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43 Cards in this Set
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Treaty of Versailles
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-Treaty ending WWI
-Between Allies and Germany (other axis countries dealt w/ separately) -made Germany take sole responsibility for cause of war -massive reparations for Germ. ($32 billion) -started league of nations |
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League of Nations
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-Founded in the Treaty of Versailles
-Meant to encourage diplomacy, disarmament, rights of man, basically anything moral -lacked teeth, depended on the reluctant armies of the Great Powers -Failed to stop another world war |
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H.C. Lodge
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-big (republican) opponent of Wilson in the senate
-part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which combated the League of Nations -wanted 14 amendments to Treaty of Versailles |
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Election of 1920
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Warren G. Harding (Rep.) vs. James Cox (Dem.)
-Harding won in a landslide |
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Post-War America
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There was a recession once the economic war boom had subsided. Paved the way for Republican president
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Volstead Act
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Reinforced the prohibition of alcohol.
-caused much bootlegging and illegal smuggling of alcohol |
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The Red Scare
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All communist activities were censored and opposition to the government was jailed or eliminated. Many of the enemies were deported, jailed, or killed
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney General who led witch hunts against communist/opposition to the government.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Italian Bros who were anarchists. Were tried for murder and were given a biased jury and were sentenced to death by execution.
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KKK
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Ku Klux Klan
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emergency quota act of 1921
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Put a limit on immigration to 3%
-effected a lot of Eastern European people trying to escape persecution |
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Immigration Act of 1924
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Put a limit on immigration to 3% of the country's population based on the census bureau's estimate
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Speakeasies
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A place that served alcohol illegally during prohibition
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prohibition date
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1920-1932
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The Noble Experiment
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prohibition...
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Organized Crime
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the criminalization of alcohol made it an underground practice. In order to do this organized crime was started for smuggling, brewing, etc.
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Al Capone
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The most notorious gangster of the time. He dedicated his career to smuggling alcohol and gettin' $.
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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The death of 7 mobsters of the North Side Irish gang by the hand of Al Capone's South Side Italians
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Lindbergh Law
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Kidnapping law that stated that the federal government could step in if the kidnapper crossed a state-line
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Clarence Darrow
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Defended John T. Scopes in the "monkey trial"
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Jack Dempsey
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A very popular boxer of the 1920s
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Babe Dedrickson
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Very talented woman athlete
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Langston Hughes
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Amazing American writer. Prominent in the Harlem Renaissance. Accomplished a lot, especially as a black man at that time.
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Marcus Garvey
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founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Promoted "African Redemption" which was moving back to Africa and pride in being black.
-African Fundamentalism |
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H.L. Mencken
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wrote The American Language
-anti-semitic |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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wrote The Great Gatsby
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Ernest Hemingway
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wrote The Old Man and the Sea
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Henry Ford
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-perfected the assembly line
-really good business model -Ford automobiles -anti-semitic |
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"tin lizzie"
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A nickname for Ford's model T car
-all of the parts of the automobile meant that the car industry put a lot into the economy |
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KDKA
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first radio station to the public
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five power naval treaty
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The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States of America, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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An international pact co-drafted by Frank B. Kellogg which called for war as a bad option for foreign policy.
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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An act of American isolationism after the war. It provided huge loans to Allied government who would in turn, buy US products.
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Forbes Scandal
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Stole money from veterans hospitals.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Albert Fall, US secretary of the Interior, loaned off oiled fields illegally to make a profit. He was caught, put in jail, and disgraced Harding's presidency.
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Daughtery Scandal
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sold alcohol licenses for a profit. These licenses were meant to be used for medical and religious purposes only.
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Calvin Coolidge
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succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of Warren G. Harding. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative.
Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity. |
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dawes plan
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a plan to try and get Germany to pay its reparations. Wasn't effective. After people realized it failed, the Young Plan replaced it.
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Election of 1928
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Hoover (Rep.) vs. Al Smith (dem)
Smith was a catholic anti-prohibitionist. Hoover won in a landslide. |
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"Rum, Romanism, and Ruin"
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the slogan referring to Al Smith by the Hoover campaign.
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The Agricultural Marketing Act
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An act by Hoover to attempt to stop the inflation of crop prices. It didn't work.
-also established the federal farm board. |
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Good Neighbor Policy
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an attempt to create better relation with Latin American countries, especially in times of war. It took away unpopular US military presence in certain countries.
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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increased tariff a lot. contributed to a decrease in US foreign trade between 1929-1932
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