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AHSGE Standard 7
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History
11th Grade
01/19/2012

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During the great depression,this made farmers unable to repay thier depts for land and machinery.
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Falling farm prices
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Allowed investers 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 sever economic decline that lasted from 1929 until the U.S's entry into WW11 in 1941
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Great Depression
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what religious movement accurred in the 1730s and 1740s in the colonies?
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Great Awakening
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what french  philosopher came up with idea of a three-branch government?
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Montesquieu
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What was the first meetingcalled when 12 colonies sent delegates to philadelphia to discuss british tyranny(and take action)?
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First Continental Congress
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What group sent the Clive Branch Petiton and wrote the Declaration of independence?
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Second  Continental Congress
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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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Tennesse 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 bulidings 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
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FDR created this in responce 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 WW11.
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Germany,Italy,Japan
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Name the allies
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U.S,Britain,France,USSR
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Giving in to someone's 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 creatingWW11.
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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 coutry 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 organization?
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WASPS,WAVES,and WAC'S
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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 the war.
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F.Roosevelt
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Leader of USSR during the war.
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Stalin
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Leader of Germany thewar.
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Hitler
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Leader of Great Britain during the war.
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Churchill
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Leader of Italy during the war.
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Mussolini
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After the 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 Europe.
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Eisenhower
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U.S leader in the pacific.
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McArthur
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Places where prisoners of war and political prisoners areconfined,usually under harsh conditions.
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Concentration camps
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Where did the U.S drop the bomb?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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