New Deal, WWII, Cold War
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| show | Speculation-people thinking the stock market was high in worth, and then it crashed
Margin Buying-buying into a stock and after it fails, having to pay back the stock broker.
Forced Selling-selling stocks for less then you bought them for.
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| Causes of Great Depression(cont) | show 🗑
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| show | Poor people took random items to make shelters out of, called hoovervilles b/c they blamed hoover for not doing anything.
Soup Kitchens, Bread lines, Evictions, Foreclosures, Hobos, and lack of econ prosperity.
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| The Dust Bowl | show 🗑
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| Hoover's Reactions | show 🗑
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| show | RFC- Reconstruction Finance Corporation- gov loans to banks,railroads, and insurance companies.
ERA-Emergency Relief Act-fed gov loans to states for direct aid.
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| show | vets were supposed to get money after war, after the depression they needed it asap; banks couldn't pay them; they marched to DC and camped out; military ran them out killing people and children.
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| Three R's | show 🗑
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| show | (Reform)Closed down all banks for a couple days to restore publics confidence in the banks.
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| show | RELIEF: gave jobs to people, ran by harry hopkins; gave $500 million to states; used for poor; criticized b/c they didn't want people relying on welfare.
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| CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps | show 🗑
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| PWA-Public Works Administration | show 🗑
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| WPA-Works Progress Administration | show 🗑
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| show | RECOVERY: built a dam on the Tennesse River; generated energy, flood control, provided jobs; criticized b/c it effected public industry, kicked people out of there homes in which the gov paid for, and created socialism.
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| show | REFORM: restored publics confidence in stock markets; required securities disclosure(if a business was failing, the person invested would be notified); created SEC-Securities and Exchange Commisosion-to regulate stock market.
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| Glass-Steagall Act | show 🗑
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| AAA-Agricultural Adjustment Act | show 🗑
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| NIRA-National Industrial Recovery Act | show 🗑
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| NRA-National Recovery Act | show 🗑
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| show | REFORM: provides support(money) for needy, diabled, unemployed, and old age; funded by taxes on business and employers.
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| Fair Labor Standards Act | show 🗑
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| Revenue Act | show 🗑
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| Father Charles Coughlin(critic of FDR) | show 🗑
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| Dr. Francis Townsend(another critic) | show 🗑
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| show | Planned a "Share Our Wealth" program benefiting everyone; limit income to $1 million, inheritence to $5 million; fortunes at $50 million; guarenteed families $2000 a year; free college, old age pensions; vet benefits; 30 hour work; four week vacations.
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| show | Attacked FDR's New Deal plan; very well funded by Conservatives; called him a traitor.
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| Court Packing Scheme | show 🗑
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| show | 1935-37; bans arm sales to nations at war, bans loans to nations at war, trade must be "cash and carry"; revises(1939): arms sold on a cash and carry base.
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| Bases for Destroyers Deal | show 🗑
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| Lend Lease Act | show 🗑
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| show | US naval ships used to protects shipments
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| Selective Service Act(1940) | show 🗑
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| Pearl Harbor | show 🗑
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| Atlantic Charter(1941) | show 🗑
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| show | Decision to not except conditional surrender; "you take what we give you"
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| El Alamein Kasserine Pass | show 🗑
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| show | Plan to move up Italian peninsula failed; Mussolini fled
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| Stalingrad(1943) | show 🗑
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| show | US closes from West, Soviets from East; FDR died April 12, 1945; Hitler commits suicide; German's surrender on V-Day(May 7)
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| OPA-Office Price Administration | show 🗑
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| WPB-War Production Board | show 🗑
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| show | Similar to Meatless Mondays etc; people could only get certain foods with coupons.
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| Women Workers | show 🗑
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| Second Great Migration | show 🗑
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| Double V Campaign | show 🗑
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| show | Cause my anti mex uprisings
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| show | Japanese-Americans were suspected and over 110,000 shipped to only ten camps; not the best conditions; they became bored; spent duration of war in camps
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| Korematsu vs. U.S. | show 🗑
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| Manchurria | show 🗑
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| show | US bombs Japan; april 1942; morale booster for US
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| Midway(June 1942) | show 🗑
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| Island Hopping | show 🗑
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| Atomic Bomb | show 🗑
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| Hiroshima Nagasaki | show 🗑
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| CH 26: Yalta Conference | show 🗑
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| Yalta Conference(cont) | show 🗑
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| show | Truman, Stalin, Churchill in July 1945; Soviets want harsh punishments on Germany-to deindutrialize them; Truman disagrees strongly, wants to let Germany recover to avoid another Hitler like scenario; Truman uses Atomic bomb-drops hints to Stalin.
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| Iron Curtain | show 🗑
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| Containment Policy | show 🗑
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| show | Provides aid to those fighting in communist pressure; US sends $400 million to Greece and Turkey to fight communists.
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| show | Sends billions of dollars and supplies to Western Europe hoping to ward off communist appeal and to spark trade
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| Arms Race | show 🗑
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| show | Suggests to replace bombs with large amounts of weaponry; Thats how the arms race began.
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| show | US, Brit, and France combine zones in Berlin(West Germany); Soviets in East; Soviets cut of roads and railroads to West; US replies with Berlin Airlift; Delivers 2 million tons of supplies; VICTORY for US
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| NATO(1949)-North Atlantic Treaty Organization | show 🗑
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| show | Communists-Mao Zedong; Nationalists-Chiang Kai-shek; Nationalists were corrupt b/c Chiang was stealing money; Commies win; Nationalists fled
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| show | Korea was divided at 38th parallel; soviets controlled north; democratically controlled and US supported south half.
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| Bay of Pigsban | show 🗑
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| show | weeds out commies; 3.2 million people were investigated; 212 were dismissed as security risks; 2900 resigned voluntarily b/c they didn't like the invasion of privacy.
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| show | Investigates communist influence in movie industry; made Nixon famous.
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| Hollywood 10 | show 🗑
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| Alger Hiss | show 🗑
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| show | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were accused of passing along info to USSR atomic bomb secrets; claimed innocent, convicted and executed for espionage; Later Venona papers found(1995) proving them guilty.
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| show | Edward Murrow showed public on TV how McCarthy would just scream and accuse people; McCarthy went on the show to prove himself different; and showed the public exactly what Murrow accused him of; Dies of alcogolism in 1957.
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| show | To reduce costs Eisenhower reduces army, and focuses on Air Force and Nuclear Bombs(he believed future war would be in the air)
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| show | Eisenhower promises to use nuclear weapons against any agressor nation; named Brinkmanship by critics.
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| Egypt | show 🗑
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| Sputnik | show 🗑
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| show | U2 planes were used to spy on missions over Soviet; Francis Gary Powers(U2 plan pilot) was shot down; cancels summit to discuss test ban treaty.
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