The United States Between Wars
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 prohibition | a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages |
| negative effect of prohibition | rise of gangsters |
| return to normalcy | poeple wanted to forget about the war |
| reparations | payments for war damage |
| why did suburbs begin to grow? | cars meant people no longer need to live closer to where they worked |
| flapper | young woman in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting |
| harlem renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| what did Henry ford introduce to the automobile industry? | the assembly line |
| what event started the Great Depression? | stock market crash |
| the New Deal | The programs and policies to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| president when depression started | Herbert Hoover |
| buy stocks on margin | pay small % of stock prices as a down payment |
| fdr's fireside chats | the chats that FDR conducted via radio to the nation |
| why was unemployment at an all-time high? | stock market crashed, banks closed, workers went jobless |
| dust bowl | Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. |
| totalitarian state | a single party controls the government and every aspect of peoples lives |
| purpose of social security | pension for elderly, unemployment insurance, support dependent children and disabled |
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