Encouraged Americans to be self sustaining with their food due to rationing
What is a victory garden?
Germany, Italy, Japan
What countries make up the Axis Powers?
Receives all of the blame for his poor response to the Great Depression.
Who is President Hoover?
FDRs plan to increase government influence and power at the local/ federal level and fix the economy
What is the New Deal?
This helped pay for the war effort by people at home
What are War Bonds?
The attempted genocide of European Jews
What is the Holocaust?
Communicated with a secret code the Japanese could not break to move troops and coordinate attacks
Who are the Navajo?
The only living black recipient of the Medal of Honor
Who is Vernon Baker?
used the radio to communicate plans for the New Deal in plain language
What are fireside chats?
Buying on the margin
Poor banking practices
Overspeculation
Producing too much
Not enough money in circulation
Tariff wars
What Caused the Great Depression?
Trade restrictions and embargos placed on Japan due to their aggression in Asia
What caused the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
He dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan
Who is President Truman?
The day that will live in infamy. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
When was December 7, 1941?
The US military strategy in the Pacific Theater
What is island hopping?
He was considered the closet thing we had to a king because of his massive increase in the power of the executive branch in Americans everyday lives.
Who was FDR?
The day the Great Depression started (black tuesday)
What happened on Oct 29, 1929?
This organization protects and guarantees your money will be in the bank even in economic hardships for the country
What is the FDIC?
interment of Japanese after Pearl Harbor
What is Executive Order 9066?
Over Grazing
Drought
Removal of native grasses
What are causes of the Dust Bowl?
States most impacted by the dust bowl
What are Texas and Oklahoma?
Disability
unemployment
retirement fund
What is the Social Security Administration?
Mass produce, people stop buying products, prices fall leading to unemployment and business closure
What is Overproduction?
Turman was feared the large number of US troops that would be killed trying to invade.
What us drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
June 6, 1944, invasion of France, a turning point in the European Theater
What was D-Day?
Leads to a decrease in US Trade and leads to reciprocal tariffs from other countries, puts international trade at a standstill
What is the Smoot Hawley Tariff?