History Midterm

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Federal Reserve Act

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The act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the US, which was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson.

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Dollar Diplomacy

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a government policy of promoting the business interests of it's citizens in other countries

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Mexican Revolution

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a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata

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William Howard Taft

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27th president of the US, whose term was marked by antitrust activity and passage of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. He later served as the chief of justice of the US supreme court

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General John Pershing

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"Black Jack" only person, while still alive, to rise to the hightes rank ever held in the army. (General of the armies) Led the American Expeditionary Force in WW1

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Central Powers

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Germany & Austria -- Hungary, often with their allies Turkey and Bulgaria, as opposed to the allies.

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Submarine Warfare

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mostly restricted to the deployment of mines. In ww1 it was mostly a fight between German U-Boats and Atlantic supply convoys for Great Britain.

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sussex pledge

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a promise made in 1916 during ww1 by germany to the US. Passenger ships would not be targeted.
Merchant ships would not be sunk until the presence of contraband had been established, if necessary by a search of the ship.
Merchant ships would not be sunk without provision for the safety of the passengers and crew.

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Freedom of the seas

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the doctrine that ships of neutral countries may said anywhere on the high seas without interference by warring powers

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Fourteen points

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fourteen goals of the US in the peace negotiations after WW1. Included negotiations between nations, freedom of navigation, free trade, self-determination for several nations involved in the war, and the establishment of an association of nations to keep the peace.

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Chateau-Thierry

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a town in northern france on the marne river east-northeast of Paris. Site of the second battle of the marne, which ended the last major German offensive in WW1.

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Argonne Forest

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an american operation in ww1; american troops under pershing drove back the germans which were saved only by the armistice on november 11

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influenza pandemic

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an epidemic of the influenza virus that spreads on a worlwide scale and infects a large proportion of the human population 1918 spanish flu.

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Charles Lindbergh

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US aviator who in 1927 made the 1st solo nonstop flight across the atlantic ocean

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Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican black rights activist in the US: advocated emigration of black americans to africa

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Fundamentalism

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a movement in american protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible, not only in matters of faith and morals but also in literal historical record, holding as essential to christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birgh, physical resurrections, atonement by the sacrificial deathe of christ, and the second coming

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normalcy

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a word used by president warren harding to describe the calm political and social order to which he wished to return the US after idealism and commotion of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson

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Calvin Coolidge

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30th president of the US who took office after the death of Warren G. Harding, he encouraged speculation that led to a stock market boom in the 1920s, followed by economic collapse

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Nativism

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the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants

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Clayton Anti-trust Act

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remedy defiencies in antitrust law created under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the First Federal law outlawing practices "harmful" to consumers

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Twenty-one demands

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Instrument by which Japan secured temporary hegemony over china

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Pancho Villa

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Mexican revolutionary leader

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Woodrow Wilson

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28th presdident of US. Led US into WW1 and secured the formation of the league of nations

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Lusitania

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a british luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the north atlantic on may 7, 1915. one of the events leading to US entry into WW1

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Archduke Ferdinand

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archduke of Austria and heir to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of WW1

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Zimmerman telegram

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coded telegram dispatched by the foreign secretary of the german empire, arthur zimmerman, on january 16, 1917, to the german ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt, at the height of WW1. The telegram's intention was to get Mexico to go to war with the US

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trench warfare

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a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other

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Belleau Wood

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a forested area in Northern France east of Chateau-Thierry. WW1, it was the site of a hard fought victory over the Germans. It now contains a cemetary dedicated to Americans who died in the battle

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Saint Mihiel

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a town in NE France, on the Meuse Rever. captured by American FOrces 1918

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Treaty of Versailles

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treaty imposed on Germany by the allied powers in 1920 after the end of WW1 which demanded exorbitant reparations from the germans

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Roaring Twenties

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wake of WW1, jazz music, flappers, automobiles, wall street crash, great depression

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mass production

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the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities

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women's suffrage

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extending suffrage AKA the right to vote to women

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Billy Mitchell

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US aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power

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Ku Klux Klan

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secret organization in souther US, actuve for several years after the civil war

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Red Scare

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rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 & 1920. The scare was caused by fears of subversion by "communists" in the US after the Russian Revolution

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The Scopes Trial

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tested the law that forbade the teaching in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee of any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible and evolution

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Warren Harding

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29th president of the US, 2 of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal

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Herbert Hoover

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31st president of the US. Stock market crash, lost to Roosevelt

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prohibition

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a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages. 18th amendment