Foreign Policy
US laws designed to prevent entry into foreign conflicts
Neutrality Acts
Eight hour orphans were created by women working coupled with a lack of these
Day Care Centers
1st US combat experience in World War II—a decisive Japanese victory
Pearl Harbor
Franklin Roosevelt’s program to end the Great Depression
New Deal
Key preacher of the Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Japan 1st took this part of China in 1931
Manchuria
Effects of World War II on rates of marriage and divorce
both rose
1944 US/British/Canadian invasion of German occupied France
Battle of Normandy
Artistic and literary movement of African Americans in the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
DD key European theologian behind Puritan ideas
John Calvin
This term refers to the US policy of improving relations with Latin America
Good Neighbor Policy
New style of music, based on jazz, made popular during world war II
swing
Turning point of the Pacific War—US navy gained control of the central Pacific
Battle of Midway
American writer of the 1920s, he took delight in making fun of fundamentalists and traditional Americans
H.L. Menkin
After the stamp act, this set of taxes set off a second crisis in the colonies in 1767-68
Townshend Acts
The five power treaty limiting Navy size came out of this meeting in 1921-22
Washington Conference
US region that benefited the most from US investment in aviation during WWII
West Coast
Historian Gar Alperovitz argued that the A-Bomb was used not to intimidate Japan, but this country
Soviet Union
Popular Front organization worked to promote black/white cooperation in the South during the 1930s
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
He led an uprising of MA farmers against an uncaring government in 1786
Shays' Rebellion
Failed attempt by US to help Germany pay its reparations
Dawes Plan
This organization recruited young women to serve as wholesome companions for servicemen
USO
1st US combat against Germany was here—not in German occupied France as Stalin had hoped
North Africa
Organizer of the Share our Wealth program
Huey Long
He led an uprising of VA frontiersman against the colonial government in 1676
Nathaniel Bacon