Ww2 Flashcards
Policy Forbidding the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages
Prohibition
Policy that a nation uses to try to improve its economic well being by limiting trade
Economic nationalism
Risky investments in the stock market
Market speculations
October 29 1929 when stock investors rushed to sell their shares, resulting in a major financial Collapse.
Black Tuesday
Worldwide depression in the early 1930s when prices and wages fell, buiness activity slowed, and unemployment rose.
Great Depression
President that tried to revive the American economy.
Herbert Hoover
New president created a program of relief and reform called the New Deal
Franklin D Roosevelt
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
New deal
U.S law providing for unemployment and old age benefits.
Social Security Act
Putting down 5 to 10 percent on a stock
Buying on Margin
The raising of tariffs so over 20,000 imported items to all-time highs as a result countries raised their tariffs on US products
Smoot Hawley tariff