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20 Cards in this Set
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What casued the stock market to crash in 1929?
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More investors sold stocks than bought them, and prices fell sharply.
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When did the Japanese attack the United States at Pearl Harbor?
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December 7,1941
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What was Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression?
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the New Deal
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What new forms of entertainment were popular in the 1920s?
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listening to the radio, playing sports, and going to the movies
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What new technology was used for the first time in World War II?
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antiaircraft weapons, radar, penicillin, sulfa, DDT
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How did the United States help fight communism?
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by giving military and economic help to other countries
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When did World War II begin?
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September 3, 1939
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In what countries did dictators rule after World War I?
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Germany, Italy, Japan, the Soviet Union, and Spain
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What happened during the Great Depression?
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Businesses and banks failed; people lost jobs and became hungry and homeless.
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Why did President Roosevelt order the army to put Japanese Americans in relocation camps?
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Some military officials believed Japanese Americans would help Japan invade the United States.
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What was Hitler's final solution?
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to destroy the Jewish people
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What did the government do to produce war supplies and feed its soldiers?
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set up controls on prices and wages
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What happened on D day?
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The allies invaded Normandy
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
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a time of great interest and activity in the arts among African American writers, musicians and artists
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What was President Roosevelt's Alphabet Soup?
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programs created during the New Deal to put people to work
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Who was Charles Lindbergh?
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the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
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Why did Japan surrender to the United States?
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What led to a boom in the economy in the 1920s?
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consumer goods, advertisements, and installment buying
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What other industries grew in the 1920s?
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rubber, oil, steel, electric power
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How did Henry Ford change the automobile industry?
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He used a moving assembly line to mass-produce cars.
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