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106 Cards in this Set
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Alfred P. Sloan |
general motors chairmen of the board. Believed cars could become a status symbol.creates a demand for automobiles to make people have a higher demand "keeping up with the Jones" |
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cadillac |
if you were rich you would drive it |
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chevy |
the car for the not so quite rich |
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Amos N'Andy |
2 white men, pretending to be black in the 1920s. they reinforce rational steriotypes |
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Fibber McGee and Molly |
reinforced women stupidy. Women wold always win the argument. Women arent dominent |
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Sigmund freud |
said that we had sex viewed wrong. Sex should be open. Said that children even have these feelings. |
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Edgar rice burroughs |
writes tarzan of the apes |
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Zain gray |
writes a series of books on the west prior to the turn of the century |
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Ernest hemingway |
writes books on the war (WWI) wrote "death in the afternoon" |
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Nathan bedford-forrest |
tremendous racist found the Ku Klux Klan |
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Marcus garvey |
founded the UNIA. First black man that who told people that it was ok to be black. |
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Warren G. Harding |
29th president. Very corrupt president. Not a hard worker. died in office and replaced by coolidge |
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Securities and exchange commission |
Put into place because of stock market crash. a U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception |
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fireside chats |
wanted to restore confidence in America, and the banking system. FDR speaks on radio to the america people |
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FDIC |
federal deposit insurance cooperation. guarantees your money up to 2500 in the banks |
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PWA |
(public works administration) 33 billion invested to build bridges |
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Agricultural adjustment Act 1935 |
pays farmers no to grow certain crops. slaughtered over 1 million baby pigs (keeps prizes at a certain price) |
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tennessee valley authority (TVA) |
damn up the rivers, and create electricity based on flowing wter |
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civilian conservation corps (CCC) |
provided jobs, made parks better, and sent the money earned to the family, and they were given clothing, housing, and food. |
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social security act of 1936 |
if you work we will force you to have money taken out of your paycheck, have it put into an account and someday when your old, we will give you the money back. Theoretically you get more back. |
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New deal |
allows people to get jobs, include (CCC), (PWA), (AAA), (TVA) |
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war guilt clause at versaille |
germany is at fault for the war, and has to pay for all the reprepations |
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ostfriesland |
an old german battle ship |
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billy mitchell |
learned to fly an airplane, he had a theory that the airplane was gonna be big in war |
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julio douhet |
wrote command of the air |
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reichstag |
legislative body of germany-there was a fire here, and hitler blamed the communist |
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levi reifenstahl |
producer triumph of the will in 1933 |
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mao tse tung |
wanted to change the leadership of his country...communist |
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chang kai shek |
he was a leader of the nationalist china government |
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Nanking |
(at the time) capitol of china |
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Sudentenland |
Hitler wants this land to be a part of Germany. Him wanting to take this land is the first sign that he wants to conquer Europe |
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Axis |
Germany, Japan, and Italy against the rest of the world |
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Blitzcreig |
germany invades france and the nazis conquer- england sets up free france there |
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Winston churchill |
becomes britains new prime minister- declares war on Germany |
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luftaffy vs RAF |
germany vs england airforce |
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HR 1776 |
will allow england to bring naval ships to american shipyards to be repaired and give some of our ships if england gives back after war |
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Lend lease |
apart of HR 1776 buy our way out of the war. |
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Admiral Kimmel |
In charge of the U.S. naval fleet in the pacific. He recommended to move the fleet from California to hawaii. He was court marshalled when pearl harbor was bombed |
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General short |
he is in charge of the army at pearl harbor. he was court marshalled because he put all the planes in one place which made them an easy target. |
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Joseph Stalin |
the president of the soviet union. Makes the decision to join sides with america, when germany breaks pact with them. |
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Hitler |
in charge of germany |
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mussolini |
in charge of italy |
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hirohito |
in charge of japan |
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operation sledge hammer |
U.S. and britain invade France to relieve german armies in soviet Union |
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operation torch |
roosevelt and churchill decide to make their first stand in north africa in july of 1942. |
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George patten |
Eisenhower asked this man to help with the war in north africa. and he takes on rommel and kicks his butt, now we can invade italy. Replaces montgomery and they clash. works for Eisenhower. |
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Island hopping |
focus on built in airports on certain islands (get control of them) for loading and fueling amo on the way to bomb Japan |
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Colonial Jimmy doolittle |
He makes a plan to take B-25s and lighten them up with little fuel, and get bombers to Japan |
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the doolittle rade |
planes take off from the U.S.S. Hornet and going to drop bombs on Tokeyo |
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Operation Husky |
taking sicily (successfull) |
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xyclone |
a pesticide used as the main weapon against Jews |
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Tehran |
where the conference was to set up D-day |
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S.A.C. Dwight Eisenhower |
all of the allies report to him |
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operation fortitude |
planned for calliet. we had inflatable weapony to calliet so that the germans thought this is where we would storm our beach. |
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Band of Brothers |
14 hours movie of D-Day |
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John Steele |
landed on the steeple of St. mere eglise church |
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Eva braun |
Hitlers wife. Took a pill to kill herself with hitler |
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Truman |
takes the place of roosevelt as president |
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Douglas Macarthur |
ran the pacific theater from the phillipines. and then ordered to australia to order things there. |
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B-29 super-fortress |
biggest airplane America has ever produced. Plans to fire bomb tokyo |
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Curtis leMay |
given the responsibility in figuring out a way to bomb Japan into submission |
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Albert Einstein |
writes a letter to roosevelt and says the germans have figured out a way to split and atom. (german physicist) |
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Los Alamos |
town built for the manhattan project |
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Manhattan project |
Putting together a special team of physcists under the direction of Robert oppenhein to build an atomic bomb. Secret from the whole world |
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Robert Oppenhein |
the director of the manhattan project |
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Potsdam |
where the negotiation of the end of WWII would take place. how to "carve up the losers land" |
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operation olympic |
ground attack on Japanese islands |
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Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
Japanese islands wehre america was island hopping. America wants to take these islands to use to their advantage. both had battles take place on them, japanese put up quite a fight, and made america hesitant about ground attacks in the future on Japan. |
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Kamikaze |
Japanese who fly planes as suicide mission |
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Ho Chi Minh |
leads the communist Vietminh and they hang out in the Jungles of northern Vietnam |
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Nuremburg |
a devistated city, where war crimes were held accountable |
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Geneva conventions |
rules of war, crimes against humanity |
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Goering |
head of the lift off and Hitlers right hand man, suicide before hanging |
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Robert Jackson |
prosecuting attorney for the U.S.A. |
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Adolf Eichman |
he was never found and escaped to argentina. And was sent to israel and brought to trial, and was found guilty of war crimes. killed |
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G.I. Bill |
all the soldiers who fought, had school paid for no matter what university. |
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George Marshall |
Army chief of staff, and after the war named the new secretary state. Made the marshall plan which gives money to the nations in europe who have suffered due to the war. (doesnt include the soviet union because they take poland) |
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NSC |
National security council. Consists of Vice president, secetary of treasure, attorney general, secretary of state, secretary of defense, charimen of the joint chiefs of staff, advisor, president, and the head of the CIA |
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NSC advisor |
this is the person that appoints to the president every single day. Responsible for he security of america |
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tactical (air support) bombing |
people on the ground call to the air for help |
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strategic bombing |
airforce has its own mission independent from the grounds plans |
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S.A.C. |
strategic airforce command. Fly airplanes over the world with nuclear weapons on board just in case. |
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HUAC |
House Un-American Activies committee. these people (along with Joe McCarthy) will began to look for communist in America. |
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Mao Tse Tung |
takes over China as a Communist |
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NSC -68 |
Mao's Revolution triggered concern. Increased defense budget by 35%. Policy of Containment. stop the spread of communism |
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the military/industrial complex |
permanent militarization of the american industrial might |
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United Nations |
promotes international organization, similar to the league of nations, but america is involved. |
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New look |
gives nuclear weapons to every branch besides the marines. |
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calvin coolige |
Was vice president and replaced Harding. In 1928 he votes not to run again and Herbert Hoover runs against Al Smith. |
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Causes of WWII |
1. war guilt clause at versaille 2. isolationist period 3.the rise of Japan as a military power 4.technological advances 5.the rise of bad people |
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command of the air |
book written by julio douhet- "he who commands the air wins wars" |
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yamamoto |
helps japan build aircrafts |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
wrote about flappers- Great Gatsby |
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Great Gatsby |
book by Fitzgerald |
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rape of nanking |
Japanese army invades nanking and takes 40,000 chinese soldiers and executes all of them. Then they went over the citizens, sadistic ways of torture and death. |
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USS Panay |
US ship there to evacuate Am Japanese americans in Nanking on Yangzee River -Japanese army attacks Panay by air and Japanese issue an apology |
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munich pact |
acquisition of sudetenland |
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neville chamberland |
reports to england that hitler was okay |
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nazism |
socialism- Germany-hitler |
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fascism |
not a lot of difference from nazism-italy-mousolinni |
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communism |
USSR-nonaggression pact with germany-stalin |
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General Irwin Rommel |
possibly the best general in the world (german) |
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B-25 |
planes the U.S. has |
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Montgomery |
pretty successful in africa and replaced by patten, and they clash. |
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wansee |
they meet in a 1 day conference to make plans on the most efficient ways to kill 6 million jews |
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Vietminh |
communist group who helped america in the jungles to resecue american downed pilots. |