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Who did Francisco Franco overthrow?
Spain
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Americas first great challenge was to retool for war
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Majority of the group hurt by the Great Depression was Japanese- Americans.
Who did the Quarantine speech upset?
isolationists
What happened in the Munich conference?
Britain and France gave Germany czechoslovakia
What signed a pact with USSR and…
invaded poland
Why did Congress pass the Conscription law?
because of the fall of France
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Americas neutrality really ends with the fall of France
How did Britain get old destroyers?
they exchanged with America and gave America naval bases
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The Republican nominee in 1940 was Wilkie
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Roosevelt didn’t want to run for presidency but he felt that America needed someone with experience
Why did Japan believe they were at war with America?
because America wanted Japan out of China.
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When Germany invades the Soviet Union America makes the lend-lease available to the Soviets.
Where did America think Japan would attack?
Philipines
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On the evening of Pearl Harbor Americans still wanted to stay out of war.
Who did Roosevelt want to defeat first?
He wanted to defeat Germany first and then Japan
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WW II was more practical than WW I, it was just pure evil.
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African Americans were still segregated in WW II.
Did America benefit from WW II?
Yes America benefited economically from WW II.
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During WW II the African community moved to the North
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The national debt increased the most during WW II
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WW II was financed through borrowing
What turned the tie in the Pacific?
Midway
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The conquest of Guam was important because Americans could bomb Japan every hour.
What changed the war in 1942?
The battle of Stalingrad
Everyone was focused more on..
the vice president instead of the president in 1944.
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Roosevelt wins in 1944 because the war is going well.
Germany’s downfall is in the?
Battle of the Bulge
America let Japan keep this so there’s no more fighting?
Their Emperor, Hirohito
Americans feared the end of the War would bring back?
The Great Depression
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The Taft-Hartley Act banned all Union shops.
The postwar economic boom expanded?
The middle class
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A lot of the prosperity in the 50’s and 60’s rested on big military budgets.
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During the post war years American farm production increased.
Where has population grown more in sunbelt or sunrise?
sunbelt
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The rise of suburbs aka super- via has no impact on the environment
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The babyboom reached its peak in late 1950’s
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The origins of the Cold War laid in a disagreement over Eastern Europe
George F. Kennan was into
Containment
What was NATO for?
It was to protect one country if it was attacked by another country and also to resist the Soviet union.