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October 24, 1929, the day the stock market crashed
Black Tuesday
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send to players to the back row
theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people
totalitarianism
Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into American ships
kamikaze
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last row 4th
7th seat
2nd seat
dividing line between North Korea and South Korea
38th parallel
increase in births between 1945 and 1964
baby boom
millions of acres in the Great Plains that were destroyed when dust storms blew away the soil.
Dust Bowl
1938 radio drama that was so realistic many people feared that Martians were actually invading
War of the Worlds
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last row 6th seat
4th seat
8th seat
code name for the program to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
imaginary barrier separating Soviet-controlled countries and the free world
iron curtain
stand in the corner for the next three turns
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music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans
rock-and-roll
The collapse of the United States and world economies beginning in 1929
Great Depression
labor protest in which workers stop working and occupy the workplace until their demands are met
sit-down strike
American law that allowed nations at war to buy U.S. arms if they paid cash and carried them away on their own ships
Neutrality Act of 1939
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Laugh at everyone behind you
Lose your turn
last row 3rd seat
4th
5th
American reaction to the fear that communists were working to destroy American life
Red Scare
large-scale buying, much of it on credit
consumerism
An African American lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland who headed the legal team for the NAACP to challenge the legality of segregation.
Thurgood Marshall
process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions
collective bargaining
policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace
appeasement
American victory and turning point of the war in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
American policy to keep communism contained within its existing borders
containment
U.S. Senator who falsely accused Americans of having communist ties
Joseph R. McCarthy
From the book
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Move up one row
move a friend one row
government agency that built dams in the Tennessee River valley to control floods and generate electric power
TVA
Battle of Coral Sea
Walk around acting like a chicken
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struggle in which the U.S. and Soviet Union became rivals but never fought directly in military conflict
Cold War
negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty
McCarthyism
influential author of 1946 Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
Benjamin Spock
a march on Washington in 1932 in which World War I veterans seek bonus payment early
Bonus Army
government that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of children and the poor, elderly, sick, disabled, and unemployed
welfare state
American law that allowed the U.S. to lend, lease, sell, or otherwise provide aid to other nations if doing so helped in the defense of the United States
Lend-Lease Act
German counterattack that failed, resulting in an Allied victory
Battle of the Bulge
U.S. aid program to help Western Europe rebuild after World War II
Marshall Plan
law making it illegal to teach about or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government
Smith Act
businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods
service sector
economic theory that held that money lent to large banks and corporations would in turn be invested in small businesses which would hire more workers
trickle-down economics
law that set a minimum wage and a maximum workweek and outlawed child labor
Fair Labor Standards Act
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send two players up one row
from the book
if correct move up two rows
small country controlled by a more powerful neighbor
satellite state
rival military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its satellite states
Warsaw Pact
to allow a company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators
franchise business
a young woman of the 1920s who rejected traditional values and dress
Flapper
programs and legislation enacted by FDR during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery
New Deal
grueling march in which Japanese troops forced sick and malnourished prisoners of war to walk more than 60 miles to prison camps
Bataan Death March
dropping bombs on key targets to destroy the enemy’s capacity to make war
strategic bombing
military alliance to counter Soviet expansion
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
list of people banned from certain jobs because of suspected communist ties
blacklist
eased the return of World War II veterans by providing education and employment aid
GI Bill of Rights