Saturday, January 26, 2013

Chapter 6 - America’s Rendezvous with Destiny1939-1941

Edward R. Murrow        
London Blitz                                                                                                                                     Battle of Britain                                  
“Lend-Lease Act”                                                                                                                                      
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact                                                                              
Dunkirk                                                                                                                                                     
Erwin Rommel                                                                                                                                   
Herman Goering                                                                                                             
How did Germany start World War II?
Pacifism neutrality                                                                                                                                                           isolationism movement                                                                                    
appeasement                                                                                                
Joseph Stalin                     
Benito Mussolini and his aims                                                                                                   
Winston Churchill                                                                                                 
United States foreign policy prior to Pearl Harbor?
“Blitzkrieg”                                                                            
Joseph P. Kennedy  prior to World War II                                                                 
Luftwaffe                                                                                       
“Operation Barbarossa”                                                   
Henry Wallace                                                                                  
Wendell Wilkie                                                                                  
Neville H  Chamberlain                                                                 
Winston Churchill                                                                                
 “Anschluss”                                                                                
Albert Einstein                                 
Hitler launched his “blitzkrieg” in the spring of 1940 on?  
England’s  defense “Berlin Blitz”          
The incident in which Churchill and the French Navy                                  
Henry Stimson                                         
Alice Roosevelt                                                                                
Eddie Rickenbacker    
Joe Kennedy jr.                                                                                                                      
Henry Ford                                                                                            
Charles Lindberg                                           
C. S. Lewis                    
Thomas Dewey                               
 U.S.A. as an “arsenal of democracy?”
How did FDR support England before the U.S. entered the war?

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Chapter 5 - FDR and the New Deal

Literary Digest  
Orsen Wells
Helene Meyer 
Jesse Owens
Amelia Earhart  
CCC
FDIC                                                                                                                                                                                           
1936 Olympics Swastika
Blue Eagle
Hoover and Roosevelt 1932 campaign and lame duck period
The focus of New Deal legislation 
Brain Trust
FDR’s three R’s  
The Wagner Act   
FDR and the Supreme Court                                                                                                                                           
New Deal Majority
Joe Louis
National Recovery Administration
The Wagner Act
Public Works Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Act
Twenty-first Amendment
Nuremberg Laws
National Recovery Administration
The Great Depression when? Why?  
Federal Deposit Insurance Commission
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
“fireside chats”
Will Rogers  
Scottsboro Boys
Securities and Exchange Commission
Senator Huey Long 
U.S. and Russia during the 1930’s
Hitler’s preparation for war                                                                                            
Munich Pact of 1938
The Neutrality Acts
Winston Churchill
The Hindenburg                                                                                                             
Actions taken by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Versailles Treaty during the 1930s                
American foreign policy during the 1930’s