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43 Cards in this Set
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Red Scare 1912 - 1920
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Fear of a spread of Communism throughout the US and Europe -Palmer Raids
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Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
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Immigrants/anarchists arrested for murder, sentenced to death, executed in 1927
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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FBI- Hoover started in 1947 to investigate Communist and Fascist activities in the US
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Emergency Quota Act
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limited immigration & made quota permanent - percentage of 1890 census
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Volstead Act
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used to enforce prohibition
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Harlem Renaissance
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the overreaction of great literature by African American writers, and music by African American musicians
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Harding secretely allowed private interests to lease land contained US Navy oil reserves
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Calvin Coolidge
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"the business of America is big business"
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18th Amendment
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prohibition
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19th Amendment
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Women's Right to Vote
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Dawes Plan
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a plan that Germany would payback reparations to France for damages during WWI on a sliding scale, according to ability
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Scopes Trial
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tested a state law that banned the teaching of dramatic dual between fundamentalism & modernism
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Over Production
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Producing more goods or products than customers need or want to purchase
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Alfred E. Smith
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First Catholic to run for President
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Election of 1928
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prohibition big issue - Hoover favored liquor ban, Smith wanted liquor, 1920's prosperity contributed to Repulican President
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Bank Holidays
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Closed banks to "prevent runs"
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Federal Trade Commission
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created by Wilson (1914) to monitor American Businesses
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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regulates stock market to prevent fraud
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Social Security Administration
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aid elderly and disabled
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Agency created to build dams in Tennessee River Valley. Dams provided stable irrigation & cheap hydroelectric power
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Fireside Chats
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Franklin D. Roosevelt talks about New Deal & economy to country
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Court-Packing Plan
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FDR increase justices -mistake- separation of powers - balance - hurt
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Appeasement
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give in to avoid war
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Nuremberg Laws
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took away Jewish citizenship
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Aunchluss
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annexation of Austria
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Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty
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Nazi's would not go to War with Soviets
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Midway
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turning point of World War II -
demolished Japanese Navy |
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Aryan supremacy
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creating "Master Race" -blinde-
blue eyed |
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Island Hopping
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strategy of US to get to Japan through smaller islands
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Korematsu v. the United States
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Japanese interment camps relocation - constitutional- military urgency
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Berlin Blockade
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Soviets cut off supplies ect. to Berlin
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Marshall Plan
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aid to war time countries - esp. Turkey and Greece
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Truman Doctrine
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containment of communism - US will help-brought us to Korea and Vietnam
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Korean War
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UN forces
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McCarthyism
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fear of communists caused fear - used media
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Yalta Conference
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plan for post WWII -divided Germany, 2 free elections, Russia would invade Japan
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U-2 Spy Plane
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shot down in USSR -spying - got technology took photos of missile cities in Cuba
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Malcolm X
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believed in violent segregation until a pilgrimmage to Mecca in which he witnesses all races & creeds getting along. Changed his mind which is the reason why he got assasinated
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Stokely Carmichael
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header of SNCC - believed that African Americans should control the social, political & economic direction of their lives
-blacks need to better themselves then integrate |
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Elijah Muhammad
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leader of the Black Nation of Islam - believed in violent segregation
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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leader of civil rights movement that believed in peaceful protest to end segregation
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Sit-ins
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protests where people sat down to bloce access to business or government offices designed to disrupt normal business
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Office of Economic Opportunity
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Government agency that coordinated programs that created jobs, fought poverty in the inner cities
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