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| Lightning war strategy in WWII used by Germany |
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| Trying to pacify an aggresor in order to keep the peace |
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| Prime Minister of Britain in WWII |
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| Communist dictator of Soviet Union |
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| Regional project of New Deal that brought electricity to the South |
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| Program that provided aid to people with disabilities and pensions for retired workers |
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| First lady and social reformer during New Deal |
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| 32nd president who created New Deal |
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| What was listened to before eating a hot meal at a soup kitchen |
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| New Deal program to employ young men in nature related projects |
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| FDR's programs to end Great Depression |
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| Program to insure bank deposits |
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| Unemployed WWI vets who marched on Washington demanding their bonuses |
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| 31st president who failed to recognize how bad the depression was |
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| Pockets turned inside out in protest |
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| Newspaper used to keep warm |
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| Shanty town usually located on the outskirts of a town where the homeless lived |
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| Ran by churches,provided a warm meal to the down and out |
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| Area of Great Plains worthless by a drought and dust storms in the 1930's |
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| October 29,1939 - the day the stock market crashed |
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| Period of bad economic times in the U.S that lasted from 1929-41 |
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| Index of stock prices of selected leading companies |
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| Short term loans to buy goods with promises to pay later |
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| Investments in high-risk ventures |
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| Buying stock by only paying a portion of the cost front up |
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| African American artistic movement of 1920's |
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| Poet of Harlem Renaissance |
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| Young women who embraced new fashions and values of the 1920's |
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| Hidden saloons and nightclubs that illegally |
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| Smuggling alcohol in from Canada and the Caribbean |
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| Systematic murder of 11 million Jews and other people in Europe by the Nazis |
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| Name given to the night when Nazis in Germany attacked Jews and their synagogues |
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| Deliberate and systematic killing of a race of people |
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| Segragated community wehre Jews were held during holocaust |
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| Prison operated by Nazis where Jews and others were starved while doing slave labor or murdered |
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| Law that allowed lending or leasing arms to any nation "whose defense was vital to the U.S." |
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| Prime Minister in Japan during WWII |
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| U.S., USSR,Great Britain who opposed the Axis Powers |
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| Secret research project that resulted in atomic bomb |
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| restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during war time |
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| Commander of our troops in Europe in WWII |
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| President who authorized the dropping of the atomic bombs |
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| City that the 1st atomic bomb dropped in Japan |
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| 2nd city that atomic bomb was dropped on in Japan |
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| Cargo ships escorted to Europe by navy warships |
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| Confinement of Japanese during WWII |
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| Nickname for women who worked in factories during WWII |
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| Churchill urged FDR to attack here 1st instead of France |
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| Soft Underbelly - N.Africa, Italy |
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| Law passed by congress to help serviceman readjust to civilan life after the war, particularly college loans |
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| Sport credited with saving the morale of Japanese prisoners |
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| State of hostility between the Soviet Union and U.S with no military action |
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| Effort to block communism from spreading |
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| An imaginary line dividing eastern Europe from western Europe |
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| War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea |
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| Theory that if one country falls to communism the adjoining countries will also fall |
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| Republican Senator who claimed communists were taking over the federal government |
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| Activists in the American communist party who were executed for selling nuclear secrets to the soviet union |
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| Believed that revolution was necessary in the U.S and urged them to arm themselves in the defense of freedom |
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| City where Rosa Parks was arrested |
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| Willingness to go to the edge or brink of war |
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| Acronym used to describe nuclear war between U.S and USSR |
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| This triggered riots Watts and Detroit |
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| Throwing at cop car- cops beat black man |
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| Outcome of Brown vs. Board of Ed |
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| Integration of schools- seperate but equal is unconstitutional |
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| Outcome of riots in 1967 and 1968 |
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| Women who helped start Montgomery bus boycott |
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Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin |
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| Supreme Court case in which segragated schools was ruled unconstitutional |
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| Leader of Civil rights movement |
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| 14 year old black man who was killed for speaking to a black woman |
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| Protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters |
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| Tried to end segragation on national buses |
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| Site of protest where national guard killed four students |
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| Program aimed at hiring minorities, or where minorities were given preference |
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| Philosophy favored by Dr.King in civil rights movement |
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