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147 Cards in this Set
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What did the Monroe Doctrine warn against?
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European intervention in the Americas
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What ways did the Monroe Doctrine do to America? (2)
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lept the US in an isolationist position
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What was the South's economy dependent on?
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cotton
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What is the withdrawl of a state from the Union?
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secession
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What was the first state to secede?
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South Carolina
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What was the temporary settlement made over the expansion of slavery in the 1820's?
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The Missouri Compromise
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What was Andrew Jackson's creation which led to failure in state banks?
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Pet Banks
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What is related to the start of the California Gold Rush?
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Sutter's Fort
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What was designed to limit the importation of foreign goods?
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protective tariff
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What was designed to raise money?
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revenue tariff
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What type of person openly opposed slavery?
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Abolitionist
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What are examples of Abolitionists? (4)
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Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator-editor), Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What was Harriet Tubman involved in?
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Underground railroad
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What was Harriet Beecher Stowe involved with?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What movement was to do away with slavery?
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Abolitionism
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What was the nation formed by seceded states?
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Confederate States of America (CSA)
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Who was the first CSA president?
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Jefferson Davis
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Who was the head of the CSA army?
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Robert E. Lee
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What state was split by the Civil War?
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Virginia
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Where were the first shots of the Civil War and when were they?
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On Fort Sumter when Lincoln sent a warship carrying supplies there
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What denotes granting freedom to slaves?
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Emancipation
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? (3)
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kept Great Britain from helping the South, encouraged slaves to leave masters; encouraged North to fight harder;did not free all slaves; only the ones in Confederate/Rebel controlled states
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Who did Lee surrender to and where?
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Grant and Appomattox
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What was the network of people who gave aid to runaway slaves?
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Underground Railroad
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What was the Dred Scott case?
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when the Supreme Court decided that he did not have the right to freedom because he was a slave and not a citizen who could sue for freedom
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What action kept boats from leaving or entering a trading sea port and who used it against what?
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blockade; North against South sea trade
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What was the destructive advance through Southern states to the ocean?
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Sherman's March to Sea
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Who assassinated President Lincoln?
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John Wilkes Booth
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What was the time after the Civil War in which the country dealt with prolems caused by the war?
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Reconstruction
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What is amnesty?
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a group pardon
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Who did President Johnson want to extend amnesty to and on what condition?
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the Southerners who took a loyalty oath
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Who kept former Southern leaders from holding government offices?
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Radical Republicans
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What was the process of seeing if the President would be removed from office?
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Impeachment
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What was President Andrew Johnson impeached for?
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Violation of the Tenure or Office Act
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What was settled by special electoral commission?
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The Presidential Election of 1876
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What were laws passed by the South to restrict freed slaves from using their rights?
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Black Codes
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What were Northerners who came to the South to assist Reconstruction?
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Carpetbaggers
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What were white Southerners who supported Radical Reconstruction?
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Scalawags
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What was the new agricultural system developed after the Civil War called?
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Sharecropping
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How did sharecropping work?
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Freedmen used an owner's land and in return gave land owners a share of their crops
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What did the 13th Amendment do?
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abolish slavery
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What did the 14th Amendment do?
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gave blacks the right to citizenship
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What did the 15th Amendment do?
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gave blacks the right to vote
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What was the Alamo?
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abandoned missionn in San Antonio that Texans fought to death to defend
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What was the single biggest reason for increase in 1800's population?
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Immigration
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Where did most immigrants enter the US?
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Ellis Island
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Where were most immigrants most likely to settle in the mid-1800's?
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In the North, West and cities
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What opened free or inexpensive land to settlers?
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Homestead Act of 1862
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When was the Transcontinental Railroad completed?
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1869
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Where was the Transcontinental Railroad completed?
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Promontory Point, Utah
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What did the Transcontinental Railroad help the most to do?
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settle the Plains
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What did the coming of the TR train do?
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killed off vast herds of buffalo
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What did the action of the TR help to end?
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the way of life of the Plain's Indians
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How did the TR help farmers?
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helped them to get crops to markets
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Who created the first trust and what was it called?
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John D. Rockefeller; Standard Oil
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Who organized the American Federation Labor?
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Samuel Gompers
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What was placing an unduly high value on money and possessions called?
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Materialism
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What was the business which was owned by one person called?
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Sole Proprietorship
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What was an economy in which business are owned by private citizens who were free to make a profit called?
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Capitalism
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What is an economy in which businesses and all means of production are owned by the government called?
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Communism
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What had no trees, limited water, used windmills, built sod houses, and insects were the worst hardship faced?
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Prairie or the Great Plains
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What was controlled by the organization of the Grange, rural free delivery and mail order business?
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Lonliness
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Who entered Oklahoma too early?
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Sooners
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What was poor western land set aside for Indians called?
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Reservations
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What were the laws passed which directed Indians to abandon their way of life an accept that of the white man and what year was it passed in?
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Dawes Act; 1887
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Why did the Spanish-American War occur? (4)
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because of the American concern for Cuba, the blowing up of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, publishing of the De Lome letter and yellow journalism
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What happened when the US helped Panama gain imdependence from Columbia in order to get Panama to give us the right to build the canal?
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building of the Panama Canal
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What two things created excitement and gained attention by manipulation and sensationalizing of news stories in order to sell more copies of newspapers?
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Yellow Journalism and the Yelow Press
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What US army doctor proved the mosquito to be the carrier of yellow fever?
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Walter Reed
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What is the site of a naval base still occupied by the US in Cuba?
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Guantanamo Bay
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What is the acquisition of foreign lands, usually without that country's permission called?
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Imperialism
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What denotes the action of one person, group, or nation who, for its own gain and takes advantage of another person, group, or nation?
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Exploitation
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What is giving aid to poor or disadvantaged people by giving them food, clothing, medicine, education, or other assistance because it is a good and nice thing to do called?
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Humanitarianism
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What is America's policy of staying out of world politics during most of the 19th century called?
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Isolationism
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What was protions of China controlled by foreign countries for trade purposes called?
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Spheres of Influence
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What was the attempt to keep power of all nations equal inregion of the world so that one nation cannot control the others or take over weaker nations called?
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Balance of Power
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Who did the US apply the Balance of Power to and why?
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Asia to keep peace in that area
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What was the secret organization who opposed the presence of foreigners in China?
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Boxers
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Why was the Boxer Rebellion started?
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to force all foreigners to leave China
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What did the Progressives look to the government for?
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to take care of the social and problems of society
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What was the movement of people from rural areas into growing cities?
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urbanization
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What were groups who tried to fight the evils of liquor and to stop people from drinking and also tried to get alcohol, its making and selling stopped called?
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Temperance Societies
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What the 16th Amendment about?
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Income Taxes
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What was the 17th Amendment about?
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Direct Election of Senators
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What was the 18th Amendment about?
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Prohibition
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What was the 19th Amendment about?
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Women's suffrage (right to vote)
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What started WW1?
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the assassination of Archduke Fredrick Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
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Where was the Archduke killed?
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Sarajevo, Bosnia
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What were the four reasons that WWII occurred?
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Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and Alliances
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Who were the Central Powers? (5)
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey), and Italy (for part of the war)
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Who were the Allied Powers? (6)
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France, Great Britain, Belgium, Russia, US, and Italy (at the end) as well as countries belonging to major countries as colonies
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Why did Germany invade Belgium and what type of country was Belgium?
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to get to France; neutral
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What were the new warfare innovations of WW1? (4)
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tanks, poison gas, U-boats and airplanes
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Who sunk the Lusitania and who was on it?
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German U-boats; civilians (including US)
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What was especially disturbing to Americans before we entered the war and what this action called?
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German use of U-boats; unrestricted submarine warfare
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When did the US enter WWI?
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April 6, 1917
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When did Armistice day start?
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November 11, 1918 (11 hour, 11 day, 11 month)
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What were the war efforts on the home front? (4)
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draft boards, victory, war bonds and the War Labor Policy Board
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Why did President Wilson make the 14 Points and what did it include?
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to aid in rebuilding of Europe; included the forming of the League of Nations
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What were the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles?
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made to settle condition after WW1- Germany was required to accept all the blame for WW1
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What was wrong with the Treaty of Versailles?
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never ratified by the US Senate
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What were damage payments a country is required by a treay to pay after a war?
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War Reparations
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What was the official policy that the US government was to return to?
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normalcy/isolationst policy
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WHat were people most interested in in the 1920's?
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becoming wealthy
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What did the most to unite American culture across the US?
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radio
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What did people ignore in the 1920's? (2)
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moral values and Christianity
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In what circumstance did William J. Bryan get ridiculed for upholding Christianity/Creationism?
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Scopes Trial
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Why did people invest in the Stock Market? (3)
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Profit, ability to buy on the margin and to watch stock prices on the ticker-take machine
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Where was land speculation heavy?
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Florida
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Where did the depression start?
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stock market crash on October of 1929
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What did the Depression bring? (3)
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unemployment, bank failures and defaults on loans
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Why did Roosevelt present the New Deal?
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to deal with the problems of the Depression
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What did the New Deal include? (3)
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closing the banks for holidays, calling Congress into a special session and fireside chats
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What were some of the programs that Roosevelt started? (4)
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TVA (Tennessee Authority Valley), CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), NRA, and the SS (Social Security)
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When was the Dust Bowl and what was it?
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1930's; great drought in the Great Plains
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Who was Hitler?
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became the leader of the Nazi Party and head of Nazi/Fascist Germany
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Who was also known was "Il Duce"?
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Mussolini of Italy
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Who was Stalin and what did he do with Germany?
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leader of the Soviet Union; signed a non-aggression pact with him
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When was the Invasion of Poland and what did it do? (2)
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Sept. 1, 1939; split the country with Russia and started WWII
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What was Hitler's biggest mistake? (2)
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breaking his pact with Stalin and trying to invade Russia in the winter
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When Hitler invaded France in ______ it _______.
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1940; fell
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What happened to make the Lend-Lease Act?
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US sent supplies to European Allies before its entry into the war
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What was "the date which will live in imfamy" said for and who said it?
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Roosevelt's quote about the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor as he declared US entry into WWII
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What was the Allies primary objective?
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to defeat of Germany
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What was the D-Day Invasion?
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the invasion of Normandy to take back France
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When was D-Day?
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June 6, 1944
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What and when was V-E Day?
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Victory in Europe; May 8, 1945
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Where in the Pacific war front was the costliest island captured by the US Marines?
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Iwo Jima
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What was the devastating tactics used by suicide Japanese air pilots?
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kamikazes
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When FDR died before the end of WWII, who was his successor and what hard decision did he need to make?
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Harry S. Truman; dropping the atomic bomb on Japan
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What was the United Nations?
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peace keeping organization to replace the League of Nations
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Who was the United Nations made up of? (3)
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the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Secretariat
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Who received extensive aid from the US after WWII? (2)
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Germany and Japan
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What was Truman's plan for the US after WWII called?
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Marshall Plan
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What was the phrase coined by Winston Churchill and what did it describe?
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"iron curtain"; the separation of Communist countries from Free countries
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What was the former capital of Germany that was divided after the war?
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Berlin
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What kind of control was Berlin under?
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communist
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Why was the wall between Berlin built?
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to separate the free side from the communist side
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What was the Berlin Airlift?
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US had to air drop supplies for 321 days from London to West Berlin
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Who were the two main countries involved in the Cold War?
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America and Soviet Union
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What was the Red Scare?
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fear of communism
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in the 1950's? (2)
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Stalin (up to 1953) then Khruschek
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Who was the leader of communist Cuba since 1950's?
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Fidel Castro
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Who was the leader of the Nationalist Chinese and where was he forced to flee to?
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Chaing Kai-Shek; Taiwan
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Who was the leader of the COmmunist Chinese?
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Mao Zedong
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Who was the war in Vietnam led by and when?
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1950's; new United Nations forces
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Who was the war in Vietnam fought between and how did it end? (2)
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communist and free sides of Vietnam; ended with the country being communist
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