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38 Cards in this Set
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Calvin Coolidge |
(1923-1925) and (1925-1929), taciturn; small gov't conservative; laissez faire ideology; in favor of immigration restriction (Immigration Act); reduced the tax burden; the Bonus Bill was passed over his veto; Revenue Act of 1924; Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Kellogg-Briand Treaty |
Outlawed War |
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Herbert Hoover |
1928; Republican; approach to economy known as voluntarism (avoid destroying individuality/self-reliance by government coercion of business); of course, in 1929 the stock market crashed; tried to fix it through creating the Emergency Relief and Construction Act and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (didn't really work)
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Immigration Act |
established policy of immigration control |
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McCarran-Walter Act |
Modified immigration act by including asians |
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Black Tuesday |
A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply. |
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reasons for stock market crash |
unequal distribution of wealth rise of protectionism fragility of banking system technology leads to overproduction overconfidence in market buying on margin |
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reasons for great depression |
false Prosperity speculation Stock market crash banking crisis unemployment trade collapse government policy |
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Hawley smoot Tariff |
(HH) 1930 , charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliatio, HIGHEST EVER |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Roosevelt, the President of the United States during the Depression and WWII. He instituted the New Deal. Served from 1933 to 1945, he was the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms |
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21st amendment |
repealed prohibition |
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New Deal |
Relief recover reform A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression. |
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Relief Programs |
Agricultural adjustment act Civilian Conservation Corps Public Work Administration |
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Recover Programs |
National Industrial Recovery Act Work Progress Administration |
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Reform Programs |
glass steagal wagner act social security |
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Court packing |
Roosevelt's attempt to fill the supreme court with democrates because the court kept knocking down aspects of the new deal |
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Stimson Doctrine |
The US wouldnt recognize any territory brought about by agression |
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Quarantine Speach |
FDR urged world wide quarantine and nuetrality |
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Panay Incident |
Japanese gunned down American boat, they said it was an accident apologized and payed |
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Selective Service Act |
First peactime draft in history |
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Lend Lease |
Allow president to sell war equipment at benefit of the united states |
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Cash-carry |
nations could by weapons with cash and buy whatever they could carry |
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Battle of Midway |
First major US victory over Japan |
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Atomic Bomb |
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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D-Day |
greatest military naval assault of all time |
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battle of buldge |
Germany's last counter offense attack |
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United Nations |
An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
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Potsdam Conference |
July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.
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Yalta Conference |
1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
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San Francisco Charter |
where plans of the United Nations were arranged |
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Harry Truman |
33rd President of the United States. Led the U.S. to victory in WWII making the ultimate decision to use atomic weapons for the first time. Shaped U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after the war.
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Progressive party |
wanted to expand new deal and maintain good relations with USSR |
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Henry Wallace |
head of progressives |
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Taft-Hartley Act |
Closed shop=illegal Union member could not be communist 80 day cooling off period after strike |
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Truman Doctrine |
a policy apposing aggressive communism all around the world |
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Marshall Plan |
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
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NATO |
..., North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
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Warsaw Pact |
An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO |
