Unit 4 Webquest Words

1. Henry Ford- was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production.
2. Assembly Line-arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in a direct line.
3. Installment buying- Purchasing a commodity over a period of time
4. Teapot Dome Scandal-during the Harding in which the administration Secretary of the interior leased government oil reserves.
5. Calvin Coolidge- was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
6. Kellog-Briand Pact-1928 agreement in which many nation agreed to outlaw war.
7. Dawes Plan-agreement with US loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payment to Britain and France
8. Scopes Trial-1925 trial of a trial Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin’s theory if evolution.
9. Prohibition-the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale or alcohol.
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11. Charlie Chaplin- was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era, and became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War.
12. Charles Lindberg- was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
13. Marcus Garvey- was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)
14. Harlem Renaissance- period during the 1920’s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their cultures
15. Black Tuesday-October 29, 1929 when the stock prices fell sharply in the great crash.
16. Hawley-Smoot Tariff- protective import tax authorized by congress in 1930.
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18. Hooverville- makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the great depression.
19. Dust Bowl-for the central and southern great plains during the 1930’s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms
20. Repatriation- Mexican Americans were encouraged, or forced, by local, state and federal officials to return to Mexico during in 1930’s
21. FDIC- Federal deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured bank insurance up to 5,000.
22. TVA- is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression
23. Huey Long- nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. senator from 1932 to 1935
24. Social Security Act- 1935 law that set up a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance and created insurance for victims of work- related accidents.
25. Joseph Stalin- was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.
26. Benito Mussolini- was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
27. Adolph Hitler- was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
28. Appeasement- policy of granting concession in order to keep the peace.
29. Munich Pact- agreement between Germany, Italy, GB, and France in 1938 that scarified the Sudetenland to preserve peace.
30. Blitzkrieg- lighting war that emphasized the use of speed to penetrate deep into the enemy’s territory
31. Winston Churchill- was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II.
32. Lend-Lease Act-passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the US.
33. Douglas McArthur- was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.
34. Dwight Eisenhower- was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961.
35. George S Patton- was a United States Army officer most famous for his leadership commanding corps and armies as a general in World War II. He was also widely known for his controversial outspokenness and strong opinions.
36. Battle of Midway-turning point of WW11 in the pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped.
37. Internment- temporary imprisonment of member of a specific group.
38. Battle of the Bulge- in December 1944, hilter ordered a counterattack on allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops.
39. Harry Truman- was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953).
40. Manhattan Project- code name of the project that develop the atomic bomb.
41. Nuremburg Laws- laws enacted by Hilter that denied German citizenship to Jews.
42. Kristallnacht- literally "Crystal Night") or the Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938.