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Speculation (stock market) - correct answers ✅investment of stock with the hopes of gains but understanding there is a risk of loss Margin - correct answers ✅amount in which a stock gains or falls short Alleviate - correct answers ✅to make something less severe Instablility - correct answers ✅unpredictable or unstable Indicates - correct answers ✅points out Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - correct answers ✅Regulated stock market and restricted margin buying Constitutional Issues New Deal - correct answers ✅People who opposed New Deal felt that some legislation gave too much power to the executive branch throwing off checks and balances Social Security Administration - correct answers ✅Benefits program for the elderly Dust Bowl - correct answers ✅Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages & causing them to move West
Tennessee Valley Authority - correct answers ✅Created to help raise the living standards and provide jobs in the Tennessee Valley area Mexican Repatriation - correct answers ✅Forced migration of approximately one million Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico FDR's New Deal - correct answers ✅Government programs passed by Congress to help the U.S. get out of Great Depression Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - correct answers ✅Guaranteed a person's savings in the event of a bank failure New Deal Legislation - correct answers ✅Changed the roles of the government to make it responsible for the economy and the welfare of the people Hoovervilles - correct answers ✅Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress Tariffs on World Trade (Hawley Smoot Tariff) - correct answers ✅Was put in place to help simulate the economy by promoting American products but led to a decrease in international trade 1929 - correct answers ✅Date: Stock Market Crash
Alvin York - correct answers ✅Won Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Argonne Forest Argonne Forest - correct answers ✅most important battle fought by AEF, last battle of WWI Which of the following were reasons the US entered WWI? - correct answers ✅Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram What is Dollar Diplomacy? - correct answers ✅President Taft encouraging American Business to invest in Latin American territories What were the two major factors that brought the United States into World War I? - correct answers ✅a. The Zimmerman Telegram and the Sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted sub warfare) What is the purpose of the Panama Canal? - correct answers ✅To provide a shorter route between oceans for the navy and trade What are causes of the Spanish American War? - correct answers ✅American Business Interests, Yellow Journalism, USS Maine Explosion, De Lome Letter, Cuban Oppression
What are effects of the Spanish American War? - correct answers ✅US emerges as a World Power and gains Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam Which of the following is the best example of "Big Stick Policy"? - correct answers ✅President Roosevelt threatening Colombia to get the Panama Canal built The US take over of the Philippines was motivated by what? - correct answers ✅Resources and Military Strategy Which of the reasons for Imperialism explained the United State's motivation for forcing Japan into trade? - correct answers ✅Military Strategy-Japan is close to Asia Which of the following best describes the Open Door Policy? - correct answers ✅The American edict (order) that no one country could control trade with China Which of the following are motivations for Imperialism? - correct answers ✅Raw Materials, Military Strategy, Nationalism, Attitudes Toward Other People What is Yellow Journalism? - correct answers ✅Using sensationalized headlines to sell newspapers
How did the Alliances contribute to the beginning of World War I?
- correct answers ✅Alliances caused many nations to become involved in the war What was the primary goal of Woodrow Wilson's proposed League of Nations? - correct answers ✅To act as a peacekeeping organization for European countries How did the industrial revolution contribute to the destruction that occurred during World War I? - correct answers ✅It led to the development of more advanced weapons How were the Western and Eastern Fronts similar? - correct answers ✅They both had very high casualty rates Which major countries made up the Central Powers during World War I? - correct answers ✅Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire What was unrestricted submarine warfare? - correct answers ✅Any ship at sea was subject to submarine attack Describe the conditions in the trenches for a soldier during World War I. - correct answers ✅It was loud, dirty, wet, dangerous What was trench warfare? - correct answers ✅Soldiers dug trenches and bunkers to protect themselves from gunfire
What were Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points? - correct answers ✅Wilson's idea of a treaty ending World War I Describe Nationalism - correct answers ✅A sense of pride, honor, and superiority of ones country Describe how machine guns effected the way that World War I was fought. - correct answers ✅They made it difficult to attack and increased casualties How did the introduction of tanks on the battlefield change how World War I was fought? - correct answers ✅Soldiers would follow the tanks across no man's land What factors caused a stalemate to occur during the fighting of World War I? - correct answers ✅Trench Warfare and the use of Machine Guns to defend positions What does it mean for a country to be involved in a total war? - correct answers ✅Every aspect of life was devoted to the war effort How did the role of women change as nations mobilized during World War I? - correct answers ✅Women were asked to work in roles that they never had to work in before
Tryranny - correct answers ✅oppression; cruel government Sanctions - correct answers ✅something that forces obedience with a law or rule Appeasement - correct answers ✅A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. (Compromise to avoid war) Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler. Foreign Policy Between WWI and WWII - correct answers ✅US returned to isolationism after WWI Appeasement - correct answers ✅Great Britain and France used appeasement to try to stop Germany's expansion Beginning of World War II - correct answers ✅Hitler invasion of Poland Lend-Lease Act - correct answers ✅allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S Pearl Harbor Attack - correct answers ✅Attack causes the United States to enter World War II
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? - correct answers ✅US was putting embargoes and attempted to slow down or stop the expansion of the Japanese Military (so couldn't get things like gas and rubber) George Patton - correct answers ✅Most famously known for his use of tanks throughout the European Theater; helped lead forces at the Normandy invasion Vernon Baker - correct answers ✅African American who later received the congressional medal of honor Dwight D. Eisenhower - correct answers ✅leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion. also required troops to document concentration camps as the allied forces liberated them Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) - correct answers ✅Invasion across the English Channel to attack Germany in conquered France. Douglas MacArthur - correct answers ✅American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II. Baatan Death March - correct answers ✅American and Filipino troops walked 65 miles to a prison camp, but many died of exhaustion, hunger, of disease along the way
Nuremberg Trials - correct answers ✅A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity. Women in World War II - correct answers ✅Women moved into the civilian workforce, including heavy industry, replacing those men who had entered the military. rationing, victory gardens, and war bonds - correct answers ✅Helped give back to the war effort Executive Order 9066 - correct answers ✅2/19/42; 112, Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes & businesses, 600K more renounced citizenship; demonstrated fear of Japanese invasion End of the Great Depression - correct answers ✅war production (weapons, etc.) for WWII significantly lowers unemployment Greatest Generation - correct answers ✅term for those who grew up in the US during the Great Depression and then went on to fight in WWII Causes of the Great Depression - correct answers ✅Overproduction, Stock Market Speculation/Buying on Margin, Bank Failures
