FDR's New Deal
FDR's response to the Great Depression was to increase or decrease the role of the federal government?
Increase
What event caused the United States to officially declare War in WWII?
Pearl Harbor
What was the name of the conglomerate American culture created through shared products/experiences?
Mass Culture
What rose to 25% during the Great Depression?
Unemployment
What is the name of the mass movement of African Americans to northern cities in search of work from 1916-1970?
Great Migration
What were the 3 R's of FDR's New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
What policies allowed the United States to aid Great Britain before officially declaring war themselves?
Cash+Carry and Lend-Lease Act
This is still the 7th best selling car of all time. Heavily produced in the 1920s with mass production.
Ford's Model-T
Herbert Hoover
The plan by Britain, America, and Canada to create a 2nd front in WWII to "squeeze" the Germans back into Germany.
D-Day/Operation Overlord
FDR tried to put 1 Presidentially appointed supreme court justice into the Judicial System for every member over 70 up to 6. What was this called?
Court Packing
Leading up to WWII America didn't want to get involved so they took a _____ stance
Isolationist
Movement of women and progressives to ban the sale of alcohol leads to this. Lasts from 1920-1933.
100 Point Bonus (for each part): What were illegal bars called? What music did they often have bands play?
The Prohibition
Bonus: Speakeasies; Jazz
Name 2 Root Causes of The Great Depression
Stock Market Crash of 1929, Boom and Bust cycles, Inadequate banking system
This allows Americans to pay for expensive items over time.
Bonus: 100 Points: What is it called when people bought stock with money that was loaned?
Installment Buying
Bonus: Buying on Margin
What did the New Deal create to financially help people past working age?
Social Security Act
DAILY DOUBLE!!
How did the United States deal with the perceived National Security threat of Japanese Americans during WWII?
Internment Camps
African American cultural explosion of music, dance, art, literature, and theater centered around a particular area in Manhattan, New York.
Harlem Renaissance
Why did people migrate from rural areas like Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado?
Bonus 100 Points: what were those people called?
The Dust Bowl
Bonus: Okies
Women who fought for sexual freedom, birth control, and other women's liberation rights.
Flappers
What did the Agricultural Adjustment Act accomplish?
Raised farm prices by limiting agricultural production. Farmers dealing with overproduction since the 1920s
What is the battle which is considered a turning point for the Pacific Theater of WWII?
The Battle of Midway
How did America spurn the heightened levels of immigration during the 1920's?
Immigration Laws. Ex.) Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and Immigration Act of 1924
Korematsu v. United States help up the constituationality of what?
Japanese Internment Camps