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28 Cards in this Set
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– Head of American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
– Fought against 1st US forces just taking place of dead British and French soldiers; backed by Wilson – Helped end German offensive |
John J. Pershing
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– At Versailles conference, all combatants publicly accept, Britain and France never completely agree
– Provisions: open treaties, freedom of seas, removal of trade barriers, reduction of armaments, adjustment of colonial claims with regard for interest of native people, adjustment of European boundaries in accordance with nationality, established League of Nations |
Fourteen Points
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– Treaty only with Germany
– Allied leaders, called the Big Four – Jan – June of 1919 – Germany accepts sole responsibility, pay reparations, surrender territory, limited army |
Treaty of Versailles
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– Only music that originated in US that is considered to be “art” music
– New Orleans roots |
Jazz
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– By Bruce Barton
– Changed way Americans look at business – Tried to make Christian story intelligible to business executives of his age |
The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
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– Benevolent attitudes to employees by employers
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Welfare Capitalism
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– Intense desire to stop immigration or throw immigrants out
– “hyphenated Americanism” |
Nativism
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– Considered a patriotic society and supported nativism
– Rebirth after Griffith’s Birth of a Nation – “Patriotic” motto—“native, white, Protestant supremacy” |
Ku Klux Klan
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– Harding during campaign of 1920 promised Americans “return to normalcy”
– Turn back clock to McKinley era and back before big government |
Normalcy
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– Albert Fall (Sec of Interior during Harding) signed leases of government oil reserves here
– Oil supposed to be kept in strategic reserve for US Navy – Fall received kickbacks for allowing leases |
Teapot Dome, WY, and Elk Hills, CA
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– US, GB, Japan, France, Italy
– Agree to cease battleship production for 10 years – Reduction of capital ships |
5-Power Agreement
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– US, GB, Japan, France
– Concerns Pacific – Respect others interests in Pacific – Notify other countries if attack in Pacific |
4-Power Agreement
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– US, GB, Japan, France, Italy, including China
– Guarantee independence of China (outgrowth of Open Door Policy) |
9-Power Agreement
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– President from 1923-1929 after Harding died in office
– Quiet – Pro-business – Power of executive used sparingly – Nap everyday |
Calvin Coolidge
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– National organization of businessmen of particular industries should be created cooperating with one another to fix prices, if necessary, to provide a more stable economy
– Hoover as Sec of Commerce (1921-1929) |
Business Associationalism
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– Under Hoover
– Eliminated subsidies and price fixing principles to help farmers – Established Federal Farm Board i. Promote farm commodities ii. Control marketing for farm products iii. Revolving fund of $500 million to buy surplus farm commodities |
Agricultural Marketing Act (1929)
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– Ill-advised tariff
– One of causes of Great Depression – Economic nationalism—protect American industry – Raised tariff on agricultural and manufactured goods – Trade / money flow haulted |
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act (1930)
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– Democratic President after Hoover
– Knows can win after bonus marches incident |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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– Sent by head of Serbian Army to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand (shot him)
– Assassination marked the end of peace |
Gavrilo Princip
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– Austrian Archduke
– Assassinated 28 Jun 1914 – His death precipitated Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war on Serbia |
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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– Foreign policy advisors to Wilson
– Saw German militarism as a potential danger to America – Supported the US entering the war |
Edward M. House and Robert Lansing
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– Secretary of State under Wilson
– Believed America had a religious to advance democracy and moral progress in the world – Wilson nominally consulted him – Did not want to enter war |
William Jennings Bryan
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– British passenger liner sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915
– Loss of 128 Americans – Germany agreed to pay reparations – US waited 2 more years to enter WWI |
Lusitania
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– Military submarines operated by Germany
– Targeted US merchant ships bringing supplies to Great Britain |
U-Boats
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– US concerned with Bolshevik revolution in Russia
– Immigrants from Europe believed to be carriers of communism; US feared different after WWI – A. Mitchell Palmer—deported hundred of suspected alien subversives |
The Red Scare
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According to Oscar Handlin in his essay “A Liner, a U-Boat…and History,” what was the “deeper
significance” of the sinking of the Lusitania? |
- a shock of revulsion passed through neutral America
- effects of WWI reached even civilians |
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According to Allan L. Damon in his essay “The Great Red Scare,” what action did Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer finally decide to take in order to “put out the fires” of revolution that he came to believe were “sweeping over every institution of law and order” in the country? |
- enforce a part of immigration code that outlawed anarchism in all its forms
- aliens that violated the code, by only reading or receiving anarchist publications, could be arrested, and if found guilty, deported |
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According to Peter Quinn in his essay “Eugenics: Race Cleansing in America,” who was responsible for the theory of eugenics, how did he come to formulate his theory, and, basically, what was that theory?
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- Francis Galton
- cousin of Charles Darwin; inspired by natural selection, found achievement and heredity linked - encourage "more suitable races" to propagate before they were overwhelmed by prolific mating habits of the pauper classes |
