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Foreclosure
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when a person is forced to give up their home or belongings.
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38th parallel
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the line that sepreates north and south korea
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Tenant Farmers
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people who lived on other peoples lands and worked their fileds for them for the pay of housing and food.
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VE-DAY
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This day occurs on May 18 1945, this is the victory day in europe
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J Robert Oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer worked in a secret laboratory in Los Alamos New Mexico to build the atomic bomb.
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Okies
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people who came from oklahoma during the dust bowl to california for work.
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Speculation
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This si when people thought the stock market was high and doing great even though they weren't
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Fascists
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Fascism is a political movement that consists of a strong controlled goverment headed by a powerful dictator.
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E. Y Harburg
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he wrote the song brother can you spare me a dime
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Aldof Hitler
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Nazi leader of germany
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Flapper
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the modern woman whose liberated lifestyle found expression in dress, hairstyle, speech, and behavior
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TVA
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Tennessee Vally Authority built damns and provided electricity for the areas in the south east vally of Tenneesee.
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Neville Chamberlain
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chamberlain was the british prime minister who met hitler at Munich
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Charles Lindbergh
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the first aviator to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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Bread Lines
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long lines of men and women who waited for food during the great depression. these lines were set up by churches and community organizations.
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Pearl Harbor
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An airforce base in hawaii that got bombed and destroted by japanese pilots. This led america into war.
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Sinclair Lewis
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he was the first American to win the Nobel Peace prize in literature
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Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem used to be an affluent white suburb in northern Manhattan, but by the end of world war one it became the nations largest and most influential African- American communities
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Franklin Roosevelt
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FD was the president after hoover who helped end the depression with a seris of New Deals. He had a bad case of polio. He was the president to have the longest term in office.
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Zora Neale Hurtson
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A black writer, wrote the book Their Eyes were Watching God during the Harlem Renaissance
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Blitzkrieg
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a german forom of fighting in which the germans bombed with planes, shot with tanks and followed with ground troops. Also called a lighting war.
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Black Tuesday
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occurred October 29, 1929, it is the day the stock market crashed
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The Great Crash
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the day that the stock market crashed and set America (and the rest of the world) into the great depression
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Luftwaffe
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GAF of German airforce
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D-Day
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D-Day was the day of the invasion of Europe , in which a massive attacked was planned to end the war on the atlantic front.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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This is when Harding gave control of naval oil reserves to the Interior Department, and which was in turn given to two wealthy business men for a bribe of a half-a-million dollars.
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Nisei
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Japanese americans that were sent to intermitent camps.
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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He was the writer who wrote the great gaspy. He ridiculed Americans obsession with money
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Lost Generation
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the young Americans emerging from world war one
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Behaviorists
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psychologists who said that women had the maternal instinct sense but doubted if they were truly
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Pink-collar jobs
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jobs held by women. They were usually low paying jobs like a sales clerk, or secretary
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Chester Nimitz
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Nimitz was the commander of american naval forces in the pacific , he heard that the japaneses were headed to midway in the pacific.
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Bonus Army
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People who demanded their war bonuses. they went to congress to fight it.
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The Scopes Trial
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the scopes trial was a trial that began because john scopes illegally taught evolution in the classrooms
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Joesph Stalin
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Stalin was the communist leader of Russia
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Thomas Edison
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invented the electric light bulb and many other technological marvels
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Hiroshima
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The first japanese city were the first atomic bomb was dropped little boy
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Brotherhood of sleeping car porters
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A workers union composed of mostly African Americans. Was founded by A. Philip Randolph
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Nazi Party
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The nazi party believed in extreme nationalism , racism, and national expansion.
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The Blitz
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The blitz was a long german raid againest egland that occured at night.
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Sheppard Towner Act
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provided federal funds to states to establish prenatal and child healthcare programs
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Benito Mussolini
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Facist leader of Italy
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The Ohio Gang
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Government officials appointed to cabinet offices due to political favors given to Harding
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Margaret Sanger
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a feminist, nurse who promoted birth control because of her experiences of women in the slums who would perform self-abortions, and believed that sex should be enjoyed without the pressures of childbirth
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Fundamentalists
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Fundamentalists were the people associated with the scopes trial that wanted everything to be kept like it was and to interpret the bible literally
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Prohibition
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ban of alcohol
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Billy Sunday
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a professional baseball player, and firm fundamentalist
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Seoul
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Capitol city of south korea
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Enola Gay
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This is the bomber plane who dropped little boy on Hiroshima
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Dust Bowl
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Great dust storms that destroyed the mideastern countryside from over plowing.
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Henry Ford
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introduced the assembly line that made mass production easier
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Warren G Harding
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Republican winner of the 1920 Presidential election; publicly known, but accomplished little
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The New Professional Women
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women of the twenties who were college educated and were fashion designers, educators, and nurses
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Modernists
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The modernists were the fast paced people who wanted to teach evolution
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Nuremberg Trials
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These were the trials in which 23 nations tried the germnay war criminals
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Ku Klux Klan
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A society of white supremacists which hung catholics, jews and blacks. They were revived in the 1920s and had many high ranking officials affiliated with them.
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Normalcy
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for Americans it implied a calming of the wartime madness and a return to the feeling that America was safely insulated and snugly isolated form the chaos of the rest of the world
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Langston Hughes
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He was a poet that captured much of the spirit the movement in a single sentence
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Louis Armstrong
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a jazz trumpet player during the Harlem renaissance
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Penny Auctions
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auctions in which farmers farms were auctioned off very cheaply.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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The presidents wife. She was a strong advertiser of equal rights. She helped FD with many decisions.
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Hoovervilles
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make shift communities set-up by the okies in search of jobs during the depression in the labor camps. Those were named after president hoover.
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Black Cabinet
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Roosevelts secret cabinet that was composed african american members.
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Herbert Hoover
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president of the great depression , before roosevelt. He is often blamed for having caused the great depression.
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Fireside Chats
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Reassuring radio addresses from FDR to the public to let the public know of the nations progress.
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CCC
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Civil Civilains Corps was formed by FDR as a part of the New Deal to give the unemployed jobs.
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The Jazz Singer
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the first motion picture with sound starring Al Jolson
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Hirohito
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Japanese leader who ordered the desruction of pearl harbor.
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Holocaust
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The genocide of over a million people by the germans on concentration camps. 6 million of them were jews.
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Axis powers
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Japan, Germany, and Italy
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Japanese Interment
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This is when the US forced all nesei to move to camps.
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Kamikazes
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Japanese suicide pilots
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General Douglas McArthur
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An american general who commanded th allied forces in the south pacific in WWII
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Manhattan Project
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The building of the atomic bomb
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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An american general who lead Operation Torch in Africa.
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Pyongyang
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Capitol city of north korea
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Book about the great depression , written by john steinback.
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