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stock market crash of 1929

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1929 major stock market crash in the United States

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Weak Farm Economy
Lack of Economic Diversification
Misdistribution of Wealth
Stock Market Speculation
Excessive use of Credit
Overproduction/Underconsumption
Failure of Federal Policies
Global Economic Problems
International Debt
International Trade

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Results of Great Depression

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Corporate Profits Fall
Bank Failures
Unemployment

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Americans responses to the Great Depression:

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Self-Blame
Self-Help
Retreat from Consumerism
Conservatism
Communism
Escapism

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Hoover’s Responses:

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Opposes direct relief
Urges business leaders to maintain wages and production and labor leaders to pledge no strikes
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Revenue Act of 1932

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Pearl Harbor

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surprise military strike by Japan on the US at its naval base at Pearl Harbor; U.S. was a neutral country in World War II.

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Sino Japanese war

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China v Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a war in Manchuria that started in 1931; considered part of World War II and the beginning of World War II in Asia.

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Lend Lease act

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lend or lease arms and supplies to any country deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.”

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Tripartite Act of 1940

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defensive military alliance agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin

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Burke Wadsworth Act of 1940

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first peacetime conscription in United States history. (Selective Service Act) required that men to register with local draft

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Nazi/Soviet non aggression pact

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sort of alliance between the two; secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe

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US Neutrality acts of 1936 and 1939

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series of acts passed in response to the growing threats of WW II; growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following WW I

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Munich Conference

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agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia(Sudetenland), where many ethnic Germans, lived. (failed)

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Spanish Civil war

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Franco gains power- facist

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Which countries does Germany take? (Hitler)

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Austria
Czechlovakia(Sudentenland)
Poland

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What country does Italy take? (Mussolini)

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ethipoia

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Pan Americanism

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movement to create, encourage, and organize relationships among the states of the Americas, through diplomatic, political, economic, and social means

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Good neighbor policy

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FDRs foreign policy of the administration of US towards Latin America. US renounced right to unilaterally intervene in the internal affairs of other nations

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Reciprocal trade agreement act (+ tariffs)

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negotiation of tariff agreements between the US and separate nations(esp Latin American countries); –> negotiate with foreign nations to reduce tariffs in return for reciprocal reductions in tariffs in the US up to 50%.

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Problem with war debts and Dawes plan

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Germany couldnt pay B and F, so B and F couldnt pay the US; so the US would loan money to Germany;(temporarily resolved the issue of the reparations)

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Kellogg-Briand Act

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1928 international agreement on peace ; resolved not to use war to settle disputes or conflicts

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4 power treaty

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treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference to respect each other’s Pacific island dependencies for 10 years

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5 power treaty

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signed during 1922 among the major Allies of World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval constructio

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Washington conference

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disarmament conference called by the United States

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9 power treaty
1922 treaty affirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as per the Open Door Policy.
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Harding is pres. in the 1920- slogan?
"Return to Normalcy" - reflect isolationism
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Sources of eco boom after the war
- US only industrial power left - manufacturing rose by 60%
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New tech/advancements in new era
- radio - planes - complex computers - genetics(mendel/morgan) - business consolidation (US Steel) and modern Administrative systems (General motors) - Trade associations (fear of overproduction that caused past recessions) - mechanized farming
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"welfare capitalism"
(capitalism that includes social welfare policies and/or the practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employee) --> sworkers standard of living rose; Ford shorted workweek, increased wages; improve sanitation and safety in factories
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company unions
- feeble, workers didnt really have control
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workers and organized labor unions in new era
hard times, esp. for unskilled laborers
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Philip Randolph
gained increases in wages and shorter working hours for black people (Brotherhood of sleeping car porters)
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"American Plan"
- union busting -- strengthing of corporations; open shop (not required to join labor union) - supreme court not protect unions - union membership down
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Parity and McNary-Haugen Bill
"parity" adequate price for farm goods; high tariffs; gov buy surplus domestic crops and sell them abroad; Pres. Coolidge vetoed bill twice
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Modernist religion
- emphasis on immediate, personal fulfillment, abandon literal interpretation of Bible (Fosdick) - devaluing of religion
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sheppard Towner act
fed funds for prenatal care and child care(classified woman as mothers)
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National Origins Act
annual immigration limited; targeted japanese people; favored euro immigration;
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New KKK
- no catholics, no black people, no jewish, no foreign people(S, W, N)
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Fundamentalist
traditional faith groups- rural; bible interpreted literally; opposed to charles darwin
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Scope trial
Teacher in tennessee taught evolution (illegal there) and there was a trial-- made a fool out of the fundamentalist and they weren't politcally active again
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Dems during new era
suffered bc of diversity of coalition; in a deadlock for pres. candidate-- their compromise defeated by coolidge
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1928 election
Hoover beat al smith (dem, couldnt unite them)
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Hardy and cooolidge
both passive presidents; gov shouldnt interfere in nation
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Cash and carry
policy required countries at war to pay in cash for U.S. arms and supplies, and transport them in their own vessels,
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- FERA provides cash grants to states to prop up bankrupt relief agencies (Harry Hopkins) - More comfortable with work relief as a form of government assistance (CWA, CCC)
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
- AAA, producers of 7 basic commodities - Tell farmers how much to produce and pay to leave land idle (+ tax on food processing to provide funds for payment) → rise in prices for farm goods → farmers incomes increase → Boost in agricultural economy; more stable, but favor large farms - (Cancelled by Supreme Court, but allowed Soil Conservation + Domestic Allotment Act where the government paid farmers to decrease production)
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Emergency Banking Relief Act and "Bank Holiday"
-Protect larger banks -Treasury Department inspects banks before they reopen -Federal assistance reorganization to the banks - people put money back in banks
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Civilian Conservation Corp
- Provide employment to young men(not really to women) - They planted trees, built reservoirs, developed parks, improved agricultural irrigation - Racial segregation in the corps
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Tennessee Valley Authority
-Progressive reformers want public development of nation’s water resource(dam, electric power) in Tennessee -1932, electricity migrate Samuel Insull collapses → hostility to utilities → TVA completes the dam, and build other dams, generates/sells electricity to public Recovery
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National Industrial Recovery Act
- Compromise with business and workers → relaxed antitrust legislation for business to force them to recognize workers rights to bargain(unions), income of workers increase along with prices, increase jobs, and increase consumer buying power + public works - Hugh S. Johnson called for ‘blanket code’ – minimum wage 30-40 cents per hour, maximum work week 40 hours, and not child labor → raise consumer buying power and raised employment - difficulties = poorly written, administration hard bc so vast, large producers ensured it would favor them
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Works Progress Administration
-help unemployed Americans-- system of work relief bigger in size and budget(+5 billion) and operations Harry Hopkins → building/renovating public buildings: schools, post offices, government office buildings, airports, roads, bridges → money into economy - even paid writers, sculptors, painters, actors, musicians
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Glass Steagall Banking Reform Act
- 1933 Government’s power to curb irresponsible speculation in banks - Established Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, guarantee bank deposit to up to($2,500)
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Social Security Act
- 1935, many programs: for the elderly, pension system → income on retirement, large amount of women and African Americans excluded unemployment insurance(laid off workers receive temporary government assistance) - aid to people with disabilities and dependent children
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission police the stock market
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Fair Labor Standards Act
National minimum wage, 40 hour workweek, strict childlabor laws Rejected women and minority workers at first
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Wagner Act
Gave workers a crucial enforcement mechanism to force employers to recognize unions and bargain with them
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Rural Electrification
Electric power to farmer; loans to farmers to relocate to better land
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Share our wealth society
Wealth redistribution; (take from the rich and give to the needy) org.
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New deal for labor unions
good times- 80% of strikes settle in favor of unions
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West Coast Hotel v Parrish
Supreme Court upholds wagner and social secuirty
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Recession of 1937
Roosevelt recession - thought they were out of the woods, so cut spending(boom collapses and eco decreases again); --> Temporary nat eco committee
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Fair Labor Standards Act
national minimum wage, 40 hour workweek, limit on child labor, excluded women and minoritites
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Racial discrimination in new deal
- CCC segregated - NRA paid blacks less than whites - TVA excluded them in employment - Fed Hoursing Admin, didnt provide mortgages to them in white neighborhoods - WPA made them do the least skilled and lowest paying jobs/excluded them - failure to challenge jim crow laws/ outlaw lynching
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Indian Reorganization Act 1934
nations right to own land collectively; still very poor
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New Deal achievements
- DID NOT revive/reform eco, but elevated workers and farmers - stabilize stick market and banking system - basis of welfare system - reinforce gender and racial discrimination - Gov/people higher interest in eco. matters
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St. Valentines day massacre associated with
al capone
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Who were the flappers
young middle class women
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Result of anti catholic sentiment in election of 1928
al smith could not carry a solid Dem South
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1960, the limits on immigration into the US was
overturned by the passage of new legislation
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The immigration restriction act passed in the 1920s favored..
Northern and western European immigrants
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Marcus Garvey
emphasis on the importance of Black pride and Black nationalism
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Characterize the stance of writers in the 1920s (Sinclair lewis and scott fitzgerald)
criticize middle class conformity and materialism
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Women during the 1920s had a ---- in political activism
decline; despite gaining the right to vote
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US attempted to influence the outside world after the first world war by
using trade and investment in order to maintain international connections

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