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History Final Study Guide Semester 2

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show FDR's main goals in fighting the depression were relief, recovery, and reform.  
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Years for the Great Depression   show
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Causes of the Great Depression   show
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New Deal   show
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show Slums on the outskirts of many cities, also known as Hoovervills.  
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show World War 2 brought an end to the Great Depression.  
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show These chats over the radio reassured people about complex issues and programs and boosted their confidence.  
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Why did voters vote for Roosevelt over Hoover   show
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show The New Deal was a turning point in U.S. history because a new president had finally gone into office, who everyone liked and helped get the publics act together.  
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Holocaust   show
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show Around 6 million Jews.  
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show Jews.  
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show In order to segregate, Germany set up ghettos for Jews to live in.  
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Genocide   show
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What happened to Hitler in the end   show
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In addition to the gas chambers, how did Nazi’s kill off the Jews?   show
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show During the Holocaust, families were separated when trying to find asylum in different countries, like the U.S.  
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Holocaust and ​annihilation​   show
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show Nuremburg Laws  
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Democracy   show
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Fascism   show
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show Military tactic used to create psychological shock and disorganization in enemy forces.  
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Kamikaze   show
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show An alliance with Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, imperial Japan, and a few other countries, who all opposed the Allied Powers, an alliance consisting of Great Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China.  
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show The U.S. wanted to stay out of the foreign affairs because they were going through the Great Depression. They had to spend money on New Deal Programs, instead of military, and many people believed the involvement in WW1 was a huge mistake.  
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Pearl Harbor events   show
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Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany?   show
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What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII?   show
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show The Marshall Plan  
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Capitalist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Socialist meanings and which countries follow which ideals?   show
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show Dictatorial: a person or a small group rules with almost unlimited power; Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Hun Sen, Cameroon, etc.  
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show Socialist: a social system or theory in which the government owns and controls the means of production (as factories) and distribution of goods; Armenia, Bolivia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, etc.  
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show A temporary increase in the birth rate, especially the one after WW2.  
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​Similarities​ ​between​ ​the​ ​US​ ​and​ ​the​ ​Soviet​ ​Union during​ ​the​ ​Cold​ ​War​   show
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Cold War time period   show
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show the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba initiated the 13-day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union  
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​A​ ​state​ ​of​ ​tension​ ​between​ ​the​ ​U.S.​ ​and​ ​the​ ​Soviet​ ​Union​ ​without​ ​actual fighting​   show
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show The Vietnam War  
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How did women help in WWII   show
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show Nonviolent protest  
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show Civil rights activists, who rode buses into the segregated south of the U.S. to challenge the non-enforcement of the U.S.  
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show He was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, who was also a Muslim minister and human rights activist.  
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Sit-Ins   show
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Civil Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr.   show
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show US policy of taking out its troops and moving the responsibility and direction of the war effort to South Vietnams' Government  
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McCarthyism   show
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The​ ​Highway​ ​Act​ ​of​ ​1956   show
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​The​ ​two​ ​nations​ ​divided​ ​at​ ​the​ ​38th​ ​parallel   show
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​Watergate​   show
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show Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb on Japan by saying it was purely military, and he believed that dropping the bombs saved the Japanese.  
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show The first nuclear weapons were produced because of this research and development undertaking during the Second World War.  
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