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Militarism
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Policy of aggressively building up a nation's armed forces in preparation
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World War 1
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Sussex Pledge
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Pledge by the German government in 1916 that its submarines would warn ships before attacking
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World War 1
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Convoy
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Group of armed and unarmed ships deployed to protect merchant shipping from attack
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World War 1
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Rationing
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Distributing goods to consumers in a fixed amount
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World War 1
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Mobilization
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The redying of troops for war
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World War 1
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Fillibuster
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Tactic in which senators take the floor, begin talking, and refuse to stop talking to permit a vote on a measure
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World War 1
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Armistice
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Cease fire or truce
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World War 1
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Sedition
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Speech or actions that encourage rebellion
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World War 1
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Stalemate
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Situation in which neither side in a conflict is able to gain the advantage
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World War 1
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Zimmerman Note
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1917 note by a German diplomat proposing an alliance with Mexico
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World War 1
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Genocide
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Deliberation murder of an entire people
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World War 1
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Fourteen Points
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President Wilson's proposal in 1918 for a postwar European peace
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World War 1
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U-boat
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A German submarine
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World War 1
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Russian Revolution
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Collapse of the Czar's government in Russia in 1917 to the Bolshevik take over
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World War 1
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Liberty Bond
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Special war bonds sold to support the Allied cause during World War 1
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World War 1
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Sekf Determination
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Power to make decisions about one's own future
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World War 1
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League of Nations
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International Organization formed after World War 1, that aimed to promote security and peace for all members
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The 1920's
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Red Scare
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A period of intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas
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The 1920's
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Installment Plan
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A system that lets customers make partial payments at set intervals over a period of time
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The 1920's
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Barrio
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Spanish-speaking neighborhood
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The 1920's
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Harlem Renaissance
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African American literary awakening of the 1920's centered in Harlem
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The 1920's
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Scopes Trial
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1925 trail in Tennessee on the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
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The 1920's
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Reparations
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Payments from an enemy for economic injury suffered during a war
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The 1920's
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Isolationism
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Policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries
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The 1920's
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Assembly Line
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Manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized task in the construction of the final product
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The 1920's
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Mass Media
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Print and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people
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The 1920's
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Bootlegger
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During Prohibition, a supplier ofillegal alcohol
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The 1920's
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Versailles Treaty
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1919 treaty that ended World War 1
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The 1920's
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Disarmament
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Program which nations voluntarily give up their weapons
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The 1920's
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Flapper
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Term control during the 1920'3 to describe a young woman with a fondness for dancing and brash actions
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The 1920's
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Jazz Age
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Term used to describe The 1920's
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The 1920's
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Speakeasy
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During prohibition, a place where alcoholic drinks were served illegally
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The 1920's
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Communism
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Official ideology of the Soviet Union characterized there by complete government ownership of land and property, single-party control of the government, the lack of individual rights, and the call for Worldwide revolution
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The 1920's
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Quota
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A numerical limit
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The 1920's
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Demographics
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Statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income
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The 1920's
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Lost Generation
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Group of writers of the 1920's who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy materialistic world that lacked moral values
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The 1920's
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Fundamentalism
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Set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus Christ the belief that the Bible was inspired by God and does not contain contradictions or errors, and the belief that the Bible is literally true
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The 1920's
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Speculation
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Making high-risk investments
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The Great Depression
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Business Cycle
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Periodic growth and contradiction of a nation's economy
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The Great Depression
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Buying on a Margin
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Practice by which investors purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price, borrowing the rest
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The Great Depression
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Hooverville
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Makeshift shelter of the homeless during the early years of the Great Depression
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The Great Depression
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Black Tuesday
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October 29, 1929, the day on which the Great Crash of the stock market began
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The Great Depression
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Dust Bowl
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A region in the Great Plains that had a period of drought and a dust storms during the 1930's
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The Great Depression
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Great Crash`
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Collapse of the American stock market in 1929
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The Great Depression
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21st Amendment
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Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1933, that ended prohibition
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The Great Depression
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New Deal
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President Franklin Roosevelt's Program of relief, recovery, and reform programs to combat the Great Depression
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The New Deal
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Nationalization
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Conversion to government ownership
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The New Deal
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Hundred Days
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Period at the start of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency in 1933, when many New Deal programs were passed by Congress
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The New Deal
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National Debt
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The total amount of money owed by the National government
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The New Deal
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Social Security System
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Publicly run system that provides regular payments to people who cannot support themselves
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The New Deal
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Revenue
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Income of a government
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The New Deal
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Demagogue
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A leader who manipulates people through such means as half-truths and scare tactics
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The New Deal
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Coalition
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An alliance of groups with similar goals
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The New Deal
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Totalitarianism
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Describing a form of government that controls every aspect of its citizens lives
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World War 2
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Appeasement
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Policy of giving into someones demands in order to preserve the peace
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World War 2
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GI
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Term used for American soldiers in World War 2 derived from "Government Issue"
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World War 2
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Battle of the Buldge
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World War 2 battle in which German forces launched a final counter attack in the west
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World War 2
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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World War 2 battle between the United States and Japan
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World War 2
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Concentration Camp
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Place where prisoners of war and other prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions
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World War 2
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Deficit Spending
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Government spending of borrowed money
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World War 2
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Nisei
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Japanese American whose parents were born in Japan
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World War 2
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