Roaring 20s
This scandal involved the Secretary of the Interior, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private companies and in exchange, allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, CA and Teapot Dome, WY
Teapot Dome Scanda
The stock market crashed on Tuesday, October 29th, also called
Black Tuesday
What drove the US to join World War II?
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt and Congress worked together to create new programs to battle the Great Depression and aid in economic recovery called
The New Deal
Describe the moving-assembly line.
The system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The US and 14 other nations signed the pact, an agreement that outlawed war
President Roosevelt gave radio addresses explaining to American about the news laws. He worked to ease their fears about the bank system. This was called
Fireside chats
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act allowed the US President (Roosevelt at the time) to aid any nation believed vital to the US defense.
List the Allied Powers and their leaders.
Great Britain - Churchill
USA - Roosevelt then Truman
Soviet Union - Stalin
Dust Bowl
Massive dust storms, caused by a drought, swept through the Great Plains region turning it into a dust bowl.
The 21st amendment
banned alcohol
What was the sit-down strike?
Workers staying in factories so that they could not be replaced to protest unfair working conditions
D-Day
American, British, and Canadian troops invaded Normandy, France on June 6, 1944
List the Axis Powers and their leaders.
Germany - Hitler
Japan - Emperor Hirohito
Italy - Mussolini
Totalitarianism
a political system in which the government controls every aspect of citizens' lives
The Harlem Renaissance
was a period of African American artistic accomplishment.
What were the causes of the New Deal? (There are five.)
stock market crash, banking crisis, soaring unemployment, farmers' troubles, widespread poverty
The Holocaust
In a program of mass murder, Hitler and the Nazis had attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. Hitler committed genocide, or the extermination of an entire group of people.
In America, hatred was not only spread to African Americans but also to Japanese Americans. Americans lived in _____ of Japanese descent. The government had no ________ to support these fears but President _______ issued Executive Order 9066. This allowed the government to begin the process of ______, or forced relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans.
In America, hatred was not only spread to African Americans but also to Japanese Americans. Americans lived in FEAR of Japanese descent. The government had no EVIDENCE to support these fears but President ROOSEVELT issued Executive Order 9066. This allowed the government to begin the process of INTERMENT, or forced relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans.
Fascism
a political system in which the state - or government - is seen as more important than individuals
What was one topic we covered during the roaring 20s?
Red Scare, Scopes trial, Harlem Renaissance, development of art, music, and radio, technology advancements
Effect of the New Deal
are expanded role of federal government, created major programs such as Social Security and the FDIC, and provided hope and relief to many Americans but did not end the Great Depression.
Causes of World War II; Effects of World War II
Global and local economic problems, totalitarian governments, Germany's aggression in Europe, Germany and American hatred of each other, Japanese aggression in Asia and the Pacific.
Millions of deaths worldwide; Widespread destruction of cities and industries; The Holocaust; Rise of the US as the leading world power; Rise of nationalism in Asia and Africa leads to growing independence; movements in many nations under European colonial control
African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama were very important to the war and they were called
Tuskegee Airmen
Define WPB
The War Production Board and it was to oversee the conversion of factories to war production