U.s. History Final Exam Vocab

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Repatriation

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Efforts by federal governments to coerce Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico.

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Dust Bowl

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Dust storms that hit the southern Great Plains, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado.

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Great Depression

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A period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the economy faltered and unemployment soared.

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Black tuesday

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More than 16 million shares were sold as the stock market collapsed in the great crash

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Bread lines

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A place where a family could get a free scrap of food

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Works progress administration

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Administered the program that gave 5 billion dollars for new jobs

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Federal Art Project

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Offered a variety of job opportunities to artists

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Pump priming

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Putting people to work on public projects had put money into the hands of consumers who would buy goods.

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New Deal

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Another way to combat the Great Depression by forcing the government to play an active role in providing relief to Americans.

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Social Security Act

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Established unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs.

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Securities exchange commission

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Protects investors from dangerous or illegal financial practices or fraud.

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Dunkirk

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A military evacuation of British and French troops Germany halted in attack

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Atlantic charter

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A document that endorsed national self-determination and general security

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Munich pact

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Agreement reached at a conference

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Pearl harbor

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The site of the United States Navy’s main Pacific base.

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Lend-Lease Act

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Authorized Roosevelt to sell transfer lease or lend any government defense.

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Blitzkrieg

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A sudden attack

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Anschluss

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A union Austria was forced to accept

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Winston Churchill

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A British statesman army officer and writer

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tripartite pact

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A pact that made Germany, Italy and Japan Allies.

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Adolf Hitler

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Led the Nazi Party

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Nuremberg trials

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Allies prosecuted Nazis for war crimes

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944 when Allies Hit German forces

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Yalta Conference

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The big three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania won hold free elections

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Kristallnacht

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"Night of the Broken Glass" The most serious attack on Jews. November 9, 1938

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Battle of Midway

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The turning point of the war in the pacific

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Nuremberg Laws

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Denied German citizenship to Jews, Banned marriage to Jews and Non-Jews, and segregated Jews at every Level of society

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Holocaust

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Nazis attempt to kill all Jews under their control

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Tuskegee Airmen

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African America Fighter Squadron

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Dwight Eisenhower

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commanded the allied invasion of North Africa

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Island hopping

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traveling from island to island

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442nd Regimental combat team

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Fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American History

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Manhatten Project

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A code name for a project that was develpoing the atomic bomb

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Cold War

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The United States and Soviet Union did no trace each other directly in combat

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Arms Race

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a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons

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containment

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The goal of keeping communism contained within its existing borders

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McCarthyism

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Joseph McCarthy's brand of anticommunism

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Truman Doctrine

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Promise to aid nations struggling against communist movements

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38th parallel

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38 degrees North of the earth's equator and formed a border between North and South Korea

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Iron Curtain

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a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West