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45 Cards in this Set
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When was Prohibition introduced? |
January 1920
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What was Prohibition?
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The 18th amendment which made selling, trading or making alcohol illegal |
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What did people believe about Prohibition?
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It was morally wrong It is against gods will It dominated society |
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How did Prohibition cause crime?
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Gangs were competing to have control of the business. People wanted alcohol and had to find away around it |
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How many murders to gang warfare lead to?
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1300
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What are speakeasies?
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Illegal drinking clubs with secret passwords at the front door |
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What was moonshine?
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Home made alcohol |
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Who were rum runners and hijackers?
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Rum runners were people who smuggled alcohol from Europe, Canada and Mexico Hijackers stole smuggled alcohol |
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How did Prohibition lead to corruption?
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Policemen, judges and politicians took bribes from gang members and were involved in trading
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How did organised crime relate to this?
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Al Capone, an Italian gang member made alcohol and earned $60 million a year
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What would Al Capone do?
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Intimidate voters and those who worked for the Law
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What was Ku Klax Klan?
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A white supremacist based in Southern states and did not want blacks to get any rights
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How many members of KKK in 1925?
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4 million
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Who was the leader of KKK?
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Imperial Wizard
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What is lynching?
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Hanging
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What would KKK do to blacks?
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Beat, hang and rape black people and stopped them voting
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What would KKK do?
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Parades, marches and lit burning crosses
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When was the Wall Street Crash?
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1929
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What did the Wall Street crash cause
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The Great Depression
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How did the WSC affect the Nazi Party?
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People started to think that the Weimar government couldn't sort out Germanys problesm
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What did The Great Depression cause?
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Unemployment, economic problems, extremist groups
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How many people were unemployed by 1933?
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6 million
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When did Germanys biggest bank collapse? What did this mean? |
1931 That Germany would have to pay back reparations which would lead to more problems |
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Did Germany solve any economic problems during The Great Depression?
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No because the Weimar Government kept changing
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1929...
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Wall Street crashes US stop giving loans = unemployment |
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July 1930...
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Chancellor Bruning cuts government cuts, reduces wages and unemployment pay = Germans are angry
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Article 48...
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Allows the president to take emergency decisions without asking the Reichstag
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July 1932...
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Nazi party gets 230 seats and is the largest party
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January 1933...
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Hindenburg and Papen offered Hitler the position of Chancellor
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How did the WSC affect Hitler being chancellor?
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- Six million were unemployed - Weimar Government was unstable = cannot sort out problems = Germans don't trust them - Wages were cut = people were angry = voted for extremists |
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What happened between 1946 and 1954? What was the USAs role? |
France and Vietcong fought for Vietnams independance USA supported France because they were scared of communism |
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What was the domino theory?
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When one country becomes a communist country and those around it become the same
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How was Vietnam split? Who was who? |
The north was communist and had NVA and Vietminh The south was anti communist and had Vietcong and USA |
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Who was South Vietnams president?
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Diem
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1964...
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The Gulf of Tonkin
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The Gulf of Tonkin
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When US ships were attacked by NV, this lead to an outbreak of war
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1965...
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125,000 US troops sent to Vietnam
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1968...
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500,000 US troops sent to Vietnam who used heavy bombing and chemical weapons
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When was the Tet Offensive?
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1968
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What was the Tet Offensive?
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Face to Face on the street fighting between NVA and Vietcong. US got victory |
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How did the defeat of France in the Vietnam war affect Vietnam?
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Vietnam was split into two There was an outbreak to war |
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How did the defeat of France in the Vietnam war affect USA?
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Gulf of Tonkin Tet Offensive = victory |
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How did media coverage change peoples opinion about war?
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Media meant public could see what the war was actually like. Some started to oppose the war |
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How was the Gulf of Tonkin exaggerated on the media?
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There was no proof but it made out to sound a lot more serious
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How did the US public feel after the My Lai incident
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They were horrified and the anti-war feeling continued
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