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U.S history final
second semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| FDR's main goals in fighting the depression | To restore prosperity to americans |
| Causes of the great depression | The stock market crash, the collapse of world trade, government policies, bank failures and panics, and the collapse of the money supply |
| Years of the great depression | August 1929-March 1933 |
| New Deal | A series of programs and projects instituted during the great depression by president franklin d. roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to americans |
| Shanty towns | A deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings |
| What event brought an end to the great depression? | Mobilizing the economy for world war |
| Impact of roosevelt's fireside chats? | Gave the hope and confidence to americans that we will conquer our fears of the great depression |
| Why did voters vote for roosevelt over hoover? | People came to believe that roosevelt could cure the great depression |
| Why was the new deal a turning point in U.S history? | The new deal programs helped improve the lives and suffering from the great depression |
| Holocaust | The genocide of european jews during world war II. 1941-1945 |
| How many jews were killed during the holocaust? | Around six million |
| Other groups that were killed during the holocaust | Jehovah's witnesses, gypsies, homosexuals and disabled people |
| What religious group was killed by germans in concentration camps? | Jehovah's witnesses |
| Under german rule, before concentration camps, where were jews forced to live? | Ghettos |
| Genocide | The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group |
| What happened to hitler in the end? | He commited suicide |
| In addition to gas chambers, how did nazis kill the jewish population of europe? | Mass shootings |
| During the holocaust, how were families separated? | They were separated by sex and race |
| What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights of german jews? | Anti-Jewish Laws |
| Fascism | A form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy |
| Democracy | A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives |
| Blitzkrieg | An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory |
| Axis Powers | A military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies |
| Why did United States decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs when WWII started? | The combination of the Great Depression and the memory of tragic losses in World War I contributed to pushing American public opinion and policy toward isolationism |
| Pearl Harbor events | The Japanese aerial commander orders the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Coordinated attack on Pearl Harbor begins. The USS Arizona explodes. The Destroyer USS Helm fires at and sinks Japanese submarine at entrance to harbor |
| Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany? | In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany |
| What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII? | The Japanese bombing of 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? | Japan-socialist China-communist France- capitalist Germany-dictatorial |
| 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 | Both feared each other and tried to influence other nations |
| Cold War time period | March 12, 1947 - December 26, 1991 |
| Cuban missile crisis | 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores |
| A state of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without actual fighting | Cold war |
| Why would Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction? | Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's plan because they thought it too lenient toward the South |
| The war that created divisiveness among Americans throughout the 1960s | The vietnam war |
| How did women help in WWII? | They worked as nurses, drove trucks, repaired airplanes, and performed clerical work |
| What kind of policy did Martin L. King, Jr., and other members of SCLC encouraged | To skip school to join sit-ins and marches |
| Freedom Riders | Groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals |
| Malcolm X | An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement |
| 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. | King and the SCLC worked with NAACP and other civil rights groups to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which attracted 250,000 people to rally for the civil and economic rights of Black Americans in the nation's capital |
| 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 and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54 |
| The Highway Act of 1956 | This act authorized the building of highways throughout the nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the nation's history |
| The two nations divided at the 38th parallel | When Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945, the Korean peninsula was split into two zones of occupation – the U.S.-controlled South Korea and the Soviet-controlled North Korea |
| Watergate | A major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation |
| How did Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? | Truman believed that the bombs saved Japanese lives as well |
| The Manhattan Project | A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons |
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