1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
Buying on margin
Overproduction and underconsumption of goods
Banks investing
Stock pools and watered stock
Unrealistic view
Bank failures
American Economic policy with Europe
Drought conditions
Panic
Withdrawing funds
Tuesday October 29,1929(Black Tuesday)
2.What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
Lack of money
Poverty
Men had to leave their families and worried about the ability to support their family
Unemployment
No business made any money
lost everything
No business
No jobs
Vicious cycle of the great depression
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
The new deal programs
POOR PEOPLE
Charity
Social Security
Health care
Long share our wealth program- Pushed for redistribution and benefits for the poor
Elderly
Social Security
Social Welfare benefits
Elderly assistance program
New deal goals
Help get jobs
Reduce spending
End overproduction and raise price of crops
4.What were the causes of WWII?
Pearl Harbor
Stopped trading with Japan
A collapse of league of nations
Hitler
Great Depression
5. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
Millions of jobs were created
New rights for African Americans
6. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
Stop communism
7. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
Red scare- McCarthy accused and stated many people were communist.
Berlin wall- Thousands of Germans from the east went to the west. In response East German authorities had made a wall that had circled west Berlin on. On Nov. 9, 1989 officials announced that Germans may travel abroad and the wall was taken down.
Berlin blockade- Germany had been divided, Soviets wanted control of Berlin.
8. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
Both reasons for war were to stop the spread of communism
Korea
Stop spread of communism
Vietnam
North (Communist) -Ho Chi Min
South (Democratic)- Emperor Bao Dai and Diem
9. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
JFK Assassination-
November 22, 1963
shot by sniper riding with his wife
Lee Harvey Oswald was captured 70 minutes after shooting
-Civil Rights
Right to vote
Ended segregation
Ending discrimination somewhat
-Watergate
National Democratic Headquarters were broken into
Connection between Nixon's campaign
Nixon knew about break in
Court ordered release of tapes
Nixon announce he no longer had political base
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
Iraq had invaded Kuwait
The Taliban did not like US because we had invaded
We had also invaded Iraq
-9-11
Terrorist attacks
4 planes had been hijacked
2 planes had hit the world trade center
The 3rd plane hit the pentagon
The 4 plane had been aimed for Washington DC
Bin laden had been shot and killed
-War in Afghanistan
Overthrow Taliban from power
President bush wanted the Taliban to give up bin laden
-War in Iraq
US had thought Iraq had weapons that could cause destruction
US had invaded but did not find anything
President Bush had sent 20,000 troops to Iraq
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