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8 Cards in this Set
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Global Pamdemic
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influenza pandemic sweeps
most servicemen died of influenza, not in battle killed more people in a short time than any other event in human history fast speading pointed out the impossibility of isolationism |
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finnancing the war
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William McAdoo, Secretary of Treasury:
-issued government bonds with low interest rates -got celebraties ot promote them -boy scouts other plan: raise taxes -rich got raped |
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Increasing federal power
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"Food will win the war, don't waste it"
War industries board controlled important resources, set prices and priorities government started building naval bases, running railroads "war socialism" War workers: got more rights -" Natinoal War Labor Board insisted opn adequate wages and reduced hours, prevented exploitation of women -strikers either worked or were drafts -favored conservative labor movements, like Sam Gropers blacks, women fill in gap of white men |
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Sam Gropers
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AFL- conservative labor movement
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social progressives and ww1
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at first they opposed war
but eventually saw benefits didn't support a lot of things supported: 8 hour work day childrens work rights government housing projects government control of trains etc influenced trainning camps, made better for soilders made soilder regulations more strict for alcohol and ho's |
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women sufforage
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wilson tried to get it
"Catt" head of National American WOman Suffrage Assciation Alice Paul- millitant group, got arrested for blocking sidewalk |
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WIlson's idealism
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WIlson goes to EUrope for treaty of Versailles
mistake: gave small nations little power and soviet union none did not support japanese plan for racial equality |
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
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denounced treaties, thought they would create problems
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