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04/13/2011

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Dow Jones Industrial Average
Definition
Overall health of market
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Speculation
Definition
Risk to make a large profit
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Buying on Margin
Definition
Purchasing stocks on credit
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Ponzi Scheme
Definition
Get-rich-quick schemes
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Black Tuesday
Definition
Worst stock market crash in history
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Hoovervilles
Definition
Shantytowns for the poor
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Definition
High tariff in US history
Worsened the Depression
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Dust Bowl
Definition
Drought
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Direct Relief
Definition
Government gives aid to people
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Definition
Provided emergency financing
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Bonus Army
Definition
WWI veterans who march on DC
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Fireside Chats
Definition
FDR addressed the nation by radio
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New Deal
Definition
FDR's program for relief, recovery, and reform
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Brain Trust
Definition
Ivy league intellectuals who advised FDR
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Glass-Steagall Act
Definition
created FDIC
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Definition
Insures individual bank accounts
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Definition
Job program in national parks
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Court Packing
Definition
FDR tried to pack the SC with 6 additional justices who supported the New Deal
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Works Progress Administration
Definition
Provided jobs at a "security wage"
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Wagner Act
Definition
Right to form unions
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Definition
Built dams to control flooding and generate electricity
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Grapes of Wrath
Definition
John Steinbeck; Okies move to CA
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Totalitarian
Definition
A political system in which the govt. exercises complete control over citizens.
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Fascism
Definition
a political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized govt.
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Nazism
Definition
the political philosophy, based on extreme nationalism
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Neutrality Acts
Definition
a series of laws enacted to prevent U.S. arms sales and loans to nations at war
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Appeasement
Definition
the granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace
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Nonaggression Pact
Definition
an agreement in which two nations promise not to go to war with each other
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
from the German word meaning "lightning war"
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Genocide
Definition
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular race
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Holocaust
Definition
murder of Jews
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Kristallnacht
Definition
"night of broken glass"; nazi troopers attacking jewish homes
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Concentration Camp
Definition
Nazi prison camp
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Axis Powers
Definition
Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Allies
Definition
Britain, the Soviet Union, and the US
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Lend-lease Act
Definition
a law that allowed the US to ship supplies to nations fighting the Axis powers
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Atlantic Charter
Definition
U.S. and Britain set for goals in WWII
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Manhattan Project
Definition
U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb
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Office of Price Administration
Definition
agency established by Congress to control inflation
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War Production Board
Definition
agency to coordinate the production of military supplies
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War Production Board
Definition
agency to coordinate the production of military supplies
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Rationing
Definition
restricting people's right to buy food
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D-Day
Definition
a name given when Allies launched a massive invasion to liberate France from Nazi control
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Kamikaze
Definition
the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled plane into a military target
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Nuremberg Trials
Definition
court proceedings in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes
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GI Bill of Right
Definition
provided financial and educational benefits for veterans of WWII
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Internment
Definition
confinement of people under wartime conditions
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