The 1920s & Great Depression
This encouraged buying during the 1920s and helped create a consumer culture.
Advertising and installment payments
President Roosevelt’s New Deal greatly increased the power of this level of government.
The Federal Government
This group gained new job opportunities in factories during WWII.
Women
This surprise attack convinced the American public that entering WWII was necessary.
Pearl Harbor
FDR died in 1945, leaving this president to decide whether to use the atomic bomb
Truman
This new manufacturing innovation made cars much more affordable by 1925.
Assembly Line
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) tried to help farmers by doing this to production.
Reducing/controlling production
This limited how many goods a person could buy.
Rationing or Ration cards
Germany, Italy, and Japan's aggressive behavior in the 1930s caused the U.S. to abandon this foreign policy.
Isolationism or Neutrality
What event officially started WWII?
The German invasion of Poland
Overfarming and this environmental problem caused the Dust Bowl.
Drought
Programs such as the CCC and WPA were designed to do what?
Propaganda asking citizens to conserve goods were created mainly to ensure that soldiers had this?
Food, supplies, etc
Arrange these events chronologically: Treaty of Versailles, Hitler becomes Chancellor, Germany invades Poland.
Treaty of Versailles, Hitler becomes Chancellor, Germany invades Poland.
What year did WWII begin and end?
1939-1945
Buying stocks with borrowed money and hoping the price keeps rising is known as this, a major cause of the 1929 crash.
Overspeculation
These lines, seen in many cities, formed because of widespread business failures and unemployment.
Bread lines
E.O. 9066 did what?
Allowed to the government to place Japanese-Americans in internment camps for the duration of the war.
This U.S. project began shortly after entering WWII to develop atomic weapons.
Manhattan Project
What 3 countries made up the Axis powers?
Germany, Japan, Italy
Fear after the stock market crash caused these financial institutions to fail when people rushed to withdraw their savings.
Banks
What ultimately helped end the Great Depression?
WWII
The U.S. had already been aiding the Allies before Pearl Harbor through this program that loaned weapons to Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
Lend-Lease
The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb in this Japanese city.
Hiroshima
What was considered the turning point in the Pacific theater?
What was considered the turning point in the European theater?
Midway
Battle of the Bulge