History Unit 1 1930's-WWII

Black Tuesday

When the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.

14 billion dollars lost

Stock Market Crash

the sudden and severe decline in stock prices that triggered economic turmoil and widespread unemployment.

This event marked the beginning of a decade-long economic downturn in the United States.

14 billion dollars was lost.

Okies

A term used to describe migrant farm workers, particularly from Oklahoma, who moved to cali during the Great Depression in search of better opportunities.

Herbert Hoover

President during the Great Depression.

FDR won in a landslide victory in the next president election. most people thought he was not a good president.

believed that rugged individualism was the way to go.

tried to solve the great depression with trickle down effect.

The Three R’s

Relief

Recovery

Reform

Rugged individualism

Hoover believed that if you work hard than you can get out of your slump.

self reliance, minimal government help

Volunteerism

Hoover wanted people that didn’t have a job to volunteer and help

Election Of 1932

When FDR won in a landslide victory against Hoover

only 5 states voted for hoover

New Deal

The new Deal was a series of programs made by FDR to help solve the great depression.

Relief (Relief to checks and jobs programs to lower unemployment)

Reform (Programs to stimulate agriculture) 

Recovery (Programs to correct problems in the economy and prevent future depressions)

Trickle Down Effect

Lower taxes to the rich so the money would trickle down to the poor
DID NOT WORK

Keynesian Economics

opposite of trickle down

Give money to the poor so they are spending and the economy rises

Harry truman

Vice president to FDR

Decided to drop atomic bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki

become president after FDR died

Joseph Stalin

He was the Dictator of the USSR during WW2

Winston Churchill

He was the prime minister of england during WW2

He met with Franklin D. Roosevelt with the atlantic charter to discuss if the U.S was joining the war. 

Adolf Hitler

Born In austria

1889

Created German workers party (Nazi)

the economic depression and losing in WW1 made this person want to take over

Made a coup in prison and it failed

When in prison he wrote a book

made the holocaust happen

Benito Mussolini 

Dictator of Italy

Friends with Hitler until he was killed and italy left the war

Hideki Tojo

Prime Minister of Japan during the war

Treaty Of Versailles

When Germany signed this contract to end WW1

The U.K and france forced them to sign it.

U.S tried to save Germany

Had to pay a lot of money

Had to demilitarize

Rise Of the Nazi Party

by 1933 this party has as increased in popularity, someone is no longer in jail

President Hindenburg appoints him Chancellor of Germany

control into a totalitarian regime

the party trying to get rid of political opponents and the Night of Long Knives happens  

Munich Agreement

When germany was allowed to take and annex german small speaking territories and was not allowed to attack France or the U.K

Sep 30th 1938

Fascism

Fascism is when your dictator believes that your country and dictator is the best

authoritarian political ideology characterized by dictatorial power

extreme nationalism

controlled labor

central government

Blitzkrieg

Hitlers strategy in war

Fast and hard

lightning war

concentrated attacks

Atlantic Charter

When Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill to discuss the war and also talk about if the U.S was joining the war.

Met in Canada to talk

Top secret

not even congress new

Stalingrad

Hitler Invades with Operation barbarossa and invades the USSR

Stalingrad was a major battle Soviet Snipers would target german Officers

playing dirty

Aircraft carrier vs Battle ship

in the pacific theatre Japan had the best navy

They used Aircraft Carriers in battle where they would launch planes off the deck and bomb them

The U.S had Carriers but they were not as good

Battle Ships would just fire big guns with no planes

Luftwaffe

German Airforce

RAF

U.K airforce that bravely fought off the luftwaffe in the battle of britain

Isolationism

The U.S was in the period because they were recovering from the great depression until Japan attacked on december 7 1941

Neutrality Acts

restricted the U.S from trading anything that was related to the war or joining the war

the law was passed in the 1930’s

Cash & Carry

European Allies could pay the U.S for non military goods

U.S would make them then the europeans would come and get them

Lend-Lease

allowed the U.S to give Britain Goods but then pay the U.S back after the war.

Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee airmen were the African American fighter squadron

From Tuskegee Alabama

Still some segregation in the military

Know as the red tails

european theatre

double V Campaign

when the Allies defeated japan in the pacific and Germany in europe 

Allied Bombing Campaign

Bombed germany from 1940-1945

Targeted cities

Military bases

used planes B-17s known as flying fortestress

Appeasement

U.K and france trying to make peace with germany

USS Arizona

Bombed on pearl harbor dec 7th 1941

memorial

still linking oil today

sailors still want to be buried here today by dumping ashes

B17

planes used in ww2

known as flying fortresses

B-29

B-17 but way bigger and better

removed all guns because Japan could not shoot or fly that high

removed them so they could fit more bombs

Greater East Asia Co Prosperity sphere

Japan controlled the pacific except for pearl Harbor

Korea

parts of China 

philippines

east indies

may 8th 1945

victory in europe

june 4 1942

midway

sep 2 1945

japan officially surrenders