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New Deal |
Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, and the National Youth Administration were dissolved. President Roosevelt declared in 1943 that the New Deal reform era was over. |
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Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act |
act authorized the federal government to seize and operate tied-up industries. Strikes against any government-operated industry were made a criminal offen |
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National debt |
The national debt skyrocketed from $49 billion in 1941 to $259 billion in 1945. When production finally slipped into high gear, the war was costing about $10 million an hour. |
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Second front controversy |
The invasion of western Europe by the U.S ,British, and French in 1944. This invasion was to take pressure off the Russians and divide the Germans. It was established by the D-Day Invasion. |
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Election of 1944 |
Year in which Republicans nominated Thomas E. Dewey for president and John W, Bricker (an isolationist senator) for vice president. Democrats renominated Roosevelt but changed vice president to Harry S. Truman. Roosevelt won with sweeping victory. 4th term for Roosevelt. |
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Holocaust |
Mass genocide of Jewish people and other minority groups in Germany during the dictatorship of Hitler and his Nazi party |
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Harry S Truman |
The 33rd U.S. president, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Truman, who led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945. After the war, Truman was crucial in the implementation of the Marshall Plan, which greatly accelerated Western Europe's economic recovery. |
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Douglas MacArthur |
United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II |
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Potsdom Conference |
From July 17 to August 2, 1945, President Harry S Truman met with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British leaders Winston Churchill and later Clement Attlee (when the Labour party defeated Churchill's Conservative party) near Berlin to deliver an ultimatum to Japan: surrender or be destroyed. |
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Atomic Bomb(s) |
Used by US in Nagasaki and Hiroshima; raised problems in Soviet-American relations. It led to the postwar nuclear arms race |
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Teheran Conference |
First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after th |
