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What is Direct relief

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What Americans demand or need to help them survive
ex: food, clothing, shelter, and money

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what 3 things does hoover try to solve the direct relief problem

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  1. get business leaders to pledge not to cut wages or production
  2. Get city and stat gov. to fund building projects =jobs
  3. Loaned money to farmers to join cooperatives
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What did hoover establish after his voluntary request?

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He established the RFC
(reconstruction Finance cooperation)
Lending businesses 2 Billion to stimulate the industry and create jobs. It did not work and the money was spent in months

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Hoover than created the PWP. what is that and what does that stand for

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Public works programs. hoover spent 800 Mil. to build 800 public buildings and built 37,000 buildings. This was to create jobs but it only lasted a little bit

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What was the Bonus army

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Veterans of the Great depression were promised bonus money from the war and it was stated they would get it in 1945 but they protested to have it paid early.

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How many people marched for the bonus army

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17,000 marched on Washington DC

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1932 Hoover did not get reelected becuase…

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  • he sent calvary tanks on the march (protest)
  • didnt fix the problems that needed to be fixed
    -nearly 25% unemployment (3.2% in 1929)
    -yearly family income dropped below $16
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Who won the election in 1932

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Franklin D Roosevelt

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What were the 3 depression era philosophies

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  1. Radical solution….”cut it down”
  2. Conservative solutions..”leave it alone”
  3. Liberal solution..”lets prune it”
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Radical solution incudes what

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  1. taking the income from rich and redistribute to everyone to be equal.
  2. gov control all business
  3. re org farming into Co-op’s eliminating competition
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In 1932 after GD hit what happened

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  1. 2 1/2 years of depression
  2. Millions unemployed
  3. 1000’s of banks closed
  4. stopped the assembly line
  5. streching breadlines
  6. abandoned farms
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What did Franklin Delano Roosevelt say in his INaugural address?

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

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What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first order of business

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The bank crisis
which closed all the banks in the nation for 4 days
people could only accept deposits and give out emergency loans

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how long did it take for the bank crisis to be over

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1 month
30 days

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what did FDR put together

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“the Brain Trust

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what was the brain trust

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An advising group of intellectuals and the competent cabinet members
FDRs cabinet members

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What were the 3r’s FDR made

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Relief
Recovery
Reform

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What relief programs were made

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FERA
CCC
PWA
FCA

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FERA
CCC
PWA
FCA
What do they stand for

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-Federal emergency relief admin
- Civilian conservation corps
- public work admin
- farm credit administration

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if you worked for the CCC where would you be working

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national parks

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if you worked for the PWA where would you be working

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building schools

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What did the CCC do

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work on environmental projects

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What did the PWA do

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renovated gov buildings.
built schools or dams

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What did recovery do to stimulate productivity

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increase industrial productivity
NRA

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What does NRA stand for
national recovery admin
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What did the NRA do
This got business leaders to voluntarily set: quality standards reasonable production levels fair prices max work hours 8 = created 2 mill job fair minimum wage
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What does TVA stand for
Tennessee valley Athority
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What did TVA do
1. built dams (creating jobs) (create electricity (hydro electric dams)) 2. Enriched land ( farming irrigation) 3. Created fish filled lakes (food & tourism) we just started building dams in tennessee
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What acts did Reform make
Truth- in- securities Act The glass-steagall- Banking act
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What was the truth in securities act
eliminated fraud in the stock market and it penalized companies who deceived investors
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what did the Steagall banking act insure
1.Banks cant invest deposits (anyone money) into the stock market 2. created FDIC (Federal deposit insurance corp) 3. insured banking deposits up to 5,000 (if you lose any money becuase of the bank you get your money back no matter what
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What does FDIC stand for
Federal deposit insurance Corp.
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how many Fireside chats did FDR do
13, this just explained simple ideas of his plans on the radio
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what was FDR's farm program
to make prices go up, FDR had farmers underproduce (let lands go unused, reduce # of animals, and let 100mill. pounds of pork spoil), and paid them a subsidy (financial assistance)
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"If supply goes ... prices go...
down, prices go up. memorize chart
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the american liberty league consist of
republican business leaders and conservative democrats
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what did the American liberty league believe
- FDR was turning "socialist" - FDR would destroy free enterprise - against FDR's support of the unions
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Who were the townsendites
Francis E townsed believed FDR neglected old age pensions believed 60+ should be given 200 a month Huey long ; corrupt senator wanted to share out wealth believed each american family should be given 5000/year
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Why was the new deal remade
Beacuse of the townsendites and American Liberty league FDR redid the new deal
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What is the 2nd new deal
first pumped 4.8 billion into the economy adds - old age pensions -more PWP - protection for labor unions - grants for artists and writers - rural electrification projects
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Did FDR win a second term
yes (60% popular vote)
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Did FDR outline the good neighbor policy in his inauguration in 1933
yes
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where did japan look to expand their territory (for resources
Manchuria in china
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Who came to power in italy in 1921
BENITO mussonlini, leader of the fascist party
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What was Benito Mussolini known as
IL duce
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What did Musolini believe
the nation and italian race were more important than the individual
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What were fascists
followers believed a military dominated gov. control all aspects of society.
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What is totalitarism
gov that takes complete control
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What was mussolini's plan
- rebuild italy's economy - make italy an imperial power he invaded ethiopia in 1935
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who comes to power after Lenin
Joseph Stalin
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What does stalin do after he takes power
-uses questionable tactics - has rivals assasinated - turns the soviet union into a totalitarian state (gov has complete control over everything )
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What does Nazi stand for
national Socialist German workers party
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After being appointed chanellor hitler does what after the president died
appoints himself the supreme leader of the Nais
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what does third reich mean
german empire
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Hitler (germany) and Mussolini (italy) join an alliance what was this called
axis power s
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what were the goals of the axis powers
build mighty armies ] expand their boarders (conquering)
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what does germany do that goes agains the treay of versallies
- takes control of austria and invades czechoslovakia
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britian and france did what
adpoted the policy of appeasment : gave into germanies deamnds to avoid war
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what did germany and russia do after Britian and france adpot appeasment
they sign a non-aggression pact: neither country will attack the other
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Who is franko dictator
idk
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after ww2 begins where does hitler adavace to
poland, denmark, norway, netherlands, belgium ...
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for 10 months what does german do to britain
bomb london at night
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Winston churchill wants what
he wants american involvment but we choose to stay neutral
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Whats Americas response to the war
Mixed feelings intervention? and Isolation?
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What do we do to help during the war
We send cautious aid (test answer) to the Allied powers by: -sending britain 50 destroyers - we re-establish the selective service (1st draft) (get 1 mil men)
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How long does FDR serve for president
4 terms
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What is the Lend Lease act
gives FDR the right to sell, land or lease military supplues to any nation
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how much debt did the lend lease act give us
50.1 Billion dollars
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Who joins the axis pwoers
japan
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After japan joins axis powers how does FDR respond
the US ends all trade with japan (oil/steel)
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After ending trade with japan why are they mad and what do they do
they are mad becuase steel and oil are important resources for war that they need. In response, japan attacks pearl harbor
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What is the attack on pearl harbor
japan attacks pearl harbor on Oahu, 19 ships, 188 planes destroyed. 2400 americans killed .
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the US in ww2 | what were 2 big advantages that the axis powers had?
1. germany and japan had firm control over the lands they had conqured 2. germany and japan were better prepared for war
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the US in ww2 | what were the allied powers advantages?
1. the axis pwoers were spread over an enormous areanin Europe (as well as japan in the pacific 2. germany had to defend 2 fronts (britian /USSR) 3. russia has a huge military 4. the US had huge manufacturing capabilities
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did the US have a 2 front war as well in ww2
yes, the pacific and eruopean theater
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Who does the US go after first
they prioritize going after the european theater (defeat germany first, they are closer)`
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What takes the US out of the great depression
switching from a peace time economy to a war time economy for ww2. this puts people to work.
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what reasons did people joining the selective service
1. patriotism 2. anger 3. joblessness 4. adventure
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when mobilizing for war came ?
a need for soliders
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why do the allied pwoers agree to take out germany first
they agree to wage ware until the axis powers surrender
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when germany invades russia what are their plans to take
1. leningrad 2. moscow 3. stalingrad
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does germany's plan to take the 3 cilites work
plans fails due to winter.... russia gets no help from the US after their attack.
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how does Erwin rommel writing a book "the desert fox" help the US defeat him
he wrote about his war tactics in a book (fought german tank divisons led by erwin rommel
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who is admiral Chester Nitmitz
commander of the pacific fleet
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what were 3 decisive battles he had
1. battle of the coral sea 2. the battle of midway 3. Gudalcanal
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What was the singificance of the battle of the coral sea
- it stopped the advance on austrailia
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What was the singificance of the battle of the battle of midway
- we intercepted japanses secret plans - japan lost 4 of 6 of their aircraft carriers (it was their best way of fighting)
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What was the singificance of the guadacanal
-stopped the japanese pacific advance - victory gave the US the upper hand in the pacific

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