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28 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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Teddy Roosevelt and his Square Deal
End corruption in government Meat Inspection and pure food and drug act |
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Harding and Coolidge
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Resistance to Progressive
Harding is a fiscal conservative, departure from progressivism Coolidge is small government, laissez-faire kind of guy |
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Harlem Renaissance Figures
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Claude McKay
Zora Neal Hurston |
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Hiram W. Evans
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New KKK - more nativist group now, not just anti-black
for prohibition |
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Scopes Trial
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John Scopes convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee
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Xenophobia
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unreasonable fear/hatred of foreigners - increased due to KKK
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FDR's New Deal
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response to Great Depression - put people to work; ABC agencies; protect workers; social security
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Huey Long
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LA Democrat - attacks FDR from left; wants to break up American fortunes amongst the people
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Lend-Lease
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Beginning of US involvement in WWII - huge amounts of aid given to allies and bases gotten in receipt
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The Atlantic Charter
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Churchill and FDR set blueprints for world post WWII; foundation for lots of international agreements
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Aresenal of Democracy
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FDR slogan - help UK and Russia fight with supplies, but no actual fighting - Isolationism, non-interventionalist
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Nye Committee
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Study causes of US involvement in WWI - find that US had money invested in UK pre-war and arms manufacturers made huge profits
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Office of War Information
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Pro-war propoganda; anti-Japanese sentiments - pump people up patriotically for war
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War Powers Act
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FDR signs - gives him enormous authority to wage war - new agencies to exercise control
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Anti-Communism
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Korean War, Soviet Union - looks like Communism is about to break out across the globe; atomic threat
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Government Anti-Communism
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Alarm the people unnecessarily to maintain war production; scare people of communism
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Truman Communism
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makes it easy to assume Communists are out to get you - states US support of Greece and Turkey to prevent falling into Communist Hands
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Al Alamein, Midway, Stalingrad
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Key battles in WWII
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Marshall Plan
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US plan for rebuilding stronger economic foundation in Europe - billions of US aid dollars distributed; fairly successful
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National Security Act of 1947
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Truman realigns US armed forces; CIA and department of defense
Part of Truman's cold-war strategy with marshall plan and truman doctrine |
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Joseph McCarthy
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Republican senator - calls everyone communists; largely unsubstantiated - he is censored
Builds a lot of fear that communists are everywhere |
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Social Retrenchment of 1950s
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Gender roles - births up, women need to provide haven for men; big jump in organized religion; middle-class ideal
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Betty Freidan
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Feminsim - believes women are slotted into a rigid set of gender expectations,
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Sweatt black texan wants to attend UT law - UT tries to create a separate law school for him; SC decides this separate law school isn't "equal"
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Brown v Board of Education
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finally overturns plessy v ferguson; makes school segregation illegal
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Great Society
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LBJs slew of new reforms - clean up act to fight Cold War and address social/economic disparities - Civil Rights Act; War on Poverty; Medicare/Medicaid
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My Lai Massacre
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Massacre of about 500 South Vietnamese - not discovered for nearly a year
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Economic Crisis Early 1970s
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Costs of Vietnam War; Oil Crisis of '73 - stagflation
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