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| Focus of the New Deal: Relief for the poor, Recovery of the economy, Reform of financial system |
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| FDR's immediate relief. He passed a record number of bills |
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| Involves Labor Unions & Strikes |
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| Black & White film about teens forced into becoming hobos |
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| Raised US tariffs to record highs |
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| Established FDIC & controlled Speculation |
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| What was FDR's most successful program? |
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| The Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| Controlled flooding on the Tn river by harnessing its water power to generate electricity |
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| Who led the National Recovery Administration under the NIRA? |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act (FDR) |
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| Paid farmers to plant less. Raised farm prices by a program of planned scarcity |
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| What did the WPA & other agencies do? |
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| Construct roads, bridges, & airports. Also funded a vast program of public art |
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| Emergency Banking Act (FDR) |
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| Called for a bank holiday |
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| FDR said he would end what? |
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| What were FDR's acts called? |
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| How many consecutive terms did FDR serve? |
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| Which disease did FDR have? |
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| Which Democrat was elected in 1932? |
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| Bonus Expeditionary Force |
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| 14,000 unemployed WWI vets marched on Washington to petition the gov. for early military pensions. Hoover called in armed forces to stop them |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Hoover) |
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| Loaned money to banks & Industry |
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| Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 |
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| Set up Federal Farm Banks to extend loans to farmers |
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| Who wrote the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929? |
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| What type of President was Hoover? |
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| What was one of the most devastating events in the life of 20th century Americans? |
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| 5 Major Causes of the Depression |
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1. Poor distribution of wealth
2. Corporate structure out of hand
3. Banking system worthless
4. Tariffs made repaying war debts impossible
5. No tools to understand economy |
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| What were the results of the Great Depression? |
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-Industrial production fell by 50%
-More than 100,000 businesses went bankrupt
-Unemployment soared to 25% |
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| Confident of its power, what did the US do? |
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| Abandon traditional isolationism & actively create the postwar world |
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| What happened to Japanese Americans a few months after Pearl Harbor? |
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| President can seize businesses |
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| Results of the end of Great Depression? |
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-Job opportunities
-Economic equality
-Personal Savings growth |
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| What finally ended the Great Depression? |
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| What happened when Japan did not surrender? |
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-Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945
-Japan surrendered
-Hirochito is new emperor |
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| Where was the 1st atomic test? |
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| Los Alamos in the New Mexico desert |
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| 2 Billion dollar Navy & Army founded atomic research |
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| Who ordered an atomic bomb dropped on Japan? |
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| Who captured Manila & rained destruction on the Japanese mainland? |
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| What was the US strategy against Japan? |
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-2 separate drives
-Island Hopping |
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| What was the Japanese strategy? |
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| To establish a defense perimeter for enough from Japan that Bombers couldn't harm the mainland |
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| In the 1st 6 months after Pearl Harbor, what did Japan take? |
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| The Philippines, Guam, & Wake Island |
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| Who committed suicide with Russian troops on the outskirts of Berlin? |
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| Germans attacking a weak point in the allied line |
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| Who broke through into Paris during the D-day invasion? |
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| Who led the D-day invasion, also called Operation Overlord? |
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| What forces attacked North Africa? |
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| What was our 1st priority in WWII? |
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| To stop the axis powers from increasing their territory |
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| Who declared war on the US just 3 days after we declared war on Japan? |
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| When did Japan attack Americans at Pearl Harbor? |
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| Who signed a 3-power pact, agreeing to assist each other if attacked? |
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| Who began a full scale invasion of China in 1937? |
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| Who invaded Russia in violation of the non-aggression pact? |
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| What did FDR allow in September of 1940? |
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| The transfer of 50 WWI destroyers to the British navy in return for the right to build bases on British land in the Western Hemisphere |
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| Who used the Blitzkrieg attack? |
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| Official beginning of WWII? |
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| September 1, 1939-when Germany invaded Poland |
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-Hitler called it & said he wanted the Sudetenland
-He took all of Czechoslovakia within 4 months |
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| Hitler & Mussolini becoming allies in 1936 |
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| Who invaded Ethiopia with its fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini? |
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| When did Hitler become dictator of Germany? |
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| When did Japan begin its aggression in Asia? |
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| In 1931 by invading Manchuria. This violated the League of Nations, so Japan withdrew |
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| When did the New Deal end? |
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| With the outbreak of WWII |
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| What did FDR's foreign policies reflect? |
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| Liberal principles & a desire to increase business contacts |
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| Where were US marines withdrawn from? |
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| Haiti, Cuba, & Panama-who were granted new self-governing powers |
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| How was Roosevelt's foreign policy? |
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| He recognized the Soviet Union & embraced the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America |
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| FDR's failed attempt to add 6 more justices to the supreme court if present members wouldn't retire by age 70 |
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| How were Native Americans treated during FDR? |
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| They were empowered to govern themselves & land was restored to some tribes |
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| What was only barely addressed by FDR? |
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| Racial & Ethnic minorities |
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| Fair Labor Standards Act (FDR) |
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| Gave us minimum wage & maximum # of hours |
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| New Deal critic who wanted to give all senior citizens $200 per month |
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| Father Charles E. Coughlin |
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| "Radio Priest" New Deal critic who admired Hitler |
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| Who killed Huey P. Long in Baton Rouge? |
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| What did Senator Huey P. Long of LA want? |
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| To tax the rich & share the wealth |
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| Where did rural blacks & whites flock to after the New Deal? |
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| Who did the New Deal programs not help? |
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| Tenant farmers, Farm laborers, & ppl in the Dust Bowl |
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| What did the Depression stem from? |
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| Weakness in the new Era economy |
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| What grew during the Great Depression? |
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| Who did the Depression particularly harm? |
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| How did Hoover fight the depression? |
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| With voluntary private relief |
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| Securities & Exchange Commission. Created to regulate the stock market |
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| Increased authority of Federal Reserve Board & decreased power of private bankers |
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| One-party dictatorship closely aligned with corporate interests |
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