World History Test (Ww2)

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What were the causes of the Great Depression?

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1) Market saturation of consumer goods (everyone who wanted one had one; no more buyers)
2) Too much credit, too easy
3)Many investors in stock market.
4)unequal distribution of wealth
5)agricultural decline that began in the 1920's

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Black thursday (define and date)

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October 24, 1929

People lost everything, unlike today there was nothing to fall back on like welfare.

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Herbert hoover

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1) elected nov. 1928
2)believed in rugged individualism

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Bonus March

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Before the stock crash, U.S. promised a bonus to soldiers
Marched to washington to demand their money. stayed in tenets, became known as Hoovervilles.
Hoover sent the army to dismantle the hoovervilles.

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Emergency banking Act

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Signed on FDR's innauguration day; caused all the banks in the U.S. to close.
They would stay closed until federal auditors certified they were sound

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New Deal

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in 100 days, FDR proposed 15 new laws and Congress passed all of them.

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Tennesse Valley Authority

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Applied to the most impovershed area in the U.S.

Goals:
1) To stop flooding to imporve crop growth. Built dams, which provided jobs and electricity
2)to provide electricity to encourage industrial development

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NRA

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"National recovery act"

Relief, recovery, reform

the cornerstone of industrial recovery

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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(1934; AAA)

Payed farmers NOT to grow crops in order to regulate goods to prevent a surplus.

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WPA

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(works progress administration)

Provided jobs to musicians, artists, authors

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Social Security

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passed in 1935: "old Person Insurance" To make sure an old person was not destitute

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Huey Long

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Built LSU, was "of the people" (from a poor family unlike Roosevelt) His plan called "Every Man A King". Claimed gov't would pay $2,500 and a car to poor families by taxing the rich. Murderred on the steps of the L.A. state capital by his Dr.

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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Supported by Mrs. Roosevelt; agricultural jobs excluded from social security and other programs; blacks thus excluded

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1936 election

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Roosevelt won election by a landslide

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Court Packing Scheme

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Proposed to increase the amount of supreme court judges from 9 to 15

Congress didn't pass the law; it was Roosevelt's first major legislative defeat

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Benefits of the New Deal

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Although WW2 brought the depression to an end, the New Deal still saved lives.
Gained public confidence in the U.S. gov't
Gave advantages to organized labor
Helped to hold off a revolution in the U.S.

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John L. Lewis

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Founded the Congress of Industrial Organizations. It was an organization of unskilled labor unions.

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Wagner act

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"National Labor Relations At" - gave some power to labor unions. Established the national labor relations Board, which mediates disputes between workers and management. Before the NLRB, the only option available to workers was striking. NLRB allowed workers to take their case to an unbiased court to settle things.

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WW2 began....

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Sept. 1st,1939

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Washington Conference

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For Allied nations (from WW1) to agree to limit the devcelopment of naval arms. Japan "technically" complied, but they were building up their troops.

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The Kellog-Briand Act

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Those who signed it agreed not to use War as instrument of national policy.

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The Kellog-Briand act and Wasington Conference were both _______________
_____________during the ___________.

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Meant to promote World Peace ; Inter-War period

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Japanese conflict w/ China

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Japan had always been an Ally. Before the first world war, there was a revolution in Japan. The new governement there was evil, and the U.S. decided to "wait and see" about what they did. In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria. League of nations did nothing, nor did the U.S. in 1937, Japan invaded China which worried many.

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Fascism

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Dictator ran government in which one political party is allowed

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USSR

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"Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"

After 1933, that was Russia's name, Stalin dictator of USSR (communist)

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Neutrality Act

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(1935) Arms embargo (refusal to sell) on any side in a conflict.

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Cash and Carry law

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(1937)

U.S. could sell to any country as long as they paid cash and traveled to U.S. to pick up goods

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America First Commitee

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Inspired American isolationism

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Axis Powers

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Germany -Leader: Hitler
Italy- Leader: Mussolini
Japan- Tojo (prime minister that planned attack on pearl harbor)

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World War 2 began.....

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Sept. 1st, 1939

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Lend Lease Law

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Congress passed it in January of 1941

This law allowed the U.S. to provide supplies to lend/lease supplies to any country whose defense was vital to American Security.

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August of 1939

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Soviet Union agreed not to inerfere with Germany 's invasion of Poland.
A week later ,Germany ddi just that.
THen Germany tried to take ove USSR
We extended the lend-lease law to USSR, despite them being communist.

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Dec. 7, 1941

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Pearl harbor

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What was the strategy of the Allies to defeat the Axis Powers via the European theater ?

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Gain control of north africa
invade continent via Europe's soft underbelly
Proceed toward the heart of Germany
Attack from the West.

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What was the strategy of the Allies to defeat the Axis Powers via the Pacific Theater?

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"Island hopping" towards Japan

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Battle of Coral Sea

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Major victory over Japan in the summer of 1942; after this triumph, allies began island hopping strategy

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Battle of Midway

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Naval batle fought by airplanes. Allies inflicted severe damage to the Japanese