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Credit

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Short-term loans to buy goods with promises to pay later

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Price Support

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Law that keeps prices above a set level

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Alfred E Smith

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Democratic presidential candidate in 1928

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Dow Jones Industrial Average

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Index of stock prices of select companies

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Speculation

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Investments in high-risk ventures

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Buying on margin

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Buying stock by paying only a portion of full cost event promises to give the rest later

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Black Tuesday

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October 29, 1929 the Day Stock market crashed

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Great Depression

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. Of bad economic times in United States that lasted from 1929 to 1941

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Holly Smoot tariff act

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Laws that raise taxes on imports and worsening depression

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Herbert Hoover

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31st president

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Boulder dam

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Damn on the Colorado River built during the depression to create jobs

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Federal Home Loan Mortgage act

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Law that passed in 1930 went to reduce market-rate to save farmers from foreclosure

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Reconstruction finance Corporation

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Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief and large businesses insurance companies and banks

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Bonus Army

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Unemployed World War I veterans who marched to Washington to demand there were bonuses

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Shantytown

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A neighborhood where people live in shacks

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Soup kitchen

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Place for free food is served to the needy

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Breadline

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A line of people waiting for free food

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Dustbowl

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Area of Great Plains made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930s

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Direct relief

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Money or food given directly from the government to Needy

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Joseph Stalin

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Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

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Totalitarian

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Government that has complete control over the citizens and puts down all opposition

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Benito Mussolini

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Fascist dictator of Italy

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Fascism

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Political system based on strong centralized government headed by a dictator

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Adolf Hitler

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Nazi dictator of Germany

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Nazism

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Fascist political philosophy of Germany under Nazi dictator Hitler

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Francisco Franco

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Fascist dictator of Spain

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Neutrality acts

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Law passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war

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Neville Chamberlaine

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Prime Minister of Great Britain before World War II

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Appeasement

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Trying to pacify an aggressor in order to keep the peace

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Nonaggression pact

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Agreement between Germany and Russia not to fight each other

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning war strategy used by Germany against Poland

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Charles De Gaulle

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Hello the French government in exile in England

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Holocaust

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Systematic murder of 11 million Jews and the other people in Europe by the Nazis

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Kristallnacht

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Name given the night of November 9, 1938 when that season Germany attacked Jews their businesses and their synagogues

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Genocide

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Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people

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Concentration camp

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Prison camps operated by Nazis were Jews and other were startled doing slave labor or murdered

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Axis powers

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Germany Italy and Japan

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Lend lease act

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Law that allows landing or leasing arms any nation’s defense was vital to the United States

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Atlantic charter

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British and American statement of goals for fighting World War II

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Allies

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Group of nations including the United States Britain and the Soviet Union oppose the axis powers

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Hideki Tojo

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Prime minister of Japan during World War II

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George Marshall

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Army chief of staff during World War II

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Woman’s auxiliary Army cops W AAC

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Woman volunteers who served in noncombat positions

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A Philip Randolph

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Important African-American labor leader

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Manhattan Project

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Secret research project that resulted in the atomic bomb

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Office of price administration

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Agency of the federal government that fought inflation

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War production Board WPB

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Government agency that decided which companies would make more materials and how to distribute raw materials

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Rationing

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Restricting the amount of food and other goods people made by during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military

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Dwight D Eisenhower

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American General

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D day

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Allied invasion to liberate Europe

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Omar Bradley

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American General

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George Patton

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American General

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Battle of the Bulge

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German counteroffensive in December 1944

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V-E Day

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Victory in Europe today May 8, 1945

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Harry S Truman

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33rd president of United States

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Douglas MacArthur

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American commander in the Philippines

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Chester Nimitz

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Command of the American naval forces in the Pacific

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Battle of Midway

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American victory that was the turning point of the Pacific war

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide flight

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J Robert Oppenheimer

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Scientist who led the Manhattan Project

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Hiroshima

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City that was the site of the first atomic bomb dropping in japan

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Nuremberg trials

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Tribunal that tried not to leaders for crimes

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Nagasaki

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Japanese city that was the site of the second atomic bomb drop

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G.I. Bill of Rights

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Law passed by the Congress to help servicemen readjust to civilian life

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James Farmer

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Civil rights leader who founded the Congress of racial equality

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Congress of racial equality CORE

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Interracial organization formed to fight discrimination

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Internment

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Confinement under guard especially during wartime

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Japanese-American citizens league JACL

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Civil rights group formed by Japanese-Americans

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Thurgood Marshall

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African-American lawyer who let the legal challenge against segregation

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Brown versus Board of Education

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Supreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

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Rosa Parks

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Woman who help start Montgomery bus boycott

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Leader of the civil rights movement

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Southern Christian leadership conference SCLC

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Civil rights organization

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Student nonviolent coordinating committee SNCC

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Civil rights organization formed by students

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Sit in

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Protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites only seats at lunch counters

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Freedom riders

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Civil rights activist to try to end segregation on national buses

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James Meredith

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African-American who one enrollment to the all-white University of Mississippi

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Law the outlawd racial discrimination

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Freedom summer

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Name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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Prominent voting rights activist

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Voting rights act of 1965

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Act That struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting

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De facto segregation

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Segregation by custom or practice

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De jure segregation

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Segregation by law

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Malcolm X

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African-American civil rights leader

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Nation of Islam

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Group headed by Eli Muhammad

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Strokely Carmichael

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Leader of black power movement

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Black power

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Movement that stressed black pride

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Black Panthers

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African-American group founded to combat police brutality

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Kerner commission

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Commission that reported on race relations in America

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Civil rights act of 1968

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Act that banned discrimination in housing

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Affirmative action

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Program aimed at hiring more including minorities

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