The Great Depression
How did the great depression impact Europe?
The economic problems in the United States effected the economies in Europe because of the inability to trade.
This act was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
This treaty resulted in forcing Germany to pay war reparations, demilitarizing, and losing land, which would lead to the start of WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the support of the United Nations, with the principal support from the United States). The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border.
What was the Korean War?
This is an authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, e.g., providing a broadcasting service or acting as an agent for a company's products.
What is a franchise?
This event was a result of bad climate in the midwest, resulting in poor agriculture during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This corporation protects money in personal bank accounts. This act give money to people over 65, welfare, and people with disabilities.
What is the FDIC and Social Security Act?
These two policies or acts by the United States are what supplied the allies in Europe and Soviet Union with arms and supplies prior to U.S involvement in WWII.
What is the Cash and Carry and Lend Lease Act?
This was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
What is the HUAC?
This is a number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities.
What is a conglomerate?
The government removed these people while they were protesting for their pay from WWI in Washington D.C
Who is the Bonus Army?
This is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
These three groups of people worked for the military, took on white soldiers jobs on the home front, and helped mobilize and manufacture war time production during WWII.
Who are African Americans, Latinos, and Women?
Under this, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
This act was passed by Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 to create 41,000 miles of highway for American travel.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This is the principle in which you rely on volunteers.
What is voluntarism?
This is an American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. This was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
What is the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This board would help develop the atom bomb, which the United States would drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ultimately ending WWII in the pacific.
What is the Office of Scientific Research and Development?
This was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2018 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Many white Americans who worked now white collared jobs moved out from urban areas to areas like Levittowns, which were known as this.
What are suburbs?
This was the plan set forth by FDR to relieve the U.S economy during the Great Depression.
What is the new deal?
FDR provided these on the radio to ensure Americans of the progression of the nation.
What are fireside chats?
This was a German ocean liner known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939
What is the MS St. Louis?
This was the first major disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war.
What is the division of Germany?
These group of hollywood actors were accused of communist practices during the 1950s. And this method of catching communists can be connected to this because of a senator from Wisconsin.
What is the Hollywood 10 and McCarthyism?