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Ch 25-26 Flashcards

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1
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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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5
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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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16
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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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18
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Emergency Banking Act

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Provided federal assistance to banks.

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19
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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

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Created in 1933, this public works project created jobs and covered seven states.

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25
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NRA

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Aimed at controlling competition.

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25
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Huey Long

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Louisiana Governor who was assassinated though popular to many Americans.

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26
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Social Security Act

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Laid the ground work for the modern welfare state.

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1936

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This election year had Roosevelt winning the largest electoral victory ever, 523-8.

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REA

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Created in 1935 to provide electricity for rural families.

29
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Hoover Dam

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Built to provide a more reliable water source in the West.

30
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John Collier

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Roosevelt administration’s chief advocate for Indian affairs.

30
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African Americans

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The New Deal helped gain Democrats this type of electorate.

31
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Lynching

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An issue Roosevelt would not discuss with Congress for fear of losing support from Southern Congressmen.

32
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John Ford

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Feature film director of The Grapes of Wrath.

33
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Dorothea Lange

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Photographer who snapped the iconic photo, “Look in her eyes”, in 1936.

34
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Benito Mussolini

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Italian leader during WWII.

35
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Adolf Hitler

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German leader; head of the Nazi Party.

36
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Lebensraum

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Living space.

37
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Merchants of Death

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Term to describe American bankers and arms makers whose support for the Allied causes, some historians charged, drew the United States into WWII.

38
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Fascists

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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.

39
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Cash-and-Carry

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Belligerents could buy supplies other than munitions.

40
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Tripartite Pact

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This agreement created a Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis.

41
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Appeasement

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Policy of making concessions to an aggressor nation, as long as its demands appear reasonable, in order to avoid war.

42
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Lend-Lease Act

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Passed by Congress in March 1940.

42
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Blitzkrieg

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A lightning war.

42
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Isolationism

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Belief that the United States should avoid foreign entanglements, alliances, and involvement in foreign wars.

43
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Winston Churchill

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Prime Minister of Britain during WWII.

44
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Anti-Comintern

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Agreement between Japan, Germany, and Italy.

45
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Dec. 7, 1941

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Date of the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor. “A day that will live in infamy.”-Roosevelt

46
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Germany

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Proposed the bigger threat to Britain and the United States.

47
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The Big Three Leaders

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Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt.

48
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Coral Sea

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Battle where American Aircraft carriers topped a large Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific.

49
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Midway

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Battle broke Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific.

50
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Operation Torch

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The invasion of North Africa under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George S. Patton.

51
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400,000

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Amount of American casualties during WWII.

52
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600,000

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Amount of Americans wounded during WWII.

53
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OWM

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Controlled vital materials such as steel, aluminum, and copper.

54
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Big Three Automakers

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Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler generated 20% of all war goods.

55
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Fission

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Splitting of a nucleus of an atom into at least two other nuclei, accompanied by the release of energy.

56
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The Manhattan Project

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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.

57
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PVC

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Created during WWII, was ideal for constructions, plumbing, packaging, and flooring.

58
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Unemployment

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This virtually disappeared in 1944.

59
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Nisei

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American-born citizens of Japanese ancestry.

60
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CORE

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An organization founded in 1942 that believed African Americans should use non-violent civil disobedience to challenge segregation.

61
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June 6, 1944

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Battle of Normandy was on this date.

62
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Teheran, Iraq

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First meeting, in this city, of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt in November 1943.

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Yalta, Russia

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Second meeting in Feb. 1945 of the Big Three in this city.

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Anti-Semitism

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Hatred, prejudice, oppression, or discrimination against Jews or Judaism.

65
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United Nations Organization

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An 11-member Security Council in 1944 that would oversee a General Assembly composed of delegates form all member nations.

66
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August 6, 1945

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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on this date.

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August 9, 1945

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Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on this date.

68
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September 3, 1945

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Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, ending WWII on this date.

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