,
AAA New Deal legislation which rented land from farmers in order to raise prices - farmer got rent higher prices and rent money (1933); after 1933 law declared unconstitutional, this legislation in 1938 allotted so much land per farmer in order to keep prices high, taking into consideration demands for product in U.S. and around the world,
LUSITANIA British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boat,
MANHATTAN PROJECT Top secret operation to create the atomic bomb (2 words),
NAGASAKI Japanese city the second to be hit by an atomic bomb,
KKK Southern society formed in 1866 to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights and to help whites regain power; revised in the 1920's to terrorize foreigners, Catholics, Jews, etc.,
COLD WAR Tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II (2 words),
TVA Federal agency established in 933 to develop water-power resources in the Tennessee River valley,
VICKSBURG Union victory here insured control of the Mississippi River,
NATO Agreement made in 1949 to stand firm against Soviet military threats, made between the U.S., Great Britain, France, and eight other nations,
FDIC Insured each bank deposit up to $5,000,
VERSAILLES Treaty that ending World War I that required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations,
NRA New Deal agency created by the NIRA in 1933 which set up codes of fair competition, minimum wage, 40-hour work week, etc.; declared unconstitutional,
BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION Stated in 1954 that it was unconstitutional to maintain separate black and white schools (5 words),
HARLEM RENAISSANCE Period during the 1920's when New York City's Harlem became an intellectual and cultural capital for African Americans (2 words),
CORAL SEA Pacific battle which stopped Japanese advance on Australia (2 words),
SAVANNAH Sherman's destination when he left Atlanta,
NEW DEAL FDR's program to revive the country from the Great Depression,
RICHMOND Confederate capital,
U BOAT German submarine,
TENURE OF OFFICE Act that led to Johnson's impeachment (3 words),
TEAPOT DOME Scandal during the Harding administration,
PLESSY VS FERGUSON Supreme Court case which ruled that \separate but equal\ was constitutional,
OPERATION OVERLORD Code name for the Allied invasion of Europe,
BULL RUN First real battle fought outside Washington, DC,
NAZI Hitler's political party,
WARSAW PACT Agreement among communist nations in response to the creation of NATO,
UNITED NATIONS International peace organization established in 1945 in San Francisco (2 words),
NO MANS LAND Area between the trenches in World War I,
EIGHTEEN Prohibition Amendment,
ON MARGIN Buy stock by paying 10% of the stock price and borrowing the rest,
KOREAN WAR War between North and South Korea in the early 1950's; North supported by the SU and South by the U.S. and the United Nations
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Creator mathlete224
Created May 19, 2008
Groups USN 2012, USN Exam Study Group, 2012 of usn
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  1. SHILOH → Important Civil War battle in southwest Tennessee, - 4 misses
  2. WAGNER → Also known as National Labor Relations Act; set up the NLRB to settle corporate disputes and run union elections; when majority of workers in a plant voted to join a labor union, it became the official representative of the workers, - 4 misses
  3. KAMIKAZE → Japanese suicide pilot, - 4 misses
  4. MARSHALL PLAN → Program after World War II to help boost the economies of European nations (2 words), - 4 misses
  5. ANTIETAM → Union victory here led to the Emancipation Proclamation, - 4 misses
  6. FREEDMENS BUREAU → Set up to help former slaves adjust to their freedom (2 words), - 4 misses
  7. JIM CROW → Laws passed in southern states which required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place, - 3 misses