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36 Cards in this Set
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First automobile manufacture to use mass production |
Ford |
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Scientific Managment |
System of factory production that stresses eficiancy |
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Spirit of St. Louis |
Charles Linberg: First flight to cross the Atlantic Ocean |
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Scopes Trial |
Trial ovwer teaching evalution in school In what brian called "A duel to the death between christianity and evolution." |
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Fashist |
A nation as a whole rather than the individual. War keeps the nation strong. |
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Munich Packt |
Agreement between Britten, France and Germany. Germany agrees to seek no more territory in Europe. 6mo later... Hitler... |
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German attack on Poland |
German serge into Poland. Within days France and England declared war on Germany. |
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The Battle of Midway |
Breaks Japanese navel supremisy in the Pasific. Stalled Japanese offencive. |
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The Holocost |
Hitler authorised systomatic extermination of all Europeen Jews as well as Gyipsys and Homosexuals. |
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Battleship Misori |
Japanese deligation bord the ship to sign the documents of sorrender. WWII is over. |
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Panama Canal |
Embodied theodore roosevelt's muscular policy of respect through military strength
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Rosavelt Coralery |
In 1904, when the dominican republic defaulted on its debts roosevelt added the rosavelt coralery to the monroe doctrine by claiming the right to police the americas |
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A becon of freedom |
As president woodrow wilson revived and entarged jefferson notions of the United States as a becon of freedom |
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Poncho Villa |
In march of 1916 ___ galloped into Columbus, New Mexico killing 19 people and left the town in flames |
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Russia |
In 19174 in response to Sustria Hungary mobilizing to punish Serbia, rival Russia called up it's 6 million man army |
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Zimerman Tellagram |
The document instructing the German ambassador to offer Mexico guns, money and Texas, New Mexico and Arizona in the event America enters the war is known as |
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The Defence |
War in the machine age gave the advantage to ___ |
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Selective Service Act |
To raise an American military force, Congress passed the ___ in May 1917 |
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Women the right to vote |
One step in the direction of economic and political equality came after the war with the ratificaithion of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 |
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Eugene V. Debs |
In 1918 goverment agents arrested ___ the Socialist candidate for president, for an antiwar speech |
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St. Michell |
In September 1918 half a million American soldiers and a smaller number of French troops overran the German stronghold at ___ in four days |
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The Flue |
General Eric von Ludendorff counted ___ as one of the causes of the failure of the final German offensive in July 1918 |
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After the war Germany offerd to surrender on the basis of Wilson's Fourteen Points, ____ |
The allies refused to accept them |
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Because President Wilson could not come to a compromise with the US Senate, the ____ was dead in America |
Treaty of Vercille |
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In March of 1946, Winston Churchill warned that the Soviets had dropped ___ between their satellite nations and the free world |
Iron Curtin |
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George Kennan's policy to limit Soviet expansion was known as ___ |
Containment |
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The idea that to preserve the American way of life, the United States must step forward and hlp "free people" threatend by "totalitarian regimes" is knowen as |
Truman Doctorin |
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Marshal Plan |
___proved crucial to post WWII Western Europe's economic recovery |
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By 1949 the USA and Canada had joined with Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to establish the ____ as a mutual defense pact |
North Atlantic Treaty Orginisation (NATO) |
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Prevention of an action by fear of the consequences; during the Cold War, especially among nuclear powers is knowen as? |
Deturance |
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In January 1950 Communist troops under ---- swarmed into Beijing, China's capital city |
Mao Zedong |
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Before an audiance in Wheeling, West Virginia, in February 1950 ---- waved a shef of papers in the air and announced that he had a list of 205 - or "a lot" of = Communists in the State Department |
Sen. Joseph Mcarthy |
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In a sense ----- was the bitter fruit Truman and the Democrats reaped from their own attempts to exploit the anti-Communist mood |
Mcarthyisum |
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President Truman announced that the fighting in Korea would be a --- supervised by the United Nations and commanded by General Douglas MacArthur |
Police Action |
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To consold disappointed Taft delegates, the 1952 Republican Convention chose the staunch anti-Communist senator --- as Eisenhouwer's running mate |
Nixon |
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Once his popularity began to slide and the anti-Communist hysteria ebbed as well, the senate finnally moved to censure --- |
Mcarthy |