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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| 1932. This made emergency loans to life insurance companies, financial institutions, and railroads after the Great Depression hit. |
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| This said that during the 1931 fiscal year, any company that owes the country money doesn't have to pay anything for that year. |
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| This is FDR's domestic program and it was centered on 3R's: Relief, Recovery, and Reform. |
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| 4 Day National Banking Holiday |
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| FDR declared this so that all the banks in the nation could be inspected to make sure they were safe and solid. Those that were found to be safe and solid remained open, while those that weren't were closed. |
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| These were radio addresses from FDR. The first one told the American people that all banks had been inspected and that the ones that were still open were safe. This stopped runs on the banks. |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| FDIC. This means that the government will insure people's money in banks and financial insitutions up to a certain amount so if something bad happens again, people don't lose everything. |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission |
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| This supervised all stockmarket transactions. |
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| This was the Public Works Administration. It put together many government supported public works projects to create jobs for Americans after the Great Depression. |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps. This may have been the most popular of all the government aid attempts at the time. It opened up several conservation projects for more people to work on. |
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| National Youth Administration. This created part time jobs to keep students in high school and college. |
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| Reciprocal Trade Agreements |
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| These were formed in an effort to boost the US economy. They said that if other countries will cut their tariffs, the US will too up to 50%. 21 of these agreements were made with other nations. |
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| Was FDR's Secretary of State and was responsible for negotiating the 21 reciprocal trade agreements with various nations. |
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| Formally: The National Labor Relations Act. This was a pro-labor act that guaranteed larbor the right to organize, strike, picket, and boycott. |
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1935. This act was created to 1. give old age pensions and
2. develop a federal and state cooperative program of unemployment insurance. |
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| Home Owners Loan Corporation. This offered longer term, lower interest rate mortgages to help people keep their houses. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority. This set the foundation for electricity to take root throughout the nation. |
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| This was set up during the 1935-1937 Neutrality Acts and basically said that any country that was buying non-munition goods from America could do so by paying cash and transporting goods on their own ships only. |
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| This was Hitler's war machine. It literally meant "lightning war" and means the use of tanks, rockets, airplanes, and bombing. |
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| This was the German Air Force, which was part of Blitzkrieg. |
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| Selective Service Act of 1940 |
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| This was the first ever peacetime draft. It was implemented to get ready for a war. |
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| The US traded 50 over-age destroyers to England in exchange for long term air and naval base leases on British possessions in the Western Hemisphere. |
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| The Royal Air Force. This was Britain's Air Force. |
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| Sunday, December 7, 1941. This was the day of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor at 7:53 AM. This will ultimately be the event that brings the US into WWII. |
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| Head of the war production board during WWII. |
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| Head of the Office of Price Administration during WWII. They set ceilings on prices and started mandatory rationing. |
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| Head of the war labor board during WWII. |
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| Victory in England. May 8, 1945. |
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| Victory in Japan. September 2, 1945. |
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| August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. |
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| August 9, 1945. Nagasaki, Japan. |
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| 17 days in July 1945. Japan was given an ultimatum by Truman to either surrender or be destroyed. |
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| February 4-11, 1945. Soviet Union. US makes many concessions to the Soviet Union and Stalin in order to get them to enter the war with the US against Japan. |
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| 1948. Russia was afraid that Berlin would be turned into a democracy to they put up a serious blockade of traffic, railroads, etc. The US answered with the Berlin Airlift and the blockade was soon lifted. |
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| He was famous for his fighting in the Philippines, his occupation of Japan after WWII and he was fired by Truman during the Korean War. |
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| Soviet efforts to extend communism and American countermoves to halt its spread. It was basically fought with economic, political, and democratic weapons, but it was occasionally fought with real arms during hot wars. |
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| This granted $400 million of US aid to Greece and Turkey |
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| Officially called the European Recovery Program. It lasted 4 years. It took $15 Billion of US aid and helped 16 countries in Western Europe to get back on their feet after WWII. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was a collective security pact to protect Western Europe against communism. |
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| This was formed by 8 communist countries as a pact to protect them against democracy. |
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| Senator Joseph R. McCarthy |
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| He was a Wisconson Senator who was responsible for starting the second "Big Red Scare" |
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| This man was accused of being a communist spy under FDR's state department in the 1930's. He was taken to court, found guilty of purgery and sent to prison. |
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| This was Kennedy's domestic program. |
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| This was Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic program. |
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| Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act |
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| This expanded the previous Food Inspection Act. It required that all food, drugs, and cosmetics must be inspected and properly labeled before they go to the general public. |
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| This was the project to develop and create the atomic bomb. |
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| He was the dictator and fascist leader of Italy. |
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| During WWII, Japan joined with Italy and Germany to form this alliance. |
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| A General in the Spanish Army who led revolt duing the Spanish Civil War. He later gained dictatorship over Spain. |
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| He was Britain's wartime Prime Minister |
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| General Bernard L. Montgomery |
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| He was the leader of the British Eighth Army that defeated Rommel's Africa Corps in Egypt. |
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| Marshal Erwin Rommel led the Africa Corps against General Montgomery and lost. |
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| June 6, 1944. This was the largest amphibious operation in history. It consisted of the allied forces storming ashore in Normandy, France. |
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| Led the allied forces on D-Day. |
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| He led the offensive island-hopping movement of the US Navy in the Central Pacific. |
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