Exam 2 Flashcards
Communism in Russia/Red Scare
1917 Vladimir Lennon took control of the Russian government, established the Soviet Union #Marxism
Right after World War I and again after ww2 paranoia in United States about the spread of communism -senator Joseph McCarthy ppl losing their jobs for knowing communists
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
“The tariff act of 1930” US law raised tax’s on imported goods - sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and representative Willis C Hawly - need the great depression worse by discouraging external trading
Buy on margin
Before the stock market crash of 1929 (Great Depression) niggas were buying stock w borrowed money, dummy
Some effects of the Great Depression
Bank failures, DEflation, Franklin de Roosevelt -implementing the new deal to reform econ n social shii / the great depression contributed to the rise of authoritarian regimes and other countries😱
First new deal
Glenn Roosevelt between 1933 and 1934- CCC- job 4 yns n environment conservation projects
AAA - boost agriculture prices by reducing surpluses
Relief to unemployed Americans etc
2nd new deal
1935 -1936 Franklin Rose makes Social Security
RA rural electrification administration they want to bring electricity to rural areas #ate
National labor relations act/Wagners act to pretext workers
Social Security Act
FDR made social security
National labor relations act
AKA wagners act part of the second new deal to protect workers rights
Opposition to the new deal
-The Supreme Court originally struck it down
-Huey long senator “share our wealthy”
- labor unions “not enough”
Neutrality act
Series of lost pass by Congress in the 1930s to keep the US out of war
Lend-Lease act
1941 United States supply it’s allies Great Britain, France, China and Soviet Union others with food and military equipment during World War II
Support our allies with directly entering the war
Axis powers - Germany, Italy, Japan
German and Japanese expansion
dem niggas wanted more territory, territory, and influence - lead to their ruin
Gal pals in ww2
In the workforce – factories, shipyards, making weapons, aircraft etc
The second grade migration
5 mill African-Americans from the southern move, urban north
Why?
-north was less racist and violent
-they could sever in military
-Econ opportunities
Fair employment practices commission
executive order 8802
FDR -response to civil right leaders pressure (Philip Randolph) make jobs treat all people the same
Bretton Woods Conference
United Nations monetary and financial conference 1944 in New Hampshire to discuss the aftermath of World War II
Idea!!!- how many should be able to be converted to gold for easy trading
Tehran/Potsdam Conference divisions
Meeting were the ailed powers (Great Britain, France, China and Soviet Union) yapped abt battle strategys n money stuff after ww2
When did ww2 start n end
Start: Sept 1939
End: sept 2 1945
when did the Great Depression start and end
Start: 1929
End:1939
What were key issues that Americans debated in the 1920s and 1930s both domestically and internationally?
Isolationism-avoiding foreign conflicts
“ Should America join the league of nations?”
Scary totalitarianism/fascism
Trade policies and tariffs
what were President Hoover’s views and reactions to the Great Depression?
He wanted limited government ie Less controlling/involved in economy
want a balanced federal budget
How and why did the size and role of the federal government change during the Great Depression and the New Deal?
More involved and making worker protection agencies, and labor reunions
What were American attitudes toward foreign policy in the 1930s?
Hate ts
What did the United States and the Soviet Union disagree about concerning the postwar world?
Political, ideologies, economic systems, sphere of influence
What assumptions underlay American and Soviet motivations in the post-WWII world?
American want evb in decomarcy, soviet want evb as communists etc
What did the Cold War lead to for the United States by the early 1950s
Military build up, nuclear arms, race, Red scare, Korean War, overall competition
Why and how did cultural rebellion begin in the 1950s?
Materialism n things were too good so teens decided to rebel and break social norms also new media , artistic and literary influence
What did the civil rights movement accomplish and what was left undone?
They decentralize school on Black people could vote, however Economic disparity n A little to note political representment
