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27 Cards in this Set
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Who was president when the great depression began?
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Herbert Hoover
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What does the phrase "Hundred Days" refer to?
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The first 100 days of FDR's presidency
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What was president Roosevelt's first bold action during the Hundred Days?
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"Bank Holiday", when the stock market crashed, and banks were corrupted.
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Who was senator Huey Long?
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Senator of Louisiana, "every man a kind", $5,000/family.
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What brought an end to the Great Depression?
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WWII
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What were the causes of the Great Depression?
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stock market crashed, over production, and under consumption.
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What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act do?
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government payed $ to farmers to not farm because the market was over producing food.
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What did theTVA do? It was seen as a threat to what?
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Provide electricity to people. Critics says it was an example of "creeping socialism".
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How did the Social Security act provide security for Americans? What did it provide?
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Unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, economic provisions for the blind + disabled support.
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what were some causes of the dust bowl?
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soil erosion, drought, dry farming techniques, cultivation of marginal farmlands.
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How did the Dust Bowl affect farmers? where did most go?
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Forced to leave their farmlands. Moved from OK to CA to seek for new jobs.
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What did the court begin to do after FDR's court-packing attempt?
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Supreme court starts to support FDR's new deal.
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The fundamental American strategic decision of WWII was to?
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To concentrate on Europe first and then put Japan in the Pacific on the back-burner.
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What caused Americans to enter WWII?
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Pearl Harbor.
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In what battle did the US destroy four Japanese aircraft carriers? What battle as the turning point in the Pacific War?
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Battle of Midway.
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In waging war against Japan, the US relied mainly on a strategy of?
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Island hopping.
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What events in August 1945 led the Japanese to surrender?
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The Atomic bomb.
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Who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
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President Harry Truman.
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Why were Japanese Americans placed in concentration camps during WWII?
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because Americans were feared of Japanese.
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Why was June 6,1944 important? Who commanded the cross channel invasion of Normandy to open a second front in Europe?
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D-Day. Dwight Eisenhower.
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What happened at the Potsdam conference?
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Issued an ultimate to Japan, surrender or destroy.
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What were the causes of the Cold War?
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Conflict of Eastern Europe.
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The origins of the Cold War lay in a fundamental disagreement between the US and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in?
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Eastern Europe.
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Who tlaked about an "iron curtain" across Eastern Europe?
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Winston Churchill.
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What was containment? It was based on the idea that the Soviet Union was expansionist but what else?
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A coherent policy approach formed by soviet specialist George F. Kennan in the Cold War.
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
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Threat of communist takeover in Turkey and Greece.
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What was the Marshall Plan?
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The financial assistance to build Western Europe.
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