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21 Cards in this Set
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Analogous to Ellis Island only on the west coast and used for immigrants from Asia.
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Angel Island
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The policy of _____________, embraced in vain by Great Britain and France in the 1930s, was ultimately a failed plan for peace with Germany and led to WWII
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Appeasement
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Weapons used for war.
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Arms
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All the weapons and equipment that a country has.
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Arsenal
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Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
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Axis Powers
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A type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century and has a melancholy sound.
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Blues
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Using a portion of existing securities in a person's account as collateral to purchase more securities on credit.
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Buying on margin
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An economic theory which stresses that the control of the means of producing economic goods in a society should reside in the hands of the government.
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Communism
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A ruler who is not restricted by a constitution, laws or any opposition.
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Dictator
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A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American during the Depression years of the 1930s.
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Dust Bowl
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, a democrat, ran against Herbert Hoover, a Republican, During the Depression.
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Presidential Election of 1932.
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An order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports. This tactic has been used to raise the price of oil by reducing supply.
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Embargo
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A political philosophy that teaches nation and race are above the individual and promotes an autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. The type of government in Italy in 1930s and 40s.
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Fascism
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His was the leader after The Spanish Civil War which began in July 1936 and officially ended with his victory in April 1939, leaving about 500,000 dead.
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Francisco Franco
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A movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles; Islamic ____________ , political ____________, Christian ____________.
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Fundamentalism
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Marked the Beginning of the Great Depression.
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Stock Market Crash of 1929
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_____________ was the movement of approximately seven million African-Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930.
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Great Migration
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___________ refers to the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons.
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Disarmament
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A huge worldwide economic downturn starting in in 1929 and ending around the early 1940s
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Great Depression
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Nazi Leader in Germany during WWII.
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Adolph Hitler
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This was a concept created during the 1930s and promulgated during the Shōwa era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan which represented the desire to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers"
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Greater East Asia Company Prosperity Sphere
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