Great Depression
WWI
WWII
Causes of the Great Depression
North Carolina's Involvement
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Where did the poor lived during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
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What is the spark for WWI?
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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What was Hitler's big mistake?
Hitler attacked the Soviet Union
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Why did the people buy less than the economy was producing?
Americans were unable to borrow anymore
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What happened to many families in North Carolina during the depression?
Lost homes, businesses and farms
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Define Black Tuesday
The stock market crashed, people were selling than buying stock, the beginning of the Great Depression
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The Main Causes if WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism
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What is the significance of V-E Day?
Victory for the Allies in Europe
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What did the New Deal try to do with the Banks?
Restructure Banks
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Name at least two New Deal programs in North Carolina during the Great Depression
The CCC, National Youth Association, the WPA, and the Rural Electrification Administration
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What caused people to lose jobs and homes?
Businesses closed, fired workers, cutting jobs, closing banks and don't have enough money to pay bills and rents
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Who was blamed for the war and what did it lead to?
Germany got blamed for the war and it led to WWII
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How did the United States get involved in WWII?
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
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How did the Stock Market crash?
People were selling stock more than buying it
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What happened to the farms and the people who lived there?
It caused the movement of people to mill towns and even the cash crop farms were affected too.
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Paying only part of a stock and borrowing the rest is called
Margin
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What was the root for WWI?
Europe's Past
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Why did the United States drop the second atomic bomb on Japan?
Japan wasn't going to surrender
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What could high production not keep up with?
The demand for goods
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What program did Governor Gardener create to teach people how to be subsistence farmers?
Live at Home
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What are the five causes of the Great Depression?
Overproduction, Under Consumption, Banking Crisis, Wealth Gap and Stock Market
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Which two events caused the United States to get involved?
Zimmerman Telegram, Germany blowing up the Lusitania
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What is the Manhattan Project?
A secret program to building an atomic weapon
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Why were the workers mad?
Owners were getting more money than workers, the workers' wages were not increasing enough
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How did North Carolina get involved in WWII?
Torpedo Junction, built hospitals for hurt soldiers who were trying to defend ships off the Carolina coast.
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