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Depression / WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Causes of the Great Depression | Over Production, Over Borrowing, Uneven Distribution of Wealth, Collapse of Banks |
| World Wide Depression | A severe global economic downturn that lasted from 1929 to 1939 |
| Effects of the Great Depression | Banks and Businesses Fail, Unemployment, Hungry/Homeless, Struggling Farmers, Dustbowl, World-Wide-Depression |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans, and families march towards Washington DC in 1932 demanding early extra payment |
| New Deal | A promise made by FDR to get the US out the Great Depression |
| Hundred Days | March 9 - June 16, 1933 - FDR passed 15 major bills through congress |
| Fireside Chats | A series of evening radio given by FDR |
| Bank Holiday | All banks were closed for 4 days, only banks with enough money could reopen Creation of the FDIC |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Remade the Tennessee Valley by building 49 dams and deepening rivers New forests, hospitals, schools |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | Employed single men 18-25, paid $1 per day Planted trees, built bridges, airports, dams, parks, schools hospitals |
| Works Progress Administration | Built hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds, airports, made clothes Employed artists, photographers, musicians, writers, actors |
| Social Security Act | Pensions for older people Supports dependent children and the disabled Unemployment insurance |
| National Labor Relations Act | Protected workers from unfair business practices Guaranteed Collective Bargaining |
| Dustbowl | Spread from South Dakota to Texas, made worse by over grazing and over plowing |
| Facism | A political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state |
| Lend Lease Act | allowed the sale or loan of war materials to “any country whose defense of the President deems vital to the defense of the United States |
| Invasion of Poland | Start of WWII |
| Battle of Britain | German planes dropped bombs on London and other British cities. |
| Nazi Soviet Pact | A non-aggression pact signed by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union to split Poland |
| Cash and Carry | the U.S. could sell arms to the allies but they had to pay cash and carry it in their own ships |
| Island Hopping | The Pacific strategy of capturing some Japanese held islands and going around others was called |
| Axis Country | Germany, Japan, Italy |
| Allied country | Great Britain, Soviet Union, US |
| Pearl Harbor | On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked ______ without warning |
| D-Day | On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded Northern France (Normandy) in an event that became known as |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Turning point in the war in Europe |
| Battle of Midway | Turning point in the war in the pacific |
| Holocaust | Mass genocide of jews between 1941 and 1945 |
| Kristallnacht | November 9–10, 1938, Nazi regime coordinated a wave of antisemitic violence against jewish buildings such as churches, shops, and schools |
| Auschwitz | Largest of the German concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives here. |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Two nuclear bombs where dropped on these cities to mark the surrender of Japan |
| Allied Leaders | Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Stalin |
| Axis leaders | Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini |
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