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History 11th GradeSG
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| FDR’s main goals in fighting the depression | FDR's main goals were to provide relief for the needy, economic recovery, financial reform. |
| Causes of the Great Depression | Tariffs and war debt policies that cut down the foreign market for American goods, a crisis in the farm sector, the availability of easy credit, an unequal distribution of income. |
| Years of the Great Depression | 1929-1939 |
| New Deal | The New Deal was a series of government programs where gov. took a larger role in the nation's economy. First step was to reform banks and finance. |
| Shanty Towns | Little towns consisting of shacks, common during the Great Depression. |
| What event brought an end to the Great Depression? | The start of WW2 ended the Great Depression. |
| Impact of Roosevelt’s fireside chats? | He encouraged people to trust in banks more, allowing them to recover. |
| Why did voters vote for Roosevelt over Hoover? | To many people blamed Hoover for doing to little about the Great Depression and they wanted a change. |
| Why was the New Deal a turning point in U. S. history? | The government became much more involved in people's lives through relief programs, and it became much more involved in the economy as well. |
| Holocaust | The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews. |
| How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust? | Between 4.8 million and 5.8 million Jews. |
| Other groups that were killed during the Holocaust | Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witness, homosexuals, the mentally deficient, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, and the incurably ill, as well as anyone who opposed the Nazi Regime. |
| What religious group was killed by Germans in Concentration Camps? | Jews |
| Under German rule, before Concentration Camps, where were Jews forced to live? | Jews were forced to live in ghettos, cramped communities of apartments that were way over crowded. |
| Genocide | The deliberate and systematic killing of the entire population. |
| What happened to Hitler in the end? | He commited suicide when he knew he lost. |
| In addition to the gas chambers, how did Nazis kill the Jewsish population of Europe? | Mass shootings, overworking, starvation and beatings. |
| During the Holocaust, how were families separated? | They were separated based on labor needs, men one way, women and children another. |
| What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights of German Jews? | Anti-semantic laws. |
| Fascism | Stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of the individual. |
| Democracy | A system of government governed by the people. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning War |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Why did United States decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs when WWII started? | They wanted to avoid war if possible, but Germany was winning to many battles. |
| Pearl Harbor events | The bombing of Pearl Harbor, on December 7th, 1941, and this was the event that outraged the U.S. into war. |
| Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany? | In response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. |
| What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII? | The U.S. was providing aid to the Allies more and more as the war continued, but we prepared for war while the fires of Pearl Harbor were still burning. |
| Under what plan did the U. S. provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism? | The Marshall Plan. Truman enacted in 1947. 16 Countries received 13 Billion dollars in aid. |
| Capitalist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Socialist meanings and which countries follow which ideals? | Capitalist: Everyone on their own, a free market. U.S.A. Communist: One-party rule, government controls everything. China. Dictatorial: One ruler, absolute power. Germany. Socialist: The society before yourself. Republic of Cuba |
| Baby Boom | Post war, explosion in population from returning GI's. Largest generation in the nations history. 1957 |
| Similarities between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War | Both had incredible military power, as well as atomic bombs. They feared each other's power and wanted to influence other countries to side with them. |
| Cold War time period | The 45 Year standoff, from 1947-1992. It ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Cuba was sent nuclear weapons from its Soviet Union allies, the United States freaked out and eventually made them withdraw the weapons. |
| A state of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without actual fighting | Cold War |
| Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction? | Opposition from the Radical Republicans. |
| The war that created divisiveness among Americans throughout the 1960s | The Vietnam War |
| How did women help in WWII? | They could serve on the homefront, in the workforce, or even in support positions with the war effort. |
| What kind of policy did Martin L. King, Jr., and other members of SCLC encouraged | A policy of non-violence, the likes of which America will never see again. |
| Freedom Riders | The Freedom Riders were a group a Black Americans hoping to provoke a violent reaction that would convince the government to uphold the law. |
| Malcolm X | A radical, he didn't use non violence. He believed that blacks shouldn't become equal but empowered. He is the image of the BLM movement. |
| Sit-ins | Black Americans would sit in bars or lunch counters were they wouldn't be served, as a form of non-violent protest. |
| Civil Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr | Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the greatest civil rights advocates this nation has ever seen. He start with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, since he was a local pastor in the area. |
| Vietnamization | 1969, the gradual withdraw of troops from Vietnam. |
| McCarthyism | The unfair tactic of accusing people without substantial evidence. |
| The Highway Act of 1956 | Eisenhower authorized the highway act in 1956, which called for the construction of a national highway system. |
| The two nations divided at the 38th parallel | West and East Germany, One capitalist, one communist. The very example of the Cold War. |
| Watergate | The Watergate Scandal as it was known, the president got involved in some shady politics. People haven't trusted Presidents as much since this event. |
| How did Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? | The lives spent invading Japan and before that in the campaign, would be more lives than those the atomic bomb would take. |
| The Manhattan Project | The code name for the creation of the Atomic Bomb. A secret group of scientist working during WW2. |
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