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Unemployment as high as 25% had to do with what major event after ww1?

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The Great Depression

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Many groups tried to help the less fortunate, state and local gov, private charities and churches, all raised money for the poor, soup kitchens, and bread lines.

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Good will efforts

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Groups of homeless people living together

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Hoovervilles

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Prices and profits dropped, dustbowl moving eroded topsoil

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Plight of farmers

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Why did Hoover say “prosperity is just around the corner”

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The Great Depression, people were depressed.

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What did Hoover do to combat the depression?

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Created jobs through gov spending, protect domestic industries, gov credit given to banks, lowered taxes, favored low interest rates, federal loans for banks, farmers and industries

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What was a Hoover blanket

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Newspaper

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What was a Hoover hog

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Jack rabbit

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What was a Hoover flag?

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Inside out pockets

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Army of veterans who camped outside the White House demanding money

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The bonus army

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Who led troops to take care of the bonus army

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Douglas MacArthur

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A doctrine opposing gov interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintain of peace and property rights

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Laissez-Faire economics

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Did the new deal mean more or less gov?

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More gov

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FDRs staff of economists, college professors, social workers, lawyers, and other experts in their fields

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The Brain trust

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What are the three rs?

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Relief (for the poor), recovery(for the economy), reform (for the system… prevention)

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The following were criticisms of what?

Too expensive, too much gov power

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The new deal

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“The king fish”, former gov of Louisiana, opponent to FDR and the new deal,

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Huey long

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Name of FDRs talk radio show

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Fireside chats

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Insured everyone’s savings deposits so that even if your bank failed you could get your money back

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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Program designed to help out farmer

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AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act

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Helped out the unemployed by giving federal money to local gov to make more jobs

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WPA- works progress administration

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Built dams to control the Tennessee river valley, created jobs and electricity

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TVA- Tennessee valley authority

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Program for single unemployed 18-25 year old men to work and get food, clothing, shelter, schooling

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CCC- Civilian conservation corps

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For small businesses to cooperate instead of compete, keep all businesses going

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NRA - national recovery administration

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Plan for retirement for elderly, something for people to fall back on
Social security
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Why did unions adopt the sit down strike strategy
Can’t bring in new people, workers stayed on line, very effective, gave workers more power,
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Appointed as an advisor to Roosevelt on matters of civil rights, nicknamed the First Lady of the struggle
Mary McCleod Bethune
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Very outspoken, longest serving First Lady, especially concerned with racial issues
Eleanor Roosevelt
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FDRs plan that involved adding justices to make the Supreme Court “less old”
Court packing, through the judiciary reorganization bill
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Belief that the state is everything and the individual citizen is nothing usually based on racism, militarism, and nationalism
Totalitarian gov
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Germany (hitler) Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin) Italy (Benito Mussolini) Are all examples of what
Totalitarian govs
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Political movement started by Mussolini, stresses national unity, racist system, state is all powerful,
Fascism
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Totalitarian gov in Germany, also called the national socialists
Nazis
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Theory proposed by hitler that the Germans were a superior breed of humans
Master race
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Jewish prosecution before and during world war 2
The holocaust
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The link between the two wars, hurt Germany economically, militarily, and territorially.
Treaty of Versailles
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Written by hitler while in prison, translates to my struggle
Mein Kampf
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Nazi police
Gestapo
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First outright violation of the treaty of Versailles., peaceful invasion
Rhineland by hitler
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Hitler meets with Britain, France, and Italy in 1948 attempting to expand Germany. Given Sudetenland, promises not to expand
Munich pact (broken)
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Policy of giving in to an aggressor nation in hope of satisfying it, encouraging it to stop being aggressive
Appeasement
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Leader of Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
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Leader of Italy
Benito Mussolini
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Leader of Japan
Hideki Tojo
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Pact signed between hitler and Stalin, agreed not to attack each other
Nonaggression pact
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Striking with lightning speed to overwhelm their opponents, Germany used air power and tanks to do this, also called lightning war
Blitzkrieg
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Hitler tried to bomb Britain into submission, trying to break their will to fight, Britain suffered terrible losses, mostly fought in the air
Battle of Britain
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British prime minister who encouraged British to hold on at all costs
Winston Churchill
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Hitlers decision to invade Russia, saw Stalin and communists as weak, wanted their land
Hitlers “big mistake”
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Why couldn’t hitler invade Russia?
Too big, too cold
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Us would lend lease sell to any nation we felt necessary to protect, regardless of their inability to pay now
Lend lease act
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System of maintaining world peace and security by the concerned action and agreement of all nations
Collective security
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Date of Pearl Harbor attack
December 7, 1941
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What happened to the USS Arizona?
Sunk in Pearl Harbor attack
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Air raid on Tokyo led by jimmy doolittle, retaliation strike of Pearl Harbor,
Doolittle raid
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Who were the allied powers
Us, Britain, Soviet Union, France
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Who were the axis powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
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Commander of European theater
General Dwight d Eisenhower
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Commander of pacific theater
General Douglas MacArthur
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Commander of North African, Italian front
General George patton
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D Day, operation overload, 20000 men dropped behind enemy lines
Invasion of Normandy
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Who led the invasion of Normandy?
General Dwight d Eisenhower
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The goal of the invasion of Normandy
To drive the Germans out of France
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German attack in Belgium and Luxembourg, allied forces hold their position in the Ardennes forest
Battle of the bulge
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President who took office after FDR
Harry s Truman
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Order for Japanese Americans to be put into camps
Executive order 9066
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Term used to talk about Japanese soldiers and how they fight
Fighting spirit
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Huge turning point in the pacific, slowed down japans momentum
Battle of midway
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Japans first major defeat, us marines take control in feb, after several months of savage combat
Guadalcanal
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Only island standing between American forces and a final assault on Tokyo
Okinawa
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Japanese were firing on US from inside the mountains, famous picture of soldiers holding up the flag
Iwo Jima
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Protect that included atomic bomb
Manhattan project
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Genius leader of the Manhattan project
J Robert Oppenheimer
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Ship attacked after delivering atomic bomb, only 300 of 1196 sailors survived
USS Indianapolis
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Led by general Curtis LeMay, fires killing thousands with napalm
Fire bombing campaign
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First atomic bomb, “little boy”, dropped from the “Enola Gay”
Hiroshima
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Second bomb, “fat man” , dropped on an industrial city for war production
Nagasaki
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American and Filipino troops surrendered and were forced to walk 120 miles, 2/3 died
Bataan death march
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Big three, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, Met to make decisions after ww2
Yalta conference
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Hitlers death camps
Final solution

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