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USII Matchup Part II

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HARLEM RENAISSANCEmovement of African American artists, writers, musicians in Harlem
JACOB LAWRENCE, Harlem Renaissance painter - showed Great Migration north
LANGSTON HUGHES, Harlem Renaissance poet
ELLINGTON AND ARMSTRONG, Harlem Renaissance jazz composers
BESSIE SMITHHarlem Renaissance blues singer
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, Artist known for urban scenes and paintings of flowers and the Southwest
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, He wrote novels about the Jazz Age of the 1920s
JOHN STEINBECK, Author of Grapes of Wrath, a novel about poor migrant worker during the 1930s
AARON COPLAND AND GEORGE GERSHWINUniquely American composers of the 1920s and 1930s
CAUSE OF GREAT DEPRESSIONoverspeculation on stocks with borrowed money
HIGH TARIFFSstrangled international trade contributing to Great Depression
IMPACT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSIONone fourth of workers without jobs; banks and businesses failed; people were hungry and homeless; farm income fell
NEW DEALRoosevelt's plan to use government programs to help the nation recover from the Depression
FEATURES OF THE NEW DEALsocial security; federal work programs; environmental improvement programs; farm assistance programs; increased rights for labor
POST WWI CONDITIONS IN EUROPEDepression, high inflation, massive unemployment, Germany - huge war debt
FASCISMPolitical philosophy- total power to dictator, individual freedoms denied
3 FASCIST DICTATORSHiter (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Tojo (Japan)
NEUTRALITY; ISOLATIONISMAmerica's foreign policy when WWII began
HOW U.S. FOREIGN POLICY EVOLVED DURING WWIIFrom isolationism to economic aid to direct military involvement
WWII ALLIESU.S., Great Britain, Canada, the Soviet Union (after German invasion)
U.S. PRESIDENTS DURING WWIIFDR (Franlin D. Roosevelt); Harry Truman in 1945 after FDR's death
AXIS POWERSGermany, Italy, Japan
DECEMBER 7, 1941Date of Pearl Harbor attack
WINSTON CHURCHILL, WWII leader of Great Britain
PEARL HARBOR, Resulted in U.S. military involvement in WWII
STARTED WWII, Hiter's invasion of Poland
DATE HITLER BEGAN INVASION OF POLANDSeptember 1, 1939
GERMANY, THE SOVIET UNIONThese two countries divided Poland in half
PARIS, FRANCEA year after invading Poland, German troops marched victoriously into this European capital
BATTLE OF BRITAIN, In 1940, Germans bombed British cities in this battle
THE SOVIET UNIONHitler invades this old ally in June, 1941
BATTLE OF MIDWAY, Turning point in the Pacific
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, Turning point in the war in Eastern Europe
NORMANDY, FRANCE, D-day landing took place here
BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKIEnded WWII,
GENOCIDEWiping out of an entire race
THE HOLOCAUSTHitler's effort to annihilate Jews
CONCENTRATION CAMPSPrison camps for Jews and others
ANTI-SEMITISMHatred of Jews
ARYAN SUPREMACYNotion that Germans are a superior race


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