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WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Causes of the Great Depression | Post-WWl prosperity led to farms and factories overproducing Stock market crashed (Black Tuesday; Oct. 29 1929) Banks gave out too many unwise loans |
| World Wide Depression | The Great Depression, a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939, preceded and contributed to the outbreak of World War II. |
| Effects of the Great Depression | It led to massive unemployment, significant drops in production and income, and widespread poverty. |
| Bonus Army | Jobless WWII veterans march on Washington in 1932 demanding WWII bonuses |
| New Deal | Frankin D Roosevelt campaigned in 1932 with promise to help jobless farmers and elderly which he called his |
| Hundred Days | When FDR passed many laws to help end the great depression |
| Fireside Chats | FDR gave regular radio addresses known as fireside chats to reassure americans that help was on the way |
| Bank Holiday | FDR issued this plan to restore Americans' confidence in the banking system; banks are closed for 4 days; only banks with enough money to meet deporters' demands could reopen. |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Resulted in the building of 49 new dams to help control flooding in the Southeast. |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | Paid single men 18-25 for public projects |
| Works Progress Administration | Provided employment for the jobless |
| Social Security Act | Set up retirement/pension programs for older people; provided money for children and people with disabilities; established an unemployment insurance system in case of job loss. |
| National Labor Relations Act | Gave workers the right to collective bargaining |
| Dustbowl | Widespread drought and dust storms spread from Texas to South Dakota;higj winds overgrazed fields and lack of rain. |
| Facism | The government is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to the state. |
| Lend Lease Act | Allowed for sale or loan of war materials to any country fighting Japan or Germany |
| Invasion of Poland | Nazi Germany invaded this country September 1, 1939; as a result WWII officially began. |
| Battle of Britain | Germany’s failed attempt to defeat the British |
| Nazi Soviet Pact | Agreement where Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other |
| Cash and Carry | Allowed U.S. to sell weapons to Allies, but they had to pay cash and carry it on their own ships |
| Island Hopping | Allied strategy of retaking the Pacific from Japan |
| Axis Powers and Leaders | Germany-Adolf Hitler Italy-Benito Mussolini Japan Hideki Tojo |
| Allied Powers and Leaders | Great Britain-Winston Churchill USSR-Stalin USA-FDR/Truman |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7 1941; brought U.S. into WWII on the side of Allies |
| D-Day | Codenamed “Operation Overlord”; Allies invade beaches of Normandy, France |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Germany defeated by USSR; the turning point of WWII in Europe |
| Battle of Midway | Japan defeated by the U.S.; the turning point of WWLL in Pacific |
| Holocaust | The slaughter of Europe’s Jewish population by the Nazis and their collaborators Jews-Forced to wear yellow stars on clothing and be segregated from the rest of populations; their citizenship taken away; driven away from their jobs. |
| Kristallnacht | Night of broken glass-Night when angry mobs shattered windows of Jewish businesses |
| Auschwitz | One of the largest death camps responsible for many deaths |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | The U.S. dropped stomach bombs on these two Japanese cities which caused the Japanese to surrender; thus ending the war in the Pacific and WWII. |
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