Hoover-Roosevelt Flashcards

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Stock Market Crash

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Oct 28 1929; margin calls is to borrow to stock the lose

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Election of 1928

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First Roman Catholic to run Al Smith

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Hoover policies

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Called for congress to cut taxes

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Hoovervilles

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Shanty towns made of cartons and word scrapes

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Bonus March

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Vets came back from war waiting for payment of their duty. MacArtur broke them up

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5
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Election if 1932

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Roosevelt vs Hoover Roosevelt won

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Glass-Steagull Act

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Formed banking systems

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Dust Bowl

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Midwest was destroyed by a dust storm

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Keynesian

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Spend money to make money

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Civilian conservation corps

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Largest program by Roosevelt

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Type of strikes

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Sit down strike

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Neutrality acts

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Replaced by “cash and carry” policy

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Japan’s aggression

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Led to US embargo all oil exports

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Cash and carry policy

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Allowed the sale if material to other countries

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14
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Operation of Barbarossa

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Code name for attack on the Soviet Union

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Stinson Doctrine

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Said we will not recognize countries taken over in war

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Social security act

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Most lasting program provided income insurance to many including the elderly

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Lame duck

A

An elected official who can’t return

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Incumbent

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A person who holds the place he’s running for

19
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Jesse Owens

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US black Olympian

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Gang of eight

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Brain trust; only people Roosevelt trust

21
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Lend lease

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Us sent arms to allies to fight against Germany n Japan

22
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Battle of Britain

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Germany bombed Britain for 6 mons

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Hindenburg disaster

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German passenger air ship crash

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Douglas MacArthur

A

Broke up the bonus marches

25
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J Edgar Hoover

A

FBI director

26
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St Valentines Massacre

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9 men killed

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First hundred days

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Roosevelt’s slogan. What the pres does in the first 100 days

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Crime of the century

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Limburg son killed

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Court packing

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Roosevelt picked 15 new justices to favor him

30
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Bruno Hauptmann

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Killed for kidnapping baby

31
Q

Roosevelt unemployment

A

Went up stayed high

32
Q

Stock market drop

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40%

33
Q

Empire State Building

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Completed during the depression