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Boom To Bust // WW|| Flashcards

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Describe the red scare

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Americans fear of a communist revolution taking place in America

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Harding//Coolidge belief that was best for America

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The business for America

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Group that suffered the most under Harding//Coolidge administrations

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Farmers

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Election of 1920 significant to women

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1st national election woman have full suffrage women vote

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Impact of mass production

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Electrical power

Assembly line

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6
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Forms of entertainment

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Movies
Sports heros 
Jazz
Baseball 
Football 
Boxing
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Flappers

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Wore makeup and dresses, represented all the demands for social freedom wanted by women

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5 social improvements from the 1920’s

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Penicillin
Anesthesia and sedative
Tuberculosis, diphtheria and small pox are under control
The iron lung is created to help people breath
The radio

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9
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Conservative reaction to the 1920’s

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They hated it because they said it was easy

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10
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Date that the stock market crashed

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Oct 29 1929

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5 reasons why the stock market crashed

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Sharp imbalance between supply and demand.
Demand for durable goods was very low
Federal reserve did not increase the money supply
Weakness for agriculture
Workers wages did not keep up with growing prices

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Dust bowl

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Severe drought in large sections of the mid west which forced farmers to pick up and move west

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Hoover administration do to help Americans

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Nothing

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4 ways the Great Depression impacted people’s lives

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Business failed
Very high unemployment
People became homeless
Dust bowl//agriculture

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Who won the election of 1933

Promise the American people

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Fdr, new deal for the American people

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Goals of the new deal

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Relief and reform

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17
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Fdr did to help the banks

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Created the fdic

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Goal of the ccc, cwa, and wpa

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Give people jobs

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Tva

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Transformed the entire Tennessee river valley from poor farm to a rich productive area and it was successful

20
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Fdr do to help agriculture

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Paid farmers to reduce their crops

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Nra

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National recovery administration

Created to enforce codes of the national recovery act

22
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3 parts of the social security act

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Elderly, unemployment and handicap

23
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New deal end

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1938

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5 ways the new deal had an impact on America

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Increased the size and shape of the federal government
Gave security against old age and unemployment
Fdr preserved the free enterprise system
Had a major effect on government, economy and American society
Fdr proved a democratic republic could survive a severe crisis without becoming a dictatorship

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Totalitarian state

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The government is supreme and individuals have a little to no rights
All political opposition is forbidden

26
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4 totalitarian states

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Italy//Benito Mussolini
Russia//Joseph Stalin
Japan//Tojo
Germany//Adolf hitler

27
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Policy of appeasement

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Avoiding war by meeting Hitler’s demands

28
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Beginning of ww2 and place

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Sept 1,1939. Germany attacks Poland starting war

29
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Americans policies put in place to help the allies at the start of ww2

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Cash and carry

Lends/Lease act

30
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Place of Pearl Harbor

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Sunday dec 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese forces

31
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Us response to the Pearl Harbor attack

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Declares war in Japan

The next day Germany declares war on the us

32
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Allied powers

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Us
Union soviet
Great Britain

33
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Axis powers

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Germany
Italy
Japan

34
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War bonds

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War bonds were sold to support the war

35
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Role of women and minority’s in the us during ww2

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Enter to work force in large numbers

36
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Internment campus

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Thousands of Japanese Americans are put into internment camps due to wartime hysterical and prejudice

37
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Navajo code talkers

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The Navajo language is used as a code. It is never broken training bases are set up in AZ.

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Operation torch

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Purposes a Churchill the plan was to involve Africa followed by advances into the Mediterranean

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General Dwight role

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Major European leader

40
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Operation overlord

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Dday invade Africa followed by ad warmers into the Mediterranean ocean

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Date of the German surrender ending the war in Europe VEday

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April 30 1945

42
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Charge of ground troops in the pacific during ww2

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General MacArthur

43
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Island hopping

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The allied stately in the pacific

44
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Battle turning point in the pacific

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Battle of leyte golf

45
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Manhattan project

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Atomic bomb

46
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When and where was the atomic bomb dropped

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Hiroshima aug 6 1945

Nagasaki aug 9 1945

47
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Date of the Japanese surrender ending the war in Japan VJ Day

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Aug 5 1945

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