US History Review Day 3 Day 3. Early in the Depression, the Hoover Administration established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to to banks, insurance.

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Early in the Depression, Early in the Depression, the Hoover Administration the Hoover Administration established the Reconstruction established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to Finance Corporation to

to banks, to banks, insurance companies, and other insurance companies, and other depressed businessesdepressed businesses

loan money

Franklin Roosevelt’s immediate Franklin Roosevelt’s immediate response to the banking crisis response to the banking crisis after becoming president was after becoming president was to to in the in the United States for several days. United States for several days.

close banks

Social Security was a New Deal Social Security was a New Deal program designed to program designed to

provide a minimum retirement income

was the was the author of the author of the Grapes of WrathGrapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck

During the Dust Bowl many During the Dust Bowl many farmersfarmers in the Great Plains in the Great Plains migrated to migrated to ..California

The Indian Reorganization Act The Indian Reorganization Act to to Indian Tribes.Indian Tribes.restored some land

The The Good NeighborGood Neighbor policy policy included a plan to increase included a plan to increase

to the to the nations of nations of Latin AmericaLatin America

economic aid

““Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date that will live in infamy…” date that will live in infamy…” President President Roosevelt is referring to the Roosevelt is referring to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor

Partly because Partly because Japanese Japanese Americans living on the West Americans living on the West Coast during WWII were Coast during WWII were considered security risks, they considered security risks, they were moved from their homes to were moved from their homes to

internment camps

The outstanding record of African The outstanding record of African Americans who served in the Americans who served in the military forces during WWII was military forces during WWII was one reason President Truman one reason President Truman decided in 1948 to order an decided in 1948 to order an

. .end to racial segregation in the military

The federal government initiated The federal government initiated the the program during program during WWII in an effort to address the WWII in an effort to address the urgent urgent need for agricultural need for agricultural laborerslaborers..

bracero

During WWII, the primary duty of During WWII, the primary duty of the the was transmitting secret messages was transmitting secret messages to US forces during combat.to US forces during combat.

navajo code talkers

The purpose of the The purpose of the Manhattan ProjectManhattan Project was to develop was to develop for the US for the US military.military.atomic weapons

The meetings at Yalta and The meetings at Yalta and Potsdam were focused on Potsdam were focused on issues issuespostwar (WWII)

The The statement of principles was based statement of principles was based on the belief that an international on the belief that an international peacekeeping organization could peacekeeping organization could settle disputes without warfaresettle disputes without warfare..

United Nations

The The Truman DoctrineTruman Doctrine was a was a formal statement of intention of formal statement of intention of the United States to aid any the United States to aid any country threatened by country threatened by ..communist aggression

President Eisenhower supported President Eisenhower supported the establishment of the the establishment of the Southeast Asia Treaty Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (Organization (SEATOSEATO) as an ) as an attempt to restrict communist attempt to restrict communist aggression in aggression in ..Asian countries

The Korean War began when The Korean War began when North KoreanNorth Korean forces, with Soviet forces, with Soviet approval, approval, ..invades South Korea

BrinkmanshipBrinkmanship is the idea that the is the idea that the United States might have to United States might have to

..go to the edge (brink) of war

The The crisis crisis raised the possibility of a third raised the possibility of a third world war.world war.

Suez Canal

was an was an early example of early example of preplanned and preplanned and mass-produced housing mass-produced housing development.development.

Levittown

was the was the woman whose refusal to give up woman whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man her seat to a white man sparked sparked the Montgomery bus boycottthe Montgomery bus boycott..

Rosa Parks

The Supreme Court in The Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of EducationBrown v. Board of Education (1954) outlawed(1954) outlawed racial segregation racial segregation in in ..public schools

In 1957, President Eisenhower In 1957, President Eisenhower used federal troops in Little Rock, used federal troops in Little Rock, Arkansas to Arkansas to

.. integrate the public schools