World War I And Ii Study Guide

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Recession

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Generally the two biggest factors are rising unemployment and wages stagnate.

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Depression

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When you feel all alone and you feel like no ones around to help you

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Stock Market

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Where you buy and sell securities

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Prosperity of the 1920's

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Technology such as washing machines, radios, and vacuums gave many Americans leisure time. At this time movie theaters opened, Jazz was popular, and Actors performed in theaters

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Buying "on margin"

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Buying on margin is borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock

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Installment Buying

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Purchasing a commodity, an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service, over a period of time. The buyer gains the use of the commodity, immediately and then pays for it in periodic payments

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Herbert Hoover

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A. ?

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Herbert Hoover

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B. 31st President

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Herbert Hoover

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C. ?

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Hooverilles

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A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s

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Soup Kitchens / Bread Lines

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Soup Kitchens: a place where food is offered free or at very low cost to the needy
Bread Lines: read lines were basically what we call soup kitchens now. They are free meals for homeless people.

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Dust Bowl

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Region reduced to aridity by drought and dust storms.

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FDR

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A. New Deal

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FDR

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B. 26th President

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First 100 Days

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It was the first 100 days during the Great Depression. Extreme legislative action due to the "New Deal" and other large bills were being passed

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Bank Holiday

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A day on which banks are legally closed.

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Fireside Chats

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A Presidential address to the nation characterized by a warm, intimate, and informal tone. It is designed to build confidence in the President's policies. The tradition of the fireside chat was begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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New Deal

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The set of programs and policies designed to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC)

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The CCC was a public work relief program in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. The CCC was designed to provide employment for young men in relief families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression

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Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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The largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. It fed children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing.

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Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)

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Restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby a portion of their fields lie fallow.

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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A federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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A United States government corporation created by the Glass–Steagall Act. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks.

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Social Security Act (SSA)

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The act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children.

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Court Packing

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent to Congress a bill to change the composition of the federal judiciary. The Court-Packing bill was FDR's attempt to expand the membership of the Supreme Court so that he could nominate justices who would uphold the constitutionality of New Deal legislation.

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Fascism

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A system of government with the authority under a dictator, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

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Treaty of Versailles

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Blamed Germany for all of World War 1, Germany had to pay a LARGE fine, lost their army and some of their land

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Appeasement

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The policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace.

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Pearl Harbor

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More than 300 planes took off from the Japanese carriers, dropping the first bombs on Pearl Harbor

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Destroyers for Bases

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The U.S. transfer of 50 old destroyers geven to Britain in exchange for the use of eight British Atlantic bases.

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Lend Lease

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This act ended the pretense of its neutrality.

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D-Day

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Allied forces invaded Normandy in World War 2

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Holocaust

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The Nazi program of exterminating Jews, also known as the Final Solution

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Midway Island

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Major World War II naval battle between the U.S. and Japan. U.S. intelligence had broken the Japanese naval code, and the U.S. prepared for the assault by mobilizing about 115 land-based aircraft as well as three aircraft carriers.

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Okinawa

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An island in the western Pacific Ocean southwest of Japan. In World War II Okinawa, the largest island in the group, was the scene of fierce combat between the Japanese and U.S. Army and Marine forces

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Manhattan Project

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A United States project which developed the atomic energy program, with special reference to the atomic bomb.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki represents the most important and most sinister development in warfare in the 20th century. Scientists in Britain and the USA were rapidly developing the technology that would lead to an atomic weapon.