Study Guide
To finance the war effort, the government increased _____________ and sold ____________ _______________.
taxes; war bonds
The _________________ _____________________ Act provided some financial security for the elderly, disabled, children, and the unemployed.
Social Security
The _____________ ____________ was a group of World War I veterans and their families who protested in Washington, D.C.
Bonus Army
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the ____________ _________________________ to discuss postwar plans.
Yalta Conference
One reason why some American women were discouraged during the postwar years was because society seemed to assume that a woman’s principal role was as a ____________ and _________________.
wife; mother
In Los Angeles, groups of sailors attacked Mexican Americans wearing distinctive clothing, beginning the ___________-___________ ____________.
zoot-suit riots
In the 1950s millions of Americans earned ____________ money than ever before.
more
____________ _________________ led the Communists to officially establish the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
Mao Zedong
The ____________ _____________________ was, and still is, a line dividing North and South Korea.
38th Parallel
Herbert Hoover lost the election in 1932 mainly because Americans blamed him for the _________________________.
Depression
Black Tuesday is the day the ______________ ________________ ___________________.
stock market crashed
The New Deal _____________________ the role of the federal government.
increased
Wisconsin senator _________________ _____________________ raised fears to a fevered pitch in 1950 by charging that Communists were working inside the State Department.
Joseph McCarthy
For most of the 1920s, the stock market was a ____________ _________________, or one with rising stock values.
bull market
The Tennessee Valley Authority was important because it built ____________ and _______________________ that provided people with ________________________.
dams; generators; electricity
The Tuskegee Airmen were ___________________ _______________________ pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama.
African American
Workers would engage in ________-_____________ __________________ so they couldn’t be replaced by new workers.
sit-down strikes
__________________ _____________________ was a dictator who gained complete control of Italy in 1922.
Benito Mussolini
Men from the ages of 18 to 38 were required to register for the _______________.
draft
Someone who could not afford a stock’s full price began buying on ________________, or purchasing on credit with a loan.
margin
Great Britain and France finally declared war on Germany in September 1939, because __________________ attacked ________________, which they had pledged to defend if attacked.
Germany; Poland
Harry Truman took over as president, because President Roosevelt ____________ of a ________________ in April 1945.
died; stroke
The ____ ____ ____________ _____ _______________ offered veterans money for school, loans for houses, farms, and businesses.
G.I. Bill of Rights
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was made up of the ____ ____, ___________________, ___________________, and nine Western European countries.
U.S.; Canada; Iceland
_________________ chats were radio addresses given by Roosevelt in which he spoke directly to the American people.
fireside