1920s Economy
Make a down payment, and pay the rest later.
What was installment buying?
Failed invasion of Cuba.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
Hitler invaded Poland
What was the immediate cause of WWII?
President who developed the New Deal.
Who was FDR?
Event that brought the USA into WWII.
What was Pearl Harbor?
Man who used the assembly line to make cars cheaper.
Who was Henry Ford?
Presidential policy based on containment.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Name of one of the cities that was targeted by the atomic bomb.
What were Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
What were the three R's?
President who was blamed for the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Problem that affected farmers after WWI.
What was overproduction?
Idea that if one country fell to Communism, its neighbors would become Communist too.
What was the Domino Theory?
Allied invasion that reopened the French front.
What was D-Day?
What was the AAA?
Policy that said the US could only sale weapons to other countries if they were paid for up front and transported independently.
What was Cash and Carry?
Taking loans to buy stock
What was buying on margin?
Program that gave aid to countries that were vulnerable to Communism.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Strategy that was used to get closer to the Japanese mainland.
What was island hopping?
Insures money in banks.
What was the FDIC?
What is a proxy war?
Gambling on the stock market.
What was speculation?
Weapon free area between North and South Korea where no one is allowed to be.
What is the DMZ?
Regulates business and the stock market.
What is the SEC?
The US ordered one of the on oil to Japan... led to Pearl Harbor.
What is an embargo?