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Pancho villa |
Mexican revolutionary general and prominent figure in the Mexican revolution. |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II |
Emperor of Germany and Prussia 188-1918,Last emperor. |
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Lusitania |
British ocean liner that was sunk by a German UBoat ,Americans died giving a reason for US involvement in the war. |
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Selective service act 1917 |
Authorised the US Government to raise an army through conscription. |
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Fourteen Point |
A statement of principles for peace authored by Woodrow Wilson at the end of WW1. |
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League of Nations |
An intergovernmental organization founded at the end of the first world war,meant to keep the peace established. |
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Red Scare |
Widespread fear of communism by both the government and the public. |
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Eighteenth Amendment |
The amendment that prohibited the sale,distribution,importation or exportation of alcohol. |
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Prohibition |
The era following the 18th amendment when people could not attain alcohol. |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
American woman's suffrage leader that campaigned for the 19th amendment. |
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NAACP |
Formed in 1909,an organization for the advancement of Colored people's.National civil rights organization. |
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The lost generation |
The generation that came of age during WW1,many casualties resulted in a loss of the younger population. |
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Albert B Hall |
Us senator and secretary of the interior understand Harding,involved in a bribery scandal from 1921-1922 |
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Washington naval conference 1921 |
A meeting between 1921-1922 in which the world's major naval powers met in DC to discuss disarmament and growing tentions East Asia. |
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Kellogg-Byand Pact |
A 1928 international agreement in which those involved agreed not to use war to resolve disputes. |
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Teapot Dome |
A bribery incident in the US from 1921-1922 |
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Robert M LaFollette |
Leader of the US progressive movement and US senator from Wisconsin. |
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Hawley Smoot Tarriff |
Tarriff of Imported goods as part of the national protectionist movement. |
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Andrew Mellon |
US Treasury secretary from 1921-1931 know for lowering taxes on the American people. |
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
A governmental corporation from 1932-1957 providing support to local and state government in the form of loans. |
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Hundred Days |
The final period of the first world war. |
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CCC |
A public relief program that operates from 1933-1942 for unemployed ummarried men as part of the new deal. |
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TVA |
A federally owned corporation created to provide navigation electricity and other needs to the Tennessee valley. |
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NRA |
The national recovery administration who's goal was to eliminate cut throat competition. |
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Supreme Court Packing |
An act by FDR to expand the supreme Court by as much as 15 members. |
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New Deal |
FDRs plans to provide relief to the American people after the devastation of the great depression. |
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Second New Deal |
The second stage 1935-1936 of FDRs new deal programs. |
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Huey Long |
Know for his populist agenda and desire to help the poor. |
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Social security act |
An act that created a payroll tax funded basic pension to retiring Americans. |
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Wagner Act |
A foundational act that provides public sector employees the right to unionise and engage in collective bargaining. |
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Good neighbor policy |
The foreign policy of FDR particularly towards Latin America. |
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Neutrality act of 1937 |
An act by Congress outlawing arms sales to Spain. |
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Isolationist |
Those that favored the US not get involved in foreign conflicts. |
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Lend-Lease |
An act by Congress in which resources such as food,oil and materials where provided to the allies during WW1. |
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Tripartite Pact |
Also known as the Berlín pact,a defensive millitary alliance by Germany Italy and Japan . |
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Cordell Hull |
Longest serving US secretary of state,influential during the second world war years. |
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Pearl Harbor |
A US naval Base in Hawaii,attacked by the Japanese Empire and prompted the US to get into the war. |
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Battle of the coral sea |
A major battle between imperial Japan and The US airforce from 4-8, may 1942. |
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Battle of Midway |
A decisive naval battle if the Pacific theater of WW2 6 months after the attack on Pearl harbor. |
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Tuskegee Airmen |
A group of Africa American figther pilots during WW2,first pilots and prior to the establishment of the US airforce. |
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Japanese Internment |
The forced Internment of Americans of Japanese decent during the WW2 years. |
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Casablanca conference |
A meeting held on January 14 1943 to discuss the next phase of the war.Meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt. |
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Battle of Leyte Gulf |
The largest naval battle in history and of the second world war.Fought off the philliphines.Permitted the US invasion of the phillipines. |
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Yalta Conference |
Meeting between Roosevelt,Churchill and Stalin to discuss postwar reorganization. |
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Hiroshima |
Major Japanese city,site if the first atomic bomb used in a state of war. |
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Nagasaki |
A major Japanese city and he second site of a atomic bomb strike by the US during world war 2. |