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date of “Black Tuesday”
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October 29, 1929
2
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year of the 21st Amendment
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1933 (repealed prohibition)
3
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president from 1929-1933
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Herbert Hoover
4
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president from 1933-1945
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
5
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became the president at the height of America’s financial success
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Herbert Hoover
6
Q
Herbert Hoover’s Vice President
A
Charles Curtis
7
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causes for the Great Depression
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- easy credit for loans
- use of installment plans
- risky investments such as speculation and buying on margin
- financial crisis for farmers
8
Q
the stock market crash and $30 billion was immediately lost
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Black Tuesday
9
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results of the Great Crash of 1929
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- banks failed after lost investments and bank runs
- very high unemployment
- Federal Reserve System allowed for heavy government intervention
10
Q
severe drought in the mid 1930s
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the Dust Bowl
11
Q
wrote Grapes of Wrath, criticizing the government’s involvement in the depression
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John Steinbeck
12
Q
Hoover advocated _______ to recover from the Great Depression
A
rugged individualism
13
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Hoover’s project for hydroelectric power
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Hoover Dam
14
Q
highest tariff in America’s (peace-time) history
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff (under Hoover)
15
Q
only nation to repay WWI debts
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Finland
16
Q
first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in literature
A
Sinclair Lewis
17
Q
two poets who reflected the American spirit of perseverance
A
Carl Sandburg (The People, Yes) and T. S. Eliot (Ash Wednesday)
18
Q
depicted the lives of “decayed” Southern aristocrats
A
William Faulkner
19
Q
wrote Gone with the Wind
A
Margaret Mitchell
20
Q
produced Our Town
A
Thornton Wilder
21
Q
made American Gothic
A
Grant Wood (symbol of American Midwest)
22
Q
tallest Art Deco style building for 40 years
A
Empire State Building
23
Q
longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world at the time; completed in 1937
A
Golden Gate Bridge
24
Q
wrote “God Bless America”
A
Irving Berlin
25
this time period was considered _________
Golden Age of Radio
26
motion picture production code
Hays Code
27
removed the "lame duck" sessions of Congress
Twentieth Amendment
28
name for FDR's closest advisors
Brain Trust
29
economist that was the most notable Brain Trust member
John Maynard Keynes ("Keynesian Economics")
30
Franklin Roosevelt's three R's to fix the economy
relief, recovery, reform
31
rush to withdraw money
bank runs
32
temporary closing down of banks
bank holiday
33
gave the president broad power to control banking policies
Emergency Banking Relief Act
34
president who took the country off of the gold standard act
FDR
35
repealed prohibition
Twenty-first Amendment
36
government reduction of the supply of food
Agricultural Adjustment Act
37
erected dams and hydroelectric plants
Tennessee Valley Authority
38
only president to serve more than 2 consecutive terms
FDR
39
date WWII began
September 3, 1939
40
date of the attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
41
date of the D-Day invasion
June 6, 1944
42
date of V-E Day
May 8, 1945
43
date of V-J Day
September 2, 1945
44
year the United Nations was founded
1945
45
president from 1945-1953
Harry S. Truman
46
reasons for WWII
1. disarmament failures (Geneva Disarmament Conference)
2. tension from Germany's war debt
3. competition for empires and resources
4. extreme nationalism
5. religious unbelief
47
became dictator of Communist Russia in 1927
Joseph Stalin
48
Stalin's plans to make Russia a modern industrial and military state
Five-Year Plans
49
collecting of private farms into large collective farms managed by the state
collectivization
50
Fascist dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
51
a form of socialism that allows for complete control of a group of people but allows for some private enterprise
Fascism
52
Hitler's autobiography describing his philosophies
Mein Kampf ("my struggle")
53
Hitler's new government of which he was der Fuhrer (the leader)
Third Reich
54
Japan's government was ________
militarism
55
warrior class whose tradition the Japanese sought to implement
samurai
56
Japan invaded _______ in China for natural resources before the war began
Manchuria
57
Fascist general who led in the Spanish Civil War
Francisco Franco
58
Germany, Japan, and Italy formed the _________
Axis Powers
59
led the Nationalist Chinese
Chiang Kai-Shek
60
led the Communist Chinese
Mao Zedong
61
leader of the Flying Tigers
Claire Chenault
62
Neville Chamberlain signed the ________ agreeing to Hitler's demand of the Sudetenland
Munich Pact
63
German war tactic; "lightning war"
blitzkrieg
64
German fortification across the West to oppose the French Maginot Line
Siegfried Line
65
organized to keep America out of the war
America First Committee
66
secretary of state during WWII
Cordell Hull
67
sitting-down war
sitzkrieg
68
German air force
Luftwaffe
69
head of the Nazi puppet government in Scandinavia
Vidkun Quisling
70
battle where civilian boats from England saved 300,000 Allied soldiers from capture; if Germany won this battle they probably would've won the war
Dunkirk
71
French capital that did not fall under German control
Vichy government
72
led the Free French government
Charles de Gaulle
73
Hitler's plan to conquer Great Britain
Operation Sea Lion
74
prime minister of Great Britain after Chamberlain resigned
Winston Churchill
75
required men between 18 and 65 to register with their local draft boards
Selective Training and Service Act
76
led the Africa Korps to reconquer the territory in Africa that was lost to the British
Erwin Rommel (the Desert Fox)
77
granted FDR powers to sell, lease, lend, or dispose of war materials
Lend-Lease Act
78
US gunboat that the Japanese sunk on the Yangtze River
Panay (the Panay Incident)
79
military leader of Japan
Hideki Tojo
80
Japan invaded _________ and officially severed their relationship with the US
Indochina
81
the US declared war on Japan after the Japanese bombed ________
Pearl Harbor
82
Americans were issued _____ and grew _______ for troops overseas
ration books and victory gardens
83
ships built solely for the purpose of transporting supplies for the war effort
liberty ships
84
women's division of the navy
WAVES
85
symbol of the female working population
Rosie the Riveter
86
supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
87
name for American soldiers
G.I. (Government Issue)
88
Allied invasion of North Africa
Operation Torch
89
________ and ________ defeated the Africa Korps and prepared to invade Italy
General Eisenhower and General Bernard Law Montgomery
90
led the Allied invasion into Italy
George Patton
91
the D-Day invasion stormed the shores of ________
Normandy, France
92
Germany's last major offensive of the war
Battle of the Bulge
93
Tuskegee Institute airmen
Fighting Red Tails
94
three islands Japan attempted to conquer in the spring of 1942
Midway, Wake, and Guam
95
commander sent to the Philippines to help the islands prepare their defenses
Douglas MacArthur
96
march of American prisoners from Bataan and Corregidor to Bataan
Bataan Death March
97
Allied pilot who led the first air raids on Japan
Jimmy Doolittle
98
first battle in world history in which naval ships never saw each other
Battle of the Coral Sea
99
turning point of the war in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
100
helped keep American communications safe from Japanese code breakers
Navajo Code Talkers
101
land forces of America would move form island to island as they progressed to Japanese mainland
island-hopping
102
leader of the naval fleet in the Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
103
the Japanese navy was defeated at the _________
Battle of Leyte Gulf
104
the US air force used ______ and ______ to break the Japanese navy
B-29 bombers and submarines
105
a strategic island necessary for American bombers; conquered with heavy casualties -- almost all of the Japanese on the island were killed
Iwo Jima
106
Japanese suicide airplanes
kamikazes
107
replaced Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain
Clement Attlee
108
called on the Japanese to unconditionally surrender and withdraw to the Japanese mainland
Potsdam Declaration
109
two physicists involved in the Manhattan Project
Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer
110
first atomic bomb was dropped on _______ on August 6, 1945
Hiroshima
111
code name for the invasion on the Japanese mainland
Downfall
112
second atomic bomb was dropped on ________ on August 9, 1945
Nagasaki
113
approximately _______ people were killed during WWII
60 million
114
application of evolutionary natural selection to human society
Social Darwinism
115
most infamous concentration camps
Auschwitz, Dachau, and Treblinka
116
prominent leaders at concentration camps
Herman Goring, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Rudolph Franz Hoss
117
about ______ Jews were murdered during the Holocaust
6 million
118
Nazi war criminals were tried for their crimes in ________ after WWII
Nuremberg, Germany
119
Japanese officials were tried in ________ for their war crimes
Tokyo, Japan
120
the Big Three are __1__ and they met in __2__ for their first conference
1. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
2. Tehran, Persia
121
in the __________ Conference, Roosevelt gave large concessions to Stalin (parts of Europe)
Yalta
122
site of the last of the wartime conferences; issued a declaration to settle the fate (division) of Germany
Potsdam Conference
123
conflict of opposing ideologies
Cold War
124
international body (of nearly every nation) that attempted to promote world peace
United Nations
125
the charter for the United Nations was drafted in _______
San Francisco
126
representatives from all member nations in the UN
General Assemby
127
granted veto power to stop an action in the UN
Security Council
128
run by a secretary general to handle administrative work within the UN
Secretariat
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test 1178
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chapter 656
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notes88
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speech16
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test 3310
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chapter 950
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chapter 1373
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