Terms to Know
Another term for newspapers in the 1930s
Hoover Blankets
Taught better farming techniques and provided relief payments to farmers
Agricultural Adjustment Act
What was the Battle of the Bulge
Last offensive attack of Germany in WW2
What was the instruction for school children in the event of nuclear attack?
Duck and Cover
Term coined by Winston Churchill to reference the area of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain
1946-1964 period of tremendous population growth
The Baby Boom
Worked to strengthen unions and working conditions
Wagner Act
What kind of war was the Korean War?
Proxy War
What percent of Americans were unemployed by the beginning of the 1930s?
25%
The Warsaw Pact
Russian satellite launched into space in 1957
Sputnik
Federal Deposit Insurance Commission
Who met at Yalta?
FDR, Churchill, Stalin
Why did Stalin implement the Berlin Blockade?
He feared Western influence in East Germany
Allied invasion of Normandy, turning point in the war
D-Day
Attempt to improve the economy that raised prices on foreign imports rather than raise taxes
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Young men worked on environmental projects and traveled around the US together
Civilian Conservation Corps
Name 3 American military leaders in WW2
Eisenhower, MacArthur, Bradley, Nimitz
Prohibition, Women's suffrage, Lame Duck
The idea that one small country falling to communism would result in all the surrounding countries doing the same
Domino Theory
Explosive period of culture, art, and social movement, primarily led by African Americans in the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
SEC stands for
Security Exchange Commission
Define Cold War
Ideological struggle between capitalist US and communist USSR
Mass relocation of African Americans from the South to Northern and Western cities
Worked to separate isotopes to create enriched uranium
Calutron girls