New Deal
New Deal Years
What is 1933-35
Second New Deal years
What is 1935-36
Female worker - cultural WWII icon
Who is Rosie the Riveter
1962 13 day confrontation between US and Soviet Union instigated by US discovery of Soviet missile deployment in Cuba.
What is the Cuban missile crisis
Telegram to the U.S. department of State outlining how the United States should approach the Soviet Union.
What is the Kennan Telegram
Necessitated New Deal policies
What is the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
1935 law signed by FDR that established a basic right to a pension in old age.
What is the Social Security Act
1939 act, allowed Cash and Carry of arms, and disallowed American ships from war-involved countries.
What is the Neutrality Act 1939
Truman’s foreign policy towards containment of the Soviet Union in 1947
What is the Truman doctrine
Southern Democrats who left the party and were opposed to Civil Rights 1948.
Who are Dixiecrats
Government pays producers to produce less. Decrease production so that prices increase.
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act
1935 act that totally legalized unions - can no longer yellow dog, black list, etc.
What is the Wagner Act or National Labor Relations Act
Two post WWII meetings to discuss the future of war-torn Europe
What are Potsdam conference and Yalta conference
When in 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdul nationalized the Suez Canal which had been owned by British and French stockholders.
What was the Suez crisis
1954 Supreme Court decision that deemed segregation in US public schools unconstitutional
What is Brown V Board of education
Collaboration between government, business, and labor to encourage fair practices and set prices. Could be ‘mistaken’ for a planned economy.
What was the National Recovery Administration
Denial of certain services/benefits to specific areas - An example of institutional New Deal racism/prejudice
What is Red-lining
Made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Who is Truman
Primary goal was to strengthen Western allies and prevent against a western invasion by the Soviet Union.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Top secret national security report by dept. of state and dept. of defense proposed to Truman 1950.
What is NSC-68
Closing of banks on march 6 1933 - Federal reserve insured bank deposits -
What is the Bank Holiday
Majorly affected the post-depression economy, marked the end of New Deal era.
What is WWII
1944 FDR law that provided benefits to returning WWII veterans.
What is the GI bill
Term that describes president Eisenhower’s 1950s tough stance towards communism with nuclear weapons
What is “Massive Retaliation”
Mexican laborers who were temporarily allowed in the United States to work during agricultural seasons
Who are Braceros