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43 Cards in this Set
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Samea and Hawaii
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Pacific Ocean Islands
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The Maine
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U.S. ship that was blown up in Havana, Cuba and was blamed on Spain
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The causes of the war with Spain
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economics
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Results of the War with Spain
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US won and Spain pulled out and lost Cuba
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Filipino leader, politician and independence leader
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Goals of progressivism
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better able for the government to be able to serve to the peoples needs
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Prinicples of progressivism
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Institute against child labor, public education and the right for women to vote
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Election of 1892
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson wins
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Central powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria who fought against the Allies in WW 1
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The Zimmermann Telegram
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coded telgram from German Empire to instruct German Ambasador in Mexico to speak with Mexican government to form an Alliance against America
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The Allies
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France, Italy, Russian and Britain Empires, and America
The Entente Powers |
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The Espionage Act of 1917
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United States federal law after WW 1 that made a crime for anyone to hold information or interfere with the Armed Services with a $10,000 fine and 20 yrs. in prison
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Sedition Act of 1918
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Law passed by Woodrow Wilson concerning the use of free speech, any type of vulgarity against the government during the war EX: flag burning was sentenced to prison; minimum 10 yrs.
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The Fourteen Points
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Speech given by Woodrow Wilson concerning the design of Europe after the war
It also encouraged the Central Powers to surrender |
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Red Scare from 1919-1920
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heightened suspicion of communists in the U.S. government
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Reactions of the Red Scare in 1920
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duck drills at schools, and fallout shelters were made
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John T. Scopes
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was charged in Tennessee for violating the act of teaching evolution in the classroom
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18th Amendment
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prohibition of alcohol
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19th Amendment
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guarantees the womens right to vote
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The "Great Migration"
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movement of millions of African Americans out of the southern states to bigger industrial cities, including Philadelphia, and Chicago
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Presidential election of 1920
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issue over the desruction of WW 1 and how peace treaties were going to be made
Warren Harding beat James Cox after Wilson became very unpopular |
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Calvin Coolidge
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30th President of the United States
was in his presidential reign of high economic boost |
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Presidential election of 1928
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Hebert hoover won the election
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1938 Munich Agreement
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agreement between major powers of Europe after a conference in Munich
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outbreak of WW2
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rise of Nazism
Imperialism-states wanted to expand but others wanted to keep their own land-like Hitler |
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The Neutrality Act
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insure that the US would not get involved within foreign relations concerning Asia and Europes turmoil
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lend lease act
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program that let the US supply Britain and Soviet union with war supplies
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American Japanese relations in 1940
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Japanese Americans were thriving on US soil life was good for them
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War relocation camps
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the scare of every Japanese person living in the U.S. to be put in camps
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Allied Campaign in Sicily
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invasion of Allied forces onto the island called Operation Husky
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Operation Overlord
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codename for Normany invasion of Allied forces on June 6 D-Day
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American Strategy in the Pacific
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take the central Pacific on the east side of Japan and push west
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Yalta
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meeting in southern Russia to organize the United Nations
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atomic bomb
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used against Japan instead of risking more lives of soldiers to invade Japan
150,000 deaths appro. |
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cost of WW2
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Phillipines were granted their independence 62 million deaths
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president from 1901-1909
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theodore roosevelt Republican
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1909-1913
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William Taft republican
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1913-1921
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Woodrow Wilson Democrat
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1921-1923
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Warren Harding Republican
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1923-29
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Calvin Coolidge Republican
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1929-1933
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Herbert hoover Republican
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1933-1945
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Franklin roosevelt Democrat
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1945-1953
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Harry Truman Democrat
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