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Commercials

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Radio began using these to broaden their audience while generating revenue.

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Dust Bowl

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Area affected by dust storms that stretched hundreds of miles.

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John Steinbeck

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Author of The Grapes of Wrath in 1939.

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Repatriation

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Act of returning people to their nation of origin.

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Black Unemployment

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This reached 50% by 1932.

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Elijah Poole

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Established the Black Muslims in 1931.

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Scottsboro Boys

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Trial falsely accusing nine black teenagers in Alabama of raping a white woman.

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Temporary Emergency Relief Administration

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Establish in New York in 1931 to help workers who became unemployed.

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Public Works

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Government financed construction projects.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Organization created by Herbert Hoover to lend money to banks.

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1932

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The year Wisconsin dairy farmers turned over tens of thousands of milk cans in protests as a way to increase prices.

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Coal Caravan

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48 mile long convoy of striking miners drove through Southern Illinois as a form of protest.

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Henry Ford

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3,000 marchers stormed this business mogul’s Dearborn plan; leaving 4 dead and 20 more wounded.

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Herbert Hoover

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He sent in army tanks and Chief of Staff General Douglass McArthur to remove veterans from protesting a lack of bonus certificates after fighting in WW1.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Won the election of 1932 as a democrat; ending 30 years of Republican rule.

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Poliomyelitis

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Roosevelt fell ill in the Summer of 1921 with this disease.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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First Lady who published a column “My Day” in 135 Newspapers across the country.

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Emergency Banking Act

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Provided federal assistance to banks.

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Glass-Steagall Banking Act

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Restricted speculation by Banks.

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Securities Exchange Act

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Developed to oversee the Stock Market.

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Fireside Chats

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Roosevelt’s many informal talks with the nation on the radio.

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FDIC

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Insured bank deposits up to $2,500.

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Home Owner’s Loan Act

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Started in 1934 as a way to provide mortgage relief.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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Took unmarried males 18-25 into the woods and fields to plant trees, build parks, and fight soil erosion.

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TVA
Created in 1933, this public works project created jobs and covered seven states.
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NRA
Aimed at controlling competition.
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Huey Long
Louisiana Governor who was assassinated though popular to many Americans.
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Social Security Act
Laid the ground work for the modern welfare state.
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1936
This election year had Roosevelt winning the largest electoral victory ever, 523-8.
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REA
Created in 1935 to provide electricity for rural families.
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Hoover Dam
Built to provide a more reliable water source in the West.
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John Collier
Roosevelt administration’s chief advocate for Indian affairs.
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African Americans
The New Deal helped gain Democrats this type of electorate.
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Lynching
An issue Roosevelt would not discuss with Congress for fear of losing support from Southern Congressmen.
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John Ford
Feature film director of The Grapes of Wrath.
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Dorothea Lange
Photographer who snapped the iconic photo, “Look in her eyes”, in 1936.
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Benito Mussolini
Italian leader during WWII.
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Adolf Hitler
German leader; head of the Nazi Party.
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Lebensraum
Living space.
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Merchants of Death
Term to describe American bankers and arms makers whose support for the Allied causes, some historians charged, drew the United States into WWII.
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Fascists
Rejected the liberal belief in political parties in favor of a glorified nation-state dominated by the middle class, small business people, and small farmers.
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Cash-and-Carry
Belligerents could buy supplies other than munitions.
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Tripartite Pact
This agreement created a Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis.
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Appeasement
Policy of making concessions to an aggressor nation, as long as its demands appear reasonable, in order to avoid war.
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Lend-Lease Act
Passed by Congress in March 1940.
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Blitzkrieg
A lightning war.
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Isolationism
Belief that the United States should avoid foreign entanglements, alliances, and involvement in foreign wars.
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Britain during WWII.
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Anti-Comintern
Agreement between Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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Dec. 7, 1941
Date of the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor. “A day that will live in infamy.”-Roosevelt
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Germany
Proposed the bigger threat to Britain and the United States.
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The Big Three Leaders
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt.
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Coral Sea
Battle where American Aircraft carriers topped a large Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific.
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Midway
Battle broke Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific.
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Operation Torch
The invasion of North Africa under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George S. Patton.
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400,000
Amount of American casualties during WWII.
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600,000
Amount of Americans wounded during WWII.
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OWM
Controlled vital materials such as steel, aluminum, and copper.
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Big Three Automakers
Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler generated 20% of all war goods.
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Fission
Splitting of a nucleus of an atom into at least two other nuclei, accompanied by the release of energy.
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The Manhattan Project
More than 100,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, and support staff from Canada, England, the United States worked at 39 installations to build an atomic bomb.
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PVC
Created during WWII, was ideal for constructions, plumbing, packaging, and flooring.
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Unemployment
This virtually disappeared in 1944.
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Nisei
American-born citizens of Japanese ancestry.
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CORE
An organization founded in 1942 that believed African Americans should use non-violent civil disobedience to challenge segregation.
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June 6, 1944
Battle of Normandy was on this date.
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Teheran, Iraq
First meeting, in this city, of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt in November 1943.
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Yalta, Russia
Second meeting in Feb. 1945 of the Big Three in this city.
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Anti-Semitism
Hatred, prejudice, oppression, or discrimination against Jews or Judaism.
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United Nations Organization
An 11-member Security Council in 1944 that would oversee a General Assembly composed of delegates form all member nations.
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August 6, 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on this date.
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August 9, 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on this date.
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September 3, 1945
Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, ending WWII on this date.

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