American History B

  • MAINE
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    MAINE

    M- Millitarism
    A- Alliances
    I- Impreialism
    N- Nationlism
    E- Extreame Leader
  • Schlieffen Plan

    Schlieffen Plan

    When Germany tried to flank France through Belgium but was stopped.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    A secret tellepraph intercepted by the U.S. asking Mexico to attack the U.S.
  • Eastern Front

    Eastern Front

    Conflict between the Europe Axie power.
  • Huey Long

    Huey Long

    (King Fish)
    "Share the wealth"
    Lousiana senator and Governor"
  • Central Powers

    Central Powers

    Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.
  • lusitania

    lusitania

    A ship sunk by Germany killing over 100 U.S. citizens
  • Trench Warfares

    Trench Warfares

    When soldiers were in trenches dug in the ground shooting out at enemy soldiers. When people would get shot other soldiers would just stand on the body and use them to get more hight in the tranches. There were bad illnesses and there was a bad case of trench foot.
  • Battle of Somme

    Battle of Somme

    British offense on Germans, July 1916
    Introduction of tanks
    Saw more casualties than in any other war.
  • Sussex Pledge

    Sussex Pledge

    Germany had instituted a policy for unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • U-Boats

    U-Boats

    The boat sent to attack all other ships (warships or passenger ships).
  • Installment Buying

    Installment Buying

    Purchasing things over time. (Play now, pay later)
  • Buying on Margin

    Buying on Margin

    Purchasing stock by paying only 10% of the price borrowed.
  • Bootlegger

    Bootlegger

    A person who made and smuggled alcohol illegally during the 1902's .
  • Speakeasy

    Speakeasy

    An illegal bar that tried to stay under the radar so they could make money and sell alcoholic beverages.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    When African Americans were showcased threw literature, poems, are and music.
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    This was an oil scandal that was when Albert B. Fall, U.S.Secretary of the Interior leased the Teapot Dome oil fields to Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny.
  • Communism

    Communism

    Society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
  • Warren G. Harding

    Warren G. Harding

    He was the president with his V.P running mate being Calvin Coolidge.
  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge

    He became president after Warren G. Harding died.
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition

    Banning alcoholic beverages.
  • Isolationism

    Isolationism

    Avoiding political allies with foreign countries.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial

    The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial

    When a high school teacher was sent to court after teaching the theory of evolution.
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare

    When American people were afraid of immigrants and thought they were terrorists.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan

    When a group of people dressed up in white costumes and took immigrants and tortured and killed them.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    A fiction writer whose writing helped express the jazz age.
  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover

    He was an engineer and political man who served as the 31st president.
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    An area of land where all vegetation was lost and the land was covered in sand.
  • Franklin Roosevelt

    Franklin Roosevelt

    Born into a wealthy family.
    An only child, "Doted on"
    Harvard Education > History and law.
    Married Eleanor Roosevelt (Influential 1st lady) Had 6 kids.
    1921 at age 39 he got polio.
  • First Appointed Woman

    First Appointed Woman

    Frances Perkins was the first appointed woman to Roosevelts cabinet.
  • Civilian Conservation Corps

    Civilian Conservation Corps

    Civilian Conservation Corps or the CCC.
    A worker relief program.
  • Munich Pact

    Munich Pact

    Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project

    The Manhatten Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
  • Allied Powers

    Allied Powers

    Great Britan, The United States, China, and the Soviet Union.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Provided military equipment for the Allied Powers.
  • Executive Order

    Executive Order

    A directive issued by the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government and has the force of law. Executive order 8389 Protecting Funds of Victims of Aggression was issued by U.S.
  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg

    An intense military campaign intended to bring victory.
  • War Bonds

    War Bonds

    This bounded to countries or more together to stand for each other.
  • Axis Powers

    Axis Powers

    Germany, Italy, Japan.
  • Allied Powers

    Allied Powers

    Great Britan and France and China joined later.
  • Victory Garden

    Victory Garden

    A vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.
  • Japans Attack On Pearl Harbor

    Japans Attack On Pearl Harbor

    It was supposed to be a plan to take out the U.S. military by surprise.
  • Rationing

    Rationing

    When people are only allowed to purchase a set amount of goods.
  • Rosie The Riveter

    Rosie The Riveter

    Representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II.
  • How Many Allied Troops Were Killed

    How Many Allied Troops Were Killed

    There were approximately 75,000 allied troops killed during the battle of the bulge.
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler

    He was a German leader that took over German as a dictator. He was determined to take back Germany's land and then wanted more.
  • Bulge by The Numbers

    Bulge by The Numbers

    1,452 Allied Tanks + Assault guns Vs. 1,361 German Tank + Assault Guns. 8,607 Allied KIA* Vs. 11,171 German KIA*
  • The Destroyers

    The Destroyers

    The Destroyers were several huge ships that shot mortars at the shores where German troops were posted.
  • The "Lucky shot"

    The "Lucky shot"

    This was a mortar shell shot by a destroyer that went through the window of a German building.
  • Enigma Machine

    Enigma Machine

    This was a machine stolen from Germany after the allies took over a German sub.
    This was how the Germans sent and decrypted secret messages.
  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping

    The commanders played "leapfrog" were they moved from island to island.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Japanese hoped to use Midway as a base to neutralize Perl Harbor.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    20,800 Japanese killed and 6,000 U.S. lives lost.
    This put the U.S. within striking distance of the Japanese home island.
  • Battle of Guadalupe Cord

    Battle of Guadalupe Cord

    The Japanese advance was stopped.
    All momentum shifted to the U.S.
  • D-Day Invasion

    D-Day Invasion

    Also, know as Normandy Landing. Lare sea born invasion.
  • Germany

    Germany

    Hitler wanted Nazism.
  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union

    Stalin and he was trying to install communism.
  • Italy

    Italy

    Mussolini wanted to install fascism.
  • Charles Coughlin

    Charles Coughlin

    "Radio Priest"
    Supported FDR at first but got impatient.

    Offered an annual living wage.
  • Dr. Francis Townsend

    Dr. Francis Townsend

    The plan would give people 60 and older 200 dolors but they could not save the money they had to spend it.
  • John Maynard Reynes

    John Maynard Reynes

    Ignored Traditional COnsreversy by maintaining a balanced budget and cutting taxes and waiting for recovery.
  • Price Controls

    Price Controls

    A government regulation establishing a maximum price to be charged for specified goods and services, especially during periods of war or inflation.