Hoover-Roosevelt Flashcards
Stock Market Crash
Oct 28 1929; margin calls is to borrow to stock the lose
Election of 1928
First Roman Catholic to run Al Smith
Hoover policies
Called for congress to cut taxes
Hoovervilles
Shanty towns made of cartons and word scrapes
Bonus March
Vets came back from war waiting for payment of their duty. MacArtur broke them up
Election if 1932
Roosevelt vs Hoover Roosevelt won
Glass-Steagull Act
Formed banking systems
Dust Bowl
Midwest was destroyed by a dust storm
Keynesian
Spend money to make money
Civilian conservation corps
Largest program by Roosevelt
Type of strikes
Sit down strike
Neutrality acts
Replaced by “cash and carry” policy
Japan’s aggression
Led to US embargo all oil exports
Cash and carry policy
Allowed the sale if material to other countries
Operation of Barbarossa
Code name for attack on the Soviet Union
Stinson Doctrine
Said we will not recognize countries taken over in war
Social security act
Most lasting program provided income insurance to many including the elderly
Lame duck
An elected official who can’t return
Incumbent
A person who holds the place he’s running for
Jesse Owens
US black Olympian
Gang of eight
Brain trust; only people Roosevelt trust
Lend lease
Us sent arms to allies to fight against Germany n Japan
Battle of Britain
Germany bombed Britain for 6 mons
Hindenburg disaster
German passenger air ship crash
Douglas MacArthur
Broke up the bonus marches
J Edgar Hoover
FBI director
St Valentines Massacre
9 men killed
First hundred days
Roosevelt’s slogan. What the pres does in the first 100 days
Crime of the century
Limburg son killed
Court packing
Roosevelt picked 15 new justices to favor him
Bruno Hauptmann
Killed for kidnapping baby
Roosevelt unemployment
Went up stayed high
Stock market drop
40%
Empire State Building
Completed during the depression