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FINAL EXAM Flashcards

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drought, wind, poor farming technique

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Dust Bowl

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many dust bowl victims moved to

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California

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Written by John Steinbeck, it depicts the grim lives of Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl

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Grapes of Wrath

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Black Tuesday 1929

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Stock Market Crash

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putting down of payment and borrowing the rest

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stock on margin

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Causes of the Great Depression

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  • decreased demand for industrial gods
  • Americans living on credit
  • unregulated stock market and banking systems
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7
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Initially believed the economy would “fix itself”

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President Nixon

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Boulder Dam

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provided jobs & water for California agriculture

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Hoovervilles

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homeless communities, people conveyed their disgust with hoveer

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Movies

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served as an escape from Depression in the 1930s

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President Roosevelt & New Deal

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domestic reform plan to fix the economy

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Fireside Chats

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most Americans during the 1930s got their news from the radio

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FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

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protects saving your money in case of bank failure

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WPA (Works Progress Administration)

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work program also hired artists, musicians, actors

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TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

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regional development in severely depressed area, built and renovated 25 dams

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Social Security

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pensions fro retired workers also provided assistance for children and the disabled

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federal deficit

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-federal government debt
-government is spending more than it’s taking in
-amount of federal debt added in a fiscal year

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18
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Supplying WWII finally ended

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the Great Depression

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Despite the rise of militarists and dictators in Japan, Germany, and Italy

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US decided tried to remain isolated from European conflicts

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Atlantic Charter

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meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt where they outlined peace goals for the post-war world

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agreement between germany and the soviet union that led to the invasion & division of poland

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non-agression pact

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attacked by japan, dec. 7, 1941, “a date that will live in infamy”

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Pearl Harbor

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confined internment camps for no crime, american citizens were denied due process of law

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Japanese american internment

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once the US entered the war with the Allies the first priority was

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Winning the war in europe 1st

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supreme commander of US forces in europe

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Eisenhower

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sea battle in the pacific, between u.s. and Japan, was a turning point in the war, heavy japanese loses allowed the allies to begin to retake pacific islands

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Battle of Midway

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U.S strategy of moving from island to island

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Island Hopping

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they distinguished themselves during WWII by using their language as a code the Japanese could not break

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Navajo Code Talkers

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decorated african american pilots who flew in the European theater

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Tuskegee Airmen

30
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worked in the defense industries doing the same jobs as men but they were paid less

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american women

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scarce goods such as shoes, sugar, and gas underwent

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rationing

32
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first dropped in Hiroshima, the development of this changed the world the most after WWII

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Atomic Bomb

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cold war super powers

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United States & Soviet Union

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metaphorical division of western democratic nations and eastern communist nations

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Iron Curtain

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eastern european countries controlled by the soviet union

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satellite nations

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response to when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin in 1948

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Berlin Airlift

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U.S and Western European nations formed a military alliance in opposition to the soviet union

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NATO

38
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military alliance between the soviet union and its allies

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Warsaw Pact

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Mao Zedong and the communists win in 1950

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Chinese Civil War

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after wwii Korea was divided at the 38th parallel, communist north Korea and non communist south Korea are still divided today

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Korean War

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President Eisenhower’s policy in which the US would go to the brink of war before backing down

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Brinkmanship

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USSR removes its missiles from Cuba

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Soviet Union launches first satellite into space

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sputnik

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first man in space

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Yuri Gargarin

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Moon Landing

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US is the first nation to land on the moon in 1969

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communist takeover of CHina, Berlin blockade, alger hiss and other spies

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second red scare

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actors, writers, and directors who did not cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in its search for communists

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Hollywood 10

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large number of babies born after WWII

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baby boom

49
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white middle class americans move to the suburbs

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White FLight

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president johnson’s domestic reform plan

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Great Society

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