The New Deal Flashcards

1
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The FDRC was created to ensure…

A

Deposits up to 2500

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2
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The SEC did what

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Oversaw stock and bond markets

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3
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(CCC) civilian conservation corps was created for what

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Jobs … 250,000 men were sent to do reforestation and conservation work

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4
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TRUE OR FALSE.

Fdr fully repealed prohibition

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True

Beer was legalized

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5
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Agricultural adjustment act (AAA) did what?

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Raised farm prices by encouraging farmers to produce less

Originly covered 7 commodalities .. Wheat, corn, cotton, hogs, milk, rice and tobacco

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6
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Dust bowl

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Farmers had striped ground of natural vegetation .. Clouds of dust rolled over the plains

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7
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Second new deal : social security act

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Provides pensions for most workers in the private sector : unenployment compensation old age pension

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8
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Ww2 germans walked aroung the maginal line im 6 weeks french are knocked out of war.

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Hitler decides to attack paris

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9
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Battle of britain

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Nazis dropped bombs in london

British sends planes to make hitler call off the attack

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10
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Selective service act passed by frd states …

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Draft for men to enlist men for war

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11
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Lend lease act

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U.S lends supplies to britain to fight in the war

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12
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Hitler invades soviet

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Lend lease to soviet union

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13
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Embargo act

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No more oil and steel for japan

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14
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Axis powers

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US BRITAIN SOVIET UNION

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15
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Japanese internment

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Japanese americans had to sell their homes and businesses and move to camps bc america was afraid they would side with japan

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16
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Operarion torch

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America invades through north africa

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17
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Allied powers attacked through sicily overrun facists

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This was when mussilini was executed

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18
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Big 3 meeting : stalin fdr churchill

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Meet at tehran conference to discuss future of germany after the war
Promised to open up western front

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19
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Dday invasion of france in 1944

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Allies liberated france

20
Q

The battle of the bulge

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America / british towards berlin
Soviets toward berlin
Germany surrendered
Hitler commited suicide

21
Q

Battle of midway island

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Led by chester nimitz and general douglass maccarthur

They had a stratagie called leap frogging or island hopping

22
Q

Okinawa

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Japan lost 1500 kamikaze planes

U.s bombed Japanese mainlands, killed 330,000 civilians

23
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Fdr is reeleceted jn 1944

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Met with churchill and stalin at yalta conference

Talked about peace and order after war

24
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Germany planned to divide into 4 zones

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US britain france USSR

25
When FDR died who became president?
Harry truman
26
Manhattan project
Creation of the atomic bomb
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Where is the atomic bomb dropped?
Hiroshima and nagasaki
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When did ww2 end?
Sept.2 1945 25 million millatary deaths americans lost 400,000
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doctorine of containment
Americansim was not allowed to spread
30
Truman doctrine
established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
31
Marshall plan
an Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Europe, the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.
32
Warsaw pact
defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
33
Trial of julius and ethal rosenburg
Accused of being spy | Found guilty and killed in eletric chair
34
Election of 1952
Adlai stevenson VS. dwight eisenhower
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Eisenhower foreign policy president
Brought an end to korean war
36
Vietnam is ruled by
Ho chi minh
37
When soviets launch sputnik what does the us do?
Builds nasa
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U-2 spy plane incident
Spy plain was caught by soviet union n destroyed
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Election of 1960
Richard nixon VS. john f kennedy | Kennedy won
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Bay of pigs invasion
was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
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Berlin wall
Build by kruschev to keep communist inside
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Nuclear missels in cuba
Kroschev wanted to fire them | At USA but as long as kennedy promised to not invade cuba he would take missels out
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Us wanted permanent partition of vietnam at 17th parallel supported ngo dihn diem wil milatary power
16000 american troops stationed in south vietnam
44
Who assasinated jfk
Lee harvey oswald
45
Who signed the anti comintern pact?
Germany italy japan
46
Fdr passed banking act allowing
Banks to reopen if they had been inspected by fed govt