World War 2

What was the 18th and 21st Amendment?

18- PROHIBITION 21- REMOVE THE PROHIBITION AMMENDMENT

What were Franklin's fireside chats?

A station on the radio where FDR would talk to the public through the depression

Who was A Phillip Randolph?

An African American who led brotherhood of sleeping car porters (AFRICAN AMERICANS JOINED WAER BECAUSE THIS DUDE)

What influenced the Great Migration?

An increase in racism in south and the rise of the KKK also more jobs available in the north

What were the Palmer Raids?

Attempts by the U.S. Department of Justice to arrest and deport radicals (immigrants); lead by attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer; FBI born from the raids.

What was the relationship between America and its advancement of democratic ideals?

Became a leader and known for its democracy(ill ask on monday)

Why did Roosevelt attempt to pack the Supreme Court?

Because they were claiming his organizations as unconstitutional

The effects of market and credit instability lead FDR to do what?

FDR implemented a series of projects and programs called the New Deal to stabilize the economy

What was the Double V program?

GET AFRICAN AMERICANS TO JOIN WAR

What happened at the Munich Conference?

Germany, France, Italy, and Britain said hey Germany you can take part of czech but no more (it was broken almost immediately after)

What was Hoover's "associated action"?

He didnt have a strong response to the great depression except for the Hoover dam and thought it should be left to the local government (i think ill ask)

Who was Charles Lindberg?

He made the first solo flight across the Atlantic. A world wide celebrity (his infant son was murdered and he and his wife hid from the public)

What was Huey Long's program to end the depression?

He proposed a $10 billion land reclamation project to end the Dust Bowl. Long promised free medical service and what he called a "war on disease" led by the Mayo brothers

What was a move Eisenhower made just before D-Day?

He tried to quit the day before

Who was Marcus Garvey?

He was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He spread a message of black pride and recruited many followers. He was Jamaican. He was well loved until he started his incredibly unpopular back to Africa movement.

What were factors contributing to the Great Depression?

Instead of people paying upfront they were paying with credit, banks gave loans to everyone, over investment in the stock market, banks spending more money then they had, a more lassie faire government(hands off), and finally the stock market crash

What was internment?

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects"

The strategy used by Nimitz in the Pacific was named

Island hopping

What was American society like during WWII?

It was economically stable and turned into one of the largest manufacturing companies

One argument against the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States in 1942 was?

It went against the ideals of america and all its known for

What was the most significant legacy of the New Deal?

One of the primary legacies of the New Deal was a change in the relationship between the government and the nation

The Social Security Administration is a New Deal agency that continues to assist many Americans by ?

Protecting elderly, handicapped, and unemployed

What was the primary reason for the Atlantic Charter?

The Atlantic Charter was created to show solidarity between the United States and the United Kingdom in the face of German aggression. It served to improve morale and was actually turned into leaflets, which were airdropped over occupied territories.

What was the Harlem Renaissance Movement?

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual revival of African American art and literature centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City

What groups were discriminated against during WWII?

The Jews, gypsies, handicapped, and homosexuals

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

The US was restricting Japans resources and thought that they could scare the US into neutrality

What helped the Americans deliver a stunning defeat to the Japanese at Midway?

The deciphering of the Japanese code

What made the Neutrality Act of 1939 different from earlier Neutrality Acts?

The fact that their neutrality act was biased and took the side of some countries

After WWI what were causes of the rise in Dictators?

The treaty of Versailles and the Great depression

How did Supreme Courts feel about FDR's New Deal Reforms?

They were against it

Why did the U.S. become an "arsenal of democracy" in the early 1940's?

To stay out of the war but equip the allies with weapons and ammo

What was the Manhattan project?

a code name for atomic bomb research

What was the Scopes Trial?

a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society (The old timers wanted their children to fully believe that they were created from God and to disregard evolution entirely)

What was isolationism?

a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by?

a sharp decrease in government spending

What was the purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps?

established to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression by providing national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men

What was the purpose of FDR's Four Freedoms?

freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear (to create patriotism in the American public by saying this war is fought for the Jews and the other victims of this war.)

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

involved transferring oil reserves from the Navy Department to the Interior Department and then forgot about the Navy's needs

The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through

paying farmers to reduce crop area

Who would most likely not be members of the New Deal coalition?

progressives

What were Franklin's New Deal programs? What was the purpose of the New Deal?

to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, waterpower, labor, and housing, vastly increasing the scope of the federal government's activities