1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
1. Stock Market Crash of 1929
2. Bank Failures
3. Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board
4. American Economic Policy with Europe
5. Drought Conditions
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
people stopped putting money in banks
economic impact
It affected nearly aspect of everyday lives. Businesses closed, people lost all
of their money. They lost their jobs. Some took work in the worst of conditions
for pennies. Many people started hunting for game just to feed their families.
Families in the cities even stooped to catching rats to eat. Suicides increased
dramatically. Many people died from starvation and disease unable to feed
themselves or pay for a doctor. Many resorted to the barter and trade system
instead of money. Of course, there were many more effects.
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
Got us in to world war 2
At first President Hoover tried to organize national optimism by summoning business execs to DC to declare that conditions were sound and that there would not be wage cutting. When that did not work (stop the depression), he became inactive for a while, trusting to the idea that it all would self-correct. When that did not work, he organized an international moratorium in war debts and reparations. This actually did help stem the slide further into depression, but only briefly. Then he set up the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to bring federal aid to hard pressed banks and businesses. Just as it seemed that this might work and that recovery was at hand, in the winter of 1932-33 the banking system in America went into a tailspin. On March 4, 1933, the American banking system ground to a complete halt. Hoover was an able and intelligent resident who attempted orthodox economic ideas, but became a victim to the collapse of the system.
4. What were the causes of WWII?
Germany's invasion of Poland.
Appeasement
Hitler
The Prussian Militarism
5. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
alot of dead people
ended the great drepsions
women in the work force
6. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
7. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
McCarthyism in the US.
The Berlin Airlift
The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis, revolts against the state in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. the Soviet war in Afghanistan, conflicts in the Middle East with the Soviet Union supporting Arab nations and the US supporting Israel
The building of the Berlin Wall.
Nixon's visit to China.
The first space satellite launched by the Soviet Union and the subsequent space race which led to the moon landing by the US.
-Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, End of the Cold War
8. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
hey went to war for $
It was known as the Domino effect. The theory was that if one nation went Communist then it would spread faster and faster until the entire world fell under the control of the Soviets.
9. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
JFK Assassination
Civil Rights - brown vs. board of education, 24th amendment
Watergate Scandal Richard Nixon and his party went into the Watergate and planted bugs and took documents about the democrats, he denied it but was most likely guilty and should not have covered it up
Persian/Gulf War - Iraq invaded Kuwait, we freed Kuwait
911
War in Afghanistan - 2001, Taliban was harboring Al Qaeda, October we invaded, established a democracy there, still fighting
- War in Iraq - 2 years after 911, Saddam Hussein was said to be getting mass destruction weapons, did not allow weapon inspectors in so we invaded, established democracy, rebuild country, left in 2011
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