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U.S. History: Sem. 2 (Ch 14-16) Vocab Flashcards

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term specifically referring to paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest

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buying on margin

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this Republican won the presidential election 1928

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Herbert Hoover

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little towns consisting of shacks

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shantytowns

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organization set up to loan money to smaller banks trying to stave of bankruptcy

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National Credit Corporation

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term refers to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929

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Black Tuesday

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this is the period from 1924 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed

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Great Depression

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in an effort to curb the financial loss farmers were suffering, COngress tried to pass the McNary-Haugen bill, which would have mandated this on key crops

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price support

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organization set up to provide 2 billion dollars in loans to big businesses to try and end the Depression

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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this Democrat lost the presidential election of 1928

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Alfred Smith

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this term is the name of the most widely used measure of the stock market’s health

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Dow Jones Industrial Average

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this arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases, often on an installment plan that includes interest charges

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credit

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organization that attempted to create farm cooperatives

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Federal Farm Board

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this term refers to making extremely risky business transactions on the chance of making quick or considerable profits

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speculation

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organization set up to help lower mortgage rates for homeowners and allow farmers to refinance their farm loans

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Federal Home Loan Bank

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this reduced the flow of goods into the United States and prevented other countries from earning American currency to buy American exports

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

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this required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market

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Federal Securities Act

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this established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system

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Glass-Stegall Act

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this helped to create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control, the aged and the ill.

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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this put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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this paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices and farm income

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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this authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and to close those that were unsound, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system

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Emergency Banking Relief Act

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this created an administration that set fair prices on many products and established labor standards, with the greater goal of ensuring fair business practice and promoting industrial growth

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National Industrial Recovery Act

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this provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the Depression- the unemployed, the age and the ill

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Federal Relief Administration

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One of the most popular movies of all time, this sweeping drama about life among Southern plantation owners starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable

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Gone With the Wind

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Author of the play “Our Town”

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Thorton Wilder

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his famous painting, American Gothic, depicts two stern-faced farmers standing stiffly in front of their farmhouse

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Grand Wood

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this actor, director, producer, and writer created one of the most famous radio broadcasts of all time, “The War of the Worlds”

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Orson Wells

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this classic novel written by John Steinbeck focuses on the difficulties faced by people who, forced off the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl, moved to California

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The Grapes of Wrath

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most popular singer and songwriter of the Depression era

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Woody Guthrie

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this British prime minister signed the Munich Pact

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Neville Chamberlain

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About the Munich Pact, he said, “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war.”

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Winston Churchill

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prior to the invasion of Poland, this is what Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to

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Nonaggression Pact

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this nation ceased to exist after it was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union

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Poland

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after the fall of France, he set up a government in exile in Britian

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Charles de Gaulle

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the result of this led Hitler to call off the invasion of Britian

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Battle of Britian

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this German military strategy of “lightening war” was first used in Poland

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biltzkrieg

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by signing the Munich Pact, Britain and France agreed to take this policy toward German agression

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appeasement

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French defense build-up after WWI along the French-German border

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Maginot Line

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German defense build-up after WWI along the French-German border

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Siegfried Line

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Mussolini’s followers

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Black Shirts

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political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator

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fascism

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book written by Adolf Hitler in which he outlines his basic beliefs

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Mein Kempf

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title used by Hitler meaning “the leader”

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De Fuhrer

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Hitler’s followers

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Brown Shirts

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Government established by Hitler

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Third Reich

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complete control over citizens and ruthless suppression of opposition

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totalitarian

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Austria-Germany union

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Anschluss

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German brand of fascism, based on extreme nationalism

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Nazism

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After promising his emperor that he would try to maintain peace, Japanese prime minister —– ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the U.S.

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Hideki Tojo

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After promising his emperor that he would try to maintain peace, Japanese prime minister —– ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the U.S.

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Hideki Tojo

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Congress boosted defense spending and created the first peacetime —– in U.S. history

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Draft

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Germany, Italy and Japan were called the —- powers

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Axis

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Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base at ——

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Pearl Harbor

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Japan took over a French military bases in Indochina. In response, the U.S. placed a —– on Japan

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Trade embargo

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The —– passed, allowing the president to lend or lease arms and other support to “any country whose defense was vital to the U.S.

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Lend-Lease Act

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Churchill and Roosevelt met secretly aboard the U.S.S. Augusta. Together they drafted the —–

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Atlantic Charter

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