Historical Figures
President of General motors and created the Installment Plan
Alfred Sloane
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
Who as the Triple Alliance
Germany, Italy, Austria
AKA Shanty Towns, sheds made from scrap materials for homes
Hoovervilles
AKA “My struggle” -book wrote by Adolf Hitler
”Mienkampf”
“The Black Moses” believed segregation was good because he didn’t want to pollute the black race
Marcus Garvey
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Civil war in Russia
Bolshevik Revolution
October 29, 1929 the Stock market crashed
Black Tuesday
The invasion of this country starts WW2
Poland
“Silent Cal” never spoke to the press
Calvin Coolidge
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Russia, France, and Great Britain
Triple Entente
WW1 vets were promised a check in 1945 and they demanded it in 1932, FDR had the military escort them out of DC
Bonus Army
The US started building bombers and fighter planes for England without expectation of getting them back
Lend-Lease Act
lead the NIRA, melted cars and appliances and eventually turned in to war materials
Hugh S. Johnson
CWA
Civil Works Administration
Document from Germany to Mexico asking to declare war on the US but was intercepted and decoded by England and we went to war
Zimmerman Telegram
The US loaned Germany money, Germany payed France back, and France payed the US
Dawes Plan
Pacific Navy Headquarters bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
California Doctor with ideals for modern day social security, made a radio address talking badly about FDR
Francis Townshed
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
The way Woodrow Wilson envisioned the world to look but it favored the US
The Fourteen Points
Highest rates ever
40% of banks collapse and 25% unemployment
Invasion of North Africa by the US and England
“Operation Torch”