15 terms

Great Depression & WW II

Phase I
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed
Bull Market
a steady rise in the stock market over a period of time
Great Depression
Camps built outside of major cities by people who had lost their homes during the great depression called hoovervilles because the people blamed Pres hoover for their situation
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
New Deal
The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
Three R's
Relief, Recovery , & Reform
Totalitarian Government
Adolf Hitler
German Nazi dictator during World War II
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
emperor of Japan during WWII
Benito Mussolini
fascist dictator of Italy during WWII
lightning wars; swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and land forces
Neutrality Act
Pearl Harbor