Vocabulary 8-6

Neautrality As World War I erupts in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States, a position that a vast majority of Americans favored, on August 4, 1914. Wilson’s initial hope that America could be “impartial in thought as well as in action”

The Great War World War I

Sedition Act The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub.L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered ...

Those who made illegal alcohol products. Bootleggers Those who made illegal alcohol products.

Mass Media Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, Movies…

Soil Depletion Using up the soil. Poor agriculture techniques. Cotton needed to be rotated every 2 years or the soil would be depleted.

Great Depression Stock Market crashes in 1929. Banks fail, people are left with no money, cities failed, towns failed. The economy was depressed.

Program to get America out of the Depression named by Roosevelt. FDR New Deal Program to get America out of the Depression named by Roosevelt. FDR

The End of World War I. Nov. 11, 1918. Armistice The End of World War I. Nov. 11, 1918.

WWII A worldwide conflict from 1930 to 1945 between the Allied troops (United States, Great Britain, Russia and France) and the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). The United states did not enter the war until late 1941, after the Japanese lauched a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base. After years of brutal fighting, the Allied forces finally secured a victory over Germany and Japan. Over 150,000 young men from South Carolina joined the fight in Europe or the Pacific, and the state’s military bases were used to full capacity.

Fair Deal President Harry S. Truman’s domestic policy. It was a continuation of FDR’s New Deal, raised the minimum wage and gave people more Social Security benefits.

Truman Doctrine An offer in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman of American aid to any nation that was threatened by communism. It was a part of the policy of containment. Truman stated the Doctrine would be "the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

dictators National leaders with absolute power.

Social Security Public provision for the economic security and social welfare of all individuals and their families, especially in the case of income losses due to unemployment, work injury, maternity, sickness, old age, and death. Part of Roosevelt’s New Deal Program

Manhattan Project The secret project conducted by United States scientist during WWII to create an atomic bomb

CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps the former U.S. federal agency (1933–1943), organized to utilize the nation's unemployed youth by building roads, planting trees, improving parks, etc. CCC constructing new roads