Vocab Quiz Part 2 Unit 7B Flashcards
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Red scare
Post world war 1 public hysteria over Bolshevik influence in the U.S. directed against labor activism, radical dissenters, and some ethnic groups
Open shop
Factory or business employing workers whether or not they are union members; in practice, such a business usually refuses to hire union members and follows antiunion policies
Volstead Act
The 1920 law defining the liquor forbidden under the 18th amendment and giving enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury
Immigration act
1921 act setting a max of 357,000 new immigrants each year
League of Women Voters
League formed in 1920 advocating for women’s rights, among them the right for women to serve on juries and pay equal laws
Great Depression
The nation’s worst economic crisis, extending through the 1930s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse
Bonus Army
Unemployed veterans of WWI gathering in Washington in 1933 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945
New Deal
The economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s
Fireside chat
Speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which FDR explained complex issues and programs in plan language, as though his listeners were gathered around the fireside with him
Emergency banking act
The 1933 act that gave the president broad discretionary powers over all banking transactions and foreign exchange
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and encourage economic development in seven southern states
National Industrial Recovery Act
1933 act that was meant to be a systematic plan for economic recovery
Social Security Act of 1935
Act established federal old age pensions and unemployment insurance
National Labor Relations Act
Act establishing federal guarantee of the right to organize trade unions and collective bargaining
Congress of Industrial Organizations
An alliance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930s organizational drive among the mass production industries
New deal coalition
Coalition that included traditional-minded white southern Democrats, big city political machines, industrial workers of all races, trade unionists, and many Depression-hit farmers
Court Packing
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (frequently called the “court-packing plan”) was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1938 Fair Labor Standards Act
Minimum wage, etc.
Blitzkrieg
German war tactic in WWII (lightning war) involving the concentration of air and armored firepower to punch and exploit holes in opposing defensive lines
Neutrality Act of 1939
Permitted the sale of arms to Britain, France and China
Axis powers
The opponents of the United States and its allies in WW2
Lend-lease act
An arrangement for the transfer or war supplies, including food, machinery, and services to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the U.S. in WWII
Atlantic Charter
Statement of common principles and war aims developed by President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister W. Churchill at a meeting in August 1941
War Powers Act
Act that gave US president the power to reorganize the federal govt and create new agencies; to establish programs censoring news, info, and abridging civil liberties; to seize foreign-owned property; and award government contracts without bidding
