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normalcy

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people trying to distance themselves from their problems and going back to normal

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red scare

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the fear that Russia was going to invade our country and have communism take over

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Isolationism

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Nothing would interfere with America and America would not interfere with anyone else

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Washington Naval conference

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made sure not one country became too powerful with their navy

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Kellogg briand pact

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tried to make the war illegal

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fordney McCumber tariff

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put the tax so high on imported goods that no one could buy anything

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Dawes plan

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reduced the Germans reparation payments a lot

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Teapot Dome scandal

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took over oil reserves in return for money W.G. harding

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Albert Einstein theory of relativity

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space, time, and matter are all relative

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Sigmund freud

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said to get rid of anything that restrains you, and do whatever makes you happy its okay

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Charles Lindbergh

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first person to fly solo nonstop across the atlantic from NY to Paris

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National Origins act

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Restricts the # of immigrants into the country

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John T scopes

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tried to make evolution legal in school brought much debate on the subject

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installment plans

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small monthly payments until the objects payed off

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speculation

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buying on low price and selling it for a higher one for profit

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Bull market

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stock market characterized` by rising prices and optimism

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on the margin

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buying a stock but only at a % of the cost often at 30 or 50%

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black tuesday

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oct 29, 1929 market crash

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causes for the crash

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  1. buying stock on credit
  2. shrinking market
  3. farming struggles
  4. loan defaults
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work relief

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government hand outs

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reconstruction finance corp

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gave money to businesses to help them out

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hawley smoot tariff

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raised the tariffs so high that no one could buy anything

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bonus army

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ww1 vets who wanted the money the government promises

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new deal

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FDR’s deal to help stop the depression

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banking crisis

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the banking system was about to collapse so everyone rushed to the banks to get their money out

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bank holiday

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4 day closing for all banks

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fire side chats

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fdr would weekly talk on the radio to america about what was happening in the world

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CCC

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civilian conservation corps. put unmarried men to work in projects under supervision of the army

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Pwa

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public works administration. built courthouses schools hospitals bridges and other public things

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WPA

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works progress administration. Employed anyone in almost any job

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AAA

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agricultural adjustment act. government helps out business

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NIRA

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national industrial recovery act. guidelines to higher employment = wages and lower unwanted competition

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NRA

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national recovery administration attempt at industrial planning

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Fdic

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federal deposit insurance corp. insured bank deposits

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TVA

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Tennessee valley authority built dams to provide flood control and cheep electricity

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social security act

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old age pensions and unemployment insurance

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court packing plan

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in the court anyone over 70 will get someone to help them (helped get fdr what he wanted to get done)

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CIO

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congress of industrial organizations accommodated unskilled workers… sit down strike

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bread lines

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provided extra food for people in need

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dust bowl

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a major drought that caused for dust to fly everywhere because of a lot of wind

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Adolf hitler

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dictator of Germany during ww2

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Fascism

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build up everything from the beginning anyone who disagrees gets killed

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Benito mussolini

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italian dictator ll duce

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Hideki tojo

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Japanese dictator

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Axis powers

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Germany Italy and Japan

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Joseph Stalin

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Russian Dictator, violent communist killed many of his own people

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Appeasement

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trying to satisfy someone by giving them something

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Rhineland

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a reign of germany that they tried to get it back

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sudetenland

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a land west of czechoslovak Germans fled there

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Nazi soviet nonaggression pact

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Russia and Germany will not attack each other and will split their land

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september 1, 1939

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start of ww2

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Blitzkrieg

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lightning war 48 hrs

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Dunkirk

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a major miracle of 330,000 men are saved

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winston churchhill

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prime minister of britain

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Battle of Britian

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hitler bombed Britain and kept doing it to make it easier to invade

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Wehrmacht

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German armed forces

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neutrality act of 1939

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countries come to us to buy supplies pay cash and carry them on there own boats

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America first committee’s

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led by charles lindbergh kept allied sympathy and American involvement in check in check

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land lease act

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provides weapons and supplies to other countries in battle

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Atlantic charter

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meeting between FDR and churchill

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December 7, 1941

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the bombing of pearl harbor

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battle of midway

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destroyed 4 japanese aircraft carriers

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Chester W. Nimitz

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US admiral who directed carrier forces against Japan

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War production board

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stopped construction to save supplies for the war

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rationing

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only taking a certain amount of supplies in order to conserve them for something

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Erwin Rommel

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leader of German panzers field marshal earned the respect of his man

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Bernard montgomery

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British commander took control over war in Egypt

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Operation tourch

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went to africa to defeat the germans and won

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Dwight D Eisenhower

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led the African invasion supreme allied commander

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Casablanca

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went to form a strategy to defeat Germany

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Operation Husky

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Attacked Sicily

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D-Day (operation overlord)

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went on the shore of Germany and attacked June 6, 1944

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Battle of the bulge

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Hitler’s last chance (desperate) killed and captured many Americans Patton gets them out in 2 days

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Guadalcanal

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the island they landed in Aug 1942 and got in Feb 1943

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Island hopping

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hopping from island to island and trying to get the best ones

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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largest sea battle in history the japanese lost much and we didn’t lose that much

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kamikazes

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japanese suicide pilots

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Iwo Jima

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6,800 killed and 21,000 wounded but we still won

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Okinawa

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very important island that both america and japan wanted but lost many lives

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Yalta conference and the big 3

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Stalin FDR and churchill came together to do something about the war

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potsdam conference

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we wanted unconditional surrender of Japan because of this we dropped the atomic bombs

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Atomic bomb

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A radiated bomb that causes much damage sent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed many

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Presidents 19-33

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  1. Rutherford B hayes
  2. James A Garfield
  3. chester a arthur
  4. Grover Cleveland
  5. Benjamin Harrison
  6. Grover Cleveland
  7. William McKinley
  8. theodore roosevelt
  9. William Taft
  10. Woodrow Wilson
  11. Warren Harding
  12. Calvin Coolidge
  13. Herbert Hoover
  14. Franklin Roosevelt
  15. Harry truman
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84
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the new deal and 2 programs that came out of it. What problems did the programs address how did they do this and were they effective?

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The aaa, ccc, etc. the new deal tried to supply relief recovery, and reform they were effective but sometimes not in the right way

85
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the 3 reasons that the US stayed isolated in the beginning of ww2. should they have remained neutral or joined the war when they did? why?

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  1. Traditional American stance - rejection of the league of nations
  2. ww 1 war debt
  3. great depression

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