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129 Cards in this Set
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Flappers
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Girls who were associated with bobs, dresses that were short and a rebellous attitude
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Roaring twenties
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Time period associated with the rise of the middle class and america being isolationists
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Louis Armstrong
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Jazz Singer of the 1920s
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Harlem Renaissance
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urban community in NYC that was flourishing in black literature
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Langston Hughes
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Black writer who wrote about the black experience in America
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House Rent Parties
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Parties in NYC that had alcohol and jazz; To enter the party people paid $ and $ went to poor people in new york
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Ernest Hemingway
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Famous author, often wrote about WWI
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F. Scott Fitsgerald
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Wrote " the great gatsby"; he often wrote about the wealthy
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Charles Lindergh
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Person who flew the first transatlantic flight non-stop; later became a movie star
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Harding
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President who created the VA; the first of the progressives; Remembered for scandal
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Ohio Gang
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Hardings friends he appointed to high offices; included scandalous people such as Thomas Miller, Jesse Smith, and Charles Forbes
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The Teapot Dome Incident
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A national oil reserve that was caught taking bribes from oil companies
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Naval Petroleam Reserve #4
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Oil reserve located in Alaska, 23.5 million Acres
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Calvin Coolidge
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Known as "silent cal"; became president after hardings death; He was fiscally fruigal, an isolationist, and a republican
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Coolidge
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First President who gave his augnoral address on radio
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Kellog-Bryant Pact
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agreement that war would not be a form of Gov. foreign policy with Germany, Japan, Italy, UK and US
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The Dawes Plan
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decreased the amount that Europe owed the US
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Indian Civilization Act
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Automatically gave citizenship to Native Americans
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The Hoover-Stempson docrine
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Told Japan that we did not acknowledge their new territories
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The Great Depression
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Economic downturn in US that affected the world; the Federal Reserve is to blame for it.
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Black Tuesday
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Oct. 29; Day when every stock was down 29% and became worthless
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Smot-Hawley Tarriff
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Increased import tax to 50% in response other countries raised there's as well causing trade wars and farmers to go broke
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Dust bowl
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Was a result of bad farming techniques; Plowing led to loss of top soil
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Okies
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people who moved from oklahoma to california during the great depression
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Hoover Motortorium
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Cut back on demands for european paybacks from WWI
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Volstead Act
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Said alcohol was illegal over .05%
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Speakeasy
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Secret bars
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Bootlegging
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illegally transfer of alcohol
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Herbert Hoover
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A president who was a quaker. He cancelled all leases on government land & built a national dam
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Good Neighbor policy
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Said that latin Ameria would be in good terms with US
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Hoover Plan
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presidents plan that said US will use trade embrgos instead of war
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Volstead Act
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Said that alcohol illegal over .05%
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Speakeasy
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Secret bars
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Bootlegging
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illegally transferring of alcohol
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Al Capone
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Famous bootlegger. He was finally caught for tax evasion
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Elliot Ness
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A prohibition officer in Chicago that was part of the "untouchables"
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Scopes-monkey Trial
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Trial that raised attention over the issue of teaching evoltion in the classroom.
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Charles Darro
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John Scopes defense attorney
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William Bryan
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Was the prosecution in the Scopes-Monkey trial
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Sacco & Verizetti Trial
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A result of a bombing in NYC were messages were left supporting communism & two men were charged for murders
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National Orgins Act
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reduced al immigration to 164000 people per year and quota of 2% per group; excluded latin america
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John Edgar Hoover
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He was over the FBI for 49 years. Made it into the department it is today
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Teddy Rosevelt
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Youngest pres. who took over when McKinely was shot
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Square Deal
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acted as a referee between labor unions and industry
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Trust Busting
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A term used to describe breaking up big monopolies
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Pure food & Drug Act
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Was in initially concerned with ensuring products were labeled correctly but later efferts were made to outlaw products that were not safe, or safe but not effective
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Meat Inspection Act
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requires the US department of agriculture to inspect all meat before it reachs consumers
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Upton Sinclair
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Wrote the jungle, was a muckrucker
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Antiques Act
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Stated that president can bypass congress to declare a historical spot protected
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"Big Stick" policy
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Came from the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" ; stated that US will retailate if provoked; idea of negotiating peacefully but at the same time threatening the "stick" of military
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Roosevelt Corollary
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An extention to the monroe doctrine that said that US had right to intervente to "stabilize" the economy of latin america
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Panama Canal
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French tried this first; then T. Roosevelt bought supplies from the french & signed treaty with columbia by which the US guaranteed Panama independent and secured a lease of a 10 mile strip for the canal
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William Taft
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Republican president who was a former judge. he was t. roosevelts secratary of war; later became chief justice
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Publicity Act
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Required parties to account for the money spent on federal campaigns
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Dollar Dipomacy
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Tafts plan that encouraged US banks to make investments oversees
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Bull-moose party
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Roosevelt broke with Taft and ran as a third party ticket
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New nationalism
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T. Roosevelts philosopy that government could reguate economy and guarantee social justice
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Woodrow Wilson
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Won due to split of republican party
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New Freedom
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Wilson's program that stressed indivdualism and states rights
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Clayton-Anti trust act
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was an act to suppement existing laws against unlawful monopolies. Also legalized peaceful strikes, pikiting and boycotts
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Federal Reserve System
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Central banking system of US was a response to finicial panics in 1907
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Titanic
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largest steamship in the world that sank on April 14
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Keating Own Act
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"wicks bill" A law that prohibited the sale of goods manufactured by children
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Poncho Villa
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Mexican bandit who attacked americans in New Mexico
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WWI
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A fight between ntions for ottoman empire and who would get the land
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Battle of Somme
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Bloody battle of WWI were british lost 60, 000 soldiers
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Battle of Ypres
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Also called battle of flandres. It was the first world war battle fought
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Allies Powers
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Britian, Belgium, France and Russia
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and later turkey and bulgaria
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Lusitania
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Ship that was torpeoded by germans with US citizens on it
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Zimmermann Telegraph
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German minister sent this to mexico telling them to attack US led to us to declare war
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Czar Nicolas
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Last emperor of russia
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John Pershing
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General of US army during WWI
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Espinage Act
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Prohibited the support of central powers and said that you couldn't talk about about military leaders
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Sedition Act
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Said you coudn't say anything negative about gov, flag or military
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George Creole
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Appointed to run the committee of public information; they bombarded people with anti-german propaganda
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14 points
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Wilson's plan to promote world peace; included the abolition of secret treaties, freedom of the seas, and formed a league of nations
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The Big 3
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US (Wilson); England (David lloyd George); and France (George Clemens)
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Treaty of Versails
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Treaty that blamed germany for WWI; never signed by US
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Weimer Republic
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Germany's democratic party
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Dough Boys
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what young american soldiers were called
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League of Nations
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Before the UN. US wasn't apart of it
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"Red Scare"
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Crisis in America were citizens believed that communism was invading the US
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Palmer Raids
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anyone thought to be a communist would have their rights taken away and would arrest anybody
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FDR
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president who called hoover a socialist during election yet borrowed alot of his ideas; served 3 terms noone knew he was paralyzed
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March of dimes
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created for paralyzed children by FDR
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New Deal
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FDR's plan to deal with great depression
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civilian conservation force
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gave people jobs in parks that were unemployeed
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Securities and Exchange Comission
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watched walstreet to make sure they don't crash again
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glass steagal banking act
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act that said gov regulates what banks do
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social security act
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act that fixed gov fault in depression by giving old people money
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Neutrality act
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act that said US won't take any part in WWII
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Quarantines Speech
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Called hittler a virus and said we had to quarantine socialism so it wont spread
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Lend-lease act
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Act that gave englad money to aid in WWII
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Destroyor for bases agreement
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gave 30 american destroyers to england in exchange for access to ports in the carribian
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Manhattan Project
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US and british work together to make nuclear weapons before hitler
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Robert Oppenheimer
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designed the first atomic bomb
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Potsdam Declaration
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A letter to Japan of things to do to surrender; stated things like give back chinese territory, disarmorment, and warcrime trials; Japan said no
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United Nations
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created to save the world from communism; the big 5 were US, england, france, russia, and china
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Truman doctrine
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Stated that US would do anything to stop the spread of communism; gve money to greece and turkey to help them from Stalin
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Marshal Plan
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Truman's plan gave money to rebuild europe
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The Fair Deal
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Truman's idea of universal health care, an extention of unemployeement benefits and promotion of civil rights (never implemented)
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Executive order # 9981
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This desegregated the US military
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Mao Zedong
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The new ruler of china who killed 20 million his own people
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Joseph McCarty
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Senator who raised paranoya in the US by causing the second "red scare"
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Korean War
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"The forgotten war"; Due to the truman doctrine the US got involved
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Kim III Song
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Dictator who took over south korea
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Douglass McArthor
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Leader of the UN army who pulled a 90 day mission that liberated South Korea. Later fired by Truman.
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Vladmir Lenin
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Russian marxist revolutanary who led the soviet state
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Joseph Stalin
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A soviet polition who led the union after Lenin's death
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Cold War
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War that continued from 1947-1991 between the US and the powers of the western world after WWII
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WWII
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A global military conflict lasting from 1939-1945; "total war"
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Washington Naval Conference
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a military conference called by Harding in US; Conducted outside the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations having interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Soviet Russia was not invited. It was the first international conference held in the United States and the first disarmament conference in history
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Federal Bureau of Prisons
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this bureau was established by Hoover to provide more progressive and humane care for federal inmates
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Fireside Chats
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A series of 30 radio speeches given by FDR
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Public Works Administration
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was a new deal organization concentrated on the construction of large-scale structures such as dams and bridges
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Tripartite Pact (Axis Powers)
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Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII
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Adolph Hitler
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was the leader of the Nazi party and the chancellor of Germany
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Benito Mussolini
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an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party
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McCollum Memo
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A plan written by Arthor McCollum that had 8 points on how to deal with WWII including Make an arrangements with Britain for the use of British bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore; give aid to chinesse gov
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Pearl Harbor
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A surprise attack on the military base in oaho haawii on dec 7 1941. Next day US declares war on Japan
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MM St. Louis
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a German ocean liner whos captain Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for the 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba.
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Blitz
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refers to the "lightening war" strategy of WWII where german did aerial attacks on britain; including london's 76 concecutive nights of bombing
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D-Day
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Biggest military invasion of all time; was in Normandy. started at 6:30 AM and consisted of 160,000 troops
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Yalta Agreement
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Agreement between US, UK, and Soviet that said there would be an unconditonal surrender of Nazi Germany; soviet union would hold democratic elections and the formation of the UN
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VE day
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commemorates May 8, 1945, when WWII Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany
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Holocaust
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the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II
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Hiroshima
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City in Japan that was destroyed by the first atomic bomb
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Nagasaki
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first Japanese port to be opened to foreign trade , this place was devastated by the second atomic bomb used in World War II
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