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69 Cards in this Set
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reasons the depression was so bad
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buying on credit, government interference, the desire to get rich fast
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believed that families, churches, and charities should provide relief to the needy without government assistance
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President Hoover
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small monthly payments
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installment buying
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supply of unsold goods
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inventory
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when is Black Tuesday
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October 29, 1929
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the great Humanitarian
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President Hoover
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the land where the Dust Bowl hit
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Great Plains
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a private charity that provided relief for farm families; were offered a chance to receive government assistance but declined it
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American Red Cross
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wrote the Grapes of wrath
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John Steinbeck
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Roosevelt's plan for economic recovery
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New Deal
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the "comforting" speeches President Roosevelt gave over the radio
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fireside chats
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Roosevelt based his New Deal on the ideas of a socialist economist from Great Britain
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John Keynes
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the idea of the government spending more money than received from taxpayers
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deficit
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legalized the sale of alcohol repealing the 18th amendment
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21st Ammedent
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a government spending and job program
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the New Deal
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program to control flooding, conserve soil, and bring hydroelectric power to the mid-south
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Tenessee Valley authority
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the government paid farmers not to plant crops or graze livestock on pasture land
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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in which the government attempted to control wages and prices and to limit competition among businesses
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National Recovery Administration
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insisted that people work before they receive government money
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Work Progress Administration
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a government fund established a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance
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Social Security Act
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the gangster who was finally caught and sent to prison for not paying his taxes
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Al Capone
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the first woman pilot to fly her airplane across the Atlantic Ocean
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Amelia Earhart
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law that allowed a person to work no more than 40 hours a week
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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the Fascist leader of Italy
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Benito Mussolini
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the military alliance that Mussolini and Hitler formed
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Axis Powers
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the Nazi leader of Germany
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Adolf Hitler
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black American track and field runner who won four gold medals proving that Germans were not superior
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Jesse Owens
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when Hitler murdered over 6 million Jews
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Holocaust
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the dictator of the Soviet Union's pact made when he joined the Axis Powers
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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the invasion of Poland the world's first experience of this; German word for lightning war
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blitzkrieg
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appealed to America for help
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Winston Churchill
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also known as the Battle of Britain
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London "Blitz"
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allowed the Allies to purchase American weapons and food
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Lend-Lease Act
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when Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Russia
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June 22, 1941
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laid the foundation for the formation of the United Nations
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Atlantic Charter
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the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor causing the declaration of war was on----
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Deccember 7 1941
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worked to produce one B-24 Liberator bomber every hour
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Henry Ford
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built the "Liberty ships"
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Henry Kaiser
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the nickname for the woman who took over the soldiers places in the factories
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"Rosie the Riveter"
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the woman's branch of the navy
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WAVES
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Allied commander in Europe
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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nickname for the average American soldier
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GI
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German tanks
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panzers
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known as the desert fox
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Erwin Rommel
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second generation Japanese-Americans
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Nisei
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the leader who led bravely led his troops in the Philippines; promised to return to help imprisoned soldiers after being forced to surrender
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General Douglas MacArthur
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the march of the soldiers remembered for the brutal murder of those who could no longer walk
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"Bataan Death March"
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the first naval battle in which the enemy ships never saw each other
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Battle of Coral Sea
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the method used by the Americans of occupying one island while planning to overtake the next one moving towards Japan
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island hopping
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the unwritten tribal language the Americans used that the Japanese were ever able to figure out during the war
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Navajo Indian language
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on which was launched the largest amphibious assault in history
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Normandy, France
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the hard-fighting group of black jet fighters lead by Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
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Fighting Red Tails
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the last great attempt at victory the German's launched in the West
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The Battle of the Bulge
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the day in which Germany surrendered known as V-E day
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May 7 1945
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suicide planes loaded with explosives
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kamikazes
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America's needed attempt at finalizing the war
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the atomic bomb
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largest research and scientific project of the day
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Manhattan Project
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when the Japanese surrendered; known as V-J day
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September 2, 1945
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the biggest mass murder in history
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Stalin
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conflict between the ideologies of Americanism and Communism
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Cold War
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pledged America's help for any free nation threatened by the Communist take-over plan
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Truman doctrine
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plan to rebuild Europe
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Marshall Plan
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weakened the "jaws" of the labor unions
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Taft-Hartley Act
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the first candidate to campaign by going to each individual part of the nation-going to the people not waiting for the people to come-
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Truman
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Truman's version of the New Deal
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Fair Deal
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greatest airlift in history
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Berlin aircraft
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adopted socialist policies
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United Nations
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country dedicated to be a haven for the Jews
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Israel
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committed American troops to stay on defensive and simply keep Communism from spreading
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containment
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