Roaring 20s
Period of time where economic success boomed and people began investing more money than they actually had
Roaring 20s
Started with the stock market crash and led to high unemployment and difficult times throughout the world
Great Depression
Allied Powers
Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, U.S
Date America entered WWII
December 8, 1941
"lightning war" style of fighting Germany used-goal was to be quick and unannounced
Blitzkrieg
Year women got the right to vote
1919
FDR's government program that created jobs for the American people
New Deal
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Refusing to take a side and trying to stay out of the war
Isolationism
Systematic killing of the Jews, Slavs, Poles, Gypsies, people with mental disabilities, homosexuals, communists
Holocaust
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
Elected President of the U.S during the Great Depression
FDR
What were the indirect causes of WWII?
Treaty of Versailles, Nationalism, Worldwide Depression, Dictatorships, Appeasement, American Isolationism
Executive order issued by FDR in February, 1942
Interned Japanese-Americans
Place where the 2nd atomic bomb was dropped in Japan
Nagasaki
The prevention, by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States
Prohibition
Federally owned corporation that provided flood control and electricity generation (Part of the New Deal)
Tennessee Valley Authority
Agreement between Germany, France, Britain, and Italy-was meant to appease Hitler
Munich Pact
Explain "arsenal for democracy"
U.S provided weapons needed and spread democracy throughout the world
Dictator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Year the stock market crashed
1929
A public work relief program that operated from 1933-1942 for unemployed, unmarried men (Part of the New Deal)
Civilian Conservation Corps
What was the direct cause of WWII?
Germany invading Poland on September 1, 1939
Explain FDR's plan of attack
1. Liberate Europe
2. Pursue an "active defense" in the Pacific
Extreme German pride and hatred of the Jews
Nazism