Final Exam - Sheet1 Flashcards
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President during the Great Depression, polio, from a wealthy family
FDR
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Roosevelt’s wife and greatest asset. An advocate for minorities.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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March 6 to 10 1932, closed banks in order to prevent withdraws (“runs on banks”), and in turn failures
Banking Holiday
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Name given to FDR’s economic plan to fight the Great Depression
New Deal
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The informal radio conversations Roosevelt had with the people to keep spirits up. It was a means of communicating with the people on how he would take on the depression.
Fireside Chat
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A group of close advisers to FDR. These were academics, lawyers, economists, and social scientists.
Brain Trust
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When the government spends more money than it has
Deficit Spending
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economic policy where government would pump money into the economy in order to stimulate economic recovery
Pump Priming
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Nickname for FDR’s New Deal programs
Alphabet soup
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insures depositor’s money in the banks
FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
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Funded artists, musicians, and bigger construction projects (Old Valley Stadium and old Phenix elementary
WPA, Works Progress Administration.
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Federal money to the state for direct help to people
FERA, Federal Emergency Relief Act. (called FEMA today)
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Policies the stock market
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission.
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reached 25%
unemployment rates
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eliminate competition businesses will continue to operate
NRA National Recovery Act,
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immediate needs fulfilled; (Acronym here)
Relief- FERA
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putting people back to work; (Acronym here)
Recovery-WPA
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change the system so the market doesn’t crash again; (Acronym here)
Reform-FDIC
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make shift homes made out of cardboard and scrap materials
Hoovervilles
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increase size of government to deal with Great Depression
FDR policies
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made simple inexpensive cars by using the assembly line
Henry Ford
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baseball great
Babe Ruth
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most notorious gangster from Chicago who was found guilty of income tax evasion
Al Capone
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first male to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
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fear of communism
Red Scare
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Teapot Dome, Veteran’s Bureau, Daugherty Attorney General
Harding Scandals
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give big tax breaks to the wealthy so the money can trickle down to the poor. High protective tariffs so US will buy American
Trickle Down Theory
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famous dance performed by a flapper
Charleston
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Exploded with popularity and encouraged people to buy products
Advertising
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illegal bars of the 1920s
Speakeasies
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crashed when everyone sold their stock and the prices dropped. People who never played the stock market lost everything because the banks played the market with their money
Stock Market Crash
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to buy stock by putting a small amount down and borrowing the rest
buying on margin
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when a small amount of money is put down to buy a product and then the rest is paid off in installments with interest
installment buying
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days of racial rioting broke out when a young black boy is drowned by whites
Chicago Riot of 1919
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Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s; arrested, tried and executed for a robbery/murder
Sacco and Vanzetti
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membership increased during the 1920s
KKK
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Ford made cheap inexpensive cars affordable for the common person; assembly line
Automobiles
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A style of dance music popular in the 1920s
Jazz
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explodes with popularity in the 1920s
radio
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period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages was prohibited
Prohibition
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Alliance system, Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism
Causes of WWI
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murdered by Gavrilo Princip in Bosnia while on a good will visit
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Total years of WWI
1914-1918
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Treaty that ended WWI on the Western Front
Treaty of Versailles
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Wilson’s plan for peace following WWI
Fourteen Points
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Note written by German foreign minister to Mexico promising Mexico Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if they join the war against America
Zimmerman Note
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Germany’s plan to avoid a two front war by taking out France quickly and then turning all their attention to Russia. Failed because of the Belgium resistance. (6 days to 18 days)
Schlieffen Plan
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Peace keeping organization designed to create long lasting world wide peace. # 14 of Wilson’s 14 point plan. Never ratified by the Senate so US was never a part of it.
League of Nations
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harsh because of trench foot, trench mouth, disease, shell shock
Trench Warfare Characteristics
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US wanted to return to this policy following WWI
Isolationism
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responsible for pulling a lot of countries into WWI
Alliance system
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exaggerated stories designed to evoke an emotional response. Hearst and Pulitzer battled for the best story.
Yellow Journalism
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leader of the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War and took the Panama Canal
Teddy Roosevelt