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41 Cards in this Set
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what was the govts. focus during 1920s |
business |
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what groups struggled the most? |
farmers |
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what exemplified prosperity of the 1920s |
ownership of cars and other appliances |
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what was the red scare |
widespread fear of communists immigrating into america |
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who were the flappers? |
wore makeup and dresses daringly short |
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what were the flappers goals |
social freedom |
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did everyone support the prosperity of the 20s? |
no |
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what was the conservatives reaction to the 1920s |
destroyed a way of life |
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when did the stock market crash? |
oct. 29th 1929 |
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reasons why the stock market crashed |
people take out money; people arent making money; businesses sell stuff cheaper and value decreases |
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reasons for depression? |
demand for low durable goods; imbalance between supply/demand; wages not kept up w growing prices; FR didnt increase money supply |
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statistics of depression |
26355 businesses failed 1930 4 million unemployed 1930 12 million 1932 |
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what president got the blame for depression |
herbert hoover |
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what did herbert call for Americans to have |
hoover flags blankets villes |
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how did americans blame hoover |
rugged individualism |
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FDIC |
federal deposit insurance corporation |
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what does fdic do? |
insures bank against failure |
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AAA |
agriculture adjustment administration |
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what does aaa do? |
paid farmers to reduce crops |
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TVA |
tennessee river valley authority |
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what does tva do? |
poor farm area to rich productive area |
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what is significant to tva |
most successful programs in the new deal |
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SSA |
social security association |
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what does ssa do |
created national system of pensions for the elderly |
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impacts of new deal |
-fdr proved a democratic republic could survive a sever crisis w/o dictatorship -increased size and scape of the federal -effect on govt. economy in society -old age security |
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allies |
us, great britain, soviet |
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axis |
germany, italy, japan |
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us policy prior to ww2 |
stay neutral; trade benefit w both sides |
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german action began ww2 |
germany invades poland |
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what action caused america to enter ww2 |
pearl harbor |
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how did america mobilize war on the homefront |
war production |
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lend lease act 1941 |
authority to sell exchange lend or lease war materials to any country whose defense he declared vital to defense of US |
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cash and carry policy |
allowed us to sell arms to alloes as long as they paid cash & transported materials on own ships |
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operation torch |
proposed by churchill; plan to invade africa followed by advance into Mediterranean |
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operation overlord |
code name for invasion of normandy *dday |
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how were japanese restricted |
internment camps |
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turning point for americans in pacific against japanese |
battle of midway |
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allied strategy against japanese in pacific |
island hopping |
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how did navajo Americans aid in war effort |
used language as a code |
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main commander europe |
dwight d eisenhower |
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main commander pacific |
general macarthur |
