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Crash of 1929
rich people buy stocks-prices rise-prices slowly dropped so more people would buy-everyone sold thier stocks- more sold than bought-drops further-scares off buyers-banks demand people to pay their loans-people can not pay loans- bank ran short-evryone withdrew their savings-banks had to close -
Black Tuesday
(another word for the Crash of 1929) investers sold 16.4 million shares of stocks at prices much lower than they had been selling earlier. -
Public Works Project
Government funded projects that created jobs. -
Bonus Army
May-June, 12,000-15,000 vetrans demanded to be paid. This ended with the Vetrans being attacked by the American army, which made Americans turn against Hoover. -
Fireside Chats
FDR explained what was going on in the countries in a radio talk show. These chats helped Americans have hope. -
The Hundered Days
the first 100 days FDR was in office. His goals were to relief the hungry and jobless, recover the agraculture and instudtry, create reforms to change the way the economy worked, and more, -
Social Security Act
provided workers with unemployment insurance and retirment benifits. -
Holocaust
the systematic killing by Germany during WW2 of about 6 milliom Jews as well as other enthnic goups. -
War Powers Act
An act that limits the presidents war making powers -
Pearl Harbour
Japanese war planes bombed an American Naval Base in Hawaii -
The Manhattan Project
the US set up a project to make an atomic bomb and worked on building it for 3 years -
Battle of Midway
The midpoint in WW2. This was the turning point in the war. -
Nationa Congress of American Indians
promotes common welfare of Native Americans. -
D-Day
more than 5,00 ships and landing crafts, more than 130,000 soldiers went from GB to Normandy (north France) to attack. This was the biggest seabourne attack ever. -
Battle of the Bulge
the point in the war when the Nazis knew they were going to loose -
Yalta Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin made plans to end the war and thought about the future of Europe. -
The Cold War
The indirect conflict between the Soviet Union and the USA after World War 2
Ends in August 1991 -
Hiroshima
an atomic bomb was dropped on the town of Hiroshima. It killed more than 70,000 people and destroyed five square miles of land. -
Nagasaki
another atomic bomb was dropped killing another 40,000 people -
Japan Surrendered
Japan surrendered -
The Fair Deal
After the elections. Projects that created new jobs, build puplic housing, and end racial discrimination. Harry Truman was the president at the time. -
NATO
There was lots of communist control in eastern Europe, this led to NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which included USA, Canada, and some west Europe countries. -
The Arms Race
The two countires (SU and USA) were fighting over who could make the most destructive bomb/weapons. In 1942, the US made the H-Bomb. Fear led both sides to build larger stockpiles. -
Baby Boom
the staes grew by almost 30 million people due to the soldiers returning home and starting families. -
Korean War
a 'conflict' between North and South Korea. The other countries involved were China and the USA. The Korean War ended in 1953 with a 'treaty' which North Korea has broken recently. -
Vietnam War
1955-1975, the Vietnam War was a war against the North and South of Vietnam. US aided the South fight the communist North. This fight ended in the US loosing and all of Vietnam becoming comunist to this day. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
the colored stayed off the buses for several months for Rosa Parks -
The Space Race
All countries raced to conquer the sky. The SU launched the first space sadellite, which showed that they could fire long range missles if wanted. The US spent billions trying to beat them during this race. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba thought the US would invade them so they asked the Soviets to aid them. ONce Kennedy found out about this, he promised not to invade Cuba. -
March on Washington
A march in Washingtin with 250,000 people marching for civil rights legislation. -
Freedom Summer
was a campaign in the United States to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
this law banned segragation in public places. It also created equal employment oppertunity. -
Gulf of Tonkin
This gave the president power to use military force in Vietnam -
Guerrilla Warfare
Small susprise attacks from the Viet Cong on the US/S. Vietnamese. They would hide in bushes or in tunnels. This is how men got the jobs of tunnel rats. -
Voting Rights Act
An act that let any US citizen vote, no matter what race. -
Tet Offensive
A suprise attack 100s of cities, towns, and US bases in South Vietnam delivered by the North. -
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated -
Vietnamization
Nixon declared that he would slowly be taking out soldiers and leave the ground fighting to the Vietnamese. -
Twenty Sixth Amendment
Lowered the age of voting from 21 years old to 18 years old.
