History (ch.24-25)

Question 1

new deal was initiated

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1933

Question 2

the stock market crashed

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1929

Question 3

black tuesday

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october 29, 1929

Question 4

supported public works projects that did not involve outright grants by the federal governement

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president hoover

Question 5

congress passed the smoot-hawley tariff

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1930

Question 6

turned out to be the highest in the nation’s peace time history

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smoot-hawley tariff

Question 7

what is the motion picture production code known as

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hays code

Question 8

aimed at social reforms and economic recovery; congress approved all of his proposals without question.

Answer 8

new deal

Question 9

a british left wing economic theorist who advocated central planning and massive economic and social intervention on the part of the government to bring a nation out of depression

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john maynard keynes

Question 10

secretary of labor; first women to be appointed a cabinet position

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francis perkins

Question 11

one of roosevelt’s chief advisors

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eleanor roosevelt

Question 12

roosevelts three r’s

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relief, recovery, reform

Question 13

increased prices for agricultural products by reducing the supply of food; government paid farmers not to plant or butcher

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agricultural adjustment act

Question 14

established to control wages and prices and to limit competition among businesses

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national recovery administration

Question 15

erected dams and hydroelectric plants along the tennessee river and its tributaries

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tennessee valley authorities

Question 16

what was the most far-reaching of all the new deal undertakings

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tennessee valley authorities

Question 17

created work for young men on conservation projects

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civilian conservation corps

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legalized the sale of liquor repealing the 18th amendment

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21st amendment

Question 19

when did the US recognize the communist government of Russia

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nov. 1933

Question 20

called for heavy estate taxes that would redistribute wealth

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huey long

Question 21

established a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance

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social security act

Question 22

established a national labor relations board

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national labor relations act

Question 23

protected the stated rights of unions and mediated labor-management disputes

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national labor relations board

Question 24

d-day

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june 6, 1944

Question 25

great britian and france declared war on germany

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september 3, 1939

Question 26

japan attacked pearl harbor; US entered the war

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december 7, 1941

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ww2

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1939-1945

Question 28

v-e day

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may 8, 1945

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v-j day

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september 2, 1945

Question 30

united nations charter adopted

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june 1945

Question 31

assumed full control of the communist party and the soviet union

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stalin

Question 32

marched on rome and was allowed to become prime minister in 1922

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mussolini

Question 33

the three main aggressors in ww2 would be known as

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axis powers

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the fascist general in the revolution against spain

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franco

Question 35

ethiopian leader that fought italy with spears and guns

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haile selassie I

Question 36

led the flying tigers

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chennault

Question 37

a volunteer squadron of american airmen who flew sorties against the japanese and fought them in the air

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flying tigers

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where did hitler's troops seize without a shot

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austria

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sep. 29, 1938; dismembered czechoslovakia by giving the sudetenland to germany

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munic pact

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partitioned between germany and russia

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poland

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continued the terms of the earlier legislation and adopted the important cash-and-carry principle for dealing with warring nations

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neutrality act of 1937

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secretary of state that kept peace in america at the beginning of the war

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cordell hull

Question 43

the head of the nazi puppet government

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vidkun quisling

Question 44

required all men 18-65 to register with their local draft board

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selective training and service act

Question 45

field marshall of the afrika korps; reconquered all of the territory in africa that was lost by italians

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rommel

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said that any means of defense which belonged to a friendly belligerent could be refitted or repaired in the US

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lend-lease act

Question 47

appointed supreme allied commander in europe

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eisenhower

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the turning point of ww2 in europe

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d-day

Question 49

became the squadron's first black-american commander

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george s. roberts

Question 50

sent to the philippines in 1936

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macarthur

Question 51

the most decorated infantry unit in all of the US army

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442nd

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led 16 american bombers to bomb japan which showed that america was in range to attack japan

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doolittle

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the first naval battle where opposing ships did not see eachother

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battle of the coral sea

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the turning point of in the pacific

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midway

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the marines began recruiting who for their code talking program becasue of their discreet language

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navajo code talkers

Question 56

the japanese lost almost all of their remaining ships and planes

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battle of leyte gulf

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was a necessary base for american fighters in preparation for an invasion of japan

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iwo jima

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calling upon the japanese to surrender unconditionally and to withdraw to the home islands

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potsdam declaration

Question 59

US possessed the atomic bomb because of what project

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manhattan

Question 60

scientist that help invent the atomic bomb who was a jewish immigrant form hungary

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edward teller

Question 61

first place we dropped an atomic bomb

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hiroshima

Question 62

the plan to invade the japanese homeland that consisted of two phases

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downfall

Question 63

the slaughtering of 6 million jews by the nazis in ww2

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holocaust

Question 64

many of the nazi leaders were put on trial here

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nuremburg

Question 65

where was the charter of the UN drafted

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san francisco