GD/New Deal
What is buying on the margin/stock speculation?
Using loans to buy stocks
The attack on this naval port by the Japanese caused the United States to join World War Two.
Pearl Harbor
This term refers to the population increase that occurred following WW2 as soldiers came home to their wives and made up for lost time.
Baby Boom
After the 1965 Immigration Act, what were the two groups that began immigrating to the US the most?
Asians and Hispanic Americans.
What were bank runs? What did they lead to?
When everyone ran to the banks to get their money out. Led to banks closing.
What was the strategy the US used in the Pacific theater called? We would not take every island, instead we would skip some and only take the most important ones.
Island Hopping
True or False: the economic boom in the postwar years was caused by an increase in consumer demand
True
This discriminatory home loan practice led to de facto segregation as businesses would not give home loans to black families.
Redlining.
What was FDR's plan to get the US out of the Great Depression? Did it cause the government's involvement to increase or decrease?
New Deal; increase
When the soldiers went to war, who helped fill in their jobs on the homefront? (2 groups)
Women and minorities.
During the war the GI Bill was introduced. When the soldiers came home they all wanted to buy homes.
Where did many of them buy homes/move to?
Suburbs
Name a concern that led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency
Acceptable Answers: Pollution, pesticide use, endangering wild animals, chemical runoff problems.
What was the New Deal Program that provided retirement benefits to people over the age of 65?
Social Security
The War Production Board was put in charge of making sure the US had enough military supplies.
What power did it have over factories that allowed it to make sure we had enough stuff?
Could tell factories to make war materials.
Describe the gender roles for men and women in a home according to the 1950s American Dream
Men: Breadwinner/have a job and provide
Women: Housewife.
What was the purpose of the National Organization for Women (NOW)? What did they fight?
Gender Discrimination
What was a Conservative criticism of the New Deal?
Acceptable answers: cost too much money, caused debt, gave FDR too much power, did not work.
This was the African American Civil Rights Movement during WW2. Focused on winning at home and abroad.
Double V
The vaccine for this illness was introduced in the 1950s and nearly eradicated the disease, decreasing child mortality rate.
Polio
MLK advocated for this type of protest:
You would willingly break unjust laws, accept your punishment, get out of prison and then do it again. Trying to break attention to the injustice
Civil Disobedience