History 106: Test 3
58 Cards in this Set
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Hoover vs. Al Smith, 1928 election
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Hoover - dominated, won TX
Smith - won deep south; Catholic (KKK = anti-catholic)
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Stock Market Crash, October 1929
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causes: speculative boom, borrowing $$, margin buying, lack of diversity in econ: auto & construction
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Great Depression
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Worst depression in US history; spurred by crash of 1929 and lasted until WWII; false valuations in banks
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Banks failed
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unbacked investments
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unemployment
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25%
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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HOOVERS ATTEMPT TO HALT DEPRESSION federal prog est 1932 under pres Herbert Hoover to loan money to banks and other institutions to help them avert bankruptcy
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Federal Home Loan Banks
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HOOVERS ATTEMPT TO HALT DEPRESSION This was in order to provide funds to "building and loan" institutions, providing liquidity and making mortgages available.
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Bonus Expeditionary Force, 1932
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Thousands of WWI veterans, who insisted on immediate payment of their bonus certificates, marched on Washington in 1932, violence ensued when President Hoover ordered their tent villages cleared
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932-1945
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inc fed spending
direct support to ag
New deal
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New Deal
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FDR's campaign promise, in his speech to the Democratic National Convention of 1932, to combat the Great Depression with a "new deal for the American people"; the phrase became a catchword for his ambitious plan of econ progs
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Glass-Steagall Act, 1933
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separated commercial banking pwrs from investment banking powers
discouraged banking competition "reg que"
Est FDIC and included banking reforms, some designed to contorl speculation.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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public confidence in banks restored
result of Glass-stegall
Gave the FDIC authority to provide deposit insurance to banks
Gave the FDIC the authority to regulate and supervise state nonmember banks
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National Recovery Act (NRA)
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experimented w/wage & price control
min wage, max work hours, child labor
excluded domestic workers & ag workers
declared illegal in 1935
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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Its goal is to increase public trust in the capital markets by requiring uniform disclosure of information about public securities offerings.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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organized under army to employ young men in nat'l parks
$$ earned sent home to help families
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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umbrella agency - provided various work progs, from construction to artists
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Social Security Act, 1935
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largest most important new deal act
cornerstone of new deal
excluded farmers and domestic workers
created the social security system with provisions for a retirement pension, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and public assistance
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Wagner Act, 1935
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est fed law to guarantee unions right to strike and bargtain
est nat'l labor relations board
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Dust Bowl
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5 years, drought and poor farm practice
1 million ppl relocated from area's affected,moved to cali
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TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority
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electricity to rural areas in US
hydroelectric pwr, esp in Appalachians
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John Maynard Keynes
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focused on heavy gov't involvement and spending in tough times
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1936 election landslide
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FDR dominated landon
dems owned House & Senate
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from corporate welfare to public welfare
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basic economic security
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court-packing plan, 1937
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replace supreme court judges over 60
FDR 9 to 15 judges in order to save his second new deal prog
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German American Bund & American Nazis
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was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany.
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House Un-American Activities Committee, 1938
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martin dies
formed in 1938 to investigate subversives in the government; best-known investigations were of Hollywood no tables and of former State Department official Alger Hiss, who was accused in 1949 of espionage and Communist party membership
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Marian Anderson, 1939
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black singer, constitution hall
concert stopped by daughters of American Revolution
Anderson sing @ Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday
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Germany - NADAP (Nazis) - 3rd Reich
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beginning of hitler taking power
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Reichstag fire, 1933
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hitler takes power
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Gleichachaltung
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the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society;
assimilation; synchronization
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symbols, flags, unforms, ceremonies
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blood (race), language (culture), Will
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paramilitary SA and SS
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SA storm troopers; internal members (brown)
SS personal bodyguards for Hitler (black)
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"Triumph of the Will"
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is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg
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failure of League of Nations in China & Abyssinia
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Nuremburg Laws, 1935
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antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an official ideology incorporating scientific racism and antisemitism. There was a rapid growth in German legislation directed at Jews.
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1936 Olympics & Jessie Owens
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Owens not congratulated by Hitler
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1936 Rhineland occupation
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Germany reoccupies Rhineland, started Spanish Civil War
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1936 Spanish Civil War & Guernica
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Germany uses planes to bomard Spanish Villages
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Anchluss
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the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.[2]
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Sudetenland
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The Sudetenland was initially put under military administration, with General Wilhelm Keitel as Military governor. On 21 October 1938, the annexed territories were divided, with the southern parts being incorporated into the neighbouring Reichsgaue
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Munich Agreement
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Appeasement
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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
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Axis nations vs. Allied nations
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Stalingrad
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Pearl Harbor
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Pacific island hoping campaign
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Japanese-American internment camps
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Nisei 442nd Regiment
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D-Day
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Battle of the Bulge
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Yalta Conference
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V-E Day, May 8, 1945
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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V-J Day, September, August 15, 1945
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Holocaust
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