Us History Test

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Pancho villa

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Mexican revolutionary general and prominent figure in the Mexican revolution.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Emperor of Germany and Prussia 188-1918,Last emperor.

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Lusitania

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British ocean liner that was sunk by a German UBoat ,Americans died giving a reason for US involvement in the war.

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Selective service act 1917

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Authorised the US Government to raise an army through conscription.

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Fourteen Point

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A statement of principles for peace authored by Woodrow Wilson at the end of WW1.

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League of Nations

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An intergovernmental organization founded at the end of the first world war,meant to keep the peace established.

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Red Scare

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Widespread fear of communism by both the government and the public.

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Eighteenth Amendment

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The amendment that prohibited the sale,distribution,importation or exportation of alcohol.

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Prohibition

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The era following the 18th amendment when people could not attain alcohol.

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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American woman's suffrage leader that campaigned for the 19th amendment.

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NAACP

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Formed in 1909,an organization for the advancement of Colored people's.National civil rights organization.

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The lost generation

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The generation that came of age during WW1,many casualties resulted in a loss of the younger population.

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Albert B Hall

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Us senator and secretary of the interior understand Harding,involved in a bribery scandal from 1921-1922

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Washington naval conference 1921

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A meeting between 1921-1922 in which the world's major naval powers met in DC to discuss disarmament and growing tentions East Asia.

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Kellogg-Byand Pact

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A 1928 international agreement in which those involved agreed not to use war to resolve disputes.

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Teapot Dome

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A bribery incident in the US from 1921-1922

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Robert M LaFollette

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Leader of the US progressive movement and US senator from Wisconsin.

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Hawley Smoot Tarriff

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Tarriff of Imported goods as part of the national protectionist movement.

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Andrew Mellon

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US Treasury secretary from 1921-1931 know for lowering taxes on the American people.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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A governmental corporation from 1932-1957 providing support to local and state government in the form of loans.

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Hundred Days

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The final period of the first world war.

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CCC

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A public relief program that operates from 1933-1942 for unemployed ummarried men as part of the new deal.

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TVA

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A federally owned corporation created to provide navigation electricity and other needs to the Tennessee valley.

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NRA

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The national recovery administration who's goal was to eliminate cut throat competition.

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Supreme Court Packing

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An act by FDR to expand the supreme Court by as much as 15 members.

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New Deal

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FDRs plans to provide relief to the American people after the devastation of the great depression.

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Second New Deal

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The second stage 1935-1936 of FDRs new deal programs.

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Huey Long

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Know for his populist agenda and desire to help the poor.

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Social security act

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An act that created a payroll tax funded basic pension to retiring Americans.

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Wagner Act

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A foundational act that provides public sector employees the right to unionise and engage in collective bargaining.

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Good neighbor policy

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The foreign policy of FDR particularly towards Latin America.

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Neutrality act of 1937

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An act by Congress outlawing arms sales to Spain.

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Isolationist

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Those that favored the US not get involved in foreign conflicts.

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Lend-Lease

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An act by Congress in which resources such as food,oil and materials where provided to the allies during WW1.

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Tripartite Pact

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Also known as the Berlín pact,a defensive millitary alliance by Germany Italy and Japan .

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Cordell Hull

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Longest serving US secretary of state,influential during the second world war years.

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Pearl Harbor

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A US naval Base in Hawaii,attacked by the Japanese Empire and prompted the US to get into the war.

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Battle of the coral sea

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A major battle between imperial Japan and The US airforce from 4-8, may 1942.

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Battle of Midway

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A decisive naval battle if the Pacific theater of WW2 6 months after the attack on Pearl harbor.

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Tuskegee Airmen

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A group of Africa American figther pilots during WW2,first pilots and prior to the establishment of the US airforce.

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Japanese Internment

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The forced Internment of Americans of Japanese decent during the WW2 years.

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Casablanca conference

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A meeting held on January 14 1943 to discuss the next phase of the war.Meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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The largest naval battle in history and of the second world war.Fought off the philliphines.Permitted the US invasion of the phillipines.

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Yalta Conference

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Meeting between Roosevelt,Churchill and Stalin to discuss postwar reorganization.

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Hiroshima

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Major Japanese city,site if the first atomic bomb used in a state of war.

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Nagasaki

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A major Japanese city and he second site of a atomic bomb strike by the US during world war 2.