Great Depression
A type of loan that was used by speculators to buy more stock.
What are Margin Loans?
President elected in the Election of 1932. His economic policies were called the "New Deal."
Who is Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)?
An event that marked the beginning of World War II.
What is the invasion of Poland?
Republican presidential candidate for the Election of 1936.
Who is Alf Landon?
This was a 60% tax on imported goods to help American industry during the Great Depression.
What is Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
National banks were about to collapse in 1933, so FDR signed this bill into law. It gave banks a four day holiday.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
What is Battle of Stalingrad?
This was supposed to reorganize the Supreme Court. It recommended that the retirement age for Supreme Court justices be 70 years old. If the justice does not retire, then a replacement justice can be added to the court for a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 15 justices.
What is the Court Packing Plan or Reorganization Plan?
The President of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Biggest critic of the New Deal.
What is the Supreme Court?
First U.S. involvement in the war. This was led by Dwight Eisenhower in North Africa to eventually invade Germany.
What is Operation TORCH?
Country where U.S. had first engagement with the Nazis.
What is Tunisia?
This was a result of overworking the land. It caused extreme storms filled with loose soil.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This created pensions for the elderly.
What is Social Security Act?
The Japanese wanted to take over this place to get access to more resources. This was also considered the Dutch East Indies.
What is Indonesia?
This U.S law was signed and put into law in 1939. It stated that the U.S. could sell arms to belligerents on a cash and carry basis only.
What is Neutrality Act of 1939 or Cash and Carry Act?
What is loss of purchasing power, Stock Market Crash, poor distribution of income, agriculture depressed, decline in automobile and construction industries, unstable international economy, weakness of the banking system?
This New Deal agency was created during FDR's First New Deal. This helped create hydroelectric dams across the Tennessee River Valley. It created more jobs and lowered the cost of electricity in the region.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Ended the Great Depression. It stated that the U.S. could lend or lease any equipment, supplies, arms to nations whose defense was vital to the country.
What is Lend-Lease Act?
Policy used by Neville Chamberlain on Adolf Hitler, which states that someone must give up something to avoid war.
What is appeasement?