The Great Depression
The most immediate cause of the Great Depression; many other long causes existed.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Party of Roosevelt
What is Democrat?
The three Rs Roosevelt was trying to bring with the New Deal
What is Relief, Reform, Recovery?
The United States entered the war when this happened.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Getting ready for war; the draft was one thing we did
What is mobilization?
This was devasting to the Great Plains, no crops grew for most of the decade.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The way Roosevelt communicated with people about the Great Depression; he did not actually go into their homes but it felt like it to some.
What are the fireside chats?
After he closed the banks for a few days, announced this program which would guarantee deposits so people would put their money in banks.
What is the FDIC?
"We have enough problems of our own with the Great Depression, we do not need to go to war in Europe again!" would be a statement someone from this group may say.
What are isolationists?
"HANDS OFF GOVERNMENT" specifically economic policies
What is Laissez Faire?
Who is Hoover?
When he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
What is his first inaugural address?
What is the AAA?
The biggest invasion by water and allowed the Allies to take back France.
What is D Day?
Failed policy of giving Hitler what he wanted in hopes he would stop asking.
What is appeasement?
The New Deal did not do this; actually the United States' involvement in WWII did.
What is end the Great Depression?
According to Roosevelt, what was "a date that will live in infamy?"
What is Dec 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Employed young men to do work in outside, they stayed at camps in different locations.
What is the CCC?
What are two battles in the Asian theatre?
What are Iwo Jima and Midway?
A way for the United States to help out Great Britain before the United States entered WWII, we gave supplies and weapons to them.
What is the Lend Lease Bill?
What is the oil embargo or move their naval fleet to Pearl Harbor?
President at the end of WWII
Who is Truman?
Refers to the many abbreviations of the programs Roosevelt used to help out with the Great Depression
What is alphabet soup?
After this, the Japanese surrendered
What is the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Won gold in the 1936 Olympics; proved Hitler's ideology had flaws.
Who is Jesse Owens?