American History Wwii

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International agreement that made war illegal

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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Violent activities of leftists that created a temporary panic

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Red Scare

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Reducing German reparations and encouraged lending by private American institutions

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Dawes Plan

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Harding awarded oil rights to two friends and received sizable "loans" in return

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The Teapot Dome Scandal

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The general theme of American foreign policy in the 1920's

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isolationism

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President associated with the depression that he inherited far better than any form of government handout

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Herbert Hoover

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Person known for:

evolutionary theory

communism

theory of relativity

sexual disturbances explained emotional problems later in life

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evolutionary theory - Darwin

communism - Carl Marx

theory of relativity - Einstein

sexual disturbances explained emotional problems later in life - Sigmund Freud

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Belief of Bible-believing Christians that there are certain doctrines which no one can deny and be a Christian.

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Fundamentalism

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The high school teacher who challenged the law banning the teaching of evolution in Tennessee

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John T. Scopes

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Person who defended the law banning the teaching of evolution

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William Jennings Bryan

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The bottom fell out of the market and the result was a stock market crash

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Black Tuesday

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A stock market characterized by rising prices and optimism

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Bull Market

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Buying on credit and making monthly payments until the item is paid off

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installment plans

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Buying something at a lower price and selling it for a higher price

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speculation

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Buying stock at thirty to fifty per cent of the purchase price and financing the remaining amount with borrowed money

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"on the margin"

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Tariff that pushed tariffs to their highest level and closed foreign trade

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Hawley-Smoot tariff

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A group of unemployed World War 1 veterans that built a shantytown on the edge of Washington, D.C. to ask for an early payment of the bonus promised them.

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Bonus Army

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Franklin Roosevelt's pledge to conquer the depression

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"New Deal"

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Laws passed took the nation off the gold standard and instituted many programs included the CCC, PWA, AAA, and the TVA increasing the steps toward nationalization of industry.

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Social Security Act

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Axis countries and their leaders

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Italy - Mussolini

Germany - Adolph Hitler

Japan - Tojo

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Allied countries and their leaders

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United States - Roosevelt

Great Britain - Winston Churchill

Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin

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Reasons to remain neutral and the act by Congress to insure it

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Event that caused the United States to enter WWII on the side of the Allies

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Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

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French port where French and English forces were rescued by boats

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Dunkirk

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Battle that took place in the skies over England and the English Channel

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Battle of Britain

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Code name for the German attack on the cities of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad

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Barbarossa

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American forces in the Far East were placed under this general's command

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Douglas McArthur

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American forces were forced to withdraw from the Philippines to a Peninsula and eventually surrendered to the Japanese.

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Fall of the Philippines

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This was a critical battle - the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

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Battle of Midway

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German and Italian tanks were caught in the middle of Eisenhower's troops from the west and Montgomery's troops from the east.

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Operation Torch

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Commander in Chief of the Allied forces

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General Eisenhower

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The invasion of Italy began with the capture of Sicily and then moved to the mainland to defeat the Italian and German armies

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Operation Husky

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This was an amphibious assault on the Normandy coast of France by the Americans

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D-Day

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Hitler's counteroffensive out of Belgium's Ardennes Forest in an attempt to cut the Allied forces in two

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Battle of the Bulge

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Killing of Jews and many other groups of people by the Nazis during WWII

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Holocaust

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Fighting only on the islands necessary to get to the goal of Japan

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island hopping

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Japanese pilots assigned to fly suicide missioned during WWII

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kamikaze

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Allied forces met here to decide the fate of Axis nations

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Yalta

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Events caused the Japanese to surrender

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki