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Honors U.S. History
Final Exam 2nd Semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | Devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |
| Allies World War I | In World War I, the group of nations -originally consisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia and later joined by the United States, Italy, and others -that opposed the Central Powers |
| Central Powers | The group of nations in World War I - led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire - that opposed the Allies. |
| No Man's Land | An unoccupied region between opposing armies |
| Lusitania | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 |
| Zimmermann Note | A message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the United States entered World War I. |
| Allies World War II | In World War II, the group of nations - including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States - that opposed the Axis powers |
| Selective Service Act | A law, enacted in 1917, that required men to register for military service |
| General John Pershing | Led a punitive army expedition against Pancho Villa |
| Conscientious Objector | A person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare |
| George Creel | Former muckraker journalist and head of Committee on Public Information who persuaded artists and advertising agencies to promote the war |
| Great Migration | The large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in the early 20th century. |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace Treaty at the end of World War I which established new nations, borders, and war reparations |
| Reparations | The compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during war |
| Communism | An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property |
| Quota System | A system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year |
| Nativism | Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Court Trial in which two immigrants were convicted and executed despite lack of evidence, displayed xenophobia of U.S. |
| Warren G. Harding | President who promised in 1920 a "return to normalcy", but gave us corruption |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. |
| Calvin Coolidge | President who tried to restore confidence in the government due to Harding's scandals |
| Urban Sprawl | The unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions |
| Prohibition | The banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages |
| Speakeasy | A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during Prohibition |
| Bootlegger | A person who smuggled alcoholic begerages into the United States during Prohibition |
| Fundamentalism | a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true |
| Scopes Trial | Case in which the verdict upheld a law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools, aka the "monkey trial" |
| Flapper | Liberated young woman of the 1920's, often with short hair who rejected traditional values |
| Harlem Renaissance | Rebirth in African American Art, literature, and music |
| Langston Hughes | Wrote poems that described the difficult lives of working class African Americans |
| Louis Armstrong | Master of trumpet Jazz improvision, known as "Satchmo" and for "Hello Dolly" |
| Duke Ellington | Jazz pianist and composer who won renown as one of America's greatest composers, with pieces such as "Mood Indigo" and "Sophisticated Lady" |
| Credit | An arrangement in which a buyer pays later for a purchase, often on an installment plan with interest charges |
| Alfred E. Smith | Democrat who ran against Herbert Hoover for president and lost |
| Buying on Margin | The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest |
| Stockmarket Crash | October 29, 1929 when the value of stock collapsed causing the "crash" |
| Great Depression | The longest and worst economic crisis in American history, 1929-1941 |
| Shantytown | Neighborhoods of shacks called Hoovervilles |
| Soup Kitchen | a place where free or low cost food is served to the needy |
| Dust Bowl | Drought stricken region of the Great Plains where farming was wiped out |
| Herbert Hoover | Republican elected President of the U.S. in 1928, failed to solve the problems of the depression |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Designed by Hoover to help banks, savings, and loans, railroads and insurance companies |
| Bonus Army | Group of unemployed veterans who marched on Washington to demand early payment of promised money |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Elected President of the U.S. in 1932, served 1933-1945, who promised to end the Great Depression and Prohibition |
| New Deal | A program developed by FDR designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression |
| AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) | Paid farmers to cut back on production, was declared unconstitutional |
| CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) | Employed young men to plant forests, build state parks, and fight fires |
| Deficit Spending | Spending more money than you take in revenue |
| Huey Long | Senator from Louisiana who criticized FDR's New Deal, advocated "share the wealth" plan |
| WPA (Works Progress Administration) | Gave jobs to unemployed people building roads, bridges, schools, etc. |
| SSA (Social Security Act) | Provided retirees with pension and created unemployment compensation and survivor benefits |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | A social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills |
| Frances Perkins | America's first female cabinet member who played a major role in creating the Social Security system and supervised labor legislation |
| Dorothea Lange | The foremost photographer of migrants and life during the Depression |
| Wagner Act | The federal government again protected the right of workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining with employers |
| The Grapes of Wrath | An account of a migrant family during the Depression written by John Steinbeck |
| Gone With the Wind | 1939 movie dealing with the life of Southern Plantation owners during the civil war - one of the most popular films of all time |
| Grant Wood | Artist who painted "American Gothic" |
| FDIC | Protects bank deposits so that banks are safe and will not fail |
| SEC | Regulatory agency that supervises financial markets, such as stocks and bonds |
| TVA | A 7 state project to build dams creating lakes and hydroelectric power plants |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of Soviet Union during World War II |
| Totalitarianism | Individuals have no rights, the government suppresses all opposition |
| Benito Mussolini | Established totalitarian government regime in Italy, played on fears of Communism and economic collapse |
| Fascism | stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi Dictator of Germany from 1933-1945, creator of Holocaust |
| Nazism | The political party of Adolf Hitler that advocated the supremacy of the Aryan race |
| Neutrality Act | outlawd arms sale or loan of arms to nations at war and banned arms sales and loans to nations involved in civil wars |
| Winston Churchill | Great Britain's wartime prime minister, inspired his country to win the Battle of Britain |
| Appeasment | Pafication, policy of non-aggression which Britain and France used to placate Hitler prior to WWII |
| Blitzkrieg | "Lightning War" refers to swift attacks by the German army in WWII |
| Nonaggression Pact | Agreement between Hitler and Stalin not to fight, allowed Hitler to invade Poland |
| Charles DeGaulle | French General who fled to England where he set up a government-in-exile |
| Holocaust | The Nazi program of extermination of Jews and political dissenters during WWII using concentration camps |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synogogues across Germany |
| Genocide | The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population |
| Concentration Camp | Labor camps used by Hitler for the Jews |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | The president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the U.S." |
| Allies | All the countries that fought against the Axis powers in WWII |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese general and prime minister who led his country into war against the US |
| George Marshall | Army chief of staff General who pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
| WAAC | under this bill women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions |
| Manhattan Project | code name for research work that extended across the country for building and atomic bomb |
| Rationing | establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of operation torch, an invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 when Allies launched invasion of European Mainland |
| Battle of the Bulge | German breakthrough at weak point in Allied defense in Belgium, December 1944 |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day |
| Harry S. Truman | Became president of the U.S. after Roosevelt's death, ordered the use of the Atomic Bomb on Japan |
| Douglas MacArthur | Allied commander of the South Pacific who promised to return to the Philippines |
| Battle of Midway | June 1942 battle that gave the U.S. a foothold in the Pacific, the turning point in favor of the U.S. |
| Kamikaze | Suicide Japanese plane bombers |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | American scientist who helped develop the Atomic Bomb |
| Hiroshima | An important Japanese military base where America dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy |
| GI Bill of Rights | A name given to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for WWII veterans |
| Internment Camps | Inland locations where Japanese-Americans were forced to move during WWII, ordered by FDR |
| Japanese-American Citizen League | an organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during WWII |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of American Naval forces int he Pacific |
| Korematzu v. U.S. | government's policy of evacuating Japanese-Americans to camps was justified on the basis of "military necessity" |
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