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us history words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Business Cycle | economic wide fluctuations in production, trade, and general economic activity |
| Dust Bowl | where a combination of drought and soil erosion created enormous dust storms |
| Stock Market Crash | sudden dramatic decline of stock prices. Stock market resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth |
| What were the causes of the Great Depression? | people buying on credits and not paying later |
| How did the Great Depression affect businesses, banks, farmers, urban workers, families? | businesses lost money, banks closed down, farmers cant sell crops, urban workers lost jobs, families are homeless |
| Hooverilles | was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the US he was widely blamed |
| Bonus Army | to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924 |
| Compare Hoover's and FDR responses to the Great Depression. | Hoover would hope it would blow over. FDR made a plan to fix it |
| New Deal | FDR's programs was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression |
| FERA | The Federal Emergency Relief Administration- |
| CCC | The Civilian Conservation Corps- gave jobs to young unmarried men and men walking around the streets |
| WPA | The Works Progress Administration- employing millions of people mostly unskilled men |
| AAA | The Agricultural Adjustment Act- designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses |
| NIRA | The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933- regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery |
| HOLC | The Home Owners' Loan Corporation- |
| TVA | The Tennessee Valley Authority- to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing |
| FDIC | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation- insuring deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts in the event of bank failures |
| SEC | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission- independent federal government agency responsible for protecting investors |
| Wagner Act | is a foundational statute of United States labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees |
| Social Security | include retirement income, disability income, Medicare and Medicaid, and death and survivorship benefits |
| Dust Bowl | where a combination of drought and soil erosion created enormous dust storms in the 1930s |
| Indian Reorganization Act | the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. |
| Schechter v. US (1935) | authorized the President to approve “codes of fair competition” for the poultry industry and other industries. |
| What was FDR's court packing scheme? | was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| Planned deficit spending (Keybesian economics) | to moderate or end a recession, especially a severe one. ... Similarly, running a government surplus or reducing its deficit |
| What were arguments for and against the New Deal? | for: helped nations grow against: putting us in dept |
| What were the causes of World War II? | Japanese militarism, and especially the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler |
| What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts? | to not get involved in any war |
| What was the Lend-Lease Act? | was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II |
| Who did the US support in the war? Why did the US enter the war? When did this event occur? | the us helped all allied powers in the war. the us enter the war because of the bombing of pearl harbor. December 7, 1941 |
| How did the war affect woman? African Americans? Native Americans? Mexican Americans? | they had to work in factories to produce weapons for the men in war |
| What was Executive Order 9066? Why was it controversial? | The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas. |
| Korematsu v. US | which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. |
| What did the government encourage Americans to do help with the war effort? | donate all the metal rudder and anything they can find so it can be made into things for the war |
| Tehran, 1943, and "D-Day" | D-Day:was the largest air, land, and sea invasion in history Tehran, 1943: first ww2 conferences of the three Allied leader |
| Where did the US first invade Japan? Why was President Truman reluctant to conduct a land invasion of Japan? | in japan. because it might start ww2. 1 million soldiers were at risk |
| What was the Manhattan Project? | process of creating the atom bomb |
| On what two cities did the US drop the atomic bombs? | Hiroshima, Nagasaki |
| What were the Nuremberg trials? What precedent did they set? | presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. fear |
| What is the United Nations? What is its purpose? | when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. |
| What was the purpose of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights? | give all democrats there natural rights they deserve |
| How did World War II set the stage for the Cold War? | it set tension between the super powers |
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