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Test 3
Depression, WWII, & The New Deal
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Undergraduate 1
11/13/2011

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Relief, Recovery, Reform
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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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1st 100 Days
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FDR's immediate relief. He passed a record number of bills
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Wagner Act
Definition
Involves Labor Unions & Strikes
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Wild Boys of the Road
Definition
Black & White film about teens forced into becoming hobos
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Raised US tariffs to record highs
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Glass-Steagall Act (FDR)
Definition
Established FDIC & controlled Speculation
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What was FDR's most successful program?
Definition
The Tennessee Valley Authority
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Definition
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?
Definition
Hugh Johnson
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (FDR)
Definition
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?
Definition
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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Prohibition
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What were FDR's acts called?
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New Deal
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How many consecutive terms did FDR serve?
Definition
4
Term
Which disease did FDR have?
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Polio
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Which Democrat was elected in 1932?
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FDR
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Bonus Expeditionary Force
Definition
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)
Definition
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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Herbert Hoover
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What type of President was Hoover?
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Laissez-Faire
Term
Who was elected in 1928?
Definition
Herbert Hoover
Term
What was one of the most devastating events in the life of 20th century Americans?
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The Great Depression
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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?
Definition
-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?
Definition
Abandon traditional isolationism & actively create the postwar world
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What happened to Japanese Americans a few months after Pearl Harbor?
Definition
Sent to internment camps
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Smith Connally Act
Definition
President can seize businesses
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Results of the end of Great Depression?
Definition
-Job opportunities
-Economic equality
-Personal Savings growth
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What finally ended the Great Depression?
Definition
The War effort
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What happened when Japan did not surrender?
Definition
-Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945
-Japan surrendered
-Hirochito is new emperor
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Where was the 1st atomic test?
Definition
Los Alamos in the New Mexico desert
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Manhattan Project
Definition
2 Billion dollar Navy & Army founded atomic research
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Who ordered an atomic bomb dropped on Japan?
Definition
President Truman
Term
Who captured Manila & rained destruction on the Japanese mainland?
Definition
MacArthur
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What was the US strategy against Japan?
Definition
-2 separate drives
-Island Hopping
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What was the Japanese strategy?
Definition
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?
Definition
The Philippines, Guam, & Wake Island
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Who committed suicide with Russian troops on the outskirts of Berlin?
Definition
Hitler
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Germans attacking a weak point in the allied line
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Who broke through into Paris during the D-day invasion?
Definition
Allied Forces
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Who led the D-day invasion, also called Operation Overlord?
Definition
Eisenhower
Term
What forces attacked North Africa?
Definition
Allied forces
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What was our 1st priority in WWII?
Definition
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?
Definition
Germany & Italy
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When did Japan attack Americans at Pearl Harbor?
Definition
December 7, 1941
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Who signed a 3-power pact, agreeing to assist each other if attacked?
Definition
Germany, Italy, & japan
Term
Who began a full scale invasion of China in 1937?
Definition
Japan
Term
Who invaded Russia in violation of the non-aggression pact?
Definition
Germany
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What did FDR allow in September of 1940?
Definition
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?
Definition
Germany
Term
Official beginning of WWII?
Definition
September 1, 1939-when Germany invaded Poland
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Munich Conference
Definition
-Hitler called it & said he wanted the Sudetenland
-He took all of Czechoslovakia within 4 months
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Rome-Berlin Axis
Definition
Hitler & Mussolini becoming allies in 1936
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Who invaded Ethiopia with its fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini?
Definition
Italy
Term
When did Hitler become dictator of Germany?
Definition
1933 via the Nazi Party
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When did Japan begin its aggression in Asia?
Definition
In 1931 by invading Manchuria. This violated the League of Nations, so Japan withdrew
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When did the New Deal end?
Definition
With the outbreak of WWII
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What did FDR's foreign policies reflect?
Definition
Liberal principles & a desire to increase business contacts
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Where were US marines withdrawn from?
Definition
Haiti, Cuba, & Panama-who were granted new self-governing powers
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How was Roosevelt's foreign policy?
Definition
He recognized the Soviet Union & embraced the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America
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Court-Packing plan
Definition
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?
Definition
They were empowered to govern themselves & land was restored to some tribes
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What was only barely addressed by FDR?
Definition
Racial & Ethnic minorities
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Fair Labor Standards Act (FDR)
Definition
Gave us minimum wage & maximum # of hours
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Francis Townsend
Definition
New Deal critic who wanted to give all senior citizens $200 per month
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Father Charles E. Coughlin
Definition
"Radio Priest" New Deal critic who admired Hitler
Term
Who killed Huey P. Long in Baton Rouge?
Definition
Dr. Carl Weiss
Term
What did Senator Huey P. Long of LA want?
Definition
To tax the rich & share the wealth
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Where did rural blacks & whites flock to after the New Deal?
Definition
Urban North & West
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Who did the New Deal programs not help?
Definition
Tenant farmers, Farm laborers, & ppl in the Dust Bowl
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What did the Depression stem from?
Definition
Weakness in the new Era economy
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Hoovervilles
Definition
Shacks where ppl starved
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What grew during the Great Depression?
Definition
Women's responsibilities
Term
Who did the Depression particularly harm?
Definition
Racial minorities
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How did Hoover fight the depression?
Definition
With voluntary private relief
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Fireside Chat
Definition
Radio reassurance by FDR
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SEC
Definition
Securities & Exchange Commission. Created to regulate the stock market
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Banking Act of 1935
Definition
Increased authority of Federal Reserve Board & decreased power of private bankers
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Fascist Government
Definition
One-party dictatorship closely aligned with corporate interests
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