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Definition: not taking sides in a conflict.
Historical Significance: The USA was neutral (per-say) until the sinking of the Lusitania, a German U-Boat fired upon the British passenger ship sinking it, which took American lives. Then the US entered WWI on the side of the Allied Powers. |
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Definition:The USA serves as a model to the rest of the world. Motivated by the desire to "do good".
Historical Significance: Our desire to "do good" has |
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| Definition: President McKinley (who took a firmer stance on the Cuban Rebellion than President Cleveland) informed Spain (via the US minister in Madrid) that Spain needed to make peace soon or the USA would step in. This seemed to work at first, Cuba was granted limited self-rule and Spin's conservative regime fell adn a liberal government was formed October 1897. Unfortunately Spanish loyalists rejected this and Cubans still yearned for independence. When the USS Maine sunk in Havana Harbor Americans cried out "Remember the Maine and to hell with Spain!" |
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| Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine/Open Door Policy |
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MONROE: basically told European nations to stay out of the Americas.
ROOSEVELT: told European nations to stay out of the Caribbean and south America and not intervene in their affairs, and that the USA would intervene if they do intervene.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: beginning of the US acting as police forces and the beginning of imperialism. Needed better trade routes creation of the Panama Canal.
OPEN DOOR POLICY: stated that all european nations and the us could trade with china |
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Definition: After the Spanish American War was fought the Spanish gave control of the Philippine Islands to the US. The Filipinos did not want to be a colony they wanted independence. So they waged a three year long war.
Historical Significance: Was the beginning of American Imperialism. |
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| Committee on Public Information/Mind Mobilization |
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Definition: The CPI responsible for circulating propaganda.
Historical Significance: transformed advertising into a true profession not a despicable job. |
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| The First Great Migration |
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Definition: WWI had such a great number of men serving in the military that jobs in heavy industry opened up to African Americans. 400,000 African Americans moved to the North for wartime jobs.
Historical Significance: The Harlem Renaissance and the infusion of Jazz music into white American society |
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Definition:(Red Scare) After WWI the influx of immigrants sharing the Communist ideology terrified "prosperous Americans". Fear heightened when the "Bolsheviks founded the Third International in 1919 (Third International was an organization intended to spur uprisings and revolutions) because of this Americans began to fear radicals were hiding everywhere even among them.
Historical Significance: public and the press blamed labor unrest on "alien radicals"
Definition: (Red Summer) April 1919-June 1919 during a series of threats and bombings, government officials found and defused 34 mail bombs (addressed to government officials). One bomb went off in front of A. Mitchell Palmer's residence. He was unharmed, but used the incident to inflate public hysteria against the "Reds".
Historical Significance: (President Wilson was incapacitated by stroke = Palmer basically in charge)Palmer set up an antiradicalism division in the Justice Department, headed by J. Edgar Hoover (FBI). The department flushed out headquarters of radical organizations, captured thousands of innocent immigrants and deported them without a formal trial. (SACCO AND VANZETTI) |
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Definition: Speech Wilson gave to Congress in January 1918. Some of the points were: No secret treaties (the cause of WWI), free navigation of the seas,Self-determination and independence for Balkan States and Austria-Hungary, the League of Nations.
Historical Significance: The League of Nations (which the USA did not join) was a failure. But these point became the foundation of the peace program that made Germany (and allies) agree to an armistice in November 1918. ( Treaty of Versailles demoralized Germany and did not follow suit with the 14 points) |
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Definition: drove down the price of automobile and drove up wages to $5.00 a week. in order to maximize profits you have to increase labor.
Historical Significance: creation of jobs. |
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| do everything to support business |
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Definition: "Keep America American". Native-born Protestants viewed unrestricted immigration as the cause of the cultural and religious disputes.
Historical Significance: "America must be kept American" (said by President Coolidge) the National Origins Act (1924) limited immigration from Italy, Greece, Russia, Poland and other Eastern and Southern European countries. In 1929 Congress imposed quotas, setting the cap of 150000 immigrants per year from Europe and most of Asia was still banned. ISOLATIONISM and KKK REVIVAL |
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| The revolution of manners and morals. Ex: Dating without chaperones |
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| 1933-1935. "the first hundred days" creates bank holidays, has fire side chats. granted broad powers by congress. programs put people to work and restored hope for the nations future. FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC RECOVERY |
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1935-1938
1934 Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)
1935 Works Progress Administration (WPA) National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) Social Security Act
1936 Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Roosevelt is reelected
1937 United States Housing Authority (USHA)
1938 Second Agricultural Adjustment Act Fair Labor Standards Act
FOCUSED ON SOCIAL REFORM AND THE CREATION OF A "SAFETY NET" |
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| Father Coughlin and Huey Long |
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two of FDR's most vocal opponents of the second new deal. Coughlin said that the new deal was going too far and was on its way to turning the USA into a socialist nation.
Long on the other hand said that it didn't go far enough. that the government should heavily tax the rich to even out the economic status of the nation (Every man a king program and share the wealth) borderline communism.. |
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| Congress of Industrial Organization. promoted industrial unionization, organizing workers from skilled to unskilled all in one union. |
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| National Labor Relations Act |
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| enacted by congress in 1935 to improve/protect the rights of employees and employers. guaranteed collective bargaining, outlawed many union suppressing actions used by employers, and allowed workers to assemble without the fear of being fired. Giving power to the people |
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