Key Period 7b Flashcards
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- Black Tuesday
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- The final plummet of the stock market
- Closed banks immediately after and aided the day of the great crash
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- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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- Provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to many corporations
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- Bonus Army
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- Promise that the war vets get a raise in their payment for honor
- When denied rouse in protesters
- Hoover orders Douglas Mc Aurthur
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- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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- Raised U.S. tariff on imported goods
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- Hoovervilles
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- Villages of poverty and homeless
- Against Hoover for his neglect on his citizens
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- Dust Bowl
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- Dust storm that destroyed many of the homes
- Okies where one of the victims
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- Okies
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- Left homeless and moves to California
- Was rejected and considered a burden by other states
8
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- The 3 R’s
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- Relief Recovery Reform
- Programs that improve the lives and living of Americans
9
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- The New Deal
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- Domestic programs passed by congress and presidential executives
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- First Hundred Days
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- First 100 days of a term in the presidency
- Measure of success
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- Emergency Banking Relief
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-Banks are allowed to have a “vacation” before financially stable
12
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- Fireside Chats
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- 30 Radio Addressees by FDR to urge listeners to have faith in the banks
- Successful
13
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- Huey P. Long
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- governor of Louisiana ,member of the senate
- Kingfisher, “share our wealth campaign”, redistribution of wealth to rest of Americans
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- American Liberty League
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-FDR able to push large amounts of legislation through democratic held congress
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- National Labor Relations Act
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- Protect rights of employees and employers
- Encouragement of bargaining welfare of business for the American economy
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- Schechter v. United States
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- SCOTUS struck down major new deal programs
- Minimum wage minimum work hours
17
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- Court-Packing Scheme
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- Reform of the Supreme Court
- appointing justices to the court who are over 70
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- Roosevelt Recession
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- 1937
- Due to financial problems Keynesian economics (deficit spending)
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- Good Neighbor Policy
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- Foreign Policy towards Latin America with America as a “good neighbor”
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- Neutrality Act
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- Act declaring U.S neutrality to avoid war
- unintentionally repealed when Roosevelt supported England in war
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- Cash-and-Carry
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- Foodservice chain of American low price warehouse
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- Destroyers for Bases
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- Roosevelt’s compromise from helping Britain defying neutrality act
- U.S military bases in Britain
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- Lend-Lease Act
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- Sales and leans of war materials to countries whose defense is vital to the defense of the U.S
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- Atlantic Charter
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- By FDR and Churchill agreement to not acquire territory after the wwLl
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355. Four Freedoms Speech
- Freedom of speech, religion, from want, and from fear
- Helped Inspire Americans into patriotism
- FDR
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356. Pearl Harbor
- Conflict between Japan and America
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357. General Dwight D.Eiezenhower
- Launched operation overlord
| - Supreme commander of the allied powers
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358. Operation Overlord
- D-Day
- Intense battle that killed millions
- Beach Battle
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359. Bataan Death March
- Forceful transfer to camp o'Donnell of American prisoners of war by Imperial Japanese army
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360. Doolittle Raid
- Tokyo Raid
- Air raid by the United States
- First raid to strike the Japanese islands
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361. Battle of Midway
- Crucial and Decisive navel battle in the pacific theater of World War II
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362. Island Hopping Campaign
- Strategy to capture pacific island one by one advancing towards Japan
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363. General Douglas McArthur
- Commanded the island hopping campaigns
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364. Selective Service Act
- Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I of the enlistment of people.
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365. Navajo Code Talkers
- Native Americans served U.S Marine corps
| - Mission was to send coded messages
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366. 442nd Regimental Combat Team
- Japanese Americans that fought in Europe during the Second World War.
- One of the most highly decorated units
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367. Tuskegee Airmen
- African American Air Force
| Who fought in WWII
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368. WAACs / WACs / WASPs / WAVES
- Women contributions to the war
| - Voluntary efforts in emergency service, army corps, and air force
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369. Rosie the Riveter
- Cultural icon of the United States
| - Represented American woman who worked in shipyards and factories during the war
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370. Rationing and Victory Garden
- Taking of items that are in short supply during the war
| - Small gardens growing extra food resources for the war
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371. Executive Order 8802
- Prohibit of racial discrimination in the national defense industry
- First federal action promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States
- FDR
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372. Bracero Programs
- "manual laborer"
- Series of laws and diplomatic agreements
- United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.
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373. Zoot Suit Riots
- Series of racial attacks during World War II that broke out in California
- Against migration of immigrants
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374. Executive Order 9066
- Authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans
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375. Korematsu v. United States
- United States Supreme Court case concerning Executive Order 9066
- Ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship
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376. National War Labor Board
- Composition of representatives from business and labor designed to disputes between workers and employers
- It settled any labor difficulties against war efforts
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377. Office of Price Administration
- Stabilizing of prices and rents
| - Froze wages and price administer of a rationing program
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378. War Production Board
- Supervision of war production during WWII
| - FDR
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379. Big Three
- Unites States, Great Britain, Soviet Union grand alliance
| - Stalin, FDR, and Churchill
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380. Yalta Conference
- Conference of the big three
| - Declare war on Japan after surrender of Germany
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381. Iwo Jima
-Major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed and eventually captured the island from Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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382. Manhattan Project
- Research project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War III
- By the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada
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383. Potsdam Ultimatum
-Issued by the United States, Great Britain and China to Japan offering that country the choice between unconditional surrender and total annihilation
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384. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Atomic Bombs that were created by experiment were set off in Japan
- Apart of the axis powers alliance
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385. United Nations
- Conference of the big three and including France/ China/ Great Britain/ Soviet Union/ USA as the general assembly
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386. Security Council
- The main powers of the world
- US, Britain, Soviet Union
- Had veto rights over the general assembly
