Unit 13

  • Depression

    a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations
  • Banking relief act 1933

    a bill passed during the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in reaction to the financially adverse conditions of the Great Depression.
  • NRA

    The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices"
  • WW2

    a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.
  • Invasion

    Hitler attacked Russia, because ever since the signing of the nonaggression pact, neither Stalin nor Hitler had trusted each other, and both had been plotting to double-cross each other.
  • Pearl harbor

    was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.