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19 Cards in this Set
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return to normalcy
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america wants isolationist presidents
next 3 presidents focus on diplomacy and avoid confrontation want booming ecenomy |
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warren g. harding
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ohio senator
helps end post-war depression stabilize inflation cut wartime taxes puts friends in office-results in scandal cut national spending dies when president foreign policy: end involvement in WWI, disarmorment and diplomacy |
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washington naval conference
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world conference on disarmament
focuses on pacific and japan 4 and 5 power treaties open trade in canada |
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bureau of veteran affairs
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harding
what to do with ex-soldiers |
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ohio gang
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thomas miller caught taking bribes
Jess Smith shred evidence of malpractice made up of harding's friends in office charles forb embezzled veteran's money harry daughtery selling confiscated liquor and taking bribes |
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teapot dome
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albert fall
in charge of oil reserves he chooses who gets tracks of land was taking bribes while making decisions spent money immediately so he got caught first gvt. agent to spent time in prison while still employed when american lose faith in politicians |
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national petroleum reserve
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in alaska
takes up over 23m acres of land Harding |
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calvin coolidge
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lawyer
gvr of masachusetts known as silent cow first president to give speech over radio first president to star in a movie depressed because son died ZERO inflation |
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kellogg-briand pact
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renounces warfare as a tool for coolidge's foreign policy
doesnt work for long at all |
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herbert hoover
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quaker
republican progressive believes in volunteerism nanny state conservation SF bridge Hoover Dam retirement pensions good neighbor policy |
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good neighbor policy
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US can't use military force to intervene in Latin America
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hoover plan
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removes roosevelt corrollary
disarms navy if LA does something we don't like, we won't use military, we'll use embargos |
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Hoover-Stimson doctrine
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Japan is invading other countries and building a huge military, but we wont acknowledge this.
china will still be a free country even though japan is there japan saw this as a green light and completely invaded china |
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great depression
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starts in late 1920's in US, spread to rest of the world.
no economic movement farmer sales drop 60-70% happened b/c everybody invested everything in stocks people take out loans to invest in stocks all stock prices went down, people are in debt mostly happened because people were living on credit |
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black tuesday
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stock prices went down 40%
stock holders panicked and sold all stock |
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smoot-tawley tariff
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raises tariffs from foreign countries by 50% so they can't sell here
other countries then create the same tariff results in a trade war bad for farmers because they cant sell |
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dust bowl
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1931-1939
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oakies
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people moving west in dust storm
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hoover moratorium
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1 year halt on fees/loans from WWI to try to stop depression from going worldwide
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