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First automobile manufacture to use mass production

Ford

Scientific Managment

System of factory production that stresses eficiancy

Spirit of St. Louis

Charles Linberg: First flight to cross the Atlantic Ocean

Scopes Trial

Trial ovwer teaching evalution in school


In what brian called "A duel to the death between christianity and evolution."

Fashist

A nation as a whole rather than the individual.


War keeps the nation strong.

Munich Packt

Agreement between Britten, France and Germany. Germany agrees to seek no more territory in Europe. 6mo later... Hitler...

German attack on Poland

German serge into Poland. Within days France and England declared war on Germany.

The Battle of Midway

Breaks Japanese navel supremisy in the Pasific. Stalled Japanese offencive.

The Holocost

Hitler authorised systomatic extermination of all Europeen Jews as well as Gyipsys and Homosexuals.

Battleship Misori

Japanese deligation bord the ship to sign the documents of sorrender. WWII is over.

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

A becon of freedom

As president woodrow wilson revived and entarged jefferson notions of the United States as a becon of freedom

Poncho Villa

In march of 1916 ___ galloped into Columbus, New Mexico killing 19 people and left the town in flames

Russia

In 19174 in response to Sustria Hungary mobilizing to punish Serbia, rival Russia called up it's 6 million man army

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

The Defence

War in the machine age gave the advantage to ___

Selective Service Act

To raise an American military force, Congress passed the ___ in May 1917

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

Eugene V. Debs

In 1918 goverment agents arrested ___ the Socialist candidate for president, for an antiwar speech

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

The Flue

General Eric von Ludendorff counted ___ as one of the causes of the failure of the final German offensive in July 1918

After the war Germany offerd to surrender on the basis of Wilson's Fourteen Points, ____

The allies refused to accept them

Because President Wilson could not come to a compromise with the US Senate, the ____ was dead in America

Treaty of Vercille

In March of 1946, Winston Churchill warned that the Soviets had dropped ___ between their satellite nations and the free world

Iron Curtin

George Kennan's policy to limit Soviet expansion was known as ___

Containment

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

Marshal Plan

___proved crucial to post WWII Western Europe's economic recovery

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)

Prevention of an action by fear of the consequences; during the Cold War, especially among nuclear powers is knowen as?

Deturance

In January 1950 Communist troops under ---- swarmed into Beijing, China's capital city

Mao Zedong

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

In a sense ----- was the bitter fruit Truman and the Democrats reaped from their own attempts to exploit the anti-Communist mood

Mcarthyisum

President Truman announced that the fighting in Korea would be a --- supervised by the United Nations and commanded by General Douglas MacArthur

Police Action

To consold disappointed Taft delegates, the 1952 Republican Convention chose the staunch anti-Communist senator --- as Eisenhouwer's running mate

Nixon

Once his popularity began to slide and the anti-Communist hysteria ebbed as well, the senate finnally moved to censure ---

Mcarthy