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Depression/WWII
Great Depression/WWII
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History
10th Grade
04/07/2007

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Term
1920 Election
Definition
Referendum on League of Nations
Harding Wins.
Term
KKK
What is WASP
Definition
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Term
Washington Naval Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Definition
Limit Sizes of Navies
Outlaw all wars except defensive wars.
Term
German War Debt and Reparations
Definition
$33 billion - causes WWII indirectly
Term
Immigration Control Acts
Definition
1921 - 3% of Population/Nationality 1910 census.
1924 - 2% of 1890 census
Term
Teapot Dome
Definition
Oil from Navy
Albert Fall
Term
Prohibition
Organized Crime - who?
Definition
Volstead Act
Speakeasys
Al Capone, Bugs Moran
Term
John T. Scopes Trial
About?
Definition
Teaching evolution in TN
"Monkey Trial"
Term
Sacco & Vanzetti
Definition
Anarchists
Draft-Dodgers
Robbery at work, arrested and killed
Term
African American Culture Marcus Garvey Langston Hughes
Definition
United Negro Improvement Association
Go back to Africa if bad treatment continues.

Harlem Renaissance
Term
Tariffs
Definition
Hawley-Smoot
Fordney-McCumber
Term
Elections of '28
Definition
Hoover wins (R)
Term
Beginning of Depression

Hoover's Actions

RFC

Bonus Army Debacle
Definition
Stock Market Crashes on Black Tuesday (10/29/29)

Government shouldn't intervene
"people would expect handouts"
relief up to local government and private charities.
"Prosperity is right around the corner."

Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover Dam- creates jobs

WWI Vets who want pensions.
Term
1932 Election
Definition
Hoover (lame duck)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) wins
"Nothing to fear but fear itself."
Term
FDR's Actions

New Deal
Definition
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.)
Fireside Chats

SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
-regulates monopolies/stock market
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
-cheap power, jobs
SSA (Social Security Act)
NLRB (National Labor Relations Board)
-legalizes unions
Term
Election of 1936
Court-Packing Scheme
Definition
FDR landslide reelection

9 judges to 15 judges (unconstitutional)
Term
Good Neighbor Policy
Definition
Remove Marines from Latin America

In case we go to war, friends with our neighbors.
Term
Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf
Definition
Hitler tries to overthrow Wiemar Republic
goes to Jail, writes Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Term
NAZI
Burning of the Reichstag
Definition
National Socialist Workers Party

Done by NAZI's, blamed on communists, Jews, etc.
Term
Italy
Definition
Benito Mussolini
Return the Prestige of the Roman Empire and Rome.
Term
Expansion

Czechslovakia (Sudetenland)
Definition
Hitler meets with Neville Chaimberland, who gives Hitler Sudetenland.
Controversy - England doesn't own Sudetenland and therefore can't give it away.
Term
Poland
Blitzkrieg
Definition
Lightning War
Term
Phony War
Finland

France
Definition
Soviets attack Finland
Fins fight on skis

Maginot Wall- Guns cemented one way, Germans parachute behind line
Term
England Alone

Operation Sealion
Battle of England
Definition
Dunkirk (Brits Trapped)

Attack England through the Channel
Air Power (No land attack)
Term
Hitler's 3 Mistakes

Stalin's Mistakes
Definition
Doesn't Invade England on Land
Underestimates economic power of United States
Invades Russia

Doesn't Listen to US Warnings of impending German invasion.
Kills top generals
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