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AHSGE-Standard 6
World war ll.
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Social Studies
11th Grade
01/20/2012

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A.Falling farm prices
Definition
1.During the Great Deprssion,this made farmers unable to repay their debts for land and machinery.
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A.Bullying on margin
Definition
2.Allowed investors to purchase a stock for only a fractionof its price(10-15%) and borrow the rest.
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A.Great Depression
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3.The severe economic decline that lasted from 1929 until the U.S.'s entry into WWll in 1941.
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4.Houses made out of cardboard paper or scrap metal.
Definition
A.Hoovervilles
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5.A region in the Great Plains where drought and dust storms took place for much of the 1930s.
Definition
A.Dust Bowl
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6.During his first 100 days Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed this program.
Definition
A. The new deal
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7.This New Deal program insured bank desposits up to $5,ooo.
Definition
A. Federal Desposit Inssurance Corporation (FDIC)
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8.This public works project was created in 1933 to help farmers and ceate jobs and hydroelectric power.
Definition
A. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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9.This program put over 2.5 million unmarried men to work.
Definition
A.Civilian Conservation Crops (CCC).
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9.This program put over 2.5 million unmarried men to work.
Definition
A.Civilian Conservation Crops (CCC).
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10.This program gave jobs building or improving roads,parks,airport, and other facilities to the unemployed.
Definition
A.Civil Works Administration
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11.This program provided old-age pensions,disability payments and unemployment benefits.
Definition
A.Social Security
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12. FDR created this in response to critics who said he was not doing enough for ordinary Americans.
Definition
A.The Second New Deal
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13.Name the Axis Power in WWll.
Definition
A.Germany,Italy,Japan
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13.Name the Axis Power in WWll.
Definition
A.Germany,Italy,Japan
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14.Name the Allies
Definition
A. U.S.,Britain,USSR
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15.Giving in to someone's demands on order to keep peace.
Definition
A.Appeasement
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16.Conference in which Britain and France agreed to let Hitler have the Sudetenland.
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A.Munich Conference
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17.On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded this country creating WWll.
Definition
A.Poland
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18.A German tactic in which tanks,soldierd,and moving trucks rapidly attacks and are there before the foe has time to react.
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A.Blitzkrieg
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19.This country began to expand in the Pacific, controlling most of China by 1940.
Definition
A.Japan
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20.On December 7,1941 the Japanese attcked.........
Definition
A.Pearl Harbor
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21.Women participated in the military during the war by belonging to which organizations?
Definition
A.WASPS,WAVES,and WAC's
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22.This battle was the turing point of war in the east.
Definition
A.Stalingard
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23.Leader of the U.S. during the war.
Definition
A.F. Roosevelt
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24.Leader of the Germany during the war.
Definition
A.Stalin
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25.Leader of the Great Britain during the war.
Definition
A.Churchill
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27.Leader of the ltaly during the war.
Definition
A.Mussolini
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28.After this battle,Japan was unable to launch any more offensive operations in the Pacific.
Definition
A.Midway
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29.Japanese suicide planes.
Definition
A.Kamikazes
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30.Top secert project to create the atomic bomb.
Definition
A.Manhattan Project
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31.U.S. military leader in the Pacific.
Definition
A.Eisenhower
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32.U.S. Military leader in the Pacific.
Definition
A.McArthur
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33.Places where prisoners of the war and political prisoners are confined,usally under harsh conditions.
Definition
A.Concentration camps
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34.Where did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb?
Definition
A.Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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