| A | B |
|---|
| 1932 | Highest unemployment, FDR elected |
| New Deal Goals | Relief(immediate, temporary jobs), Recovery(long term employment, agriculture subsidies) Reform (FDIC, Social Security, SEC) |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | Ruled unconstitutional to use taxes to pay farmers to not grow crops |
| Court packing | FDR's attempt to increase # of justices so they'd rule in his favor |
| Unions, democrats | Supported New Deal programs |
| Worcester v. Georgia | Jackson's opposition to the Supreme Court |
| Dust bowl, agriculture depression | Farm income dropped in half |
| Bonus Marchers | WWI veterans demanded their pensions, Hoover sent troops against them |
| Isolationism | America's prevailing view of what to do about WWII in the early years |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Collective security organization (our first ever peacetime alliance) |
| Rosie the Riveter | Symbol of women mobilizing for the war effort through industrial work, shifting roles and more women remaining in the workforce after the war |
| Truman Doctrine | Military and economic aid to eGreece and Turkey to halt the spread of Communism |
| Marshall Plan | $13.5 billion economic aid to Western Europe to block the appeal of Communism |
| Levittown | Mass produced affordable suburban housing |
| FHA and GI loans | Low mortgages, government insured- caused massive increase in personal home ownership |
| Fair Deal | Truman's ambitious plan to extend the New Deal. Only partially successful and opposed by conservative Republicans |
| Southern Democrats | Began to oppose Truman due to Civil Rights advocacy |
| End of racial discrimination in military | Perhaps Truman's greatest liberal policy change |
| Chiang-Kai Shek | Nationalists in China supported by the US |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader in Chinese Civil War opposed by US |
| North Korea | Supported by China and Soviets, Communists |
| South Korea | Supported by US and 15 other countries from the UN |
| Korean "conflict" | ended in a stalemate |
| Truman: Eisenhower | President at beginning of war; president at end of the war |
| NASA, increased emphasis on science and math in schools | By-products of the Cold War |
| Shah of Iran | Put back in power when Eisenhower administrator helped overthrown legitimate leader of Iran |
