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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| FDR’s main goals in fighting the depression | relief for needy, economic recovery, and financial reform *reform recovery and relief |
| Years for the Great Depression | 1929-1939 *1930s |
| Causes of the Great Depression | stock market crashes, bank failures, the drought, lack of consumers *drought and dust bowl, overproduction of goods, consumer debt, stock market crash |
| New Deal | a program designed to alleviate the problems of the depression *a series of laws and programs to help end the great depression |
| Shanty Towns | little towns consisting of shacks *hoovervills |
| What event brought an end to the Great Depression? | World War II |
| Roosevelt’s fireside chats impact | the addressed the public's concerns and explained aspects of the new deal and what Roosevelt was trying to do to help *the informal radio broadcasts made FDR seem compassionate and responsive |
| Why did voters vote for Roosevelt over Hoover | they blamed Hoover for the depression due to his lack of action and put their hope in Roosevelt and his new deal *warmth and promise of the new deal |
| Why was the New Deal a turning point in U. S. history? | It changed the government's role in the US and provided more support in the economic downfall of the country * it used government programs to improve the lives of citizens |
| Holocaust | destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war *the violent deaths of a large number of people |
| how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust? | 6 million |
| other groups killed in the holocaust | poles, soviet slavs, soviet POWs, serbs, disabled, romani, freemasons, slovenes, homosexuals, jehovahs witnesses, spanish reublicans *gypsy and homosexuals |
| What religious group was killed by Germans in Concentration Camps? | Jews *Jehovah Witness |
| Under German rule, before Concentration Camps, where were Jews forced to live? | specific areas in German cities called Jewish Houses *ghettos |
| genocide | the deliberate killing of a group of people especially that of a particular ethnic group or nation *killing members of a group and preventing births within the group |
| What happened to Hitler in the end? | he killed himself |
| In addition to the gas chambers, how did Nazi’s kill off the Jews? | cremation, starvation, exhaustion, disease, guns *starvation |
| During the Holocaust, how were families separated? | *men women and children and the elderly were separated from each other |
| Holocaust and annihilation | *gas chambers, gun massacre, beaten to death |
| What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights of German Jews? | *Nuremberg Laws |
| Democracy | *government by the people |
| Fascism | *a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power |
| Blitzkrieg | *a form of a military attack |
| Kamikaze | *Japanese suicide pilots |
| Axis Powers | *Italy, Germany, Japan |
| Why did United States decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs when WWII started? | citizens felt dragged into WWI, citizens felt they should focus on problems at home, and Congress passed laws preventing involvement |
| Pearl Harbor events | pacific fleet crippled, sunday Dec 7 1941, about 3,00 americans were killed |
| Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany? | germany invaded 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? | US is Capitalist |
| Baby Boom | it affected the demographics of US society. it refers to increase of babies born in 1945-1963 because men came home from war |
| Similarities between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War | both had political and economic ideologies, both were completing in the arms and space race, and both formed military alliances |
| Cold War time period | 1945-1991 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | the 1962 confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union that almost escalated into a third world war |
| 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 war |
| How did women help in WWII | *among other things they joined the military worked factories and nurses |
| What kind of policy did Martin L. King, Jr., and other members of SCLC encouraged? | *nonviolent protests |
| Freedom Riders | *they brought about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities |
| Malcolm X | he appealed to many African Americans anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power and preached a militant approach to civil rights |
| Sit-Ins | *Civil rights activists used this technique to force segregated establishments to serve African Americans |
| Civil Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr. | *Many had long been deprived of civil rights and MLKJ's speech during the March on Washington, in August 1963, appealed to African Americans |
| Vietnamization | *President Nixon |
| McCarthyism | *the term given for the mass fear and hysteria about possible communists in the US after WWII |
| The Highway Act of 1956 | *created 41,000 miles of expressways to connect major american cities stimulating the economy, shortening travel time, encouraging urban growth along major travel arteries, and gave us independence |
| 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 have used the scandal to point out the success of the constitution as a living document that applies to all Americans |
| How did Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? | *He didn't want to lose any more american troops by launching a direct land invasion of japan |
| The Manhattan Project | The American development of atomic bomb |
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