| A | B |
|---|
| buying stock on margin | over purchasing of stocks during the 1920's using borrowed money |
| causes of the great depression | overpeculation of stock, increased numbers of small investors, panic selling, stock market crash |
| stock market crash | October 29, 1929 |
| new deal president | Franklin Roosevelt |
| 3 goals of the new deal | relief, recovery, and reform |
| quote from Roosevelt's first inaugural address | "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" |
| AAA | Agricultural Adjustment Act - encouraged farmers to reduce production to increase food prices |
| WPA | Works Progress Administration gave government jobs to people; example of Relief Program |
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; to protect people's deposits by guaranteeing banks |
| social security | disigned to assist the elderly |
| U.S. response to agression in Europe and Asia before WWII | abandoned neutrality as events escalated |
| U. S. response first two years of WWII | remained neutral |
| German air attack on England | The Battle of Britain |
| Lend Lease Act | giving help or lending money and supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the U.S. |
| reason U.S. entered WWII | Japan attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Axis Powers leaders | Mussolini, Tojo, Hitler |
| Allied Powers leaders | Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin |
| allies plan for victory | defeat Hitler first then Japan |
| Germany wanted to defeat first | Soviet Union |
| Japanes cities that were bombed | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Tuskegee Airmen | African american pilots who served in WWII |
| treatment of African American soldiers | segregated and served in support roles (cooks) |
| Navaho code talkers | used native language to help with communications |
| Geneva Convention | ensure prisoners were humanely treated by establishing rules |
| Japanese soldiers | kamikazi pilots who committed suidide if necessary to defeat their targets |
| holocaust victims | Jews |
| genocide | purposeful destruction of a group, whether racial, political, religious or cultural |
| trials for German war criminals | Nuremberg Trials |
