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Test 10
Chap. 19- 20 America Land I Love
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History
7th Grade
04/05/2012

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Helped Europe with sending food
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Herbert Hoover
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Black Tuesday
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Oct. 29,1929
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Speculation
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Risky investments to try and make a quick profit
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New Deal
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Economic recovery program by Franklin Roosevelt
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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck - depicting the Depression
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Social Security Act
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Established a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance
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Tennessee Valley Authority TVA
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A program under the "NEW DEAL" to conserve soil and bring hydroelectric power to the mid-South
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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THe work week could not exceed 40 hours.
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Herbert Hoover
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Believed in families, churches and charities to see to the needs of the unemployed rather than government
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21st Amendment
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Repeal Prohibition (18th amendment)
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Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Winston Churchill
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Holocaust
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Nazi murder of over 6 million Jews
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Last Bastion of freedom in Europe
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Great Britain
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The Nazi Soviet Pact divided this country
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Poland
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Fascist dictator of Italy
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Benito Mussolini
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Led a bombing raid over Tokyo
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Jimmy Dolittle
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Allied commander in Europe
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Built liberty ships
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Henry Kaiser
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Missionary to Japan
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Jacob DeShazer
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Led US forces in Philippines
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Douglas MacArthur
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Developed the atomic bomb
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Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, J.Robert Oppenheimer
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Battle of the Bulge
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Germany's last great offensive in Europe
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Israel became a nation-state
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1948
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Leyte Gulf
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Japanese ships and planes were all nearly lost
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Led the Free Chinese against the communists
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Formed to oppose communism in SE Asia
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SEATO
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NATO
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Formed to oppose Communists
US, Canada and other western European nations
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Manhatten Project
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Code name for America's atomic bomb project
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Sept. 2, 1945
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V-J day
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Turning point of the war in the Pacific
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Battle of Midway
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D-Day invasion
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Took place in France
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The Battle of Coral Sea
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opposing ships never saw each other
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Germany Italy and Japan
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Axis powers in WWII
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Hiroshima
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Japanese city bombed first in WW II with atomic weapon
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Nisei
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2nd generation Japanese-Americans in WW II
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Dec. 7 1941
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Pearl Harbor attacked
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Led the United Nations' forces during Korean War
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Douglas MacArthur
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Containment was a policy practiced by the US during which war
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Korean War
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Jimmy Dolittle
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led bombing raid over Tokyo
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Jacob DeShazer
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Became a missionary to Japan
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