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Chapter 23 Flashcards

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  1. Black Tuesday
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October 29,1929 the stock market completely crashed on this day due to debt and people pulling money out of banks

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  1. The Great Depression
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The time period in America where up to 25% of people we unemployed due to a stock market crash in October 1929

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  1. Reparations
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After World War One, under the Treaty of Versailles Germany was required to pay back money to Britain and France, which they borrow from the United States

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  1. Breadlines
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During the Great Depression people would wait in these lines to get food for their families

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  1. Global depression
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Caused by the Circular Debt from World War One, once the United States went into the Great Depression the rest of the worlds economy also went into a depression

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  1. Dust Bowl
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A seties of duststorms that stretched across the great plains after several years of tearing up land

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  1. Okies
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People from Oklahoma during the dust bowl

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  1. Shantytowns/Hoovervilles
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Towns during the great depression that consisted of harsh coconditions

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  1. Scottboro Case
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Nine black men were accused of raping two white women and convicted with little evidence

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  1. Japanese American Citizen League
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Had nearly 6000 member who were business men

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  1. Dale Carnegie’s How to win friends and influence people
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A book about how to take certain steps in life to win friends

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  1. John Steinbeck
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The author of the Grapes of Wrath

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  1. Radio comedies and Dramas
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Helped to unite the nation By taking peoples minds off of the great depression and on to the life of the characters

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  1. Soap Operas
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Called such because advertising for Soap would coming in between the segment of the drama

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  1. War of the World s
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A radio drama based on HG Wells. Novel this drama seemed so real to people that they started freaking out

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  1. Hindenburg
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A German airship that blew up in 1937

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  1. The Grapes of Wrath
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A novel by Steinbeck that details the life of an Okie family as they try to live in California

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  1. The Public Enemy
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An American movie drama in black ab white that talks about the criminal activity during prohibition

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  1. Mr. Smith goes to Washington
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A movie about a senator from a small town who goes to Washington and battles other senators who are against him

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  1. Walt Disney
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A beloved childrens animator who created cartoon shorts for movies

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  1. Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie
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Walt Disney’s most popular cartoon character and the first short Walt Disney made

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  1. The Wizard of Oz
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One of the first movies to have color picture instead of black and white COLOR

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  1. Gone With the Wind
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focuses on the life of petulant southern belle Scarlett O’Hara The film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. Life Magazine
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A magazine that was extremely popular during the Great Depression and it had a little bit of everything stunning pictures and articles

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  1. American Communist Party
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Coalition of anti-fascist groups on the left, political literature with a optimistic view on society

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  1. Spanish Civil War
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1939 the fascist government in Spain fought

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  1. For whom the Bell Tolls
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A novel by Ernest Hemingway a man who was a solider in the Spanish Civil War.

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  1. Frank Capra, It’s a Wonderful
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A classic Christmas movies about a man who wishes he never existed he begins to see how many people he has influenced

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  1. Southern Tenant Farmers Union
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in July 1934 in Poinsett County with the immediate aim of reforming the crop-sharing system of sharecropping and tenant farming.

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  1. Herbert Hoover
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His first term went really well for him but his second term the Great Depression hit, he was seen as not helping the people even though he did try to

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  1. Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
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tried to stop downward of crop prices bought sold and stored agricultural surpluses

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  1. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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operated between 1932 and 1957 and provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses

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  1. Farmers Holiday Association
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a movement in the United States that wanted to withhold farming products until the price was high enough

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  1. Bonus March
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WW1 veterans marched on Washington to try and receive the military pension they were promised after World War One

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  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Elected to Four terms as president. created the New Deal and Was in favor of the US going into World War two

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