Katelynn Me Card

Front 1

Alfred P. Sloan

Back 1

general motors chairmen of the board. Believed cars could become a status symbol.creates a demand for automobiles to make people have a higher demand "keeping up with the Jones"

Front 2

cadillac

Back 2

if you were rich you would drive it

Front 3

chevy

Back 3

the car for the not so quite rich

Front 4

Amos N'Andy

Back 4

2 white men, pretending to be black in the 1920s. they reinforce rational steriotypes

Front 5

Fibber McGee and Molly

Back 5

reinforced women stupidy. Women wold always win the argument. Women arent dominent

Front 6

Sigmund freud

Back 6

said that we had sex viewed wrong. Sex should be open. Said that children even have these feelings.

Front 7

Edgar rice burroughs

Back 7

writes tarzan of the apes

Front 8

Zain gray

Back 8

writes a series of books on the west prior to the turn of the century

Front 9

Ernest hemingway

Back 9

writes books on the war (WWI) wrote "death in the afternoon"

Front 10

Nathan bedford-forrest

Back 10

tremendous racist found the Ku Klux Klan

Front 11

Marcus garvey

Back 11

founded the UNIA. First black man that who told people that it was ok to be black.

Front 12

Warren G. Harding

Back 12

29th president. Very corrupt president. Not a hard worker. died in office and replaced by coolidge

Front 13

Securities and exchange commission

Back 13

Put into place because of stock market crash. a U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception

Front 14

fireside chats

Back 14

wanted to restore confidence in America, and the banking system. FDR speaks on radio to the america people

Front 15

FDIC

Back 15

federal deposit insurance cooperation. guarantees your money up to 2500 in the banks

Front 16

PWA

Back 16

(public works administration) 33 billion invested to build bridges

Front 17

Agricultural adjustment Act 1935

Back 17

pays farmers no to grow certain crops. slaughtered over 1 million baby pigs (keeps prizes at a certain price)

Front 18

tennessee valley authority (TVA)

Back 18

damn up the rivers, and create electricity based on flowing wter

Front 19

civilian conservation corps (CCC)

Back 19

provided jobs, made parks better, and sent the money earned to the family, and they were given clothing, housing, and food.

Front 20

social security act of 1936

Back 20

if you work we will force you to have money taken out of your paycheck, have it put into an account and someday when your old, we will give you the money back. Theoretically you get more back.

Front 21

New deal

Back 21

allows people to get jobs, include (CCC), (PWA), (AAA), (TVA)

Front 22

war guilt clause at versaille

Back 22

germany is at fault for the war, and has to pay for all the reprepations

Front 23

ostfriesland

Back 23

an old german battle ship

Front 24

billy mitchell

Back 24

learned to fly an airplane, he had a theory that the airplane was gonna be big in war

Front 25

julio douhet

Back 25

wrote command of the air

Front 26

reichstag

Back 26

legislative body of germany-there was a fire here, and hitler blamed the communist

Front 27

levi reifenstahl

Back 27

producer triumph of the will in 1933

Front 28

mao tse tung

Back 28

wanted to change the leadership of his country...communist

Front 29

chang kai shek

Back 29

he was a leader of the nationalist china government

Front 30

Nanking

Back 30

(at the time) capitol of china

Front 31

Sudentenland

Back 31

Hitler wants this land to be a part of Germany. Him wanting to take this land is the first sign that he wants to conquer Europe

Front 32

Axis

Back 32

Germany, Japan, and Italy against the rest of the world

Front 33

Blitzcreig

Back 33

germany invades france and the nazis conquer- england sets up free france there

Front 34

Winston churchill

Back 34

becomes britains new prime minister- declares war on Germany

Front 35

luftaffy vs RAF

Back 35

germany vs england airforce

Front 36

HR 1776

Back 36

will allow england to bring naval ships to american shipyards to be repaired and give some of our ships if england gives back after war

Front 37

Lend lease

Back 37

apart of HR 1776 buy our way out of the war.

Front 38

Admiral Kimmel

Back 38

In charge of the U.S. naval fleet in the pacific. He recommended to move the fleet from California to hawaii. He was court marshalled when pearl harbor was bombed

Front 39

General short

Back 39

he is in charge of the army at pearl harbor. he was court marshalled because he put all the planes in one place which made them an easy target.

Front 40

Joseph Stalin

Back 40

the president of the soviet union. Makes the decision to join sides with america, when germany breaks pact with them.

Front 41

Hitler

Back 41

in charge of germany

Front 42

mussolini

Back 42

in charge of italy

Front 43

hirohito

Back 43

in charge of japan

Front 44

operation sledge hammer

Back 44

U.S. and britain invade France to relieve german armies in soviet Union

Front 45

operation torch

Back 45

roosevelt and churchill decide to make their first stand in north africa in july of 1942.

Front 46

George patten

Back 46

Eisenhower asked this man to help with the war in north africa. and he takes on rommel and kicks his butt, now we can invade italy. Replaces montgomery and they clash. works for Eisenhower.

Front 47

Island hopping

Back 47

focus on built in airports on certain islands (get control of them) for loading and fueling amo on the way to bomb Japan

Front 48

Colonial Jimmy doolittle

Back 48

He makes a plan to take B-25s and lighten them up with little fuel, and get bombers to Japan

Front 49

the doolittle rade

Back 49

planes take off from the U.S.S. Hornet and going to drop bombs on Tokeyo

Front 50

Operation Husky

Back 50

taking sicily (successfull)

Front 51

xyclone

Back 51

a pesticide used as the main weapon against Jews

Front 52

Tehran

Back 52

where the conference was to set up D-day

Front 53

S.A.C. Dwight Eisenhower

Back 53

all of the allies report to him

Front 54

operation fortitude

Back 54

planned for calliet. we had inflatable weapony to calliet so that the germans thought this is where we would storm our beach.

Front 55

Band of Brothers

Back 55

14 hours movie of D-Day

Front 56

John Steele

Back 56

landed on the steeple of St. mere eglise church

Front 57

Eva braun

Back 57

Hitlers wife. Took a pill to kill herself with hitler

Front 58

Truman

Back 58

takes the place of roosevelt as president

Front 59

Douglas Macarthur

Back 59

ran the pacific theater from the phillipines. and then ordered to australia to order things there.

Front 60

B-29 super-fortress

Back 60

biggest airplane America has ever produced. Plans to fire bomb tokyo

Front 61

Curtis leMay

Back 61

given the responsibility in figuring out a way to bomb Japan into submission

Front 62

Albert Einstein

Back 62

writes a letter to roosevelt and says the germans have figured out a way to split and atom. (german physicist)

Front 63

Los Alamos

Back 63

town built for the manhattan project

Front 64

Manhattan project

Back 64

Putting together a special team of physcists under the direction of Robert oppenhein to build an atomic bomb. Secret from the whole world

Front 65

Robert Oppenhein

Back 65

the director of the manhattan project

Front 66

Potsdam

Back 66

where the negotiation of the end of WWII would take place. how to "carve up the losers land"

Front 67

operation olympic

Back 67

ground attack on Japanese islands

Front 68

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Back 68

Japanese islands wehre america was island hopping. America wants to take these islands to use to their advantage. both had battles take place on them, japanese put up quite a fight, and made america hesitant about ground attacks in the future on Japan.

Front 69

Kamikaze

Back 69

Japanese who fly planes as suicide mission

Front 70

Ho Chi Minh

Back 70

leads the communist Vietminh and they hang out in the Jungles of northern Vietnam

Front 71

Nuremburg

Back 71

a devistated city, where war crimes were held accountable

Front 72

Geneva conventions

Back 72

rules of war, crimes against humanity

Front 73

Goering

Back 73

head of the lift off and Hitlers right hand man, suicide before hanging

Front 74

Robert Jackson

Back 74

prosecuting attorney for the U.S.A.

Front 75

Adolf Eichman

Back 75

he was never found and escaped to argentina. And was sent to israel and brought to trial, and was found guilty of war crimes. killed

Front 76

G.I. Bill

Back 76

all the soldiers who fought, had school paid for no matter what university.

Front 77

George Marshall

Back 77

Army chief of staff, and after the war named the new secretary state. Made the marshall plan which gives money to the nations in europe who have suffered due to the war. (doesnt include the soviet union because they take poland)

Front 78

NSC

Back 78

National security council. Consists of Vice president, secetary of treasure, attorney general, secretary of state, secretary of defense, charimen of the joint chiefs of staff, advisor, president, and the head of the CIA

Front 79

NSC advisor

Back 79

this is the person that appoints to the president every single day. Responsible for he security of america

Front 80

tactical (air support) bombing

Back 80

people on the ground call to the air for help

Front 81

strategic bombing

Back 81

airforce has its own mission independent from the grounds plans

Front 82

S.A.C.

Back 82

strategic airforce command. Fly airplanes over the world with nuclear weapons on board just in case.

Front 83

HUAC

Back 83

House Un-American Activies committee. these people (along with Joe McCarthy) will began to look for communist in America.

Front 84

Mao Tse Tung

Back 84

takes over China as a Communist

Front 85

NSC -68

Back 85

Mao's Revolution triggered concern. Increased defense budget by 35%. Policy of Containment. stop the spread of communism

Front 86

the military/industrial complex

Back 86

permanent militarization of the american industrial might

Front 87

United Nations

Back 87

promotes international organization, similar to the league of nations, but america is involved.

Front 88

New look

Back 88

gives nuclear weapons to every branch besides the marines.

Front 89

calvin coolige

Back 89

Was vice president and replaced Harding. In 1928 he votes not to run again and Herbert Hoover runs against Al Smith.

Front 90

Causes of WWII

Back 90

1. war guilt clause at versaille 2. isolationist period 3.the rise of Japan as a military power 4.technological advances 5.the rise of bad people

Front 91

command of the air

Back 91

book written by julio douhet- "he who commands the air wins wars"

Front 92

yamamoto

Back 92

helps japan build aircrafts

Front 93

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Back 93

wrote about flappers- Great Gatsby

Front 94

Great Gatsby

Back 94

book by Fitzgerald

Front 95

rape of nanking

Back 95

Japanese army invades nanking and takes 40,000 chinese soldiers and executes all of them. Then they went over the citizens, sadistic ways of torture and death.

Front 96

USS Panay

Back 96

US ship there to evacuate Am Japanese americans in Nanking on Yangzee River -Japanese army attacks Panay by air and Japanese issue an apology

Front 97

munich pact

Back 97

acquisition of sudetenland

Front 98

neville chamberland

Back 98

reports to england that hitler was okay

Front 99

nazism

Back 99

socialism- Germany-hitler

Front 100

fascism

Back 100

not a lot of difference from nazism-italy-mousolinni

Front 101

communism

Back 101

USSR-nonaggression pact with germany-stalin

Front 102

General Irwin Rommel

Back 102

possibly the best general in the world (german)

Front 103

B-25

Back 103

planes the U.S. has

Front 104

Montgomery

Back 104

pretty successful in africa and replaced by patten, and they clash.

Front 105

wansee

Back 105

they meet in a 1 day conference to make plans on the most efficient ways to kill 6 million jews

Front 106

Vietminh

Back 106

communist group who helped america in the jungles to resecue american downed pilots.