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Buying on the margin |
borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock. Margin trading allows you to buy more stock than you'd be able to normally. |
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Stock speculation |
may offer the possibility of substantial returns to compensate for its higher risk profile. High reward high risk |
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Black Tuesday |
Stock market crash |
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Cause and effect of stock market crash |
1920s, there was a rapid growth in bank credit and loans result of various economic imbalances and structural failings. |
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Cause and effect of the great depression |
Overproduction,Laissez Faire policies that left the economy unregulatedFraud,Over speculation on the stock market,Decline in foreign trade. Unemployment 25-35% |
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Bonus Army |
Ww1 veterans, their families, and affiliated groups who gathered in Washington, D.C. of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. |
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Dust bowl |
" Dirty Thirties", was a period of severe dust storms that damaged the agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies in 1930s; drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion |
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Goals and effects of the New Deal |
Get out of the depression, gain trust in the government and banks |
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Franklin Roosevelt fireside chats |
evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady, Franklin Roosevelt wife. |
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CCC |
public work relief program for unemployed,unmarried men from relief families. young men ages 17–28. |
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Social Security Act |
federal piece of legislation enacted as a result of the market crash of 1929 |
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FDIC |
is a US gov. corporation operating as an independent agency created by the Banking Act of 1933 |
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SEC |
protect the public against fraudulent and manipulative practices in the securities markets. |
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Atlantic Charter |
joint declaration released by U.S. Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister.meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims |
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D Day |
Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II |
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Ww2 effects |
, at home rationing |
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Four freedoms |
the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear |
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Isolationism |
keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance. |
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Japanese American internment |
Roosevelt Order the mass incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. 2/3 were American citizens. |
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Lend Lease act |
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II |
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Manhattan Project |
project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II |
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Overall strategy for Ww2 |
Air warfare |
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Pearl Harbor |
surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, December 7, 1941. |
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Strategy for the war in the Pacific |
Island hopping |
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Berlin Airlift |
end of ww2, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany |
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containment |
military strategy stop the expansion of an enemy. Cold War policy of the US and its allies to prevent the spread of communism |
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Desegregation of the military |
Mixed military's black and white, Truman. |
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GI bill |
law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans |
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House an American Activities Committee |
Suspection of unloyal citizens, communist |
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Korean War |
Conflict in communist and non-communist, resulted in dividing Korea |
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Marshall Plan |
aid Europe, in which the United States gave 13 billion in economic support. After ww2 |
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McCarthyism |
campaign against communist Senator Joseph McCarthy. 1950–54. Many accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most wernt Communist Party. |
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