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. What caused the Great Depression?

• Answer: The Stock Market Crash of 1929, bank failures, overproduction, and the Dust Bowl.

2. What was the New Deal?

• Answer: A series of programs by FDR to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.

3. What is the FDIC?

• Answer: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures bank deposits to prevent bank runs.

4. What did the Social Security Act do?

• Answer: It created a pension system for the elderly and provided unemployment insurance.

5. What is the Keynesian economic model?

• Answer: It believes that government spending can stimulate the economy during a recession.

6. How did the role of the government change during the Great Depression?

• Answer: The government expanded its role in economic regulation and providing welfare programs.

7. What triggered the second recession in 1937-1938?

• Answer: Cuts in government spending and tighter monetary policies by the Federal Reserve.

8. How did WWII impact American society?

• Answer: WWII led to full employment, the GI Bill, and changes in social roles (e.g., women in the workforce).

9. What was the Baby Boom?

• Answer: A significant increase in births after WWII, leading to demographic shifts and changes in family life.

10. What was the policy of appeasement?

• Answer: A strategy of allowing Nazi Germany to expand without intervention to avoid war.

11. What was the Iron Curtain?

• Answer: The metaphorical division between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and Western democratic nations.

12. What happened at the Yalta Conference?

• Answer: Leaders agreed to divide Germany into zones and create the United Nations.

13. What were the results of the Potsdam Conference?

• Answer: The division of Germany was confirmed, and tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union increased.

14. How did the Soviets expand after WWII?

• Answer: The Soviets took control of Eastern Europe, setting up communist governments.

15. What was the Truman Doctrine?

• Answer: A policy to support countries resisting communism with military and economic aid.

16. What was the Marshall Plan?

• Answer: U.S. aid to rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism.

17. What happened during the Berlin Blockade?

• Answer: The Soviet Union blocked access to West Berlin, and the Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift.

18. What was the policy of containment?

• Answer: The strategy to prevent communism from spreading to new countries.

19. What was the Berlin Airlift?

• Answer: The U.S. and Allies flew supplies into West Berlin to break the Soviet blockade.

20. Who was George Kennan, and what did he argue?

• Answer: Kennan argued for containment of Soviet communism through diplomacy and military deterrence.

21. Who were the Dixiecrats?

• Answer: Southern Democrats who opposed Truman’s civil rights agenda in 1948.

22. What was the Civil Rights Movement's main goal?

• Answer: To end racial segregation and discrimination and ensure voting rights for African Americans.

23. What was Truman’s Fair Deal?

• Answer: Truman’s program to expand New Deal policies and promote civil rights and economic security.

24. What was McCarthyism?

• Answer: The anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, accusing people of being communist without evidence.

25. What role did Muslims play in post-9/11 America?

• Answer: Muslims faced increased discrimination and surveillance but became more active in advocating for civil rights.

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