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History Study Guide!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| FDR's main goals in fighting the depression ? | The FDR's mainly focused goals were on infrastructure and environmental problems ! |
| Causes of the Great Depression ? | The stock market crash of 1929, The collapse of world trade due to the Smoot - Hawley Tariff, Government policies, bank failures and panics, and the collapse of the money supply ! |
| Years of the Great Depression ? | August 1929 - March 1933 ! |
| New Deal ? | President Franklin Roosevelt's program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform ! |
| Shanty Towns ? | Neighborhoods in which people live in makeshift shacks ! |
| What event brought an end to the Great Depression ? | Mobilizing the economy for the World War finally cured the depression ! |
| Impact of Roosevelt's fireside chats ? | To address the fears and concerns of the American people as well as to inform them of the positions and actions taken by the U.S. Government ! |
| Why did voters vote for Roosevelt over Hoover ? | Roosevelt emphasized working collectively through an expanded federal government to confront the economic crisis, a contrast to Hoover's emphasis on individualism ! |
| Why was the New Deal a turning point in U.S. History ? | New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression ! |
| Holocaust ? | The systematic murder - or genocide - of Jews and other groups in Europe by the Nazis before and during World War II ! |
| How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust ? | Approximately 6 million European Jews ! |
| Other groups that were killed during the Holocaust ? | Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, Homosexuals, people with disabilities, and others ! |
| What religious group was killed by Germans in Concentration Camps ? | Jehovah's Witnesses ! |
| Under German rule, before Concentration Camps, where were jews forced to live ? | Jews were forced to live in what was called the "Ghettos" ! |
| Genocide ? | The deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group ! |
| What happened to Hitler in the end ? | Adolf Hitler commited suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head ! |
| In addition to the gas chambers, how did Nazis kill the Jewish population of Europe ? | Starvation, disease, tortured, worked to death, gassing ! |
| During the Holocaust, how were families separated ? | After the Holocaust, many Jewish parents spent months or years searching for their children they had sent into hiding ! |
| What is the name for the laws that began to take away the rights of German Jews ? | Antisemitic Legislation from 1933 - 1939 ! |
| Fascism ? | A political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator ! |
| Democracy | A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives ! |
| Blitzkrieg ? | From the German word meaning "lightning war", a sudden, massive attack with combined air and ground forces, intended to achieve a quick victory ! |
| Axis Powers ? | The group of nations - including Germany, Italy, and Japan - that opposed the Allies in World War II ! |
| Why did United States decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs when WWII started ? | During the 1930's, the combination of the Great Depression and the memory of tragic losses in WWI contributed to pushing American public opinion and policy toward isolationism ! |
| Pearl Harbor Events ? | Japanese aerial commander orders the attack on pearl Harbor. The Coordinated attack on Pearl Harbor begins. The USS Arizona explodes. The Destroyer USS Helm fires at and sinks Japanese submarine at entrance to harbor ! |
| Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany ? | In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany ! |
| What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII? | Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. declared war on Japan ! This brought them fully engaged within the war ! |
| Under what plan did the U.S. provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of Communism ? | The Marshall Plan ! |
| Capitalist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Socialist meanings and which countries follow which ideals ? | Both socialism and communism are essentially economic philosophies advocating public rather than private ownership ! |
| Babyboom ? | The sharp increase in the U.S birthrate following World War II ! |
| Similarities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War ? | The U.S. and the Soviet Union both feared each other and tried to influence other nations ! |
| Cold War time period ? | March 12, 1947 - December 26, 1991 ! |
| Cuban Missile Crisis ? | A one - month, four - day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ! |
| A state of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without actual fighting ? | The Cold War ! |
| Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction ? | This was because they had thought it was too lenient towards the South ! |
| The War that created divisiveness among Americans throughout the 1960's ? | The Civil War of 1960's ! |
| How did Women help in WWII ? | They worked as nurses, drove trucks, repaired airplanes, and performed clerical work ! |
| What kind of policy did Martin Luther King JR., and other members of SCLC encouraged ? | A leadership stemmed policy :) ! |
| Freedom Riders ? | One of the Civil Rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960's to challenge segregation ! |
| Malcolm X ? | An African - American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the Civil Rights Movement ! |
| Sit - ins ? | A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met ! |
| Civil Rights and Martin Luther King JR. ? | In 1963, King and the SCLC worked with NAACP and other civil rights groups to organize the March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom ! |
| Vietnamization ? | The U.S. policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam ! |
| McCarthyism ? | The attacks, often unsubstantiated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950's ! |
| The Highway Act of 1956 ? | The law authorized the construction of a 41,000 - mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation ! |
| The two nations divided at the 38th parallel ? | North and South Korea have been divided for more than 70 years, ever since the Korean Peninsula became an unexpected casualty of the escalating Cold War ! |
| Watergate ? | A scandal arising from the Nixon administration's attempt to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break -in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex ! |
| How did Truman justify dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan ? | Truman stated that his decision to drop the bomb was purely military ! |
| The Manhattan Project ? | The U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II ! |
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