Ww2 Flashcards

1
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Policy Forbidding the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages

A

Prohibition

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2
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Policy that a nation uses to try to improve its economic well being by limiting trade

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Economic nationalism

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3
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Risky investments in the stock market

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Market speculations

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4
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October 29 1929 when stock investors rushed to sell their shares, resulting in a major financial Collapse.

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Black Tuesday

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5
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Worldwide depression in the early 1930s when prices and wages fell, buiness activity slowed, and unemployment rose.

A

Great Depression

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6
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President that tried to revive the American economy.

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Herbert Hoover

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7
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New president created a program of relief and reform called the New Deal

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Franklin D Roosevelt

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8
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Programs by president Franklin D Roosevelt in which the federal government established public works to create jobs and granted money to each state to provide the needy

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New deal

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9
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U.S law providing for unemployment and old age benefits.

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Social Security Act

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10
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Putting down 5 to 10 percent on a stock

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Buying on Margin

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The raising of tariffs so over 20,000 imported items to all-time highs as a result countries raised their tariffs on US products

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Smoot Hawley tariff

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