Great Depression
Black Tuesday refers to this event that triggered the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
These are the three R's that the New Deal focused on.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This amendment shortened the period from election to inauguration by 6 weeks.
What is the 20th Amendment?
This is the salvaging of tin cans, food stuffs, and waste fats.
What is rationing?
This state experienced the largest share of wartime migration in the 1940s.
What is California?
This caused the exodus of Okies to California.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This was created in 1935 to provide unemployment, disability, and retirement benefits.
What is the Social Security Act?
This is the form of government that the "war-making" nations of the late 1930s have in common.
What is Fascism/Authoritarianism?
This opened the second front in Europe to alleviate the Soviet Union. Some call it the greatest invasion in human history.
What is D-Day? (Operation Overlord)
This political party became popular among different ethnic groups, African Americans, and the working class because of the New Deal.
What is the Democratic Party?
What are the Banking Holiday and Emergency Banking Act?
This group most effectively opposed FDR's New Deal programs.
What is the US Supreme Court?
Under this act, belligerent countries could buy non-military goods from the US under certain conditions.
What is the 1937 Neutrality Act?
This is a work program created by the US to bring Mexican agricultural laborers into the US to work on farms in the West.
What is the Bracero Program?
This is the Supreme Court case that ruled that the internment of Japanese-Americans was legal.
What is Korematsu v. the US?
This was the president at the beginning of the Great Depression who was blamed for not doing enough to help the people.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This agency employed 3 million men in government camps and their work included reforestation, fire fighting, and flood control.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
These are the two groups of people in the US who debated either staying out or joining WWII.
Who are Isolationists and Interventionists?
Jewish concentration camps were dismantled in this year.
What is 1945?
Who are African Americans?
This is the part of the 3 R's that included programs like the AAA, PWA, and WPA.
What is Recovery?
This agency gave states direct relief payments/money for wages on work projects.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
FDR persuaded Congress to pass this act, which provided for the independence of the Philippines and the gradual removal of US military from the islands.
What is the Tydings-McDuffie Act?
This was a change in US foreign policy that allowed Britain to travel to the US, pay for supplies in cash, and transport them back to Europe.
What is the Cash and Carry Policy?
She became the symbol of the expanded economic opportunities and social positions of women during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?