1930s & WWII Flashcards
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“Roaring Twenties”
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- People became freer spenders and acted like rich people
- People heavily invested in the economy which backfired
- Consumerism, sexual openness, loser restriction of women, harlem renaissance, underground protests of prohibition
- A response to the war and Spanish Flu
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Herbert Hoover
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- 31st US president
- Believed in limited gvt aid and relief(==> decreasing self-gvt)
- Called Bonus Army March=Mob –> decreased support
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The Great Depression
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- Reasons:
1. Risky Loans/↓regulation of stagnant industries
2. Agricultural collapse(Euro didn’t need as much as from Am→ Overproduction);
3. International Economy Collapse (Germany to Britain and France who could not pay back the united states, people don’t have money) - A perfect storm where every part of the U.S. (and the world) economy was threatened
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Associationalism
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- voluntary programs for business and state/local gvt to solve nation’s economic problems
- Solution by Herbert Hoover
5
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Bonus Army
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- 15k vets march on DC to get WWI bonuses early
- Senate voted down–> Shantytown
- Troops forcibly removing by HH orders
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FDR & the New Deal
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- 32nd president of the U.S.
- Strong Leader
- ND(plan for US to exit GD)
- Used Fed Pwr
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NRA
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- National Recovery Administration
- Admin NIRA
- Established fair trade codes[wages, union rights, production limits, no price cutting] for industries–> Eco growth
8
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CCC
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- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Employed jobless men in gvt projects = reforestation and park maintenance
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WPA
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- Works Progress Administration
- Hired for construction infrastructure and artists–> Increased American cultural pride
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Munich Accords/Crisis
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- (1938) Settlement reached by Germany, France, Britain, and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.
- AH reason = reuniting Euro’s German-populated areas
- After Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations, ended reparations, and began to rearm, german expansion
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“Merchants of Death”
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- Manufacturers of armaments had unduly influenced the American decision to enter the war in 1917.
- Enormous profits + 53k Am deaths
- Sold weapons to the U.S and Europe
- Worried “merchants of death” would lead the US into WWII
- There was an idea that they promoted war and assisted the aggressor’s
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Nye Committee
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- Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry
- United States Senate committee (April 12, 1934 – February 24, 1936)
- Purpose:decide the role of business in the U.S. decision to enter WWI.
- Uncovered evidence that corporations had bribed foreign politicians to bolster sales
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Battle of Midway
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- The battle that followed Pearl Harbor (Jun 4, 1942 – June 7, 1942)
- US broke Jap codes (MAGIC)
- If Japan took Midway, it would secure a defensive perimeter that Japan could use to take countries hostage and force a favorable peace agreement
- The U.S. won and controlled the Pacific, forcing Japan to be on the defensive.
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
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- Jap leading the world with co prosperity
- Jap eco and milit bloc of E and SE Asia
- failed because no true mutual prosperity and Jap Aggression
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A. Philip Randolph
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- Labor leader whose march on Washington led to the creation of Executive Order No. 8802
- Demanded equal access to defense jobs for Af-Am
- FDR complied b/c race riot and comm fears
