1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
overspeculation, buying on margin, uneven distribution of wealth, too much borrowing, stock prices inflated, fed. reserve increased interest rates, lack of gov't regulation, agricultural slump due to overproduction of goods, high protective tariffs cut world trade, taxes favored the rich, rich get richer poor stay poor
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
Pretty much everyone was poor, people didn't spend as much or have as much as we do today. There were "hoover-villes"- villages of shacks made out of anything that could be found
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
new deal, gov't became much larger, deficit spending
4. What long lasting impact did the Great Depression have on the US and world?
sports were huge in the GD and radio took people's minds off of their lives, started Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid
5. What were the causes of WWII?
Treaty of Versailles, Great Depression-bad economic times lead to dictators coming to power,
6. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
helped end the war, first in the African Theater, then the European Theater, and lastly the Pacific Theater.
7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
promote democracy throughout the world, especially Asia and Africa
stop the spread of communism
8. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, End of the Cold War
The Red Scare-fear of communism in America
McCarthyism-Republican Senator that accused people of being communist; reminiscent of the Salem witch trials. This caused people to lose their jobs.
Senate eventually "censored" him and stripped him of his powers. 1950's
H.U.A.C.- organization that went after Hollywood for making what they deemed "communist"
Cuban Missile Crisis-Soviets put nuclear missiles in Cuba. US found out about them with U2 spy planes.
this caused a 13 day crisis where the US was panicking, and almost caused the US to invade Cuba
compromise reached- US wouldn't invade Cuba, USSR would take the missiles out, and the US would remove their missiles
9. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
to stop the spread of communism; Korea ended in a stalemate and Vietnam ended when the US pulled out. Vietnam is still communist today
10. How did the Cold War come to an end?
after Johnson, Nixon, and JFK eased tensions with Russia.
11. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination
JFK goes to Texas to ease tensions, gets into a limo with windows down and then gets shot
Lindon Johnson takes over the presidency
Lee Harvey Oswald taken into custody for JFK's murder
Jack Ruby shot Oswald
-Watergate
burglars broke into hotel, planted bugs and were eventually caught and traced back to Nixon
-Iran Hostage Crisis
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
-9-11
-War in Afghanistan
-War in Iraq
-Civil Rights Issues(African Americans, Women)
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