Unit 8 Content Quiz Review

causes of the great depression

• overproduction

• under-consumption

• problems in europe

• high tariff

• speculation

• oligopolies

• failure of federal reserve and government

• depressed farm prices

• unequal distribution of wealth

who was the president during the great depression?

herbert hoover

what did president hoover do and not do during the great depression?

• do → campaigned for the hoover dam to create jobs

• didn’t do → did not do anything to help america and said it was up to them to deal with, not the president

what were the effects of the great depression?

• decline in gdp

• bank failures

• unemployment

• poverty

• homelessness

which president came up with the new deal?

franklin d roosevelt (new deal)

what are the three r’s?

• relief for those suffering

• recovery for the economy

• reform to avoid future depressions

what is a program from the relief r?

fera → provided food, clothing, and shelter for needy

what is a program from the recovery r?

national recovery administration (nra) → established codes of fair practices that would set prices, production levels, minimum wages, and maximum hours

what is a program from the reform r?

social security administration (ssa) → created a social insurance program to pay retired workers 65 years or older a continuing income after retiring

what is the bonus army?

group of wwi veterams and supporters who marched to dc to demand payment they were promised for their service

blitzkrieg “lightning war”

swift, intense military attack to achieve a quick victory by taking enemy by surprise

luftwaffe “air weapon”

refers to german air force

what was the holocaust?

the genocide of around 6 million jews by the nazi regime

what is appeasement?

giving dictators what they want and hope they don’t want anything else

internment camps

places where individuals, particularly japanese americans, were forcibly relocated and detained by the us govt

island hopping

skipping over heavily fortified japanese islands and targeting less defended ones to gradually advance to japan

rosie the riveter

symbol of american women who entered the workforce during wwii to fill jobs left by men

what were the two japanese cities that were bombed?

• hirosima

• nagasaki

bandwagon

convincing the target audience to do something or buy something because "everyone else is doing it”

testimonial

using endorsements from famous or respected individuals to persuade an audience

plain folks

candidate/cause is identified with common people

transfer

connecting two unrelated ideas to encourage/criticize an idea

fear

suggesting that something terrible will happen if people don’t believe/behave a certain way

logical fallacies

flaws in reasoning that undermine the validity of an argument

glittering generalities

vague word or phrase used to evoke positive feelings rather than to convey information

name-calling

tying a person/cause to a largely perceived negative image

chewbacca defense/reasoning

speaking something so completely nonsensical and irrelevant that hopefully nobody listens further

sympathy/apologist reasoning

influencing audience by appealing to emotion (sympathy) or by defending/justifying controversial beliefs or actions

who fought on the axis powers?

• germany

• italy

• japan

who fought on the allied powers?

• great britain

• russia

• united states

• france

who was in charge of nazi germany?

adolf hitler

who was in charge of italy?

benito mussolini

who was in charge of japan?

hideki tojo

who was in charge of britain?

winston churchill

who was in charge of russia?

joseph stalin

who was in charge of the united states?

franklin delano roosevelt

pearl harbor

• japanese victory

• surprise japanese attack on us base

• us enters wwii

battle of midway

• american victory

• us sinks 4 japanese carriers

• turning point in pacific

• shifted naval power to us

d-day

• allied victory

• allied invasion of normandy, france

• beginning of nazi defeat in west

battle of iwo jima

• american victory

• bloody battle for strategic island of iwo jima (island was close to japan)

battle of britain

• british victory

• raf defends uk from german luftwaffe

• prevented german invasion