Study Guide U.S. History 1302 Final Exam
Terms:
1. Suburbs – Outside the city limits, after the invention of the cars
2. Model T- Light weight, cheap, simple dependable, could drive out road
3. Margin Stock Purchase – Fueling involvement was the easy credit margin type of stock purchase; buy a stock 10% down payment, hold on to for 6 months to 1 year, then sell
4. Hoover Wagon – A car with horse tied to it because people couldn’t afford gas or to fix the engine
5. WPA (Workers Private Association) – to make jobs; allowed the government to focus in Public Health or Behavior
6. Bonus Army – veterans of WWI were given a $1,000 saving bond that matures in 1995
7. Wagner Act – Magna-Carta of labor law, rights for unions to exist protected by the law
8. Repatriation – With jobs being scarce, in border lands regions, hostilities begin again toward Mexican-Americans Immigrants
9. Bracero Program – from 1942, government recruited Mexican-Americans Labors to come back over the border to help in war time jobs
10. Rape of Nanking – Over 300,000 Chines men, woman, and children’s were slaughtered. Beheaded, rape, bloody murder by Japanese
11. Beerhall Putch – Hitler tries to violently take over Germany government, his supposed to go to jail for 5 years but got parole after 8 months
12. Battle of Britain – Between July and September 1940, the German Air Force launched a massive offensive in the sky of Great Britain
13. Doolittle Raid – the U.S, felt it needed to strike back at Japan after Pearl Harbor; Jimmy Doolittle propose a symbolic strike at the heart of Japan to get their population to question their invincibility
14. Iwo Jima – black volcano island
15. John Baslione – Medal of Honor Receipt at Guadalcanal. 3 days without sleep kill 3,000 mans
16. Operation Bodyguard – Fake army that keep German guessing where US was going to attack
17. Lebensraum – living space, it was Hitler plan so the white blue eyes can have property where they could raise their kids
18. Hugging – small army fighting big
1. Suburbs – Outside the city limits, after the invention of the cars
2. Model T- Light weight, cheap, simple dependable, could drive out road
3. Margin Stock Purchase – Fueling involvement was the easy credit margin type of stock purchase; buy a stock 10% down payment, hold on to for 6 months to 1 year, then sell
4. Hoover Wagon – A car with horse tied to it because people couldn’t afford gas or to fix the engine
5. WPA (Workers Private Association) – to make jobs; allowed the government to focus in Public Health or Behavior
6. Bonus Army – veterans of WWI were given a $1,000 saving bond that matures in 1995
7. Wagner Act – Magna-Carta of labor law, rights for unions to exist protected by the law
8. Repatriation – With jobs being scarce, in border lands regions, hostilities begin again toward Mexican-Americans Immigrants
9. Bracero Program – from 1942, government recruited Mexican-Americans Labors to come back over the border to help in war time jobs
10. Rape of Nanking – Over 300,000 Chines men, woman, and children’s were slaughtered. Beheaded, rape, bloody murder by Japanese
11. Beerhall Putch – Hitler tries to violently take over Germany government, his supposed to go to jail for 5 years but got parole after 8 months
12. Battle of Britain – Between July and September 1940, the German Air Force launched a massive offensive in the sky of Great Britain
13. Doolittle Raid – the U.S, felt it needed to strike back at Japan after Pearl Harbor; Jimmy Doolittle propose a symbolic strike at the heart of Japan to get their population to question their invincibility
14. Iwo Jima – black volcano island
15. John Baslione – Medal of Honor Receipt at Guadalcanal. 3 days without sleep kill 3,000 mans
16. Operation Bodyguard – Fake army that keep German guessing where US was going to attack
17. Lebensraum – living space, it was Hitler plan so the white blue eyes can have property where they could raise their kids
18. Hugging – small army fighting big