| A | B |
|---|
| speculation | buying stock to get rich quick |
| Herbert Hoover | President during the stock market crash |
| Depression Cycle | overproduction - layoffs - no $ - can't buy stuff |
| Bonus Army | WWI vets who marched on Washington, DC for their bonus $ |
| bank holiday | FDR's 1st major act when he closes all the banks |
| fireside chats | FDR's weekly radio talks designed to reassure the people |
| stock market crash | 1929 |
| overproduction | underlying cause of the Great Depression |
| Hoovervilles | run-down shacks |
| New Deal | FDR's slogan |
| FDR's 3 R's | relief, recovery, reform |
| packing the court | FDR tries to add judges to push his New Deal program through |
| Mussolini | dictator of Italy |
| Hirohito | emperor of Japan |
| FDR | President of USA |
| Stalin | leader of Russia (USSR) |
| totalitarian | government that has complete control over its people |
| Hitler | dictator of Germany |
| Allied Powers (WWII) | USA, England, USSR, and France |
| Axis Powers (WWII) | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| blitzkrieg | lightning warfare |
| Churchill | prime minister of England |
| genocide | killing of an entire ethnic racial or religious group |
| pacifist | someone who wants peace |
| rationing | conserving resources |
| island hopping | US strategy against Japan in the Pacific |
| Why Truman dropped the bomb | bring a quick end to the war and save US lives |
| Holocaust | the Nazi's murder of over 6 million Jews |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941 Japan attacks US and we enter WWII |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Western Europe |
| Manhattan Project | secret project to develop an atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima/Nagasaki | US drops atomic bombs and ends WWII |
