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39 Cards in this Set
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Roaring 1920s
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was the boom of both crime wave and highly publicized sports events flourished and the flowering of the arts.
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War in the Pacific
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was against the Japanese trying to expand more, which the Americans won by pushing the Japanese back into the New Guinea.
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National Origins Quota Act
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limited immigration from Europe to 150,000 a year. alllocated most of the available slotsto immigrants from Great Britian, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia and banned all Asian Immigrants.
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Allied Powers
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England, France, and China
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General Mitchell Palmer
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a Quaker and Progressive, palmer organized and implemented law enforcement raids against suspected communists and other radicals in 1919 and 1920. Palmer Raids were part of the nationwide red scare.
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Potsdam Conference
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a meeting between President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. revealed the growing divergence among the wartime allies that soon led to the onset of the cold war.
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Fair Employment Practice Committee
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to ban racial discrimination in war industries, but during the WWII congress stopped funding and it expired in 1946.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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were convicted and sentenced to death by electrocution for being found guilty for conspiracy of transmitting atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
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KKK
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created by William J Simmons of 1915, Against non whites or anyone that doesn't look like them, members were men, women, family and children, involved in politics
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National Security Act
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established a Department of Defense that presides over the army, the navy, and the air force, the Central Intelligence Agency coordinate the intelligence-gathering activities of various agencies and the National Security Council composed of service secretaries, secretary of defense, and secretary of state to advise the president regarding nation's security.
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John Scopes
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24 yrs old and single, a science teacher and was teaching students about evolution out of the Hunters Civic Biology book against the law.
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NATO
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in 1949 US, Canada, and 10 European nations formed a military mutual defense pact.
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Harry Truman
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becomes president after FDR dies, not a good candidate because was never told about anything. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki for revenge of Pearl Harbor,
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Marshall Plan
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a massive aid program to rebuild the war-torn economies of Western Europe. the plan was motivated by both humanitarian concerns and fear of communism.
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FDR
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served 4 terms, served 12 yrs and died on 4th term, longest 10yr president, If you served 2 yrs less than your predecessor you can run 2 times more, if you serve 2 yrs more you can only run 1 more time, Passes emergancy banking act to close down the lower banks, keeps the bigger banks and middle banks get help from government. Launches new deal TVA, Glass-Steagall act, FDIC, Federal Emergency Relife Adm, NRA, AAA, SEC, FCC, Federal Housing Administration, Farm Security Adm; Relief CCC, PWA, CWA, WPA
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Truman Doctrine
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marked an informal declaration of cold war against the Soviet Union, helped end the civial war in Greece but the United States ended up in a collision course with the Soviet Union around the globe because of Communism.
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Herbert Hoover
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secretary of commerce, won the election of 1928 against Al smith, didn't help the economy improve just made it stay the same.
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Indochina
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French Indo China becomes vietman, Communist leader of vietnam Ho Chi Minh, US steps in 1950's and replaces the french for the southern portion, New leader Ngo Dinh Diem
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Agricultural Adjustment Adm
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attempt to regulat agricultural production through farm subsidies: supreme court ruled its key regulatory provisions unconstitutional in 1936 and disbanded after WWII
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McCarthyism
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was a man that had a list of spy's who were working with the Soviet Union.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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attempt at regional planning, included provisions for environment and recreational designs: educational, architectural, and health projects, and controversial public power projects, still continuing today.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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came out victorious in the election, will end the Korean War by bluffing China by using Nuclear Weapons.
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National Recovery Adm.
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attempted to combat the Great Depression by planning to establish and administer system codes to control production, prices, labor relations and trade practices among businesses but ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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young men from 18-25 volunteered for camps to work on regional environmental projects mainly in Mississippi would receive $30 but disbanded during WWII.
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Works Progress Administration
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massive work relief funded projects ranging from construction to acting but was disbanded during WWII
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Father Charles Coughlin
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Roman Catholic priest who supported FDR before 1934 and then created the National Union of Social Justice and called for monetary inflation and nationalization of the banking system.
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Social Security Act
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provide financial pensions for old people, setting up of unemployment compensation, and provided payments to handicap, needy elderly, and dependent children.
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Wagner Act
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a National Labor Relations Board to preside over labor-management relations and enable unions to engage in collective bargaining with federal support.
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Committee on Industrial Organization
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organization the was determined to spread the benefits of unions throughout the industry of mine workers
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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set the example that women shouldn't be content to be just mistress of the white house and went on and brought the wrongdoings to the presidents attention and to possibly rectify them.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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was to abolish war and make peace
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Good Neighbor Policy
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was a treat with the Latian Americans on not interfering with there politics and was of americas economic gain.
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Adolf Hitler
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Germany chancellor in charge, Nazi movement in 1933, Blamed jews, Supremacy of Aryan race, Goal= unit all germans into a greater third reich
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Washington Disarmament Conference 1921
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which included delegates from the United States, Japan, Great Britain, and six other nations
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Axis Powers
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Italy Germany and Japan
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1. Discuss the details of the Korean War. Include the following items:when did it begin, the leaders of each side, the sequence of events of the war (direction(s) the war took), Truman’s goal and eventually who ended the war and how they did do it.
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the Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when North Korea decided to cross the 38th parallel in great strength. the leader of the North Korean side was Kim Il-Sung and the leader of the South Korean side was Syngman Rhee. Il-Sung needed permission from Stalin before they could cross over into South Korea. So stalin went ahead and approve of the advancement into South Korea. but Stalin told Il-Sung that if they were to get kicked in the teeth than to don't go looking for the Soviet Union for help. that he need to look for Mao for help because he didn't want to be apart of the mess. in May Mao ended up approving to help in adiding Il-Sung during the war if needed. so North Korea started off concoring Seoul and then ended up having success in moving all the way down into Pusan. but stalin and mao didn't cauculate that the american troops in japan were now in combat in South Korea. in the beging the fight went badly and North Korea was winning but MacArthur decided to assult form Inchon. which worked in defeating the North Korean armys in the south. then truman decided to keep pushing the North Korean army up to the Chinese boreder avoiding China's warinning on invading the North. so then China came in and joined Il-Sung and pushed the Americans back to the 38th parallel line and ended up being a stail mate. no one moved until Eisenhower became president and decided to bluff to china and use nuclear weapons to break the stalemate.
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2. Describe how the New Deal affected African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans and Women. (give details)
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they provided more jobs for the AA, MA, NA and women during the WWI. |
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3. Explain the causes and effects of the Great Depression. Discuss in detail Hoover’s and FDR”s strategy to fix the economy. What eventually got the U.S. out of the economy slump?
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the cause of the great depression was because of over production of goods that people were supposed to need. but since everyone owned one of these goods the buying of the products slowed down. of the banks closing, the lose of crops and people not having any money left because of the banks closing.then on black Thursday the stocks fell overnight. causing everyone who owned stocks to lose all their money.the effect of the great depression cause family's to live in hoovervilles and have to eat soup and beans. it also cause psychological burdens on the American people to find a way to end their suffering. Hoover tried to fix the economy by passing some laws but that didn't end up going to well for him. so that made the economy stay at being not fixed. FDR's plane was to create a new deal for the american people and solve the crisis that is the Great Depression. Rossevelt passed new deals in giving aid and money to the people of America and jobs to them to help them improve the economy. |
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4. Describe the homefront during WWII, as well as the opportunities or perhaps the hardships African Americans, Mexican Americans, Women and Japanese Americans faced during WWII. (give details)
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the Home Front was a greater impact on than the great depression. while most of the men in america were off fighting the war in another nation, america underwent a sweeping social and economic change. since the damand for war material had increased the production of both industry and agriculture started to benefit from it. people started moving into urban areas in the south and west parts. woman and started to get out of the house and get jobs because they need to support there family while the husbands were off to war. with all of the success that the nation was having in recovering it helped FDR to be re-elected again. African Americans migrated during the wartime like everyone else. but they faced racial prejudice and social and economic gains were limited. Mexican Americans served in the the armed forces and shared some of the same problems the AA faced during the war. |
