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The Great Depression and New Deal caused high tariffs on the US. More and more people were buying on margin, which led to them being in debt. Factories all over the US were over producing goods since people did not have enough money to buy extra things besides the essentials. During the Great Depression, many people were losing jobs, therefore less people had money to buy things, and so businesses kept firing people since the amount of people buying things dropped. Alot of banks were failing due to lending out too many loans to people that wouldn't pay them back. Most people that were living in the smaller towns, moved to the bigger cities in hope for better living conditions. The New Deal was "designed" by FDR. His way of expressing what it did was Relief, Reform, and Recovery. There were two different kinds of the New Deal. The first one was towards helping the economy out and rebuild it. The second New Deal was focused more on the common people and smaller businesses.
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-On December 7, 1941, the US was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Their attack came in two different waves. The first wave was to attacked ships and bases. The second wave was to completely demolish anything left standing after the first wave. Japanese was mad at the US because they wanted to trade with us, but we didn't want to.
-The US was making atomic bombs. We used them against the Japanese to make them surrender. After attacking their larger cities, the Japanese did end up surrendering.
-On June 6, 1944, the United States invaded the Germans at Normandy and Omaha beach. This was called D-Day. It was the largest attack ever. There were alot more German deaths then US ones.
-Since Africa is a big country, alot of battles happened there. Some of the battles were important for the ally powers because it was the only battle where they could over take the axis powers. The ally powers just kept pushing the axis powers out towards the sea.
-When Japan invaded the Phillipines, that was names the Pacific Front. The bbattles of Midway of Iwo Jima happened there. During this time, the Japanese started the trend of crashing their own planes into US ships to blow the ships up. The people in the plane basically committed suicide.
3.
The ally powers won WW2 because of atomic bombing. Code talking was also very popular during the war and the allies broke some of the codes from the axis powers.
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a.
The Cold War was a truggle between the US and Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war, the Soviet Union was communist. In result to the war, Germany was split into 4 seperate parts.
b.
The domino effect was when a country would become communist and so other countries would follow along and become communist as well.
The Truman Doctrine was another strategy to end communism.
NATO was designed to protect western europe.
Marshall plan was to reconstruct the economic problems of western europe. Also to make it stronger.
c.
On June 24, 1948, the Berlin Clockade started. It lasted until May 28, 1989. It was the first internation crisis of the Cold War. During the Blockade is when germany was split into four parts.
d.
The red scare focused on the nazis.
e.
Fidel castro started to make underground organizations. His goal was to over throw Batista. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to kill Castro. The Missile Crisis was when the US found out about the Russia having missiles made in Cuba targeted at the US. Russia denied it alot until the US showed them pictures that they took. We watch a movie on it.
f.
Mao Zedong was communist. When President Nixon was presidenet, he went to china alot in hope of bettering their relationship with eachother.
g.
The nuclear arms race was between the US and Soviet Union to see who would make the first atomic bomb. The Soviet Union made theirs first, and the US came next.
5.
At the start of the Korean Conflict, the north invaded the south. North wants Korea to be communist and the southern parts wanted to be democratic. The north part was pushed into china by the United Nations.
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The north invaded the southern part. The Vietnam Conflist was alot the the Korean Conflict because the north wanted to be communist. The US got involved and fought along with the south against communism but when the US left the south by themselves, the north won and Vietnam became commi.
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