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Roosevelt
Brain Trust
New Deal
Direct Relief
Liberal Approach
No Deficit Spending
Appointed first Female Cabinet
Elected 4 times
Created Public Works Program.
Fireside Chats
Court Packing Affair
21st Amendment
3 R's -
Woodrow Wilson
This was the president who was elected in 1912, and led the US into WWI. Later wrote a plan for post-WWI peace known as the Fourteen Points. -
What Sparked WW1
The immediate cause for World War 1 was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his pregnant wife Sophie. ... The assassination was planned by a Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand and the man who shot Franz Ferdinand and his wife was a Bosnian revolutionary named Gavrilo Princip. -
Trench Warfare
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. -
Allied Powers
The Allies included Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States. These countries fought against the Central Powers which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. Archduke Ferdinand, of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by a Serb on June 28, 1914. -
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This was the spark that started World War I. Archduke Ferdinand, the Austrian crown prince, was murdered on June 28, 1914, by a Serbian nationalist while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. Germany urged Austria-Hungary to fight and they went to war against Serbia; all of this due to Serbia wanting to expand -
Austria-Hungary
This Central Power empire during WWI, started the war with their invasion of Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 . It was made up of Austria, Hungary and several other nations and territories. After World War I it split up into several nations. -
U-boats
This new machinery used by the Germans in sea warfare, to attack British and American supply ships in the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. -
Nationalism
This cause of World War I was based on an intense pride in one's nation. -
Trench Warfare
This style of warfare was common in WWI, due to the invention of the machine gun and heavy artillery. It included digging long trenches, separated by barbed wire and a no mans land. -
Imperialism
This cause of World War II resulted from the competition among European nations for colonies in Africa and Asia from 1880-1914. This created tension, especially between Germany and Great Britain. -
M.A.I.N.E.
These are the five main causes of World War I. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, and Extreme Leaders. -
Balkan Region
Slavic Region of intense nationalism and imperial domination in mountains of south/eastern Europe - spark to set off powder keg of Europe. -
Central Powers
This was a major alliance at the 'center' of Europe during World War I, made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire. It was formerly known as the Triple Alliance before the war. SHOWN ABOVE IN RED. -
Allied Powers
This was a major alliance during World War I made up of Britain, France, Russia, and the United States. It was know n as the Triple Entente(a French word) before the war. -
Western Front
This was a major front in World War I. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. This is where most of the fighting happened in World War II. -
Shlieffen Plan
This was Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWl. The plan was for troops to rapidly defeat France and move east to defeat Russia. -
Eastern Front
This was a front in WWI. The region of fighting happened along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. -
Militarism
This cause of World War I was a policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war. -
Conscription
The compulsory call of civilians to military service; the draft. -
Central Powers
The Central Powers, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria—hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance —was one of the two main coalitions that fought World War I. It faced and was defeated by the Allied Powers that had formed around the Triple Entente -
New Weapons
Machine guns, Tanks, Poison Gas -
Allied Powers
This alliance during WWI included the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy (switched to the Allied Powers in 1915). (The blue countries of the East and West on map above) -
Lusitania
This British passenger ship was sunk by German U-boats in 1915, carrying civilians and ammunition to Britain from the U.S. The event turned American opinion against Germany. -
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
This was the policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters. -
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters. Resulted in the entry of the US into World War I. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
This German Emperor led the Germans during WWI. In 1918 he was forced to step down by German Generals. -
Jacob Lawrence
the famous painter that showed the story of the Great Migration -
Louis Armstrong
Famous jazz trumpet player during the Harlem Renaissance -
Duke Ellington
famous jazz musician and band director during the Harlem Renaissance -
Langston Hughes
poet during the Harlem Renaissance -
Bessie Smith
famous blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance -
Harlem Renaissance
a cultural movement: the rebirth of African American culture -
speakeasy
a secret club that sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition -
Prohibition
the period of time from 1918-1933 when alcohol was banned -
bootlegger
a person that illegally smuggled alcohol -
organized crime
the unintended consequence of Prohibition -
Henry Ford
made the automobile affordable by using the assembly line -
the Wright Brothers
first in flight -
radio
increased communication and entertainment during the 1920s -
electric stove, vacuum, refrigerator
labor-saving devices of the 1920s -
19th amendment
gave women the right to vote -
21st amendment
repealed the 18th amendment -
Alfred E. Smith
Democratic presidential candidate in 1928; lost to Hoover -
Dow Jones Industrial Average
the most widely used gauge of stock market performance; also known as the Dow, it tracks 30 stocks in large well-established U.S. companies -
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries -
Herbert Hoover
31st President of the United States; Republican; promised the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community -
Dust Bowl
region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. -
Dorothea Lange
sent out by the government to record the Great Depression by taking pictures; best known for her picture "Migrant Mother" -
Boulder Dam
Hoover Dam; a dam on the Colorado River built during the Great Depression as part of a public-works program intended to stimulate business and provide jobs -
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans and avoid foreclosure -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
the agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks -
Bonus Army
group of WWI veterans that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their government war bonuses in cash -
D-Day
(FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foothold in Normandy. -
Totalitarianism
A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens. -
Fascism
A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule. -
Dictator
A ruler who has complete power over a country -
Nazism
Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s. -
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan -
Allied Powers
Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II. -
Mussolini
Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Millions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis. -
General Dwight Eisenhower
Led the allied invasion of North Africa and planned and executed the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the battle of the budge; Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. -
Cold War
After World War II, the long period of intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of giving American aid to nations threatened by communist expansion. -
Berlin Wall
A wall built by the communist East German government in 1961 to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
An alliance formed in 1949 by the United States and Western European nations to fight Soviet aggression. -
38th Parallel
The dividing line between South and North Korea. -
Douglas MacArthur
A general who Truman chose to command a force that was sent to Korea to attack after North Korea attacked Southern Korea. -
Joseph McCarthy
The senator of Wisconsin; he charged 205 State Department employees and accused them of being communist party members, but they were never proven. Eventually, he came across as a bully, and his popularity plunged. -
Arms Race
Competition for supremacy in nuclear weapons (between the United States and the Soviet Union) -
Containment
the Cold War Policy of keeping communism within its already existing borders and not allowing communism to spread further
