2nd test midterm Flashcards
Langston Hughes
author who was part of the harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
-fueled by the great migration north and inspired by black pride “black is beautiful”
-authors and musicians
Great Migration
the movement in large numbers of African Americans during and after World War I from the rural South to industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest.
Consumerism
- welfare capitalism- real income increases
-insurance, profit sharing, worker safety - decreased influence of unions
- mass production
- buying on credit
-automobile
-led to false prosperity
Causes of Great Depression
- gov policies: high tariffs cut down foreign market for American goods
- the availability of easy credit: people had a lot of debt and stock market was inflated
- and unequal distribution of income: farmers and workers werent sharing in the prosperity
Internal migration during Depression/Dust Bowl
repatration acts: laws that deported people of European and mexican heritage to make more jobs available to Americans
- Farmers were moving to California, the dust bowl made their land unuseful
Neutrality/Neutrality Act of 1939
prohibited americans from traveling on ships of the nations of war
Isolationism
national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries.
atlantic charter
an agreement between the United States of America and Great Britain that established the vision of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for a post-World War II world.
Rosie the Riveter
Recruiting campaigns during the war urged women to enter the workforce as part of a patriotic duty to their country. An iconic depiction of a Rosie is a wartime poster of a strong, confident female worker flexing her muscle with the words emblazoned above: “We Can Do It.”
rationing
Rationing involved setting limits on purchasing certain high-demand items. The government issued a number of “points” to each person, even babies, which had to be turned in along with money to purchase goods made with restricted items.
Executive Order 9066
allowing internment camps to be set up to exclude current Japanese residents believed to be a threat to security.
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
court case that challenged the constitutional of executive order 9066. Court sided with gov
D-Day (what was it, who led it, why it happened)
- turning point in Europe
- allied forces invaded Normandy in France
- largest invasion in history
-allies took all 5 beaches where they landed to southern france - Germans were being attacked from everywhere
-Germans were completely out of france
facism
dictatorship in which country is more important than anything else (individual has no rights)
- Hitler: Germany
- Mussolani- Italy