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Finals Study Guide
U.S. History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| FDR's main goals in fighting the Great Depression | Reform, Recovery, and Relief |
| Years for the Great Depression | 1930s |
| Causes of the Great Depression | Drought and Dust Bowl; Overproduction of Goods; Consumer Debt; Stock Market Crash |
| New Deal | a series of laws and programs to help end the Great Depression |
| Shanty Towns | Hoovervilles |
| What event brought an end to the Great Depression? | WW1 |
| Roosevelt’s fireside chats impact | informational radio broadcast made by FDR |
| Why did voters vote for Roosevelt over Hoover | promise of the News Deal |
| Why was the New Deal a turning point in U. S. history? | Used government programs to improve citizen's lives |
| Holocaust | large # of violent deaths |
| How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust | 6 million |
| Other groups that were killed during the Holocaust | Gypsy and Homosexuals |
| What religious group was killed by Germans in Concentration Camps? | Jehovah Witness |
| Under German rule, before Concentration Camps, where were Jews forced to live? | Ghettos |
| Genocide | killing of members of a group |
| What happened to Hitler in the end? | He committed suicide |
| In addition to the gas chambers, how did Nazi’s kill off the Jews? | starvation |
| During the Holocaust, how were families separated? | by gender |
| Holocaust and annihilation | gas chambers, starvation, beaten to death, gun massacre |
| What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights of German Jews? | Nuremburg Law |
| Democracy | government by the people |
| Fascism | dictatorship |
| Blitzkrieg | form of military attack |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Why did United States decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs when WWII started? | the citizens felt like they were dragged in and should focus on problems at home |
| Pearl Harbor events | on December 7th, 1941, 3,000 Americans were killed and the Pacific fleet was crippled |
| Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany? | Germany had invaded Poland |
| What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII? | Japan bombed Pearl Harbor |
| Under what plan did the U. S. provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism? | the Marshall Plan |
| Capitalist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Socialist meanings and which countries follow which ideals? | The United Stated were Capitalist |
| Baby Boom | a large number of babies born between the years 1945-1962 |
| Similarities between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War | economic ideology, politics, and competing in arm and space races. |
| Cold War time period | 1945-1991 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 confrontation between U.S. and Soviet Union which almost lead to WW3 |
| A state of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without actual fighting | The Cold War |
| The war that created divisiveness among Americans throughout the 1960s | Vietnam War |
| How did women help in WWII | joined the military, worked workforce in factories, and became nurse |
| What kind of policy did Martin L. King, Jr., and other members of SCLC encouraged? | Nonviolent protest |
| Freedom Riders | Brought federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilites |
| Malcolm X | appealed to many African Americans' anger and frustration over lack of social and economic power and preached militant approach to civil rights |
| Sit-Ins | Civil Right activist used this technique to force segregated businesses to serve African Americans |
| Civil Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr. | had long deprived of civil rights and "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King Jr., during March on Washington August 1963 (appealed to African Americans) |
| Vietnamization | President Nixon |
| McCarthyism | term given for the mass fear and hysteria about possible communists in the United States after WW2 |
| The Highway Act of 1956 | made 41,000 miles of expressways to connect major American cities stimulating American economy, shorter travels, increase in urban growth along major travel |
| The two nations divided at the 38th parallel | North and South Korea |
| Watergate | based on the outcome of the Watergate Investigation and the subsequent resignation of President Nixon many used scandal to point out success of the Constitution as a living document that applies to all Americans |
| How did Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? | He did not want to lose any more American troops by launching direct land invasion of Japan |
| The Manhattan Project | American development of an atomic bomb |
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