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| During the Great Depression, this made farmers unable to repay their debts for land and machinery. |
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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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| The severe economic decline that lasted from 1929 until the U.S's entry into WWW11 in 1941. |
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| Houses made out of cardboard paper or scrap metal. |
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| A region in the Great Plains where drought and dust storms took place for much of the 1930's. |
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| During his first 100 days Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed this program. |
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| 7. This New Deal program insured bank deposits up t0 $5,000. |
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| A. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. |
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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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| A. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| This program put over 2.5 million unmarried ment to work. |
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| A. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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| This program gave jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities to the umemployed. |
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| A. Civil Works Administration. |
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| This program provided old-age pensions, disability payments and employment benefits. |
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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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| Name the Axis Powers in WW11. |
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| Giving in to someone's demand in order to keep peace. |
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| Conference in which Britain and France agreed to let Hitler have the Sudetenland. |
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| On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler invaded this country creating WWW11. |
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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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| This country began to expand in the Pacific, controlling most of China by 1940. |
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| On Dec. 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked... |
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| Women participated in the military during the war by belonging to which organizations? |
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| A. 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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| Leader of the U.S during the war. |
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| Leader of the USSR during the war. |
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| Leader of Germany during the war. |
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| Leader of Great Britain during the war. |
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| Leader of Italy during the war. |
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| After this battle, Japan was unable to laumch any more offensive operations in the Pacific. |
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| Top secrete project to create the atomic bomb. |
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| U.S military leader in the Europe. |
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| U.S. militsry leader in the Pacific. |
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| Places where prisoners of war and political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions. |
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| Where did the U.S. drop the atom bomb? |
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| A. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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