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17 Cards in this Set
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Luscitania
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Ship sunk by German U boats in 1912 causing America to get involved in WWII
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Taft's foreign policy in 1911-1912 manipulating countries to America's will financially. Significance:America starts shirfting out of isolationism
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Flappers
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Women in the 1920s that demanded equality in places where men dominated. Women broke out of Vicorian Morality and social liberation in cities.
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Court packing
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Roosevelt's scheme to put new justices in the supreme court in 1937. The supreme court started to focus more on individual rights.
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Huey Long
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Senator and Dictator that proposed Share the Wealth in the 1930s. Example of a threat to FDR from wing of politics.
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Great Crash
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Crash of the stock market on October 24 1929 and lead to the Great Depression
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Social Security Act
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Part of FDR's New Deal in 1935 which set up the welfare program in the US
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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Part of the fifteen pieces of legislation FDR sent in 1933 that built dams and produced electricity for everyone. It is has endured the longest. Many states have adopted a law similar to TVA.
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AAA
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Created by Congresss in May of 1933 telling farmers how much you grow and what prices the gov supports. Big business could no longer interfere in the market so no more monopolies.
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Wagner Act
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Passed in 1935 creating the Labor Relations Board and the CIO. Had communists and radicals first hint of communism.
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Bonus Army
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A group of WWI vets in 1932 that came to Washington wanting a reward for their service. Hoover's public image took sharpest blow
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Truman Doctrine
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Passed in 1947 giving military aid in Greece and Turkey and says that the US and Britain stand for good and justice and USSR stands for evil. Led to the Cold War
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Containment
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America's foreign policy from 1949-1963 suggested by George F. Kennon. America permanently breaks away isolationism
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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happened in 1962 when Kennedy established a Navy blockade and when USSR crosses US fired and USSR retreated. High point in the Cold War and started a series of talks about nuclear warfare
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Korean War
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War between North and South Korea communist versus capitalists. Showed that the US financed dictatorship in order to win
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National Security Act
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Passed in 1950 and created the CIA and the National Security Council. In orde rto win
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Marshall Plan
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Approved by congress in 1948 giving Europe enough aid to return to its state before both world wars.
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