unit 10 Flashcards
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hawley smoot tariff 1934
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- tariff raised taxes
- on foreign goods as high as 49%
- hoping to protect American interests
- in response euro made it’s tariffs
- even higher which reduced world trade
- helped fuel a worldwide depression
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buying on margin (5)
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- policy in the 1920s
- allowed ppl to borrow most of the cost of a stock
- to buy it
- and hope it’d benefit them
- so they could repay the loan
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dust bowl (3)
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- in the Great Plains
- drought was really bad
- Oklahoma
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wheeler Howard act 1934 (4)
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- this measure
- returned lands to the control of tribes
- supported preservation
- of Native American culture
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CIO (5)
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- committee of industrial unions
- later called congress of industrial organizations
- sought that existing unions like AFL
- extend union membership to all workers regardless of their race and sex
- and unskilled
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Huey long (4)
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- senator from Louisiana, nicknamed “kingfish”
- opposed FDR and his plans
- proposed tax on wealthy
- redistribution of wealth to try and solve the country’s Eco problems
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court packing (5)
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- FDRs plan to appoint
- judges to Supreme Court
- that’d like FDRs ideas
- congress said no
- it would mess with checks and balances
- since in his first term, he didn’t appoint any
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neutrality act of 1935 (3)
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- authorize president
- prohibit all arms shipments
- forbid US citizens to travel on the ships of other nations
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neutrality act of 1936 (3)
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- forbade the extension of loans
- and credits
- to a country in war
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neutrality act of 1937
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- forbade shipments of arms
- to opposing sides
- in the civil war in Spain
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appeasement (5)
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- brit and French policy
- before WWII
- attempting to satisfy hitler
- by giving into his demands
- for Sudetenland
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blitzkrieg (6)
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- hitlers wwii military strategy
- armies
- string opposition
- with lightning speed
- through the air
- and on the ground
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four freedoms (6)
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- fdr proposed a speech
- us must stand behind those nations
- that we’re committed to freedom of speech
- religion
- and freedom from want
- and freedom from fear
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lend lease (2)
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- law that gave US
* authority to loan arms to GB during WWII
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atl charter (5)
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- meeting btwn fdr and Churchill
- agreed on peace principles for the end of the war
- self determination for all people
- no territorial expansion
- free trade
