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Ch. 9 The Great Depression and World War II. By Matthew Pippin. Major event that occurred on October 29, 1929 forcing the U.S into a Depression. Stock Market Crash Day know as Black Tuesday People where without jobs and farmers went out of buisness. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Ch. 9 The Great Depression and World War II
• By Matthew Pippin
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Major event that occurred on October 29, 1929 forcing the U.S
into a Depression.
• Stock Market Crash• Day know as Black
Tuesday• People where without
jobs and farmers went out of buisness.
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Term given to a dry period during the Great Depression that caused extensive damage to the
farm economy.
• Dust Bowl
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President that was blamed for the great depression.
• Herbert Hoover
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Name given to communities built of tents and shacks outside of towns
during Great Depression
• Hoovervilles
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President elected during the worst years of the depression and strived to help the
“forgotten man” to get out of the depression.• Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Legislation passed during FDR’s presidency that helped boost the economy and put people to work.
• The New Deal (1932)
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The New Deal was based on three R’s
• 1. Relief-Stop suffering by providing direct money or jobs.
• 2. Recovery- provide aid to farmers, business owners, and workers in order to get people back to work.
• 3. Reform- to make sure that there would never be another depression.
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Act that gave loans to farmers to improve the agricultural industry.
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)
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Created by congress to build hydroelectric dams and bring electricity to rural parts of
south and provide employment.• Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA)• Example is Lake
Guntersville in north Alabama
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Est. by congress to insure people that their money in the bank was
safe.
• Federal Deposit Insurance (FDIC)
• Guarantees up to $100,000 in case of bank failure.
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Est. by Congress to provide jobs for unskilled workers. This org. built many of the
government buildings during 1930’s• Works Progress
Administration (WPA)
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Title given to FDR’s radio speeches where he spoke directly to the
nation to bypass the press.
• Fireside chats
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Fascist leader of Italy during WWII who ruled as a dictator.
• Benito Mussolini
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Emperor of Japan during WWII
• Emperor Hirohito
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Political party that formed in Germany during its terrible depression.
• National Socialists also know as the Nazi Party.
• Leader of the party is known as the Fuhrer
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Nazi leader of Germany during WWII that preached a message of racist fascism or the belief
in a superior Aryan race.
• Adolf Hitler• Aryan means
Caucasian people of non-Jewish descent
• Gained support because people where suffering and he promised help.
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Secret police used by Hitler to help suppress protest against him.
• Gestapo
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Brutal leader of the USSR that ruled by using extreme force and executed 1.5 to 7million Soviets
• Joseph Stalin
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Pact formed between Italy, Germany, and Japan prior to WWII
•Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
• Later called the Axis Powers
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The opponents of the Axis powers during WWII that consisted of
Britain France and U.S
• Allied Powers
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Conference were France and Britain agreed to let Hitler capture Sudetenland and in exchange Hitler would not
capture more land in Czechoslovakia or anywhere else.
• Munich Conference-
September 29-30, 1938
• France and Britain refused military aid from Stalin in Czechoslovakia.
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Event that caused the start of WWII
• Hitler and Stalin’s invasion of Poland
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Term that means lighting warfare in German.
• Blitzkreig
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American policy at the start of WWII
• Neutrality• Neutrality act gave
president authority to ban arms sales to warring nations.
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Act that allowed the U.S. to help friendly countries defend themselves by lending,
leasing, or selling supplies to them.
• Lend-Lease Act (1941)
• Allowed the U.S to help will remaining out of the war.
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Created by congress to provide employment for unmarried men
between ages of 17 and 23.
• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
• Men worked in national parks, planted trees, and built fire towers.
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Major attack by Japan against the U.S Navy that was docked in
Hawaii on Dec.7 1941
• Attack at Pearl Harbor• This event led to the
U.S becoming directly involved in WWII
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Symbolized the working women during WWII
• Rosie the Riveter• Women were plunged
into the work force because most of the men were serving in the military.
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Sold to citizens during WWII, and promoted by Famous celebrities to
help pay for the war.
• War bonds
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Signed by President Roosevelt, this order allowed U.S military to place Japanese
Americans in prison camps. • Executive Order 9066• Done to protect
Japanese Americans and to control suspicion of their involvement in war.
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Group of African American pilots that were trained at Tuskegee Inst.
In Alabama.
• Tuskegee Airmen• These men earned
the Distinguished Flying Cross for their heroism during their more than 500 missions.
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This invasion began in November 1942 and led to victory for the allies
in the continent of Africa.
• Operation Torch
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Supreme allied commander of the allied forces in the European
Theater
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Operation coordinated by Eisenhower that consisted of bombings, Rail way destruction,
and would end with the amphibious attack known as D-Day.
• Operation Overlord
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Landing of allied troops on the beaches of Normandy France on
June 6, 1944
D-Day
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Term given to the genocide of Jew by the Germans in Concentration
Camps• Holocaust
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Occurred on May 8, 1945 when Germany Surrender ending the
European conflict.
• V-E day or victory in Europe day.
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Japanese suicide bombers during WWII
• Kamikaze
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Leader of the Allied forces in the Pacific
• General Douglas MacArthur
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Secret project by the U.S to create the first atomic bomb .
• Manhattan Project
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Name of B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb
• Enola Gay
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Sites where the first two atomic bombs where dropped
• 1. Hiroshima• 2. Nagasaki
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Japan surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur on August 14,
1945 ending WWII.
• Japan was forced into surrender because of the devastating effect of the atomic bomb.
• Surrendered on the ship called The U.S.S. Missouri