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Unit #10 Great Depression & WWII Review

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  • What was Black Tuesday?
    A day where everyone was selling stock and no one was buying stock. Dropping the prices of the stock market.
  • What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
    Repealed the Dawes Act, Encouraged Tribal Governments, promoted Native American Languages, arts, crafts and ceremonies.
  • What were the demands of the protestors in Olympia during the Great Depression?
    1. Free lunches and water for children 2. Help to the unemployed 3. Free or cheap electricity 4. Free or cheap gas
  • Define: Allied Powers
    The countries that fought together against the Axis Powers; USA, France, UK, USSR
  • Define: Axis Powers
    The countries that fought together against the Allied Powers, German, Italy, Japan
  • Define: Economic Depression
    a period of decline, high unemployment, low consumer confidence
  • Define: Bracero Program
    An agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that permitted Mexican citizens to temporarily work in the U.S. in agriculture
  • What industries prospered during WWII?
    Aluminum, Shipbuilding, Planes
  • Define: Destitute
    Lacking food, clothing and shelter
  • After the war, what social changes happened with Women in the workplace?
    Women challenged their traditional role more and more entering the workforce
  • What was the Manhattan Project?
    The secret government operation for the building and creation go of the Atomic Bomb
  • What was the purpose of men starting fires during the Great Depression?
    To create jobs as figherfighters
  • Define: Transient
    Those who do not stay in one area for a long time, not permanent, transitory
  • Define: Dust Bowl
    the worst drought in the Great Plains in the 1930s that made a lot of people migrate to other places.
  • What is the Grand Coulee Dam?
    The biggest construction with the New Deal in Washington State that provided electricity for lots of people across the USA
  • How did World War II end?
    Germany surrended after Hitler died and USA dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
  • Why did women take over jobs during WWII?
    Men were fighting the war, women worked in factories so they could continue to produce war products
  • Define: Supply/Demand
    The amount of specific goods available & the amount of goods a person wants to buy
  • What was the Hanford Project?
    A secret government operation in Washington that produced plutonium used for Atomic Bombs
  • Define: Hoovervilles
    A shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless
  • Identify the three factors that scholars claim to have caused the Great Depression.
    1. Gap between the Rich and the Poor 2. Stock Market Crashed 3. Higher supply than demand for products
  • Explain what happened at Pearl Harbor
    Japanese attacked a naval base in Hawaii called Pearl Harbor, killing and wounding lots of army members
  • What was the New Deal?
    The New Deal created jobs to put people back to work, created laws in banking to protect citizens, helped circulate money
  • How did the Bracero Program affect the population of Latinos in the US?
    Population increased
  • Name two dishes (foods) from the Great Depression.
    Hoover Stew, Corned Beef Luncheon Salad, Bologna Casserole, Garbage Plate, Water Pie, Vinegar Pie,
  • Explain Japanese Internment.
    Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were forced to relocate and live in incarceration camps for the duration of the war.
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