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theroy promoted by Fredrick Taylor; held that every kind of work could be broken into series of smaller tasks and that rates of production could be set for each individual task
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Scientific Management
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proposed constitutional amendment
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Group founded by W.E.B Du Bois and other in 1909 to end racial discrimination
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N.A.A.C.P- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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President from 1921 to 1923 (Reb.)
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Warren G. Harding
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Secret society created by former Confererates in 1866 that used terror and viloence to keep Blacks from obtaining their civil rights
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Ku Klux Klan
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group of writers whose works reflected the horrors of the death and destruction of WWI and critized consumerism and superficiality in postwar society
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Lost Gereration
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Production system created by Henery Ford to make goods faster by moving parts on a converyer belt past workers
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Assembly Line
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Religous movement that teaches that the things in the Bible are true
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Fundamentalism
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music combining a variety of musical styles; originated with black musicians in New Orleans and gained jatioal popularity in the 1920's
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Jazz
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complete ban on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol
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Prohibition
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Who are the athlete's of the 1920's?
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Babe Ruth and Jim Thorpe
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When Alber Fall sold all the Navy's oil
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Secretary of Commerce during 1930's era
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Herbert Hoover
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President from 1933 to 1945
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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President Roosevelt programs for helping the U.S economy during the Great Depression
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The New Deal
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Senator during the 30's that said the New Deal was too slow in easing the economic troubles of the nation
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Huey Long
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Breadlines and Shantytowns
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a noted British economist, many of th New Deal recovery programs were based on therioes of this man
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John Marnard Keynes
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What were sme causes of the depression?
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War debts, foreiners couldnt purchase american goods
the stock market crashed |
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name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930's after a sever drought struck the region
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"the dust bowl"
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What were some famous novels of the 1030's?
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"Thay sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying"
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New Deal agency created in 1930's to insure bank savings
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C)
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New Deal agency established in 1933; emplaymed yound men on conservation project
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Civilian Conservation Corps(C.C.C)
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New Deal Program made in 1933; built dams and power stations to provide hydroelectric power and flood control to the Tennessee River Valley
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Tennesse Valley Authority(T.V.A)
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created to assist home owners who could not meet their mortgage payments
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Home Owners Loan Corporation(H.O.L.C)
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When Roosevelt wanted to appoint one new justice for each of those 70 or older, up to 6 new justices
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Court-Packing
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Increased tax on rich people
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Revenue Act 1935
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downwaord trend in stock prices
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Bear Market
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upward trend in stock prices
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Bull Market
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belief that success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
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Rugged Indvidualism
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was a major turning point in World War II, and is considered the bloodiest battle in human history and arguably one of the greatest come-backs in military history
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Battlec of Stalingrad
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June 6, 1944, WWII allied invasion of france
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D-Day
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line defenses built by France along its border w/ Germany after WWI
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Maginot Line
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WWII battle in which the Japs. advance to New Guinea
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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WWII battle in which the Allies defeaed the final German offensive
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Battle of the Bulge
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secret French organization who opposed the Germans
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The Resistance
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pldge signed by U.S president Roosevelt and British prime miniter Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war
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Atlantic Charter
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national policy of avoiding involvement in the affairs of other nations
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Isolationism
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pact by U.S and 14 other nationa that outlawed war, except for self-defence
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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led the British in WWII, and pushed German troops out of Egypt and into Libya
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Bernard Mongomery
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Commander of of U.S forces and launched counterattacks on south koean capital
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Douglas MacArthur
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Commander of the German Afrika Korps
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Erwin Rommel
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commander of U.S Pacific Fleet
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Chester Nimitz
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6 week struggle for control of Key pacific island that resulted in an Allied victory
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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bloody battlr in the Pacific during WWII; resulted in an Allied victory
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Battle of Okinawa
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world 1st offical satelight; launched bt Soviet Un. (1957)
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Sputnik
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president of U.S 1945-1953, 1953 got fired by MacArthur
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Harry Truman
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won election of 1952 and promised to end WWII or Americans
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Surpreme Court ruling that established "separate-but-equal" doctrine for public facilities
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1954, declared racial segragation illegal in public schools
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Brown vs. Board of Eduacation
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alliance formed in 949 by the U.S , Western European nations, and other countries to help defend eachother in case of attack
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization(N.A.T.O)
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What made the growth of the Suburbs?
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The population increased because of the baby boom, cities wer become over crowded, it was noisey in the city and dirty
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long power struggle between U.S and soviet Un., waged mostly on economic and political fronts, rather than on battle field
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Cold War
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Eisenhower offered military aid to any Middle Easterm nation seeking help in resisting communist aggression
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Eisenhower doctrine
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What were some satellite countries?
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Soviet Union
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operatiom in which British and U.S planes carried food and supplies to West Berlin, which had been cut off by Soviet blockade
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Berlin Airlift
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U.S foreign policy during the Cold War tht sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communist
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Containment
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U.N that imclude 5 permient memebers and 10 rotating members...Soviet, Britian, France, China, and U.S were perminent
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United Nations Security Council
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U.N that include all member nations
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Untied Nations General Assembly
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British forces withdrew from ______Jewish leaders rapidly proclaimed the new state of Israel
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Palestine
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Law that gave judges the power to end some stricks, outlawed closed-shop agreements, restricted unions' political contributions and required leaders to swear they were not communists
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Taft-Hartley Act
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law that made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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