Civil Right Act of 1964

Who proposed the Civil Right Act of 1964, and why was it prosoed ?
-John F. Kennedy proposed the Civil Right Act .

Which group were affected by the Civil Right Act of 1964?

Pop Culture 1950's

1. What media exploded in the 50's and how did buisness respond to this explosion?
-Television exploded and some buisnesses benfitted but not all.

2. Why did critics not like television?
-Women and minorities werent allowed on television. African Americans and Latinos were rarely on television and this had a big effect on children.

3. Whats so ironic about rock and rooll music in the 1950's?
- It was created by African Americans but consumed by whites.

The American Dream 1950's

What were some causes for the baby boom?

• Some causes for the baby boom was the war was over and love ones came home and wanted to start a family.

What did Americans have to do in order to support all the new  babies being bron?

• Had to make more jobs, new school and homes.

How did the role of women change in 1950's?

• Women were considered homemakers and the role was glorified in society. They were also refered to as "key figures in all suburbia ... keepers of the suburban dream.

What change allowed the American car explosion to occur?

• Easy credit terms and extensive advertisement persuaded Americans to buy cars in record numbers causing the American car explosion.

Truman's Labor Policy

1. What were some of the significant challenges pres. Truman faced after WWII?
Some of the significant challenges truman faced were that 12 million soldiers return to look for jobs, African Americans wanted equal rights and people who sacrified to defeat the Nazis and Japan wanted to end the rationing and shortages of consumer goods.

2. How did Truman try to help returning G.I.s get jobs after WWII, and how effective was he? Explain your opinion.
He was effective because he help by including a minimum wage, guaranteed employment, medical insurance, housing aid, improve benefits for war veterans and wage and price controls

The American Teenager of the 1950's

1. How did the lives of teenagers change after TGD and WWII? Explain.
-Because they were introduced to new products that were making teenagers spend there money.

2.What is "White Flight" was it good for society? "
-The white flight was good for the white people but not good for the minoritys.

3.Why did many mexicans immigrate to the U.S before the 1950's
-Because they have better jobs and they were in a program to help them.

Postwar America 1950's

1. What was the u.s economy like during WWII? How were Americans doing?

• The economy was really bad because people were dieing or becoming really poor.

2. How did the American economy transform after the great depression and WWII?

• People learnd how bad it can be if the graet depression came again so people started changing how they lived.

3.Why would a company like google not do well in the 1950's

• Because eventually there would be something better then google and google wouldnt last.

The Boy in Striped Pajamas ~ Analasis Question

1.The father was so secrevtive about about why the way the family moved because he didn't want them his family to know hes a bad person and kills jews.

2. Brunos taught about the jews was evil and started the war.

3.The event significant to Brunos mother thinks that jewish people are not what they make them out to be.

4.Brunos father evelved and tranformed from a loving father into a monster, because he took his family to a place were they are unhappy and hes killing the jewish.

5.The kind of boy that bruno was at first was nieve and he transform into a bad little boy hows alway doing something.

Japanese Intrnment & Justice

1. Why were Americans afraid of Europe?-The Soviet Union created a political system called communism and most believed that it was a threat to the way the United States did things.

2. What did the Russians want in Europe?
- Russians encouraged communism and they wanted to rebuild Europe's economy using their materials and goods. They also wanted to use Eastern Europe to control the United States' influence on the Western part of Europe.

3. What did Americans want in Europe?- The United States wanted to recreate European governments so that the US can gain new markets for new goods. They also meddled, wanting to reunited Germany, thinking that Europe would be more productive if Germany were together again.

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The Study Guide

The G.I. Bill of Rights made it possible for Veterans to do what?

• attend college for free

What happened to the paychecks of African-Americans during the war?

• African-Americans did really well economically

What three things did the U.S. do to fight war time inflation?

• income tax, wage/price controls, war bonds

Who organized a protest against discrimination of Blacks in defense companies?

• Phillip Randolph

An example of racial tensions in L.A. during WWII led to what?

• Zoot-Suit Riots\

Strong anti-Japanese-American feelings after Pearl Harbor led to what?

• Internment of Japanese-Americans

Which General liberated Paris, France from the *****?

• Gen. Patton

Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan because

• Truman wanted to end the war and save American lives

 Who led the allied troops to victory in Bataan, Leyte, ?

• Gen.MacArthur

The Allies were

• U.S., Great Britain, Soviet Union

The Axis were

• Germans, Italy, Japan

*What year did the unemployment rate peak?	1933
#2	*Unemployment was lowest in what year?	1944
#3	Which government agency was created to fight inflation?	Office of Price Administration

*What year did the unemployment rate peak?	1933
#2	*Unemployment was lowest in what year?	1944
#3	Which government agency was created to fight inflation?	Office of Price Administration

What year did the unemployment rate peak?	1933
#2	*Unemployment was lowest in what year?	1944

WWII in the Pacific

1.Who promised to "return" to liberate the Philipines?

• Douglas MacArthur

2. What reasons did the POTUS use for using atomic bombs?

• He wanted peace and saved houndreds oof Americans. He thought that if they throw the bombs Japan would surrender and after the secound bomb they did.

3. In 1942, why were the Allies under-strenght to fight Japan?

Japanese Interment and Justice

1.What does the word "interment" mean to you?

• Confinement-meaning they were trapped or prisoned during wartime 

2.Why were Japanaese Americans interned in Manzanar?

• Because the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and they sent all japanese race to a concentration camp because they thought every japanese were spy's

3.Why were Japanese interment Policies wrong?

• Old woman and children were given curfews and people "workers" who disobey orders were stabbed and shot

The End of WWII

1.Was Gen.MacArthur a successful general?

•  Yes,he captured the prime minister also defeated,bataan,leyte,and iwo sima

2.Explain how successful the G.I Bill was to returning?

•  You'll get paid education as in free College education. You'll get paid College education

3.Why were Mexicans in L.A infairly treated after the war?

•  They were beated up by sailors

“WWII Across the Atlantic Ocean"

1.Who was the supreme Commander in Europe and was he sucessful?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, and because an Unconditional Surrender

 

2.What was the the significance of "D-Day"

• It was the first invasion with allies in france.

3.Was Gen.Patton an Effective leader?

• Yes, He lieberated France against Nazi's

 

4.Why was the battle of the bulge significant?

•  Hitler's Last chance to get victory

Copying with the War at Home

1. What was the OPA, and what was their job?
-The office of price administration OPA.

2. What was the purpose of the OSRP?
- To bring scientist into the war.

3. In what ways did Americans scarifice during WWII?
- They didn't have shoes, meat, milk, They didn't get the things they needed when they needed it.

4. How similar or different were your sacarfice during the iraq and afghanlstan wars?
- Didn't have to sacarfice anything.

U.S. Slowly Moves Towards WWII

1. What was Lend-Lease, and what countries did it benefit?
      - The president would lend or rent weapons and supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States". The Soviet Union and England benefited from it.

2. What did Roosevelt call German U-boats?   
       - Roosevelt called U-boats rattlesnakes



3. How would you describe Roosevelts opinion of war?
       - Well at first he was neutral but was supporting the Soviet Union and England by giving them weapons and supplies. But then Japan bomb in Pearl Harbor and that's when the U.S. entered WWII

WWll Key Term

1. Allies-A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose, typically by treaty.

 

2. Axis- A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate.

 

3. Defence Spending-A military budget of an entity, most often a nation or a state, is the budget and financial resources dedicated to raising

 

4. Unemployment Rate-The percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date.

 

5. Federal Outlay-Are not treated as receipts or outlays.

 

6. Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic-(Number 7) 

 

7. German U-boats-German submarines

8. Isolationists-Policy of "mind your business"

9. Appease-To give in

10. Lend-Lease Act-Law that allowed President of the United of the States (POTUS) to sell weapons to our friends

11. Office of Price Administration-U.S. federal agency, established to prevent wartime inflation.

12. Inflation-When prices for goods/service increases but income remains the same

13. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt-Leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

14. Pres. Harry S. Truman -After Roosevelt died, Truman lead the United States and successfully concluded World War II. Which after marked the start of the Cold War.

15. Phillip Randolph-Leader of the African-American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties.

 

16. Gen. Patton-General in the United States Army, best known for his command of the Seventh Untied States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II.

 

17. Gen. MacArthur-Commanded Allied forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

18. Gen. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of U.S. Forces-Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch and the successful invasion of France and Germany from the Western Front

 

19. Adolph Hitler-Germany, Nazis

 

20. Benito Mussolini-Italy

 

21. Joseph Stalin-Soviet Union/Russia

 

22. Winston Churchill-England/United Kingdom

 

23. Battle of the Bulge-The last stand for Germany

 

24. D-Day-Offensive by Allies to take over Europe

 

25. Auschwitz-Jewish concentration camp

 

26. Atomic bomb

 

27. Interment-Camps on West Coast used to detain Japanese Americans

 

28. Income tax-Percent of tax paid on personal income (paycheck)

 

29. Wage & price controls-Commonly instituted by governments as a response to inflation, and usually below market level.

 

30. War bonds-Debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war.

 

31. WAACs-Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WWAC) was created as an auxiliary unit.

 

32. WWII Battles of the Pacific-

 

33. GI Bill of Rights

WWll part 2

List all the countries the Nazi's invaded?
1. Austria
2. Czechoslovakia
3. Poland
4. Yugoslavia
5. Bulgaria

6. Greece
7. Romania 
8. Hungary
9. Lithuania
10. Latvia
11. Estonia
12. Finland
13. Norway 
14. France
 15.Denmark
16. the Netherlands 
17. Belgium
18. Soviet Union

2.What was Munich Agreements, and what was  Churchill's opinion of it?
On September 30, 1938, they signed the Munich Agreement, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany

without a single shot being fired.

3. What is Blitzkrieg, and what was the purpose?
Blitzkrieg made use of advances in military technology, such as fast tanks and

more powerful aircraft

The Help

The Help is a movie film of the novel by Kathryn Seductively , that talks about African American maid and how the white people of Jackson Mississippi , show how the south tried to limit African Americans equality or as they say sarpit but different. The maid in the movie The Help tale there side of working for white young women and how the treat them and abuse them, as if they were still in slavery.

In one incident in the movie, is when African American were bron, they new what they were going to be when you grow up, and African American were pay less money work more hours. Most black family were not able to pay there bill because of the how much money the were getting. So when they couldnt serve off of the little money they were getting most children had to drop out of school to help pay the bills.

In another incident if black people were not allow to make books about any thing that has to do with working for white people. In this movie Emma Stone how plays Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan  help the African American maid tale there side without getting in trouble with the goverment. When they people they work for are grow kids how have babys and they dont take care of them.

Great Depression REF.

#13 Which of the following was a goal of the New Deal?
- I got this one wrong because I was too question and pick answer.

#14 which of the following most directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work?
-I was not being careless

#15 Who wrote the novel The Great of Wrath about the grim lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression?
- I was very confusing with this question.

#16 __claimed that the New Deal polices were inadequate and proposed a social program called Share_Our_Wealth.
-Too quick to chose

#17 How many states were part of the Dust Bowl?
-Was not careful.