| A | B |
|---|
| Social Security | New Deal Program for the elderly |
| Bank Holiday | FDR first official act-closed all the banks |
| FDR | President of the U.S. during the Great Depression and World War II |
| "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself" | Quote by FDR |
| Brain Trust | Name for the group of FDR Advisers during the Depression |
| Causes of the Depression | stock market speculation, high tariffs, lack of government control, over-production |
| Allies | Name for the U.S. and her friends in WW II |
| Churchill | Prime Minister of England |
| Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941-Japanese attacked the U.S. |
| Normandy | In France- site of D-Day invasion |
| Poland | 1939- WW II started when Germany invaded this country |
| Iwo Jima | One of the last islands to be retaken by the Allies from the Japanese |
| Island Hopping | The procedure used to defeat the Japanese |
| Guadalcanal | First island the allies took back from the Japanese |
| Holocaust | Name for the killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis |
| Japanese-Americans | Americans who were imprisoned during the war |
| Hiroshima | Site of the first atomic bomb attack |
| Lend-Lease Act | Made the U.S. an "arsenal for democracy" |
| 1939 | The year that World War II started |
| 1945 | The year that World War II was over |
| HUAC | Committee in Congress who investigated people of being Communist |
| Senator McCarthy | He led the attack on people suspected of being Communist |
| Truman | Vice President under FDR then President during the beginning of the Cold War |
| Korean War | 1950-53 War started when North Koreans invaded S. Korea. - Called U.N. Police Action |
| Pusan | In southern Korea |
| Inchon | In Korea- General MacArthur led a daring invasion |
| Yalu River | Border between China and Korea |
| Gen. MacArthur | Truman fired him - He wanted to invade China |
| Berlin | Communists tried to force us out of W. Berlin - We began an airlift |
| Middle of the Road | Eisenhower's ideas that some social programs were acceptable to Republicans |
| Eisenhower | Top General in World War II -Later President of the U.S. |
| Kennedy | New Frontier, Bay of Pigs Failure, Cuban Missile Crisis, Assassinated in 1963 |
| Brown v Board of Education | Supreme Court said that schools much integrate |
| NATO | Our side during the Cold War |
| Hitler | Fuhrer, Leader of Germany |
| Rationing | Way to deal with the shortages during World War II |
| G.I. Bill | Law to help veterans |
| U.N. Police Action | Official name for the Korean War |
| D Day | 1944 - Major invasion of Europe during WW II |
| Containment | The idea that we should not let Communism spread to other countries |
| Berlin Airlift | Successful - We were able to stay in West Berlin |
| Marshall Plan | Aid for Europe after World War II |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last major offensive by the Germans |
| Cold War | War of words - limited wars - Between Democracy and Communism- Ended in 1990 |
| Herbert Hoover | President when the Depression started in 1929 |
| New Deal | Name for FDR's program to get us out of the Depression |
| CCC | New Deal Program for young people to work on conservation |
| Stalingrad | Russian city- Russians defeated the Germans here |
| SEC | Commission that regulares the stock market |
| FDIC | This agency insures our bank deposits |
| PWA | New Deal Program- Large Building Projects |
| NIRA | New Deal Program- Promoted Cooperation within Business - Blue Eagle was the symbol |
| TVA | It provides cheap electricity for those people living in the Tennessee Valley |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill made up the term-It was an invisible dividing line in Europe between the democratic countries and the communist countries |
| National Labor Relations Board | It settles labor disputes |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy during WW II |
| Fascism | Type of government in Italy and Germany during WW II - Totalitarian |
| Mein Kampf | "My Struggle" Book Written by Hitler |
| Manchuria | Place in China- The Japanese invaded here |
| Blitzkrieg | "Lightening War" - German military tactic |
| Isolationism | Type of Foreign Policy- U.S. did not want to have anything to do with the rest of the world |
| appeasement | buying off aggressors - used for Hitler when he wanted the Sudetenland |
| Good Neighbor Policy | FDR's program to be friends with Latin American countries |
| Fuhrer | Hitler - Means Leader |
| Axis | Germany, Italy, Japan in WW II |
| Nazi | Name for Hitler's political party |
| Bonus Army | Name for the Veterans from WW I who wanted their bonus early |
| General Rommel | German General- Defeated in North Africa |
| Baatan | Death March for Americans in the Philippines |
| Midway | Naval Battle - Turning Point in World War II - Stopped Japanese advance toward the U.S. |
| Rosie | Name for the symbol of women working during WW II - "Rosie the Riviter" |
| War Production Board | In charge of production during WW II |
| Yalta Conference | FDR, Churchill, Stalin met to discuss the end of the war-controversial because FDR may have made some mistakes |
| Fair Deal | Name for Truman's Program |
| Dixiecrats | Southern Whites in the Democratic party who were against extending civil rights |
| Marshall Plan | Money to help Europe (duplicate) |
| Mao | Leader of Communist China - 1949 |
| Ike | Nickname for Eisenhower |
| Adlai Stevenson | Ran against Eisenhower and lost |
| John F. Dulles | Sec. of State for Eisenhower |
| Brinkmanship | Go to the very edge of war and hope the other country backs off |
| Massive Retaliation | Use of nuclear weapons |
| Sputnik | First Russian space satellite |
| Khrushchev | He became the leader of Russia when Stalin died |
| U-2 | U.S. spy plane shot down by the Russians |
| Modern Republicanism | Another name for Eisenhower's Middle of the Road |
| AFL/CIO | Largest union in the world |
| Sunbelt | States in the south and southwest- Growing population |
| Levittown | Inexpensive, small houses built after WW II- Many of them looked the same |
| Jonas Salk | Discovered a vaccine for polio |
| Billy Graham | Preacher to large audiences |
| Rock 'n Roll | Combination of Black Blues, White Country, and Black Gospel music. Parents thought it was causing juvenile delinquency |
| Beatnik | Poets and writers - Critics of the 1950s and the way of life of Americans |
