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History Chap 28-30
History Chap 28-30 Roaring 20s/WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why was there economic prosperity in US and not other countries? | It was the only country in the word that had a good economy after the war. US had to lend money and people to help other contries rebuild - engineers to Germany to help rebuild industry |
| How did the change in automobile construction make cars more affordable? | many industries started making the cars available to the average person; the assembly line was created by Henry Ford to make the building of cars more available to the general population. |
| Assembly Line Definition | assembled piece by piece on a kind of conveyer belt, with each worker in charge of assembling a specific piece, until the product is completed |
| Why were there ethnic neighborhoods? | Catholic immigrants came to the cities to work in the factories. s. People would settle in neighborhoods with others who knew their native language. brought people together to continue their traditions but allowing factory work and building up the US |
| Define prohibition | Time between 1920 and 1933 when the US congress passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting the production, transportation, and drinking of any alcoholic beverages. Drunk people was a problem in the US -help by banning the sale of beer, wine and liquor |
| How did prohibition lead to criminal activity | Had to get alcohol from criminals, or go to illegal bars (speak-easy); smuggled by bootleggers; gangs controlled the trade of alcohol - they would fight each other to win control of a city's sales |
| Jazz - briefly explain | what was kept to blacks now was becoming mainstream and often found in speakeasys |
| Louis Armstrong | trumpet/singer who was popular in the 1920s |
| The Spirit of St. Louis | 1927 plane flown by Charles Lindbergh across the Atlantic to Paris. Represented the US mood in the 1920s; symbolized growing industrial might in US and flight across atlantic showed optimism of americals - anything was possible with hard work |
| Amelia Earhart | First woman to fly across the Atlantic - tried to fly around the world later but got lost and is still a mystery. She is assumed dead but is a US hero |
| Great Depression and the Stock Market | banks gave out lots of loans that people could not pay back - farmers and other countries in particular; US people kept spending; Stock market crashed October 1929; banks ran out of money so you could not even get what you had put in |
| Great Depression and Stock Market continued | Businesses failed, people lost jobs, started begging in the streets for food; |
| Bonus Army & tragic outcome | 40,000 Great War vets marched on DC; demanding payment of bonuses; Americans sympathized with them; Pres. Hoover was mad and had the US army drive them out of DC; forced out by burning their tents with some killed; No one liked Hoover because of this |
| Explain the Dust Bowl | central US had a severe drought in 1930s hurting farmland; Most severe in OK, KS, CO, TX; it would swallow an entire community in several feet of dust and making them uninhabitable; people moved west to CA and were known as Okies because came from OK |
| Hoover Flag and Hoover's "Hands Off" approach | an inside out pocket to represent poverty in the great depression; he did not feel government should help US citizens in trouble with economy; felt economy would fix itself; |
| FDR's New Deal/ccc example | series of government programs that provided work for Americans, modernizing the US countryside and helping the US farmers - Dams built for electricity where there was none yet, Roads built in the National Parks |
| Was New Deal good or bad? (Ultimate Fail) | some worked some not; declared unconstitutional by Supreme court; People feel it was great and no so great; Fail - Got people used to depending on government to fix their problems; |
| "Arsenal of Democracy" | FDR wanted to help countries in the War without being in the war as the US; Lend-Lease Act - gave FDR authority to give Britian and other allies supplies to help the war effort against Germany; |
| What did the "Arsenal of Democracy" provide? | provided allies with 44 million rounds of ammo, 20 million machine guns/pistols, 2 million trucks; 107,000 tanks, 93,000 ships |
| What happened at Pearl Harbor? | Japan feared US getting into war because of what territories they had in Pacific; attacked the US naval base in Hawaii; the navel pacific fleet there and this would keep them from attacking the Pacific; Dec. 7, 1941; US was at peace and not expecting; |
| Japanese ferocity in combat and the terrible treatment of prisoners | they were worshiping a false god and they would sacrafice them for thier god |
| What is a war bond? | government asked everyday US Citizens to chip in money to pay for the war. If you did, you got a piece of paper called a bond that the US Government promised to pay back for the donation after the war |
| What was rationing? | people were only allowed to buy so much of an item; the rest went to soldiers overseas; ex...you could only get one stick of butter and the rest went overseas |
| How did US people help the war effort? | had scrap metal drives for the metal to be melted down and used to make tanks, weapons and airplanes; car manufacturers stopped making cars and started making weapons; women started working the mens jobs in factories; |
| What were the years of WW II for the US? | 1941-1945 |
| Who was Hitler and how did he rise in power? | Distinguished combatant (vet of WWI); Iron Cross 2nd class 2 times; artist; fell under the influence of Nationalist Anit-semites; |
| What was the Manhattan Project? | research and development of the first nuclear bombs by the US; tested bombs to see if they would work and did spy work overseas to see what Germany was doing as well |
| Who was Robert Oppenhimer? | nuclear physicist who designed the bombs for the Manhattan project |
| What was the Gadget? | test of a bomb that had shockwaves create pressures 500,000 times greater than earth’s surface air pressure at the center of the Gadget. |
| When did Pearl Harbor happen? | December 7, 1941 |
| What happened on September 2, 1945 | Japanese surrendered |
| What happened in Hiroshima/Nagasaki? | The atomic bomb was dropped by the US killing almost 1/4 million people; First in Hiroshima and then in Nagasaki |
| Outline of Germany's Future (Final solution | 1) anti-semetism 2) anti-church 3) anti-communist 4) anti-authoritainism 5) Racial party/ Arian superiority 6) cebersraum; Hitler was elected |
| What is Beer Hall Putsch | failed coup by Hitler in 1923; march against german government |
| Who were the brown shirts? | violent paramilitary group attached to the Nazi Party in pre-World War Two Germany. |
| Who was Henry Ford? | car maker; helped create assembly line so cars could be bought by regular people; helped with supply/demand issues; |
| Roaring 20s - Explain | economic prosperity; optimism; youthful enthusiasm; jazz; major technological advances |
| What caused the Great Depression? | Inability to pay back loans; farmers had droughts and collapsing business; overseas loans defaulted (Germany); too many loans to businesses that could not pay back loans |
| what was the book Hitler wrote | mein kampf |
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