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79 Cards in this Set
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Major Causes of Great Depression
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Drought conditions (Dust Bowl)
Stock Market Crash of 1929 American Economic policy with Europe Americans reduction in purchasing |
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Dust Bowl
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Dever drought caused huge dust winds
no crop rotation= no natural anchors caused unemployment, debts, and farmers must sell many people moved to cities gov taught better farming techniques |
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Stock Market Crash
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1929 everyone was involved in market
getting $ from banks to invest=debt Bought on margin stock speculation= looking for quick hit caused bank and business failure |
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FDR
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in wheelchair but very politically appealing
NY governor Heavy state spending to relieve human suffering rich="he was traitor to his class" |
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Three R's
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Recovery
Relief Reform |
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FDR Presidency goals
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3 Rs
Bank holiday in March Democratic congress for 100 days of remedial legislation passed NEW DEAL inflation to relieve debtors burden |
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New Deal
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Short range goals: Relief and immediate recovery
Long range: Permanant revobery and reform |
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Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933
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Gave pres power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks
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Fireside Chats
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radio talks to give confidence in banks
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Harry L Hopkins
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Head of Federal Emergency Relief Act = 1st effort to deal with unemployment granting $3 bill to states for relief of adult unemployment and their families
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Dr. Francis E Townsend
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plan for senior citizens over 60 to receive $200 to spend
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CCC
Civil Consercation Corps |
economic relieve, rehabilitation, and training for 3 million men (get kids out of trouble and work) in rural areas
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What was first direct-relief operation under the New Deal?
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FERA
Federal Emergency Relief Administration |
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AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act |
Pay farmers to reduce crop area to regulate market and farming stability
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HOLC
Home Owners Loan Corporation |
Refinance homes to prevent foreclosure
extend short loans to long term |
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CWA
Civil Works Administration |
Create jobs for millions of unemployed
Temporary jobs for duration of hard winter |
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WPA
Works Progress Administration |
Largest New Deal agency
Employing millions to carry out public works projects |
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NRA
National Recovery Administration |
Allowed industries to create codes of fair competeion intended to reduce destructive competition and help workers get minimum wages and max hours
BLUE EAGLE |
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TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority |
Providing navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in Tennessee valley
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PWA
Public Works Administration |
construction of large scale public works to provide emloyment , stabilize purchasing power, and contribute to a revival of American Industry
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SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission |
enforcing federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry and nations stock and options exchanges and other electronic securities markets
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Huey Long
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senator of Louisiana socialist
Share our wealth making every man a king every family to recieve $5,000 |
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Father Coughlin
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michigan catholic priest
radio broadcasting in 30 "social justice" anti-New Deal became anti-semetic and was taken off in 42 |
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Bonus Army
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WWI vets stormed D.C. demanding full bonus for war
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Douglas MacAurthur
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Lead army fighting against Bonus army
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Lend-lease
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WWII after France fell U.S. sending them weapons
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Smith-Connally
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authorized government to seize and operate tied-up industries
strikes against any government operated industry were made a criminal offense gov took over coal mines and railroads |
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Zoot Suit Riots
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In south riots against mexicans
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WWII War Labor Board
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imposed ceilings on wage increases
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WWAC
WAVES SPARS |
women in army
women in navy women in coast gaurd |
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braceros
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mexican workers brought across to work during WWII
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General Douglas MacArthur
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egotistical American commander in Philippines
ordered by washington to depart secretly for australia Won in australia |
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Midway Battle
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US victory on Midway Island halted Japan and took initiative in the Pacific
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New Fight Strategy
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Leap frogging : bypassing heavily fortified Japanese posts and capturig nearby islands, setting up airfields on them, and neutralizing the enemy bases thru heavy bombing WORKED
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What lead to increased take downs of germ uboat submarines?
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breaking the Enigma codes
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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lead an ally assault on french-held north africa
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Unconditional surrender
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Churchill and FDR agreed upon
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Teheran
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Churchill FDR and Stalin met
agreed on launching soviet attacks on Germany from East along with Allied assault from west of France |
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D-Day
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French Normandy June 6 1944
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1944 Republican nominee
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Thomas E Dewy gov of NY
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German Attack on the Ardennes Forest
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101st airborne division stood firm under General A.C. McAuliffe
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Japanese surrender on August 14 1945 with what condition?
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Hirohito remain on his throne
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Taft-Hartly Act
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outlawed the closed shop and made unions liable for damages that resulted form jurisdictional disputes among themselves and leaders had to take noncommunist oath
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Servicemen's readjustment Act of 1944
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sent vets to school and help buy homes
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Levittown
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is in NY home construction developments in suburbs
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white flight
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whites move to suburbs in northeast and midwest leaving inner cities black brown and broke
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1st pres without college degree?
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Truman
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Big Three Conference
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At Yalta Stalin Churchill and Roosevelt met and divided up germany and other land giving then free election and created United Nations and Stalin promised to attack Japan within 3 months
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Western Ally meeting at Bretton WOods, New Hampshire
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International Monetary FUnd to encourage world trade by regulating currency exchange rates and INternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development to promote economic growth in war torn areas
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United Nations
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US, Britain, USSR, France, And China bringing benefits to people all over the world
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Nuramberg War Crime trials
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22 Nazi leaders tried
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German Division
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West Germ became own country
East became independent satellite state bound to the soviet union |
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George Keenan
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containment doctrine -- thought russia was relentlessly expansionary "get tought with russia"
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Truman Doctrine
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1947 $400 mill to bolster Greece and TUrkey to support free people who are resisting attempts of outside forces
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Marshall Plann
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1948 $12.5 billion over 4 years in 16 cooperating countries
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National Security Act created....
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Department of Defense
National Security Council to advise the president on security matters Central Intelligence Agency to coordinate the govs foreign fact-gathering |
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North Atlantic Treaty
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1949 an attack on one as an attack on all and promise to respond with armed forces if necessary
Britian France Belgium Netherlands and Luxembourg |
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Who lead the democratization of Japan
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General Douglas MacArthur
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Dennis V US
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1949 11 communists charged
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NSC-68
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US should quadruple its defense spending (Korea War)
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Why was MacArthur fired?
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Wanted to blockade the Chineses coast and WIN but Truman thought was too much
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What position did Bobby Kennedy hold?
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Attorney General
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How did Kennedy want to simulate the economy?
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Slash taxes and put more money directly into private hands
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Alliance for Progress
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Marchall Plan for Latin America to close gap between rich and poor
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Ink for Jack
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Kennedy signing for civil rights protest because of the slowness
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James Meredith
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Ole Miss he attempted to register so Kennedy sent hundrest of marshals and troops to enroll him
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Tonkin Gulf
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two american destroyers allegedly were fired upon by North Vietnam
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LBJ great society program
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aid to edu
medical care for elderly and indigent immigration reform new voting rights bill |
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Medicare
Medicaid |
elderly
poor health insurance |
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24th Amendment
voting rights act of 1965 |
Abolished poll tax in federal elections
outlawed literacy tests |
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Watts
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LA riot killing 31 blacks and 3 whites after Johnson signed voting law
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Tet Offensive
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Viet Cong mounted savage attacks on 27 south vietnamese cities showed victory could be not gained by Jonsons strategy of gradual escalation
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60s upheavals 3 ps
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youthful population bulge
protest against racism vietnam war apparent permanence of prosperity |
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Joseph McCarthy
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repub senator of wisconsin
during cold war claimed large numbers of communists spies in US but led him to be censured by US McCarthyism- anti-communist activites |
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Dien Bien Phu
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French before WWII loose VIetnam to Japan
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Operation Rolling THunder
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North Vietnam carpet bombing into submission
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containment
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hold back communist forces
STEP 1 |
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flexible response
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the capability to respond to aggression across the spectrum of warfare, not limited only to nuclear arms.
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Detente
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thawing relations
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