Standard VII: The student will understand the Great Depression and World War II

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Standard VII The student will understand the
Great Depression and World War II
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During the Great Depression, this made farmers
unable to repay their debts for land and
machinery.
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Falling farm prices
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Allowed investors to purchase a stock for only a
fraction of its price (10-15) and borrow the
rest.
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Buying on margin
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The severe economic decline that lasted from 1929
until the U.S.s entry into WWII in 1941.
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Great Depression
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Houses made out of cardboard paper or scrap
metal.
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Hoovervilles
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A region in the Great Plains where drought and
dust storms took place fro much of the 1930s.
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Dust Bowl
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During the first 100 days Franklin D. Roosevelt
pushed this program.
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The New Deal
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This New Deal program insured bank deposits up to
5, 000.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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This public works project was created in 1933 to
help farmers and create jobs and hydroelectric
power.
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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This program put over 2.5 million unmarried men
to work.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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This program gave jobs building or improving
roads, parks, airports, and other facilities to
the unemployed.
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Civil Works Administration
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This program provided old-age pensions,
disability payments, and unemployment benefits.
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Social Security Works Administration
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FDR created this in response to critics who said
he was not doing enough for ordinary Americans.
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The Second New Deal
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Name the Axis powers in WWII.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Name the allies.
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U.S.BritainFranceUSSR
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Giving in to someones demands in order to keep
peace.
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Appeasement
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Conference in which Britain and France agreed to
let Hitler have the Sudetenland.
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Munich Conference
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On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler invaded this country
creating WWII.
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Poland
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A German tactic in which tanks, soldiers, and
moving trucks rapidly attack and are there before
the foe has time to react.
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Blitzkrieg
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This country began to expand in the Pacific,
controlling most of China by 1940.
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Japan
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On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked
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Pearl Harbor
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Women participated in the military during the war
by belonging to which organizations?
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WASPS, WAVES, and WACs
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This battle was the turning point of the war in
the east.
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Stalingrad
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Leader of the U.S. during WWII.
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F. Roosevelt
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Leader of the USSR during WWII.
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Stalin
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Leader of Germany during WWII.
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Hitler
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Leader of Great Britain during WWII.
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Churchill
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Leader of Italy during WWII.
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Mussolini
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After this battle, Japan was unable to launch any
more offensive operations in the Pacific.
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Midway
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Japanese suicide planes.
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Kamikazes
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Top secret project to create the atomic bomb.
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Manhattan Project
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U.S. military leader in the Europe.
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Eisenhower
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U.S. military leader in the Pacific.
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McArthur
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Places where prisoners of war and political
prisoners are confined, usually under harsh
conditions.
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Concentration camps
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Where did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki