The Great Depression
the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the u.s. beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929,
What is The Great Depression
These were both Italian immigrants and anarchists, and both had evaded the draft during World War I.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships
Who are the kamikaze
What were the Four goals of Progressives
What is:
1. promote social welfare
2.fostering efficiency
3. create economic reform
4. promoting Moral reform
a nation that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation
what is a Satellite Nation
series of new laws and programs introduced by president Roosevelt during depression to create jobs and improve the economy.
What is the New Deal
This was a spectacular example of corruption. It involved a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker as ___________ troops closed in from the West and __________ troops closed in from the East.
what is American, Russian
elected officials can be fired
what is recall
a metaphoric wall dividing the democratic nations of the West from the communist nations of the East
what is the Iron Curtain
the informal radio conversations Roosevelt had with people to keep their spirits up during the Great Depression
What is the Fireside Chat
This was a system that established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country
What is the quota system
an economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions
what is Communism
The 16th Amendment led to creation of a federal income tax. What does graduated income tax mean?
what is the more money you make the more tax you have to pay
the Cold War Policy of keeping communism within its already existing borders and not allowing communism to spread further
what is Containment
the purchasing stock with little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future.
What is Buying on Margin
This was an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship.
What is communism
an alliance of communist European countries; the alliance was lead by USSR; the alliance was a response to NATO
what is the Warsaw Pact
voters can approve proposed laws
what is reform
Why did the U.S distrust the Soviet Union?
what is Disliked communism, Angered by Soviet efforts to overthrow noncommunist governments; and Soviets boasted of destroying free enterprise systems throughout the world
A tax on imported goods, raised U.S. tariffs to historically high levels.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
American radicals embracing communism followed by a series of mail bombings that frightened Americans. MItchell Palmer led an effort to deport aliens without due process, with widespread support.
what is the Red Scare
June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France.What is this called
what is D-day
What are the two federal acts which increase competition and limit monopolies?
what are the Sherman AntiTrust act and the Clayton Antitrust act
nations with enough military, political, and economic strength to influence events worldwide
what is Superpowers