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1914-1948
New Deal/ World War I-II
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History
11th Grade
12/09/2007

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Tennesse Valley Authority

Definition

provided jobs

gave South electricity

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Social Security Act
Definition
Designed to provide pension to retired
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Emergency Banking Act

Definition
Overview of Banks
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Nat'l Industrial Recovery Act
Definition

let laborers unionize

set up codes for fair business

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AAA
Definition
encouraged farmers to reduce production, gave farmers money for not planting on acres
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Security Exchannge Act
Definition
regulated transactions, protect investors, and prevent a crash, required regulation of stock
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Emergency Relief and Appropriation Act
Definition
provided relief for jobles, gave money to people to open business
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Revenue Act
Definition
Graduated Income Tax, "weapon against wealth"
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Wagner Act
Definition

established National Labor Relation Board

gave people the right to create Unions

got rid of "red dot" contracts

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Results of New Deal
Definition

1. Save Capitalism

2. Saved Democracy

3. Sustained moral of American people

4. Prepared US for WWII

5. Created Safeguards form American people vs. the worst effects of depression

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Brain Trust
Definition
Roosevelts advisors, well educated, informal, 'Raymond Moley'
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Father Charles Coughlin

Definition
radio preacher, first supported FDR and new deal, then changed posistion, radical conservative, anti-semetic
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Pack the Court
Definition
Scheme Roosevelt used to try and add judges to Supreme Court, faced strong opposition, "take away burned of the elders" by replacing judges over 70.5 years old
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Election of '36
Definition
Roosevelt wins in a landside opponent Alf Landon only wins Maine and Vermont
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Election of '40
Definition

Roosevelt defeat Wendell Willkie to win an unprecedented 3rd term

Voters choose to stay with the more experienced canidate

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1938 Crystal Night
Definition
German Thugs destroy Jewish shops and synagogoue. Ninety-one Jews were killed.
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Elanor Roosevelt
Definition
fought for human rights active first ladt, committed to blacks and poor, advisor to the poor
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1935 Nuremburg Laws

Definition

Jews can't be citizens, cant vote, or hold office. Also implaced marriage restrictions on Jews

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1940 Work Camps
Definition
Jews were taken from their homes and put in work camps. They had their suitcases stolen and made into slaves to "serve the greater good"
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Zyklon B

Definition
Used by Germans in the gas chambers to exterminate the Jews b/c bullets would be too expensinve
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1942 Final Solution
Definition
The elimination of the entire Jewish Race
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Manhattan Project
Definition

Project of building the Atomic Bomb

Originated in Colombia University then Moved to Chicago University where the atom was split, later moved to Los Alamos, N.M.

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Triple Alliance
Definition
Germany, Austria Hugry, Italy
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Triple Entente
Definition
France, England, Russia
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Powder Keg
Definition

1. Assassination of Arch Duke Frances Ferinand

2. Arms Race

3. Imperialism

4. Nationalism and Social Darwinism

5. Eco. compition, tarrif up

6. Unrealisitc attitudes towards war

7. Real politks- anything goes to get what you want

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Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
Definition

1. Freedom of Seas

2. Reduce Armamnets

3. No secret treaties

4. No or low tarrifs

5. Impartial adjustment of colonial claims

6-13. Nat'l self determination

14. League of Nations

Term
Treaty Of Versailles (1919)
Definition

1. Germany had to disarm itself

2. Germany lost the Saar Baelly

3. Par reperatins (33B)

4. Lose all colonies and European possessions

5. Rhineland dimilitirzed- 15 years

6. "Wa Guilt" clause

7. Polish corridor created

8. League of Nations

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Irreconcilibles
Definition
Led by William Borah, believed that Treatyof Versailles could under no circumstances work
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Reservationists
Definition
Led by (Rep.) Henry Baot Lodge, who hates Wilson. Him and the Senate Foriegn Relations Committee can stop the Treat from passing. The Reservationists want a loophole from the League of Nation; they dont want to be getting involved in European affairs.
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United Negro Improvement Association
Definition
Led by Marcus Garvey. Encouraged blacks to go back to Afirca and not to envy whites
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Reasons for Nativism
Definition

Compitition for jobs

Disillusionment of Treaty of Versailles/Bolesivek Revolution

Fear the immigrants won't/can't assimilate

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Red Scare (1919-21)
Definition

Scare of Communism

Attorny General A Mitchell Palmer

 "Palmer Raids"- arrested Russians and deported them w/o trial

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Sacco and Vanzetti
Definition
Italian, gun-owning, anarchists, draft-dodgers that were emplyers of shoe factory convicted and executed for murder
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Boston Police Strike (1919)
Definition
Irish Cops complain of loew wages, gross stations, no pay for testimony or paperwork. Superattendent: White Anglo-Saxon
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Lindbergh
Definition
Celebrity, flew Spirit of St. Louis across Atlantic, landed in Paris
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