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Key Period 7b Flashcards

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  1. 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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  1. 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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  1. 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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  1. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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  • Raised U.S. tariff on imported goods
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  1. Hoovervilles
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  • Villages of poverty and homeless

- Against Hoover for his neglect on his citizens

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  1. Dust Bowl
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  • Dust storm that destroyed many of the homes

- Okies where one of the victims

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  1. Okies
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  • Left homeless and moves to California

- Was rejected and considered a burden by other states

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  1. The 3 R’s
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  • Relief Recovery Reform

- Programs that improve the lives and living of Americans

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  1. The New Deal
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  • Domestic programs passed by congress and presidential executives
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  1. First Hundred Days
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  • First 100 days of a term in the presidency

- Measure of success

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  1. Emergency Banking Relief
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-Banks are allowed to have a “vacation” before financially stable

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  1. Fireside Chats
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  • 30 Radio Addressees by FDR to urge listeners to have faith in the banks
  • Successful
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  1. 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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  1. American Liberty League
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-FDR able to push large amounts of legislation through democratic held congress

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  1. 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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  1. Schechter v. United States
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  • SCOTUS struck down major new deal programs

- Minimum wage minimum work hours

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  1. 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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  1. Roosevelt Recession
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  • 1937

- Due to financial problems Keynesian economics (deficit spending)

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  1. Good Neighbor Policy
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  • Foreign Policy towards Latin America with America as a “good neighbor”
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  1. 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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  1. Cash-and-Carry
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  • Foodservice chain of American low price warehouse
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  1. 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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  1. 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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  1. Atlantic Charter
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  • By FDR and Churchill agreement to not acquire territory after the wwLl
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  1. Four Freedoms Speech
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  • Freedom of speech, religion, from want, and from fear
  • Helped Inspire Americans into patriotism
  • FDR
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  1. Pearl Harbor
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  • Conflict between Japan and America
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  1. General Dwight D.Eiezenhower
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  • Launched operation overlord

- Supreme commander of the allied powers

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  1. Operation Overlord
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  • D-Day
  • Intense battle that killed millions
  • Beach Battle
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  1. Bataan Death March
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  • Forceful transfer to camp o’Donnell of American prisoners of war by Imperial Japanese army
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  1. Doolittle Raid
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  • Tokyo Raid
  • Air raid by the United States
  • First raid to strike the Japanese islands
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  1. Battle of Midway
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  • Crucial and Decisive navel battle in the pacific theater of World War II
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  1. Island Hopping Campaign
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  • Strategy to capture pacific island one by one advancing towards Japan
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  1. General Douglas McArthur
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  • Commanded the island hopping campaigns
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  1. Selective Service Act
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  • 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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  1. Navajo Code Talkers
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  • Native Americans served U.S Marine corps

- Mission was to send coded messages

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  1. 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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  • Japanese Americans that fought in Europe during the Second World War.
  • One of the most highly decorated units
37
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  1. Tuskegee Airmen
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  • African American Air Force

Who fought in WWII

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  1. WAACs / WACs / WASPs / WAVES
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  • Women contributions to the war

- Voluntary efforts in emergency service, army corps, and air force

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  1. Rosie the Riveter
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  • Cultural icon of the United States

- Represented American woman who worked in shipyards and factories during the war

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  1. Rationing and Victory Garden
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  • Taking of items that are in short supply during the war

- Small gardens growing extra food resources for the war

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  1. Executive Order 8802
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  • 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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  1. Bracero Programs
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  • “manual laborer”
  • Series of laws and diplomatic agreements
  • United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.
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  1. Zoot Suit Riots
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  • Series of racial attacks during World War II that broke out in California
  • Against migration of immigrants
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  1. Executive Order 9066
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  • 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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  1. Korematsu v. United States
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  • 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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  1. National War Labor Board
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  • 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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  1. Office of Price Administration
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  • Stabilizing of prices and rents

- Froze wages and price administer of a rationing program

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  1. War Production Board
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  • Supervision of war production during WWII

- FDR

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  1. Big Three
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  • Unites States, Great Britain, Soviet Union grand alliance

- Stalin, FDR, and Churchill

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  1. Yalta Conference
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  • Conference of the big three

- Declare war on Japan after surrender of Germany

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  1. Iwo Jima
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-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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  1. Manhattan Project
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  • 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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  1. Potsdam Ultimatum
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-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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  1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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  • Atomic Bombs that were created by experiment were set off in Japan
  • Apart of the axis powers alliance
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  1. United Nations
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  • Conference of the big three and including France/ China/ Great Britain/ Soviet Union/ USA as the general assembly
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  1. Security Council
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  • The main powers of the world
  • US, Britain, Soviet Union
  • Had veto rights over the general assembly

AP US History Semester #2 (3 decks)

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