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1942B USH final stud
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| question/term | answer/definition |
|---|---|
| FDR's main goals in fighting the Great Depression | To decrease inflation, unemployment, and poverty |
| Years for the Great Depression | 1929-1939 |
| Causes of the Great Depression | Stock market crash, bank failures, drought conditions |
| New Deal | The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-35, in response to the Great Depression. |
| Shantytown | a neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks |
| What event brought an end to the Great Depression? | World War II |
| Roosevelt's fireside chat impact | People found it comforting to listen to Roosevelt's fireside chats in scary and dire times. |
| Why did voters vote for Roosevelt over Hoover? | Because many blamed Hoover for the Great Depression |
| Why was the New Deal a turning point in US history? | Because it launched America into a new era of financial stability |
| Holocaust | The mass Genocide of Jews in Europe during WWII, direct definition is death by fire. |
| How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust? | approx. 6 million |
| Other groups that were killed in the Holocaust | Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses |
| What religious group was killed by Germans in concentration camps? | Jews |
| Under German rule, before concentration camps, where were Jews forced to live? | Ghettos |
| Genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national or religious group |
| What happened to Hitler in the end? | He killed himself. |
| In addition to gas chambers, how did Nazis kill off the Jews? | Crematoriums; they also shot a good many of them and took them on death marches to kill them off. |
| During the Holocaust, how were families separated? | Once a family arrived at a concentration camp, the would send healthy family members to work and then send ones that were too old, young, or unfit for labor in any way straight to the gas chambers. |
| Holocaust and annihilation | The systematic murder - or genocide - of Jews and other groups in Europe by the Nazis before and during WWII/ destroy completely |
| What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights of German Jews? | Nuremberg Laws |
| Democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. |
| Fascism | Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce |
| Blitzkrieg | German Military Strategy |
| Kamikaze | a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. |
| Axis Powers | Axis powers. noun. a group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in World War II, including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The Axis powers were led by Nazi Germany. |
| Why did United States decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs when WWII started? | Because they wanted to stay uninvolved in conflict |
| Pearl Harbor events | Military strike by the Japanese against a naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany? | They declared war on Germany following the invasion on Poland |
| What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII? | Pearl Harbor |
| Under what plan did the U. S. provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism? | Marshall Plan |
| Capitalist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Socialist meanings and which countries follow which ideals? | |
| Baby Boom | a temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II. |
| Similarities between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War | |
| Cold War time period | 1947-1991 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. |
| A state of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without actual fighting | Cold War |
| The war that created divisiveness among Americans throughout the 1960s | Vietnam |
| How did women help in WWII | They worked in factories |
| What kind of policy did Martin L. King, Jr., and other members of SCLC encouraged? | Nonviolent |
| Freedom Riders | Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States |
| Malcolm X | Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. |
| Sit-Ins | a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met. |
| Civil Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr. | Peaceful Protests for equality for blacks; the leader of this movement |
| Vietnamization | the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. |
| McCarthyism | a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government |
| The Highway Act of 1956 | The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways |
| The two nations divided at the 38th parallel | North and South Korea |
| Watergate | The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. |
| How did Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? | He justified it by saying that if we didn't't there would have been more loss of life on both sides |
| The Manhattan Project |
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