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23 Cards in this Set
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1919 |
1919 inflation increased, goods go up by 15 percent |
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3,600 |
3,600 strikes, 4 million workers, in boston 75 percent of police walked off, riots and looting |
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AA |
African Americans go north, compete for jobs and houses |
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In Chicago, 38 ppl died, 500 injured |
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The red scare |
Russia withdrew from war, communists conspire for a revolution in U.S. |
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Warren G harding |
Return for "normalady" won by 7 million votes in 1920 |
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Combat in ww1 |
Spring 1917, debated Europe, millions of lives taken |
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Trench warfare |
Modern rifles, no man's land, trenches dug from English chanel to Swiss border |
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Poison gas |
Germany used British gas in 1915, British introduced tanks in 1916 |
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Victory for the allies |
Nearly 2 million doughboy fought in europe |
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Russia |
1917 Russia leaves the war, establishes a communist gov. |
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Battle of Argonne forest |
U.s push German line back |
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November 11, 1918 |
Fighting stops |
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The treaty of Versailles |
Germany stripped of armed forces and forced to pay $33 billion |
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The home front |
Progressive ideas applied to fighting the war |
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Selective service act |
Men 21-30 required to enlist, 2 mil volunteer |
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AA2 |
42,000 AS served overseas, rac8alky segregated |
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The Mexican revolutiom |
Victorian Huerta seizes power, Wilson refuses to recognize new gov. Marines take over port of veracruz |
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Rancho villa |
Led armed band that burned down Columbus, NM |
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6,000 troops go to Mexico to find Villa, called back for war in 1917 |
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Triple alliance |
Germany, Italy, Austria-hungary |
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Franco-russian alliance |
Russia and France ally in 1894 |
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Triple entente |
British, France, and Russia |
