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05/08/2012

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Term
Harding
Definition
- social president
- problems with dept of interior
- Teapot Dome scandal
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Definition
- Secretary of interior sells public land to oil developers

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Coolidge
Definition
- "business of America"
- Mellen and Hoover
- broke up police strike
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Mellon
Definition
- Secretary of Treasure
- trickle down economics
- top heavy economics
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1920's
Definition
-mini booms and crashes leading up to Crash
-real-estate bust in mid 20's
- urban/elite prosperity, not farmers
- start of politically conservative
- deregulation, lower taxes on wealthy
- Mellon Sec of Treasure, Coolidge laissez affair
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20's Economy
Definition
- Corporations expand, small business out
- Farmers left out, can't consume
- WWI boom too big
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20's real estate
Definition
- Mellon tax breaks not spread rationally
- tax breaks in investing in realestate and stocks
- LA, CA, FLA
- Overvalued properties
- bust in mid 20's
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Deregulation
Definition
- Mellon cut taxes for big business
- Deregulates business and industry
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Lassez-fare
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Hoover
Definition
- associationalism
- Bonus Army
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Bonus Army
Definition
- WW1 vets promised bonus
- Hoover says no to proposed stimulus
- vets march on DC
- army drives them out
- end of Hoover
Term
NAACP
Definition
- Web Dubois
- Niagara movement
- wanted no public segregation
- push challenges of jim crow
Term
UNIA
Definition
- Marcus Garvey
- Universal Negro Improvement Asso
- all blacks would return to Africa
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FDR
Definition
- relief, recovery, reform
- New Deal
- The Hundred Days
- Second New Deal
- 4 elections
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1st New Deal
Definition
- relief, recovery, reform
- brains trust - all advisors
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Term
100 Days
Definition
-FDR 15 pieces of legislation in 100 days
- banking (FDIC, SEC)
- industry (NRA, PWA, TVA)
- ag (AAA)
- relief (FERA, CCC)
Term
Banking 100
Definition
- FDIC
- SEC: Joe Kennedy,wall street bootlegger
Term
Industry 100
Definition
NRA
- provide business opportunities
- ethical codes for business
- too big, "we do our part"

PWA
- built infastructure
- roads, airport, park, sewer, power plants
- created jobs

TVA
- built damns
Term
Ag 100
Definition
AAA
- propped up big farms, plantations
- origins of Farm Bill
- paid farmers to not grow crops to regulate prices
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Relief
Definition
FERA
- work relief
- cash and food handouts
- beginning of welfare
- Hopkins

CCC
- semi-military
- state parks
Term
2nd New Deal
Definition
- Social Security Act
- Wagner Act
- NYA - work instead of school
- WPA - buildings, artists
- response to critics
- unemployment insurance
- legislation not meant to expie
Term
Social Security
Definition
- 2nd new deal
- provision for elderly and disabled
- pension
- workers comp, unemployment
Term
Court Packing Scandal
Definition
- Supreme court show down laws under FDR (National Recovery Act)
- FDR wanted to add 6 justices
Term
Court Packing
Definition
- ended new deal
- roosevelt recession
- emergence of broker state
Term
Cash and Carry
Definition
- FDR
- amendment to neutrality act
- support allies
- loans and leases, safe
- lend lease act
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Term
Lend-Lease
Definition
- FDR
- in return for naval station leases, us agrees to funnel money and weapons into GB and China.
Term
4 Freedoms
Definition
- speech
- worship
- against fear
- against poverty/want

- 2 in constitution
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Executive order 9066
Definition
- internment for japanese americans in rural
- public could not trust japanese americans
Term
Women and the War
Definition
- transition to working as war starts
- Rosie the riviter

After war
- back to family and home making
- advertising home products with happy women
Term
Mobilizing in WW2
Definition
War Production Board -
Office of Price Administration -
War Labor Board
Office of Cencorship
Office of War Iformation
Term
Double V Campaign
Definition
- victory abroad, victory at home
- african american campaign
- battled Jim Crow Laws
- Philip Randolph
- desegregation of military
Term
Marshall Plan
Definition
- George Marshall Secretary of State
- influx of financial aid to W. Europe and Japan.
- help fight communism.
- tied to truman doctrine
- made both superior in long run
Term
GI Bill
Definition
- 50's
- government subsidy program to help veterans readjust to american society.
- free tuition
- low interest loans
- health care benefits
Term
HUAC
Definition
- House of Un-American Activities Committee
- Mcarthy 2nd red scare looked for spies
- unmasked intellectuals in 1930s
Term
Dien Bien Phu
Definition
French trapped and defeated in vietnam
Term
Tet
Definition
- embassy shooting in Saigon
- May 4 on holiday
- changed general perception
Term
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Definition
- blank check, sends troops to Vietnam
- William Westmoreland
Term
Nixon
Definition
- Vietnamization
- convinced that majority wanted war
- "peace with honor"
- Watergate
- resigns
Term
Morning In America
Definition
- Reagan
- Iran Hostage Crisis
- Supply Side economics - 30% tax cut, limited regulation
- "hard" and "soft" power foreign policy
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"Morning In America"
Definition
- Reagan's 1984 slogan
- rebirth/optimism
- FDR
Term
Bush Sr
Definition
- Iraq
- Gulf War
- Panama
Term
Clinton
Definition
- NAFTA: free trade
- Don't Ask Don't Tell
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