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FDR's main goals in fighting the depression ?   show
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Causes of the Great Depression ?   show
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show August 1929 - March 1933 !  
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New Deal ?   show
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show Neighborhoods in which people live in makeshift shacks !  
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What event brought an end to the Great Depression ?   show
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Impact of Roosevelt's fireside chats ?   show
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Why did voters vote for Roosevelt over Hoover ?   show
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show New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression !  
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show The systematic murder - or genocide - of Jews and other groups in Europe by the Nazis before and during World War II !  
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How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust ?   show
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Other groups that were killed during the Holocaust ?   show
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What religious group was killed by Germans in Concentration Camps ?   show
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Under German rule, before Concentration Camps, where were jews forced to live ?   show
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show The deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group !  
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show Adolf Hitler commited suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head !  
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In addition to the gas chambers, how did Nazis kill the Jewish population of Europe ?   show
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show After the Holocaust, many Jewish parents spent months or years searching for their children they had sent into hiding !  
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What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights of German Jews ?   show
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Fascism ?   show
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show A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives !  
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show From the German word meaning "lightning war", a sudden, massive attack with combined air and ground forces, intended to achieve a quick victory !  
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show The group of nations - including Germany, Italy, and Japan - that opposed the Allies in World War II !  
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show During the 1930's, the combination of the Great Depression and the memory of tragic losses in WWI contributed to pushing American public opinion and policy toward isolationism !  
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show 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 !  
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Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany ?   show
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show Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. declared war on Japan ! This brought them fully engaged within the war !  
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Under what plan did the U.S. provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of Communism ?   show
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Capitalist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Socialist meanings and which countries follow which ideals ?   show
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show The sharp increase in the U.S birthrate following World War II !  
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Similarities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War ?   show
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show March 12, 1947 - December 26, 1991 !  
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Cuban Missile Crisis ?   show
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show The Cold War !  
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Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction ?   show
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show The Civil War of 1960's !  
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How did Women help in WWII ?   show
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What kind of policy did Martin Luther King JR., and other members of SCLC encouraged ?   show
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Freedom Riders ?   show
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show An African - American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the Civil Rights Movement !  
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show A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met !  
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show In 1963, King and the SCLC worked with NAACP and other civil rights groups to organize the March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom !  
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show The U.S. policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam !  
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McCarthyism ?   show
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show The law authorized the construction of a 41,000 - mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation !  
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show North and South Korea have been divided for more than 70 years, ever since the Korean Peninsula became an unexpected casualty of the escalating Cold War !  
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Watergate ?   show
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show Truman stated that his decision to drop the bomb was purely military !  
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The Manhattan Project ?   show
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