UNIT 7 TEST REVIEWU.S. History

SSUSH 17U.S. History

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A severe economic recession in the 1930s

that affected all the world’ industrialized nations?

Great Depression

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Businesses made more products than they could

sell?

Overproduction

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Resulted from the increase in prices of goods and the low

wages of workers?

Underconsumption

National CrisisOctober 1929 the U.S. was beginning to show signs of slowing down; stockholders

panicked and sold their stock causing this?

Stock Market Crash 1929

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Risky investments in stock to make a profit? Usually buying stock on credit or installment

plans.

Speculation

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The practice of making a down payment on stock and

then making installment plans?

Buying on Margin

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A labor condition brought about by the Great

Depression?

Widespread Unemployment

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A serious drought that caused many farmers to

lose their farms?

Dustbowl

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Farmers also caused the Dustbowl by doing this to the

land causing soil erosion?

Over-farming

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Many farmers did this when they lost their

homes in the Dust Bowl?

Migration West/ California

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Makeshift huts and living areas made by the homeless and

unemployed?

Hoovervilles

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Hoovervilles were named after this individual blamed for the

Great Depression?

President Herbert Hoover

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“There is nothing to fear, but fear itself”

President FDR, March 1933Referring to?

Great Depression

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“There is nothing to fear, but fear itself”

President FDR, March 1933Referring to?

Great Depression

SSUSH 18U.S. History

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President of the United States during the Great Depression and WWII?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Series of Programs established by FDR to end

the Great Depression?

New Deal

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Main goal of the New Deal?

End the negative effects of the Great

Depression

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Major effect of Great Depression?

Widespread Unemployment

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This was created to make jobs for the unemployed in

the South?

Tennessee Valley Authority

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The TVA was created as a?

Works Program

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A works program in the New Deal gave people?

Jobs

National CrisisThe intention of FDR when

creating the TVA?

Lower unemployment by giving Government

Jobs

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The TVA also provided this for the Rivers in Tennessee?

Flood Control

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The TVA used dams to create this for rural people in the seven southern states?

Electricity

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The TVA DID NOT?

Regulate Electricity

National CrisisReform during FDR’s New Deal

that established collective bargaining rights for workers and prohibited unfair labor

practices.

Wagner Act

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What were employers prohibited from doing after passage of the

Wagner Act?

Interfere in workers right to Unionize

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The Wagner Act is also known as?

National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

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Because laborers were protected under the NLRA this happened in the U.S.?

Industrial Unionism

National CrisisThis provided old age

insurance for retirees 65 or older, unemployment, aid for the disabled and families with

dependent children?

Social Security Act

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Prominent first lady that became a symbol of women’s activism and social progress?

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Louisiana Senator that became FDRs biggest critic, proposed a home, food, and clothes for every American?

Huey Long

National CrisisMain criticism of Huey Long of the New Deal Program?

Didn’t do enough to distribute wealth to

help the average citizen

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Judiciary Reorganization bill of 1937 when FDR attempted to change the size of the U.S.

Supreme Court?

Court Packing Bill

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How many Justices did FDR want to place on the

Supreme Court in 1937?

Six

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Why did FDR want to change the size of the Supreme

Court?

The Supreme Court was declaring his New Deal

programs unconstitutional

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Series of laws passed by Congress during WWII to

keep FDR from selling weapons to warring

countries?

Neutrality Act

SSUSH 19U.S. History

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Threatened a march on Washington, D.C. to protest

discrimination in hiring practices in defense industries

in WWII?

A. Phillip Randolph

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In response to Randolph’s threats FDR issued this?

Executive Order

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FDR’s Executive Order called on employers in defense industries to stop this?

Discrimination in hiring practices

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World War II was waged in these years?

1939-1945

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What was the major cause of WWII?

Expansionistic policies of Germany,

Japan, Italy

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The U.S. showed it’s disapproval of Japan expanding

into Manchuria by doing this?

Embargo on scrap iron, gas, and oil

products

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“Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,

…” FDR Refers to?

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

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When did the U.S. enter World War II?

1941

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“December 7, 1941 is a day which will live in infamy”Surprise Attack by Japan

Pearl Harbor

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Japan responded to the U.S. embargo on scrap iron, gas,

and oil products when it?

Attacked Pearl Harbor naval base

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Geographic location of Pearl Harbor?

Pacific Ocean / Hawaii

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This placed all Japanese Americans in Internment

camps after Pearl Harbor?

Executive Order 9066

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These two groups were also placed in Internment Camps

during WWII by the U.S.

German- Americans & Italian Americans

National CrisisProgram created by FDR to

get around the Neutrality Acts and loan Great Britain and

France Weapons?

Lend-Lease Program

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Analogy used by FDR to get Americans to support

Lend-Lease Act?

Fire Hose

National CrisisFDR used the Hose Analogy in

the lend-Lease to justify?

The US giving aid to Great Britain before

entering WWII

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Turning point of WWII in the Pacific. U.S. surprise attack

on Japanese Navy destroying it?

Battle of Midway

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After the battle of Midway, the U.S. went on the offensive

doing this?

Island Hopping

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Largest air and sea invasion in Normandy that pushed

Germany out of France?

D-Day

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Secret name for the invasion of Normandy that resulted in

D-day?

Operation Overlord

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Allied Commander in charge of Operation Overlord?

Eisenhower

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May 8, 1945 when Russia invaded Berlin Germany and

ended the war in Europe?

VE-Day

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Allied Commander over the Pacific theater of war that accepted the Surrender of

Japan?

Gen. Douglas McArthur

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A term that refers getting soldiers, equipping them,

and moving them into war?

Mobilization

National CrisisThe War Mobilization of the U.S. Economy during WWII caused?

Women to enter the labor force and work

in factories

National CrisisHow did women help the war

effort in WWII?

Made ammunition, guns, ships, planes, tanks, etc. for troops

National CrisisWhat symbol revealed

women’s help the war effort in WWII?

Rosie the Riveter

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This expanded the draft during WWII to make more men enter

the armed forces?

Selective Service Act

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Mandatory government system created to conserve scarce goods for Soldiers overseas during WWII?

Rationing

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Under rationing, every family was given a book of coupons for red meat, sugar, coffee,

and gas called?

C-Books

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Term that refers to Singer Sewing machine and other industries changing form

domestic production to making guns & ammunition?

War-time conversion

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The U.S. government raised money in these three ways to

pay for WWII?

Selling war bonds, raising income taxes,

borrowing money

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Since men were at war this group of people worked in

factories?

Women in War Industries

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This propaganda poster figure represented women in

the war industries?

Rosie the Riveter

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This was a group of women that filled noncombat positions in the Military otherwise filled by

men?

Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACS)

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Secret Project code that referred to the plan to develop

the Atomic Bomb?

Manhattan Project

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Location in the U.S. where the first Atomic Bomb was

tested?

Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Where in the World was the first two Atomic bombs

dropped during WWII?

Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan

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This individual ordered the A-Bombs dropped on Japan?

President Harry Truman

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Reason Truman believed that the U.S. Invasion of Japan

would cause?

Massive Casualties

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Reason Truman gave for giving the order to drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan?

Save American Lives

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Germany, Italy, and Japan?

Axis Powers

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U.S., France, Great Britain, Russia?

Allies

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Arena of War fought in Europe and ended with D-Day and the fall of Berlin?

European Theater

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Arena of war fought in Pacific Ocean and ended with

Midway and bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki?

Pacific Theater

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Biggest obstacle in WWII in the Pacific and European Theatre?

Distance to travel to get U.S. Troops

supplies

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During WWII in the European Theatre, what victory helped Allies get Troops supplies?

D-Day (France a location to supply)

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During WWII in the Pacific Theatre, what victory helped Allies get Troops supplies?

Battle of Midway