H106 Test 3 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Truman doctrine
Foreign policy
President Harry Truman in 1947
Provide economic & military assistance to Greece and turkey
Did it to prevent fall to communism
Prohibition
Laws banning manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages
Added to US constitution (18th amendment-1918)
Repealed by 21st in 1933
Sacco-Vanzetti trial
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Convicted of murdering Mass. Paymaster & guard
1922 convicted of murder
They were anarchists & italian immigrants
Case offended many and seen as prejudice
Scopes trial
John t scopes
Teach evolution in Tennessee
Charged with it
Suites difference between old teachings and new
Flappers
Young women
Short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz, smoked in public
Wore heavy makeup and so on
Seen as disgrace to society
Harlem Renaissance
Modern & artistic literary movement
Celebrated African life & culture in harlem NY
Langston Hughes, Richard wright, duke Ellington, Aaron Douglas
Wagner act
National labor relations act
Gave workers right to bargain & organize collectively
Also created national labor relations board to supervise union elections and stop unfair labor practices
Lend lease act
Military aid measure
President franklin d Roosevelt in 1941
Empowered pres to sell, lend, lease, transfer $7 billion of war material to any country
Country had to be vital to US
Taft Hartley act
1947 federal law
Outlawed closed shop & secondary boycotts
Union leaders had to sign that they weren’t communists
Marshall plan
1947 by George Marshall
Use American aid to rebuild war torn economics of Europe
1948 adopted by congress
$13 billion to euro countries
Tennessee valley authority
Built & operated dams & power plants on Tennessee River
Promoted flood Comtrol, soil conservation, & reforestation
Bonus army
20,000 world war 1 veterans in Washington DC
June 1932
Demanded adjusted compensation bonuses determined in 1924
Congress rejected demands
President Hoover had them driven from capital
Social security act
Franklin Roosevelt new deal
1935
System of old age unemployment & insurance
Funded by payroll taxes & wage
Agricultural adjustment act
New deal legislation that raised farm prices
By restricting output of staple crops
Restricted production
Unconstitutional in 1936
Manhattan project
Us military project 1942 Build an atomic bomb $2 billion dollars Helped in destruction of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945
Battle of midway
US destroyed Jap carriers
Turning point in war
Ended jap offensive in pacific theatre
The jazz singer
1927
American music film
Decline of silent film
First motion picture w/ synchronized dialogue
Court packing
Stuff that Roosevelt passed is becoming unconstitutional
Bc of Supreme Court
So Roosevelt offered a judge to retire @ 70 or
If won’t retire then president can add up to 6 judges of his choice
Huey long
Share our wealth plan
Confiscate anyone with over $5 mil of property & wealth
100% tax on people making 1 mil
Wanting to give people $2-3000 for homes & cars, etc
Civilian conservation corps
Employed 3 mil men working and planting trees
Herbert Hoover
President in March 1929
Wanted to deal with depression by giving faith to citizens
Campaign of prohibition & prosperity
Executive order 9066
Sent Japanese into internment camps
Fear of war
Stock market crash
1929
World went into Great Depression
Stock prices plunged
Dust bowl
Severe drought killing all the crops
Topsoil into dust with blew around easily
Everything was coated even in houses
