The Great Depression, The New Deal, And WW2 Flashcards

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What attributes did FDR embody that appealed many Americans

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He seemed to care about ordinary citizens and he could relate to their struggles

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How did FDR’s own experiences and background reflect those of the country?

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He understood struggles from having polio when he was younger

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The first 100 days of office Roosevelt passed many bills and laws. Why?

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1/ Immediate relief for the needy
2/ Economic recovery
3/ Reforms to keep similar problems from happening again

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What is the FERA

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Federal Emergency Relief Act - gave people money to help them provide food and assistance to people in need

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What are 4 examples of public projects that provided jobs?

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  1. Building bridges
  2. Building lighthouses
  3. Building schools
  4. Building sewer systems
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CCC?

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Civilian Conservation Corps- paid men to work on environmental improvement projects
RELIEF

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WPA?

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Workers Progress Administration- artists painted murals, built 120,000 publishing buildings, created more then 8 million jobs
RELIEF

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SSA?

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Social Security Act - it was designed to help assist old people in need

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Pension

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Income for retired workers that it’s paid for by workers and employees (taxes)

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What caused farm prices to fall?

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Farmers produced more food then people could buy

This became so bad that farmers didn’t get any profit

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AAA?

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration- paid farmers to plant less land and fewer animals.
RECOVERY

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What caused the Dust Bowl?

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  1. Top soil conditions
    Dust storms
    Droughts
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FDIC?

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corps- guaranteed individual;l bank deposits up to $3500. Helped restore public confidence in the banks and stabilize the bank systems.
REFORM

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NRA

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National Recovery Administration -set prices of products, wages, work hours
RECOVERY

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SCS

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Soil Conservation Service- Help prevent erosion of land by planting trees
RECOVERUY

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TVA

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Tennessee Valley Authority - Establish e;ectricicty to the TVA by using hydroelectricity
RECOVERY

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SEC

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Securities and Exchange Commision - To ensure that companies are not being unethical
REFORM

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What caused the Market Crash of 1929

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OVERVALUing

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TGD impact on Children

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School closure

Malnutrition enter dietary diseases and under nourishment and teenagers ride the rails to find employment

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TGD impact on family

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Couples delay marriage, divorce rate drops, birth rate drops, overall income loss, and women and children must work because their husband has left them

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TGD impact on farmers

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The farmers are already hurting because of the greater industrialization in cities, renting land because of 1920s financial lenders, that the flight food prices, desperate route, and thanks for clothes on your land

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TGD impact on housing

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Many families cannot afford housing, evictions many more move the Hooverville makeshift home and your cities, and homeless living increased

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TGD impact on government

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Franklin D Roosevelt was elected president of the USA, FDR giraffes emergency baking bill, CCC, FHA, Social Security

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TGD impact on cities

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Urban workers lose jobs as factories and stores shut down, people reluctantly go on welfare as a lot of as a last resort and during disgrace but with no choice, winters are hard, so pigeons provide free meals, and government programs put in Americans back to work

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TGD impact on media
Radio is used by FDR to advances agenda bigger government programs plus a growing concern on foreign-policy events, radio Hollywood broadcast medium, and president Roosevelts fireside chats on radio gave people hope. Sleigh
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TGD impact on health
Families neglect medical and dental care, medical needs are difficult to afford, people/families plant gardens canned food buy used bread and do what they can to survive, and salvation increases to some degree, and a lot of managers in as it is occurring
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How did the great depression impact lives
General answer
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When did the great depression occur
1939-1939
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Dictation
A tyrannical leader
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Fuhrer
A tyrannical leader
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League of Nations
And organization formed after the end of World War I made up of countries that promise to work together to maintain peace yeah you yeah
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Fascism
a form of government led by a dictator who has complete power and forcibly suppressing opposition in phases extreme nationalism
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Repreations
Money that a country that loses the war has to pay the countries that suffered damages due to the war
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Appeasement
The policy of giving into the demands of a hostile country in the help of maintaining peace
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A member of the national Socialist German workers party is
Nazi
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How did WW2 begin
Great Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland
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What happened in 1939
Germany and the Soviet Union signed a pact to secretly invade and spilt POland
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What did the Treaty of Versailles bring
Short term peace and appeasement
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WHY WAS HITLER GIVEN POWR
HE PRMISED TO RETURN GERMANY BACK TO HOW IT WAS BEFORE WW1 AND HE PROMISED TO KEEP CRIME OFF OF THE STREETS
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WHO SIGNED THE GERMAN SOVIET NONAGGRESSION PACT
HILTER STATLIN
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MILITARY GENERAL IN JAPAN AND PUSHED FOR AN ALLIANCE WITH GERMANY
HIDEKI
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DICTATOR OF ITALY
MUSSONLINI
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ANNEXED AUSTRIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA
HITLER
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TGD - WW2
Europe was hit hard by the great depression, economic hard times, pre-existing tensions existed, and these conditions cause people in countries that support dictators because the kiddos promised order prosperity and better future but also had a big territorial ambitions and the desire for territory led to World War II
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GERMAN SOVIET NONAGRESSION PACT
It was signed by the ambitious dictators Musa stats win and Hitler because both dictators desire to conquer chunks of Poland Eastern Europe and when Germany invaded Poland Polish allies Great Britain and France were committed to declare war on Germany and that is how World War II began
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KAMIKAZE
THE JAPANESE PLANESS THAT BOMBED PEARL HARBOR ON D7-1941
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IMPERIALISM
A POLICY OF EXTENDING A COU TRY POWR AND INFLUENCE THROUGH DIPLOMACY OR MILITARY FORCE
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REICHSTAG
IT WAS THGE BUILDING THAT BURNED DOWN