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37 Cards in this Set
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Am Neutrality in WWI |
- Wilson declared neutrality - Germany-->submarine warfare - zimmerman telegram: Mexico and Germany against US |
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The Black Migration |
- Jim Crow - labor opportunities in North |
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Treaty of Versailles |
- 14 pts: freedom of the seas open diplomacy League of Nations |
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The Red Scare |
1919-1920 - Bolshevik Rev in Russia overthrew czar - postwar labor strikes |
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Palmer raids |
1920 - against suspected communists and anarchists - violated basic rights |
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Signs of Prosperity |
- 1920s - women involvement - consumer goods - assembly line - farmers didn't prosper |
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Republican of 1920s |
- favored tax cuts for wealthy - Harding and Coolidge aided big business |
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Lost Generation |
- Sinclair Lewis, Scott Fitzgerald - criticized middle class materialism and conformity - fleed to France |
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1920s |
- mass entertainment - baseball - jazz age -radio |
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Religious Fundamentalism |
- Scopes Trial |
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Nativism |
- KKK-->"Birth of a Nation" - National Origins Act (Mex and PR #s rose) - Sacco and VAnzetti CAse |
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The Great Migration |
- rural-->urban - demand for industrial workers |
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Marcus Garvey |
- black pride, black nationalism - economic development - pan africanism |
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Flappers |
- 1920s - symbolized new freedom |
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Women in 1920s |
- women in workforce declined - didn't receive equal pay - Margaret Sanger - 19th amendment - inability for women to agree on goals |
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Causes of Great Depression |
- 1929 stock market crash - dec in investment - Hawley Smoot tariff: dec in trade40% |
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Bonus Expeditionary Force |
- WWI veterans wanted their bonuses - Hoover used force |
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Hoovers economics |
- private charities took care of unemployed - Reconstruction Finance Corp. -aimed towards stabilizing and assisting failing key businesses such as insurance companies, railroads, banks, etc - big emergency loans paid to these companies would “trickle down” to smaller businesses and individual consumers |
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New Deal |
- FDR Relief Recovery REform - used deficit spending on public irks to revive american economy - helped blacks get out of depression, but didn't help w civil rights - Civilian conservation Corps: jobs for unemployed youth - NRA(Nat Recovery Adm): allowed businesses to regulate themselves through fair practices - Agricultural Adj act: raise prices, limit agrarian production |
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Social Security Act |
- fed pension funded by taxes |
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Wagner Act |
- gave workers right to join union - organize and bargain collectively |
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Court packing scheme |
- court said some arts of the new deal were unconstitutional...Roosevelt "packed" court with new justices |
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New Deal Impact |
- gov enhanced social welfare - reduced unemployment - revived economy |
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NOT in the New Deal |
- integrated armed forces - sponsored ERA - protect AA - established Bureau of Ind Affairs - nationalize basic industries - legal recognition of unions for migrant workers |
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Congress Industrial Organization |
- unskilled and skilled - steel and automobile - John Lewish: not the main part of society is made up of skilled artisans |
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Democractic Coalition |
- elected FDR in 1936 - White South - AA - Ethnic minorities - union members - DIDNT incude welathy industrialists |
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AA Shift |
During FDR election, black votes, who were previously part of the Repub gov (Reconstruction and Em Proc) switched to support Democrats |
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Hoovervilles |
- Am were evicted form homes bc couldn't pay mortgage - created Hoovervilles |
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Stimson Doctrine |
- 1932 Japan invaded China providenc ein Manchuria - US refused to acknowledge territory acquire by force - US failed to act and this showed a collective security failure |
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Lend Lease Act |
- Roosevelt authorized sale of surplus military equipment to - helped GB and Soviet Union resist Nazi Germany |
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Pearl Harbor |
- Roosevelt cut off US exports to Japan - JAapan could either (1) withdraw from Manchuria or (2)attack US fleet and get materials from SE asia |
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good Neighbor Policy |
- Roosevelt declared the right to intervene in Latin America - front against facism - anti-imperialist sentiments: Phillipines get indp. |
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The big three |
- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin - demanded unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan - Yalta Confrence |
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Impact spending on WWII |
revived US economy unemployment plummetted Office of Price Ad (nationwide rationing system) |
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AA during WWII |
- moved from south to north - Roosevelt prohibited discrimination in defense |
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Japanese during WWII |
- President Roosevelt ordered that Japanese Am be relocated - Korematsu v. US: wartime necessity |
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Manhattan Project |
- Roosevelt - Truman authorized atomic bombs - save American lives - persuade Jap to surrender - end war - soviets out of war |
