| A | B |
|---|
| AAA | help farmers declared unconstitutional |
| CCC | employed young men |
| FDIC | insured bank deposits |
| NIRA | established codes of definition |
| SEC | regulates stockmarket |
| TVA | offered flood control and created 1,000's of jobs |
| WPA | offered artists and writers, part on 2nd New Deal |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | black educator appointed to NYA committee |
| Father Coughlin | blamed depression on Jewish bankers |
| Harry Hopkins | director of FERA |
| John Maynard Keynes | economist who advocated deficit spending |
| Huey P Long | "Robin Hood" plan - give to the poor |
| Frances Perkins | woman appointed as Secretary of Labor |
| American Liberty League | opposed New Deal |
| bank holiday | closed nations banks under Roosevelt term |
| court packing plan | FDR'S attempt to protect New Deal programs |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | established 1st minimum wage |
| New Deal | FDR's name for fighting war on depression |
| pump priming | spending money to stimulate economy |
| Wagner Act | recognize Union right to organize |
| anti-Semitism | hatred of Jewish people |
| appeasement | policy of giving in to an aggressor nation |
| Battle of the Bulge | last major German offensive |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | stopped Japanese drive toward Australia |
| Battle of Midway | handed Japan its first major defeat |
| blitzkrieg | swift attacks by Germans in WWII |
| D-Day | the Allies invaded France |
| Dunkirk | the evacuation of trapped Allied troops |
| fifth columnists | Nazi undercover agents |
| Fuhrer | title used by Adolf Hitler after 1934 |
| genocide | killing an entire ethnic group |
| Holocaust | Nazi killing of millions of Jews and other undesirables |
| Kristallnacht | night Nazi gangs terrorized Jewish citizens |
| Lebensraum | additional land desired by Germans |
| Luftwaffe | German air force |
| Nazi Party | anti-Semitic, 3rd Reich |
| Nonagression Pact | when Germany and Russia secretly divided Poland |
| Operation Torch | allied plan to invade North Africa |
| Tripartite Pact | defensive agreement signed by Japan, Germany , and Italy |
| Neville Chamberlain | British leader who signed the Munich Party |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister during WWII |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | supreme Allied commander in Western Europe |
| Douglas MacArthur | US army chief in Pacific theater |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist dictator of Italy |
| Chester Nimitz | admiral of US forces in Pacific |
| Jesse Owens | upset Hitler by winning Olympic gold medals |
| A. Philip Randolph | Union leader who fought to end racial discrimination |
| Joseph Stalin | communist dictator of Soviet Union |
| Harry S Truman | president after Franklin Roosevelt |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Nationalist Chinese leader during Chinese Civil War |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese leader who signed treaty of mutual assistance with Stalin |
| Joseph McCarthy | Wisconsin senator who claimed there were 205 communists in the State Department |
| cover | secret |
| Dixiecrats | States Rights Democrats who opposed civil rights legislation |
| Ralph Abernathy | carried on King's work after his death |
| Medgar Evers | NAACP official murdered in Mississippi |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP attorney who won Brown vs. Board of Education |
| James Meredith | student whose admission to a university caused a riot |
| Elijah Muhammed | wanted separatism |
| Rosa Parks | sparked Montgomery bus boycott |
| Black Panthers | Black separatist political party formed in 1966 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | "whites only" public facilities were eliminated |
| de facto segregation | efforts of Civil Rights failed to end it |
| Freedom Riders | sought to integrate interstate bus terminals |
| freedom schools | organized to improve political and academic skills of African Americans |
| March on Washington | showed public support for civil rights laws |
| Mississippi Summer Project | plan to recruit white volunteers to work in South |
| Nation of Islam | organization with whom Malcolm X was affiliated |
| SCLC | formed by MLK and other southern ministers |
| sit-ins | against segregation-first used by student activists in 1960 |
| SNCC | organization formed by student activists |
| A.I.M. | militant Native American organization |
| Bay of Pigs | its goal was to overthrow Castro's gov |
| Berlin Wall | prevented flow of refugees to West |
| bilingualsim | strategy for helping non-english speakers |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba |
| flexible response | Kennedy's foreign policy plan |
| Green Berets | special forces to fight limited war |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's domestic programs |
| N.O.W. | group that promoted women's rights |
| Peace Corps | sent American volunteers to poor nations |
| S.D.S | student activist organization in 60's |
| War on Poverty | its goal was to establish community based self help programs |
| domino theory | if one nation fell to communism, nearby nations would follow |
| Geneva Accords | divided Vietnam at 17th parallel |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | appeared after torpedo boats attacked US destroyer |
| Kent State | antiwar protestors killed here |
| Khmer Rouge | brutal communist rulers of Cambodia |
| lottery | eliminated college draft deferments |
| napalm | used to destroy jungle foilage |
| Pentagon Papers | provided secret info about Vietnam War |
| plumbers | White House unit for covert missions |
| Silent Majority | middle class courted by Nixon |
| Tet Offensive | proved that war was over |
| Viet Cong | Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam |
| Vietminh | group that fought for independence from France |
| Lieutenant Calley | officer convicted of war atrocities at My Lai |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of communist gov. in North Vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | 1st head of pro American gov. in South Vietnam |
| William Westmoreland | American commander in South Vietnam |
