Great Depression
This is the term for shanty towns that popped up around large cities during the Great Depression.
What ARE HOOVERVILLES?
THESE groups would have been more likely to support Roosevelt's assertion that the government needed to regulate business and provide help when needed.
What are LABOR UNIONS?
This country conducted a sneak bombing attack on a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on THIS DATE
What is DECEMBER 7, 1941?
The Japanese surrender was precipitated by the dropping of an atomic bomb in THIS location?
What is NAGASAKI?
Of the following, THIS represents the amount of people that died as a result of the Holocaust?
- 3 million
- 6 million
- 11 million
What is 11 MILLION?
THIS is another word for gambling/betting on value of stocks to rise to be able to sell shares and earn a profit.
What is MARKET SPECULATION?
THIS branch of government presented the most challenges to FDRs New Deal initiatives.
What is the JUDICIAL BRANCH (Supreme Court)?
THIS refers to people and groups who did not want to be involved in the affairs of Europe and instead wanted to focus on domestic policy.
Who were ISOLATIONISTS?
What is MASS MOBILIZATION?
The Atlantic Charter laid the framework for THIS organization?
What is the UNITED NATIONS?
The 1932 decision by Hoover and Congress to raise income, estate, and corporate taxes on the wealthy to control the federal deficit resulted in THIS.
What is the LOSS OF MILLIONS OF JOBS?
Roosevelt's New Deal initiatives generally challenged THIS style of governing and economic policy.
What is LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics/capitalism?
The decision of Great Britain and France to sign the Munich Accord was considered an act of THIS?
What is APPEASEMENT?
Japanese internment presented challenges to Japanese Americans, such as Fred Korematsu's THESE, which are supposed to be guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.
What are CIVIL RIGHTS/LIBERTIES?
World War 2 essentially ended the Great Depression because of THIS/THESE FACTORS.
What is INCREASED PRODUCTION AND INCREASED EMPLOYMENT?
THIS New Deal program supported the work of writers, artists, and musicians.
What is the WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA)?
FDR's New Deal initiatives pushed the idea that government should be used to do THIS to the economy.
What is STIMULATE the economy?
Besides the bombing of Pearl Harbor, what event had happened earlier than convinced many Americans that the U.S. would eventually have to enter the war?
What was when Germany invaded FRANCE?
Tensions rose between the U.S. and Japan because Japan kept trying to do THIS?
What is CONTROL/INVADE CHINA?
American women working in industrial jobs received lower THIS?
What is LOWER PAY for equal work?
THIS was the long-term impact on the automobile industry of the 1937 Flint, Michigan, sit-down strike?
The transformation could be described as a limited THIS (TWO-WORD TERM).
What is a limited WELFARE STATE?
Germans began sinking American ships after Congress passed THIS act.
What is the LEND-LEASE ACT?
American children helped aid the effort in World War II by doing THIS?
What is PLANT VICTORY GARDENS?
Civil Rights activism among racial and ethnic minorities increased during WWII for THIS reason.
What is their SUCCESS IN THE WAR (Tuskegee airmen) and SENSE OF AMERICAN IDENTITY?