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1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

Stock Market Crash- people were buying on credit and couldn't pay for what they bought which caused  bank failings crashed on the. Major overproduction


Great Depression- overproducing of crops, the stock market crash, companies were overproducing things that people couldn’t buy

 

2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?

Suicide rate went up

Kids dropped out of school

People lost jobs                                   

Food stamps

3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?

The CCC- help create jobs for younger men

Labor jobs

New deals

Made the hoover dam to create jobs and energy and whatnot

Several organizations were created to make jobs

Construction      

Built government buildings

 

 

 

4. What were the causes of WWII in Europe, Asia, and the US?

Europe- hitler started breaking the treaty of versaille

Invaded Poland

Rearmed Rhineland

 

Asia- we stopped trading them Japan

Manchuria

Rape of Nanking?

 

US- pearl harbor

Our allies brought us in

There was a lot of push from the American people to join

5. What impact did the United States have on WWII?

We helped slow up the German plans

We steered them in the wrong direction by giving them false info

We got france back from under german control

 

6. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?

Stop the domino effect

Destalinization?   

stop the spread of communism

promote trade

promote democracy 

 

7. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?

Berlin Blockade/airlift

Cuban Missile Crisis- soviets had misses in cuba we had missles in turkey we agreed we wouldn’t fire and we would take the missiles out of turkey

Red Scare/McCarthyism- when people were accusing others of being communist McCarthy said he knew 200 people in the govt that were communist

Bay of Pigs- Got the Cubans to revolt against castro and trained them.

Berlin Wall- it was a wall that kept the west out of the east and one side was communist the other was controlled by Allied powers from WWII and Ronald Reagan and Mikial Gorbachaev helped

End of the Cold War-

 glastnost

destalinization

perestroika 

 

 

 


8. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?

Vietnam was communist

We went into Korea to precent the the soviets from taking over the Korean penesula

 


9. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:

-JFK Assassination- Lee Harvey Oswald during a parade shot JFK, although there are many conspiracy theories on who did it and why. He was shot in a car from a college book production center

-Civil Rights- JFK pushed them, push for integrated schools, woman’s rights were being pushed about their pay

-Watergate two burglars broke into Watergate and wire tapped the phones so they could know the secrets they had to go back in an rewire them and got caught and it was found they were working for the Nixon campaign so Nixon could find out what his opponents for the reelection were planning

-Persian Gulf War(1991)

-9-11 two planes crashed into the world trade center, one into the pentagon, and one crash landed in a field in VA after the passengers took control of the plane from the terrorists, who had construted the plan of 9-11 alqaida was the terrorsit group that was led by OBL

-War in Afghanistan

-War in Iraq

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