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Unit 6 Flashcards

1
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What is Direct relief

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What Americans demand or need to help them survive
ex: food, clothing, shelter, and money

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what 3 things does hoover try to solve the direct relief problem

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  1. get business leaders to pledge not to cut wages or production
  2. Get city and stat gov. to fund building projects =jobs
  3. Loaned money to farmers to join cooperatives
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What did hoover establish after his voluntary request?

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He established the RFC
(reconstruction Finance cooperation)
Lending businesses 2 Billion to stimulate the industry and create jobs. It did not work and the money was spent in months

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Hoover than created the PWP. what is that and what does that stand for

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Public works programs. hoover spent 800 Mil. to build 800 public buildings and built 37,000 buildings. This was to create jobs but it only lasted a little bit

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What was the Bonus army

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Veterans of the Great depression were promised bonus money from the war and it was stated they would get it in 1945 but they protested to have it paid early.

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6
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How many people marched for the bonus army

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17,000 marched on Washington DC

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7
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1932 Hoover did not get reelected becuase…

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  • he sent calvary tanks on the march (protest)
  • didnt fix the problems that needed to be fixed
    -nearly 25% unemployment (3.2% in 1929)
    -yearly family income dropped below $16
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8
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Who won the election in 1932

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Franklin D Roosevelt

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9
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What were the 3 depression era philosophies

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  1. Radical solution….”cut it down”
  2. Conservative solutions..”leave it alone”
  3. Liberal solution..”lets prune it”
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10
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Radical solution incudes what

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  1. taking the income from rich and redistribute to everyone to be equal.
  2. gov control all business
  3. re org farming into Co-op’s eliminating competition
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11
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In 1932 after GD hit what happened

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  1. 2 1/2 years of depression
  2. Millions unemployed
  3. 1000’s of banks closed
  4. stopped the assembly line
  5. streching breadlines
  6. abandoned farms
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12
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What did Franklin Delano Roosevelt say in his INaugural address?

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

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13
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What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first order of business

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The bank crisis
which closed all the banks in the nation for 4 days
people could only accept deposits and give out emergency loans

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14
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how long did it take for the bank crisis to be over

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1 month
30 days

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15
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what did FDR put together

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“the Brain Trust

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16
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what was the brain trust

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An advising group of intellectuals and the competent cabinet members
FDRs cabinet members

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17
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What were the 3r’s FDR made

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Relief
Recovery
Reform

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18
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What relief programs were made

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FERA
CCC
PWA
FCA

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19
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FERA
CCC
PWA
FCA
What do they stand for

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-Federal emergency relief admin
- Civilian conservation corps
- public work admin
- farm credit administration

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20
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if you worked for the CCC where would you be working

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national parks

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21
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if you worked for the PWA where would you be working

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building schools

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22
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What did the CCC do

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work on environmental projects

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23
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What did the PWA do

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renovated gov buildings.
built schools or dams

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24
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What did recovery do to stimulate productivity

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increase industrial productivity
NRA

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25
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What does NRA stand for

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national recovery admin

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26
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What did the NRA do

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This got business leaders to voluntarily set:
quality standards
reasonable production levels
fair prices
max work hours 8 = created 2 mill job
fair minimum wage

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27
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What does TVA stand for

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Tennessee valley Athority

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28
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What did TVA do

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  1. built dams (creating jobs) (create electricity (hydro electric dams))
  2. Enriched land ( farming irrigation)
  3. Created fish filled lakes (food & tourism)

we just started building dams in tennessee

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29
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What acts did Reform make

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Truth- in- securities Act
The glass-steagall- Banking act

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30
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What was the truth in securities act

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eliminated fraud in the stock market and it penalized companies who deceived investors

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31
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what did the Steagall banking act insure

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1.Banks cant invest deposits (anyone money) into the stock market
2. created FDIC (Federal deposit insurance corp)
3. insured banking deposits up to 5,000 (if you lose any money becuase of the bank you get your money back no matter what

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32
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What does FDIC stand for

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Federal deposit insurance Corp.

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33
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how many Fireside chats did FDR do

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13, this just explained simple ideas of his plans on the radio

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34
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what was FDR’s farm program

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to make prices go up, FDR had farmers underproduce (let lands go unused, reduce # of animals, and let 100mill. pounds of pork spoil), and paid them a subsidy (financial assistance)

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35
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“If supply goes …
prices go…

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down, prices go up.
memorize chart

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36
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the american liberty league consist of

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republican business leaders and conservative democrats

37
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what did the American liberty league believe

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  • FDR was turning “socialist”
  • FDR would destroy free enterprise
  • against FDR’s support of the unions
38
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Who were the townsendites

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Francis E townsed
believed FDR neglected old age pensions
believed 60+ should be given 200 a month
Huey long ; corrupt senator
wanted to share out wealth
believed each american family should be given 5000/year

39
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Why was the new deal remade

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Beacuse of the townsendites and American Liberty league FDR redid the new deal

40
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What is the 2nd new deal

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first pumped 4.8 billion into the economy
adds
- old age pensions
-more PWP
- protection for labor unions
- grants for artists and writers
- rural electrification projects

41
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Did FDR win a second term

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yes (60% popular vote)

42
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Did FDR outline the good neighbor policy in his inauguration in 1933

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yes

43
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where did japan look to expand their territory (for resources

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Manchuria in china

44
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Who came to power in italy in 1921

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BENITO mussonlini, leader of the fascist party

45
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What was Benito Mussolini known as

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IL duce

46
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What did Musolini believe

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the nation and italian race were more important than the individual

47
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What were fascists

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followers believed a military dominated gov. control all aspects of society.

48
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What is totalitarism

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gov that takes complete control

49
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What was mussolini’s plan

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  • rebuild italy’s economy
  • make italy an imperial power
    he invaded ethiopia in 1935
50
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who comes to power after Lenin

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Joseph Stalin

51
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What does stalin do after he takes power

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-uses questionable tactics
- has rivals assasinated
- turns the soviet union into a totalitarian state (gov has complete control over everything )

52
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What does Nazi stand for

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national Socialist German workers party

53
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After being appointed chanellor hitler does what after the president died

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appoints himself the supreme leader of the Nais

54
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what does third reich mean

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german empire

55
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Hitler (germany) and Mussolini (italy) join an alliance what was this called

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axis power s

56
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what were the goals of the axis powers

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build mighty armies ]
expand their boarders (conquering)

57
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what does germany do that goes agains the treay of versallies

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  • takes control of austria and invades czechoslovakia
58
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britian and france did what

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adpoted the policy of appeasment : gave into germanies deamnds to avoid war

59
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what did germany and russia do after Britian and france adpot appeasment

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they sign a non-aggression pact: neither country will attack the other

60
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Who is franko dictator

A

idk

61
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after ww2 begins where does hitler adavace to

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poland, denmark, norway, netherlands, belgium …

62
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for 10 months what does german do to britain

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bomb london at night

63
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Winston churchill wants what

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he wants american involvment but we choose to stay neutral

64
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Whats Americas response to the war

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Mixed feelings
intervention? and Isolation?

65
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What do we do to help during the war

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We send cautious aid (test answer) to the Allied powers by:
-sending britain 50 destroyers
- we re-establish the selective service (1st draft) (get 1 mil men)

66
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How long does FDR serve for president

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4 terms

67
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What is the Lend Lease act

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gives FDR the right to sell, land or lease military supplues to any nation

68
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how much debt did the lend lease act give us

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50.1 Billion dollars

69
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Who joins the axis pwoers

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japan

70
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After japan joins axis powers how does FDR respond

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the US ends all trade with japan (oil/steel)

71
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After ending trade with japan why are they mad and what do they do

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they are mad becuase steel and oil are important resources for war that they need.
In response, japan attacks pearl harbor

72
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What is the attack on pearl harbor

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japan attacks pearl harbor on Oahu, 19 ships, 188 planes destroyed. 2400 americans killed .

73
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the US in ww2 | what were 2 big advantages that the axis powers had?

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  1. germany and japan had firm control over the lands they had conqured
  2. germany and japan were better prepared for war
74
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the US in ww2 | what were the allied powers advantages?

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  1. the axis pwoers were spread over an enormous areanin Europe (as well as japan in the pacific
  2. germany had to defend 2 fronts (britian /USSR)
  3. russia has a huge military
  4. the US had huge manufacturing capabilities
75
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did the US have a 2 front war as well in ww2

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yes, the pacific and eruopean theater

76
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Who does the US go after first

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they prioritize going after the european theater (defeat germany first, they are closer)`

77
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What takes the US out of the great depression

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switching from a peace time economy to a war time economy for ww2. this puts people to work.

78
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what reasons did people joining the selective service

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  1. patriotism
  2. anger
  3. joblessness
  4. adventure
79
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when mobilizing for war came ?

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a need for soliders

80
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why do the allied pwoers agree to take out germany first

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they agree to wage ware until the axis powers surrender

81
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when germany invades russia what are their plans to take

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  1. leningrad
  2. moscow
  3. stalingrad
82
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does germany’s plan to take the 3 cilites work

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plans fails due to winter…. russia gets no help from the US after their attack.

83
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how does Erwin rommel writing a book “the desert fox” help the US defeat him

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he wrote about his war tactics in a book (fought german tank divisons led by erwin rommel

84
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who is admiral Chester Nitmitz

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commander of the pacific fleet

85
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what were 3 decisive battles he had

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  1. battle of the coral sea
  2. the battle of midway
  3. Gudalcanal
86
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What was the singificance of the battle of the coral sea

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  • it stopped the advance on austrailia
87
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What was the singificance of the battle of the battle of midway

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  • we intercepted japanses secret plans
  • japan lost 4 of 6 of their aircraft carriers (it was their best way of fighting)
88
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What was the singificance of the guadacanal

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-stopped the japanese pacific advance
- victory gave the US the upper hand in the pacific

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