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Purchasing stocks using a down payment only and borrowing the rest from the stockbroker as a loan |
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Thousands of World War 1 veterans that marched to Washington for the passing of the bonus bill (gave each veteran $1,000 dollars) |
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Cause of the Great Depression |
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Overproduction, Drought, Bank Failures |
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The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal |
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Shanty towns/tents and shacks set up on the sides of roads |
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Roosevelt’s plan to recover from depression |
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First 100 days of a president’s term, it’s to see if the president will be successful or not |
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A group of advisers that help make decisions, give different views on situations |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area |
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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is a United States government corporation created by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks |
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- Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Unemployment benefits - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families |
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Government taking action to stimulate the economy |
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Spending more money than collected in taxes |
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- Relief -provide immediate aid - Recovery -End Depression -Reform -make sure another depression does not occur |
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-Teddy Roosevelt gave his oncoming insights through radio |
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A system of government controlled by one political party and no others are allowed to exist. |
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Germany: Takes over Austria Munich Pact Took all of Chekhov Slovakia Attacked Poland Russia: Attacked eastern Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland |
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Act of appeasement with the Germans, and Czechoslovakia, payment for peace, Germany got Sudetenland |
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Intended to discuss the reestablishment of the nations of war torn Europe |
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Concession for exchange of peace |
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Aid given to other nations in loans, but must be paid back |
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Nationalistic movement, nations more important than individual |
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The allies launched an attack on Germany's forces in Normandy, Western France. |
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Intended to discuss the reestablishment of the nations of war torn Europe |
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Why did USA change from Isolationism to Imperialism |
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- economic and military competition from other nations. - wanted US to be a world power. - social darwinism |
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Events that led to Spanish American War |
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-Cuban rebellion against Spain - American desire to protect investments in Cuba - Yellow Journalism that intensified public anger at Spain - Explosion of USS Maine |
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Beliefs and goals of progressives and examples of success and failures |
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- Sufferage Movement -19th amendment - Child Labor - Bitter Cry of the Children- John Spargo - minimum age requirement - max hours children can work - Prohibition (failure) |
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Underlying and immediate cause of WWI |
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MAIN - alliances - militarism -imperialism - nationalism - death of archduke franz ferdinand |
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- FDIC mistakes - bank runs - overproduction |
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- Causes of WWII - areas Hitler took over - Why US entered war |
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-acts of aggression from Italy, Japan, Germany - Rhineland, Chzecoslovakia, Poland - Pearl Harbor |
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- Wilson - for big business, against trusts - fair business competition |
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- Roosevelt - accepted large trusts |
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Roosevelt's reforms such as pure food and drug, meat inspection etc. |
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