Study Guide for History Test
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- FERA
- gave 3 billion dollars to work relief programs
- Race to the Sea
- When the German tried to get around the French to get to Paris
- President Hoover
- Herbert Hoover
- WPA
- work relief program would employ more than 8.5 million people to build bridges, roads, public buildings, parks, and airports
- Trench
- the marne big whole they dig that they can hide in and everything
- Suffrage
- Means the right to vote
- What were 2 effects of the stock market crash?
- a.) The Great Depression b.) Unemployment
- Speakeasies
- Illegal bars
- Inflation
- a constant, significant rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency
- HOLC
- helped people save homes from forclosure
- NIRA
- help unemployment by banning child labor to regulate the number of hours worked a week
- Treaty of Versailles signed?
- June 28, 1919
- disillusioned
- Not too happy, not satisfied
- What is The New Deal?
- An unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression
- Flapper
- Term used for the new women of the 1920's
- FDIC
- insured bank deposits so that people would not lose the money that they put in the bank
- bankrupt
- they aint got no money in the bank
- Nineteenth Amendent
- The amendment that gave women the right to vote
- impoverishment
- When someone becomes poor
- what were 2 causes for the stock market crash?
- a.) Slow economy b.) People were guessing about the stock market
- ANIMAL
- A- alliance: A nation that works with another nation for a common purpose N- nationalism: pride in one's nation I- imperialism: Policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries using the other countries for their own gain M- militarism: policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war, or regions A- anarchy: the absence of government, anarchist weakened the governments L- leadership: (bad) in Europe
- FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- The person who became president after Herbert Hoover
- Red Scare
- Anti-Communist hysteria
- Herbert Hoover
- the president before FDR and the president during the Great Depression in the 1920's
- AAA
- subsidized farmers for reducing crops and providing loans for farmers in bank rupticy
- Republic
- a country in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote
- Poverty
- poor
- Prohibition
- The 18th amendent
- Hoovervilles
- named after the president and they had all the poor people in them
- Unemployment
- when people don't have jobs
- Schleiffin Plan
- The German troops plan to go through Belguim to get to France to knock them out of the war
- CCC
- addressed the pressing problem of unemployment by sending 3 million single men from age 17 to 23 to the nations forests to work
- KKK
- A pro-white group that reorganized on the 1920's
- monarchy
- a country where supreme power or held by a single person
- The Great Depression
- A time in the 1920's when the economy had weakend, unemployment skyrocketed, stock market crashed, people went bank rupt
- Disillusionment
- to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant