| A | B |
|---|
| Isolationism | US policy to stay out of foreign entanglements |
| League of Nations | 1st attempt to settle disputes between nations peacefully. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Said U.S. had the right to interfere in Latin American affairs. |
| Argonne Forest | Last battle Americans fought in WWI |
| Panama Canal | Shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans |
| Herbert Hoover | U.S. President during stock market crash of 1929 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Created the New Deal |
| Marcus Garvey | Wanted African Americans to return to Africa |
| Harlem Renaissance | Literary movement for black writers and poets. |
| Black Thursday | Oct. 24, 1929 |
| New Deal Programs | TVA, FDIC, Social Security, FCC are all this |
| Harry Truman | becomes president after FDR dies. |
| Battle of Britain | Hitler decides not to invade England after this. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's desperate attempt to win the way. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Turning point of the war in Eastern Europe |
| Battle of Midway | Gave U.S. control of the central Pacific |
| D-Day | June 1944, Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941. A day that will live in infamy. |
| Hiroshima | First sight of an atomic bomb attack. |
| Nasser | Wanted to build a dam on the Nile River |
| Fidel Castro | took over Cuba in 1959 |
| Joseph McCarthy | U.S. Senator. Said communist spies were in the government |
| Jimmy Carter | Restored full diplomatic relations with China. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of Nato and European comander during WWII |
| Richard Nixon | Ends histility with China. |
| Henry Kissinger | Nixon's head of the State department. Practiced shuttle democracy |
| Silent Majority | Voters tired of the rebellions of the 60s. |
| George Bush | President with the USSR falls |
| Ronald Reagan | Wants to develop a "star wars" anti-missle system |
| Winston Churchill | Was Prime Minister of England during WWII |
| detente | a lessening of tensions between nations. |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Warsaw Pact | The communist response to NATO |
| Containment | U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism |
| Deterrence | US policy of building a large number of nuclear weapons |
| United Nations | Its goal: Protect human rights and prevent war |
| HUAC | House UnAmerican Activites Committee |
| Martin Luther King | Forms the SCLC |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Council |
| John Locke | Believed in a contract between the people and government. |
| Rousseau | Believed the people, not the government, are sovereign |
| Montesquieu | Believed the way to prevent tyranny is to split up powers of government |
| Magna Carta | Said a freepeople could not be arrested without a trial |
| English Bill of Rights | gave the right to petition for change |
| VA Declaration of Rights | Introduced basic rights into the Virginia Constitution |
| VA Statue of Religious Freedom | Did away the idea of a state church |
| republic | governments chosen by the people. |
| Federalism | Power is divided between national and state governments |
| Judicial Act of 1789 | Created a federal court system |
| Adam Smith | Wrote "Wealth of Nations" |
| Business cycle | Prosperity, recession, depression and recovery |
| scarcity | Resources are limited |
| Karl Marx | Wrote "The Communist Manifesto" |
| Supreme Court | Only court mentioned in the Constitution. |
| Inflation | money is worht less during these times |
| traditional economy | families and communities use time honored customs |
