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Babe Ruth
Turned baseball into Americas' game, played for the New York Yankees, made baseball a spectator sport.
Black Tuesday
The day that the stock market crashed caused panic and ended the roaring 20's and led us into the Great Depression
Impact from Prohibition
Led to more crime bootlegging and more violence
Post WW1 agriculter
Farmers struggled because of overproduction and debt because of supplies wasted and no longer food going to army
Impact of Pearl Harbor
The attack from Japan caused U.S. to join the war
The Jass Singer
first "talkie" film
Navajo code talkers
U.S. messengers with an unbreakable language used to communicate during the war.
What started the cold war
Tension between the U.S. and USSR
response to Japanese aggression
cut off embargos with materals and supplies
Causes of the Great Depression
Market speculation when some people get nervous many get nervous, credit use buying with money you didn't have, postwar overproduction, agriculture struggles
Appeasment
a policy to calm an aggressive country by negotiation and a consensus to avoid war.
ex: Brittan, France, and Hitler agreed to do this with the Munich Agreement
Manhattan Prodject
U.S. program developing the atomic bomb that took place in New Mexico
Describe Operation torch
Gave U.S. army practice fighting and combat Esperance and helped us learn how to deal with German armor
reasons for American Isolation pre WW2
Great Depression we weren't prepared to fight and we didn't want to enter another war
what is the selective service act
The 1st peacetime draft
what gave the 1920's economic prosperity
Stock Market thriving, Energy Tech, consumer economy, government policies, automobile gave people freedom to travel spend and socialize
fireside chats
Radio addresses given by FDR speaking directly from the White House during the Depression
what is buying margin
buying stock on credit 9making an investment with borrowed money)
Battle of Midway
U.S. win and stop the Japanese. Turning point in the war.
The hundred Days of Congress
Government took over banks (Bank holiday), relief program, repeal of prohibition. FDR's 1st Hundred days in congress
Keynesian Econonics
The government spending helps run the economy, FDR believed this and made poor spending choices putting the country in debt
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Naval Historian who created the WW1 Naval Doctrine.
Yalta confrence
Major war conference between the soviets, Britan, and U.S.
The 3 Rs in the New Deal
Relief - Help the poor, unemployed, and desperate
Recovery - Restore the demand to get economy moving
Reform - renew the financial structures to ensure there won't be another crash
describe: cash/carry and lend/lease
cash/carry - you can sell/trade to any who has the money and can transport it on their own ships.
Lend/Lease - is the same concept but using credit not cash