Causes of the Great Depression
Name of the Stock Market Crash that marked the beginning of the great depression
Black Tuesday
What symptom of the depression led to record levels of homelessness?
High Unemployment
First form of welfare in America, and the Acronym of the agency that manages it.
Social Security and SSA Social Security Administration
What is sighted as the cause of WW2? and what acronym was used to teach you this?
The German punishment from WW1 created in the Treaty of Versailles. BRAT.
Who asked the Allied forces to open up a second front and where did this front officially begin?
Joseph Stalin and the USSR. And the invasion started with Operation Overlord on Normandy Beach.
Period of time when American banks ran out of money during the early phases of the Great Depression.
Bank Run
What was the unemployment percentage during the Great Depression?
25%
The two programs created to help protect America financially. AND what each one does specifically.
FDIC, SEC. FDIC insures bank account deposits, and SEC regulates the stock market.
What officially pulls America into the War?
The Attack at Pearl Harbor
What was the nickname given to Operation Overlord, what was the primary goal of this mission?
D-Day, to storm the beach, eliminate the machine gun nests, and hold the beach once taken.
Culture of purchasing new things. Often involving the use of credit.
Consumerism or MASS Consumerism
Charities where the homeless and hungry would go to receive free food.
What challenge did FDR have to overcome when attempting to move forward with the New Deal and how did he threaten to fix it?
The supreme court often challenged his initiatives & he threatened to add new supreme court justices to change the balance of power in the supreme court. Court Packing.
Which front does the US primarily fight the Japanese, AND what was the largest and final island victory for the Allied Forces?
The pacific front, and the battle of okinawa.
What battle is considered the turning point in the pacific and what battle is considered the turning point on land?
The Battle of Midway and then the Battle of the Bulge.
One of the main causes of the Depression, a side effect of heightened post war production capacity.
Over production.
Shantytowns built where the homeless lived together, and the prominent public work project of a similar name.
Hoovervilles and Hoover Dam
Politically, on what side were FDR's opponents who were opposed to the New Deal?
Both republican and democrat.
Which nation had been attacked by Japan for Approximately a decade prior to WW2 and where?
China in Manchuria
What was invented and used to end the war in japan? and what was the name of the project that created it?
The nuclear bomb or the atomic bomb. and The Manahattan Project
The two types of CREDIT discussed in the course.
Consumer Credit and Stock Market Margin
Farming crisis occurring in the US during the Depression, forcing many to relocate AND what area of the country it occurred in.
The Dust Bowl and The Great Plains
Did the New Deal completely end the Great Depression?
& The name of FDR's addresses to the American Public throughout the Great Depression.
No, WW2 is most often sighted as the official cure of the great depression.
Fire Side Chats.
What were the names of the first 2 territories taken by Hitler at the start of WW2 and which country did he take next?
Rhineland, Sudentenland, and then Poland.
How did the government finance the war? and how did citizens offset the effects of rationing back home?
AND who entered the workforce to offset the loss of labor during the war?
War bonds and victory gardens.
Women