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Unit 3 Flashcards

1
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Unemployment as high as 25% had to do with what major event after ww1?

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The Great Depression

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Many groups tried to help the less fortunate, state and local gov, private charities and churches, all raised money for the poor, soup kitchens, and bread lines.

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Good will efforts

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3
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Groups of homeless people living together

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Hoovervilles

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4
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Prices and profits dropped, dustbowl moving eroded topsoil

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Plight of farmers

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5
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Why did Hoover say “prosperity is just around the corner”

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The Great Depression, people were depressed.

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6
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What did Hoover do to combat the depression?

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Created jobs through gov spending, protect domestic industries, gov credit given to banks, lowered taxes, favored low interest rates, federal loans for banks, farmers and industries

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7
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What was a Hoover blanket

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Newspaper

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8
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What was a Hoover hog

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Jack rabbit

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9
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What was a Hoover flag?

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Inside out pockets

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10
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Army of veterans who camped outside the White House demanding money

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The bonus army

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11
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Who led troops to take care of the bonus army

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Douglas MacArthur

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12
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A doctrine opposing gov interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintain of peace and property rights

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Laissez-Faire economics

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13
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Did the new deal mean more or less gov?

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More gov

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14
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FDRs staff of economists, college professors, social workers, lawyers, and other experts in their fields

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The Brain trust

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15
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What are the three rs?

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Relief (for the poor), recovery(for the economy), reform (for the system… prevention)

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16
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The following were criticisms of what?

Too expensive, too much gov power

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The new deal

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17
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“The king fish”, former gov of Louisiana, opponent to FDR and the new deal,

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Huey long

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18
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Name of FDRs talk radio show

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Fireside chats

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19
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Insured everyone’s savings deposits so that even if your bank failed you could get your money back

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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20
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Program designed to help out farmer

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AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act

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21
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Helped out the unemployed by giving federal money to local gov to make more jobs

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WPA- works progress administration

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22
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Built dams to control the Tennessee river valley, created jobs and electricity

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TVA- Tennessee valley authority

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23
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Program for single unemployed 18-25 year old men to work and get food, clothing, shelter, schooling

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CCC- Civilian conservation corps

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24
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For small businesses to cooperate instead of compete, keep all businesses going

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NRA - national recovery administration

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25
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Plan for retirement for elderly, something for people to fall back on

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Social security

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26
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Why did unions adopt the sit down strike strategy

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Can’t bring in new people, workers stayed on line, very effective, gave workers more power,

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27
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Appointed as an advisor to Roosevelt on matters of civil rights, nicknamed the First Lady of the struggle

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Mary McCleod Bethune

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28
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Very outspoken, longest serving First Lady, especially concerned with racial issues

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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29
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FDRs plan that involved adding justices to make the Supreme Court “less old”

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Court packing, through the judiciary reorganization bill

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30
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Belief that the state is everything and the individual citizen is nothing usually based on racism, militarism, and nationalism

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Totalitarian gov

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31
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Germany (hitler)
Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin)
Italy (Benito Mussolini)

Are all examples of what

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Totalitarian govs

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32
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Political movement started by Mussolini, stresses national unity, racist system, state is all powerful,

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Fascism

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33
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Totalitarian gov in Germany, also called the national socialists

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Nazis

34
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Theory proposed by hitler that the Germans were a superior breed of humans

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Master race

35
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Jewish prosecution before and during world war 2

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The holocaust

36
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The link between the two wars, hurt Germany economically, militarily, and territorially.

A

Treaty of Versailles

37
Q

Written by hitler while in prison, translates to my struggle

A

Mein Kampf

38
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Nazi police

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Gestapo

39
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First outright violation of the treaty of Versailles., peaceful invasion

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Rhineland by hitler

40
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Hitler meets with Britain, France, and Italy in 1948 attempting to expand Germany. Given Sudetenland, promises not to expand

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Munich pact (broken)

41
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Policy of giving in to an aggressor nation in hope of satisfying it, encouraging it to stop being aggressive

A

Appeasement

42
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Leader of Soviet Union

A

Joseph Stalin

43
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Leader of Italy

A

Benito Mussolini

44
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Leader of Japan

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Hideki Tojo

45
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Pact signed between hitler and Stalin, agreed not to attack each other

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Nonaggression pact

46
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Striking with lightning speed to overwhelm their opponents, Germany used air power and tanks to do this, also called lightning war

A

Blitzkrieg

47
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Hitler tried to bomb Britain into submission, trying to break their will to fight, Britain suffered terrible losses, mostly fought in the air

A

Battle of Britain

48
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British prime minister who encouraged British to hold on at all costs

A

Winston Churchill

49
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Hitlers decision to invade Russia, saw Stalin and communists as weak, wanted their land

A

Hitlers “big mistake”

50
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Why couldn’t hitler invade Russia?

A

Too big, too cold

51
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Us would lend lease sell to any nation we felt necessary to protect, regardless of their inability to pay now

A

Lend lease act

52
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System of maintaining world peace and security by the concerned action and agreement of all nations

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Collective security

53
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Date of Pearl Harbor attack

A

December 7, 1941

54
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What happened to the USS Arizona?

A

Sunk in Pearl Harbor attack

55
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Air raid on Tokyo led by jimmy doolittle, retaliation strike of Pearl Harbor,

A

Doolittle raid

56
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Who were the allied powers

A

Us, Britain, Soviet Union, France

57
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Who were the axis powers

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Germany, Italy, Japan

58
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Commander of European theater

A

General Dwight d Eisenhower

59
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Commander of pacific theater

A

General Douglas MacArthur

60
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Commander of North African, Italian front

A

General George patton

61
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D Day, operation overload, 20000 men dropped behind enemy lines

A

Invasion of Normandy

62
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Who led the invasion of Normandy?

A

General Dwight d Eisenhower

63
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The goal of the invasion of Normandy

A

To drive the Germans out of France

64
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German attack in Belgium and Luxembourg, allied forces hold their position in the Ardennes forest

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Battle of the bulge

65
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President who took office after FDR

A

Harry s Truman

66
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Order for Japanese Americans to be put into camps

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Executive order 9066

67
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Term used to talk about Japanese soldiers and how they fight

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Fighting spirit

68
Q

Huge turning point in the pacific, slowed down japans momentum

A

Battle of midway

69
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Japans first major defeat, us marines take control in feb, after several months of savage combat

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Guadalcanal

70
Q

Only island standing between American forces and a final assault on Tokyo

A

Okinawa

71
Q

Japanese were firing on US from inside the mountains, famous picture of soldiers holding up the flag

A

Iwo Jima

72
Q

Protect that included atomic bomb

A

Manhattan project

73
Q

Genius leader of the Manhattan project

A

J Robert Oppenheimer

74
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Ship attacked after delivering atomic bomb, only 300 of 1196 sailors survived

A

USS Indianapolis

75
Q

Led by general Curtis LeMay, fires killing thousands with napalm

A

Fire bombing campaign

76
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First atomic bomb, “little boy”, dropped from the “Enola Gay”

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Hiroshima

77
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Second bomb, “fat man” , dropped on an industrial city for war production

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Nagasaki

78
Q

American and Filipino troops surrendered and were forced to walk 120 miles, 2/3 died

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Bataan death march

79
Q

Big three, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, Met to make decisions after ww2

A

Yalta conference

80
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Hitlers death camps

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Final solution

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