1920s
The hate group that targeted immigrants, African Americans, Catholics, and Jews; often committing acts of violence toward them
Ku Klux Klan
Hoover's specific approach to addressing the Great Depression
Rugged Individualism
Social Security Administration
Belief held by America about involvement in WWII because they were far away from the conflict
Isolationism
The most famous invention of the 1920s that led to great changes in how Americans lived
Automobile
The term used to describe the fear of Communism in the 1920s
Red Scare
Name of FDR's radio broadcast to the American people
Fireside Chats
Works Progress Administration
Deliberate extermination of a specific group of people; carried out during the Holocaust
Genocide
The term used to celebrate African-American literature, music, and art
Harlem Renaissance
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The date the stock market collapsed - Month, Day, Year
October 29, 1929
1 criticism of the New Deal
Increased the national debt, gave more power to the federal government
Identify the date of Pearl Harbor
Name the tariff most directly responsible for causing economic troubles throughout the world after WWI
Hawley Smoot Tariff
The amendment that made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal
18th Amendment
Identify 3 causes of the Great Depression
Overfarming/debt/Dust Bowl
Tariffs/global market slows
WWI debts and destruction
Overuse of credit
Program created to improve the economic life of a region and generate electricity to prevent flooding
Tennessee Valley Authority
Identify the two atomic bomb nicknames AND the two locations where they were dropped the end the war in the pacific
Little Boy - Hiroshima
Fat Man - Nagasaki
The name of the Allied invasion of France that took place June 6, 1944
D-Day
Economic spending of the 1920s can largely be described as... (explain to me)
Wave of consumerism, buying things they could not afford (credit), and it was all a facade
Explain SPECIFICALLY how people lived during the Great Depression - give at least 3 specific examples
Lived in shacks or Hoovervilles
Relied on others for support
Stopped going to doctor's, dentist, school, work
Rise in suicide
Teens left home
Men became hoboes
Explain the role of the federal government during the New Deal, and how it differed from Hoover's handling of the GD
Went from laissez-faire hands off to drastically involved; changed forever the understanding of our government
Explain how America's Neutrality policies evolved from 1939 to 1941
Neutrality Act of 1939, then Cash & Carry policy, then lend lease, then Atlantic Charter; America was never really neutral prior to PH
Explain the economic impact WWII had on the United States
Pulled the US out of the GD, made it an economic powerhouse after the War