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71 Cards in this Set
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1917
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Russian Revolution
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October 24, 1929
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Stock Market Crash
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October 29, 1929
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Black Tuesday
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1933
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25% unemployed people died of starvation....Rise of Adolf Hitler
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1937
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Marco Polo Bridge-Invasion of China in Japan
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1938
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Austria a part of Germany
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May 7, 1945
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V-eday Germany Surrender
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August 6, 1945
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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
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August 9, 1945
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The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
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August 15, 1945
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Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day. Japan Surrenders
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Clearly one goal of the points was to address many of the factors that promoted the beginning of the World War in Europe and to establish a basis for a more peaceful world; in this sense Wilson hoped World War I would be a "war to end all war."
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Fourteen Points
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an organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I
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League of Nations
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Republican U.S. senator for more than 31 years (1893–1924); he led the successful congressional opposition to his country’s participation in the League of Nations following World War I.
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Senator Henry Cobot Lodge
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in general, the post-World War I generation, but specifically a group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term stems from a remark made by Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway,
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Lost Generation
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two revolutions, the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power.
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Russian Revolution of 1917
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legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages with the aim of obtaining partial or total abstinence through legal means
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Prohibition
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(aka a blind pig or blind tiger) was an establishment that illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the period of United States history known as Prohibition
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Speakeasy
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Music...Big Band Era, Louis Armstrong, Duke Elington, Basie. Dancing was different.
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Jazz
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Trial where a person taught evolution. Evolution was not allowed to be taught in school
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Scopes Trial
John Scopes (guilty) |
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type of militantly conservative religious movement characterized by the advocacy of strict conformity to sacred texts. Once used exclusively to refer to American Protestants who insisted on the inerrancy of the Bible
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Fundamentalists
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Urban Christians that fit science in their ideas.
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Modernists
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value of all final goods and services produced in a country in 1 year
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GNP Gross National Product
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charismatic black leader who organized the first important American black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem. He was later deported
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Marcus Garvey
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political and social movement prominent in the 1960s and early ’70s in the United States among some African Americans. The movement, which can be traced back to Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association of the 1920s, sought to acquire economic power and to infuse among blacks a sense of community and group feeling
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New Black Nationalism
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said, "I am a man of limited talents from a small town." Subordinate Power, power to advisors.
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Warren Harding
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in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall. After President Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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U.S. secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding; he was the first American to be convicted of a felony committed while holding a Cabinet post.
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Albert Fall
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"the business of america is business. He was the least active president in history.
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Calvin Coolidge
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He responded to those in the depression to turn to Salvation Army. He was a humanitarian.
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Herbert Hoover
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founded by William Booth, a Methodist minister who began an evangelical ministry in the East End of London in 1865. He established mission stations to feed and house the poor and in 1878 changed the name of his organization to....
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Salvation Army
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humanitarian agency with national affiliates in almost every country in the world.
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Red Cross
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U.S. government agency established by Congress on January 22, 1932, to provide financial aid to railroads, financial institutions, and business corporations. With the passage of the Emergency Relief Act in July 1932, its scope was broadened to include aid to agriculture and financing for state and local public works.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression.
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Hawley Smoot Tariff
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led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal,
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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the domestic program of the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939, which took action to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, waterpower, labour, and housing, vastly increasing the scope of the federal government’s activities.
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New Deal
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Payment in money or materials by a nation defeated in war
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Reparations
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62 signed that it would not use war as a solution to international dispute
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Kellogg-Brian Pact
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in Latin America FDR endorse non intervention. (diction ships)
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Good Neighbor Policy
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hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group
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Anti-semitism
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Philosophy of government that stresses the primacy and glory of the state, unquestioning obedience to its leader, subordination of the individual will to the state’s authority, and harsh suppression of dissent
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Fascism
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purpose to investigate claims in business that acted unethically in WWI
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Nye Committee
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form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual’s life to the authority of the government.
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Totalitarianism
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Puppet Government where Japan pull strings.
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Manchuria
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Final Solution equals...
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Holocaust
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official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany
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Third Reich
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Time Magazine man of the year 8 times
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Benito Mussolini
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Book by Ernest Hemingway where he talked about countries can make money by being on both sides
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
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prevented certain type of trades to restrict travel to beligerent(war) countries. "cash and carry" only
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Neutrality Act
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overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War
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Francisco Franco
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1937 Invasions of China in Japan
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Marco Polo Bridge
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Axis Power (3)
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Germans who agree to divide Poland
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Soviet Union
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"Lightning War" -large scale weaponry to attack quickly you do not leave enemy to recover.
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Blitzkrieg
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Attacked Britain and bombed civilians.
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Luftwaffe
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It dragged 21-35 aged people (900,000) during peace line.
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Draft Bill Pass
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50 Distroyers to Britain. US usage of 8 Atlantic Military Bases
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Destroyer for Bases Deal
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Do not want Hitler to Win, Act that wants to stop Hitler
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Lend-Lease ACt
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Germans sunk ships 1941?
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Reuben James
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Codes to capture
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Enigma
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Alli groups in Africa and Italy
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TORCH
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the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.
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Stalingrad
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uring World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war)
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Operation OVERLOAD
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the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II; an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory.
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Battle of the Bulge
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The Big Three, FDR, Stalin, and Churchill conference
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Yalta Conference
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Germany surrender on this day
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V-E day
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Japan Surrenders
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V-J Day
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This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built
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Fat Man and Little boy
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Flag was raised by Men in Japan
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Iwo Jima
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First city to be struck by atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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second and, to date, last city in the world to be subject to nuclear attack.
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Nagasaki
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Who help Code a Language
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Navajo Signal Corps
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