American History

Franklin Delenore Roosevelt

New Deal was his ideals on how to get the U.S out of the Depression

FDR used this to place his supports in the SUpreme Court to get his New Deal plans approved.

Repealed the 18th Amendment

Civilian Conservation Corps: Build governement highways and railroad stations

Tennessee Valley Authority: in hcarage of electricity to Northern Alabama, Social Security was set up to benefit senior citizens.

Works Program Administration: GAve jobs to those who needed it

insures taht money is in the banks

Agricultural Adjustment Act: Set up subsidies to pay farmers to ruin crops

Payment to farmers to plow under crops and kill wild stock

Lead to African Americans being allowed to serve on juries

Was not able to pay debt because Germant was unable to pay them reparations

Hitler signs agreement with Russia to not invade but does in the long run.

MAginot Line in WWI but France did not build it up before WWII so Germany invaded the same way.

outlawed war EXCEPT in cases of self-defense. Leads to WWII.

Start of WWII in the Pacific started when Japan invades China (1932) the U.S gets involved when Japana bombs Pearl Harbor.

Mussolini took over as dictator and his Fascist party overwhelmed the Italitan people and ran the country

Hitler created Volkswagen to have German tourists go to France and scout out where tanks would be able to travel

Hitler was the dictator of German. Followers called Nazi. Brown shirts were Hitler's thugs who would take care of any person who disgreed with Hitler.

Stalin was the ruler of Russia. USSR was Communist Russia

• U.S
• France
• Great Britian
• USSR

• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

War starte in Europe when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939

• Cash and Caryy was set up to avoid another debt. Anyone who wanted to buy from us would have to pay upfront and come and carry it away on their own ships.
• Lend/Lease was later in war to where we would lend/lease one of our ships to help carry supplies to an Allie

Lightening war (used by Germay when they used quick attacks)

U.S naval base in Hawaii thata Japan bombed on Decemeber 7, 1941. Lead to U.S getting involved in WWII

U.s, Japan, and Germany fought two-front war

Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle. Battle took place in the Philippines

with all men at war the women of the country were needed to take over for the men in the work plave to be able to send supplies to troops overseas. Rosie the Riveter was created to inspire women to go to work.

Used so that more supplies could be sent to troops in Europe

Most famous all black military group

Navajo language was used as U.S code in war because no one could break it

Place where 100,000 Japanese citizens were taken from west coast to prevent spies were sent. Was only done to Japanese citizens.

• June 6, 1944
• U.S stormed the beaches of Normandy to get involved in the war in Europe

Took place in Germany. U.S troops, led by McAuliffe, pushed into Germany ahead of theri supplies so Germans tried to cut off the supplies completely. Did not work in long run.

Meeting at Yalta and Tehran was used to end war by treaty. The UN was created to try and avoid another World War.

France, Great Britian, USSR, and America divided Germany to try and separate German powers.

killed around six million "unsure" people. Mainly concentrated on Jews. Any person involved in Holocasut was sent to concentration camps to be worked to death or immedietely killed.

Necessary for the invasion of Japan 300,000 soliders were lost.

• Manhattan Project was the creation of the atomic bomb.
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two msot populated Japanese cities who had an atomic bomb dropped on to send message to Japanese leaders.

Victory in Europe- May 8, 1945

Victory in Japan- August 14, 1945

kept WWI veterans from being homelss when they came back to the States.

(1945-1960) population went from 120-160 million

Levittown

Diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor.