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What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? What was its purpose and method of achieving this end? |
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proposed a multilateral treaty which would involve all the nations who intend to outlaw wars
its effectiveness was hampered by the fact that it had no provisions for sanctions on members who broke the treaty. As a result of this drawback, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was never able to make a mark at the international level in the world history. |
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| - Who was Benito Mussolini? |
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| an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. |
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| - How did the invasion of Ethiopia by Italy reveal the weakness of the League of Nations? |
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| Both Italy and Ethiopia were member nations and yet the League was unable to control Italy or to protect Ethiopia when Italy clearly violated the League's own Article X. |
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| - Who were the Central Powers? |
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United Kingdom (Churchill),
France/Free France,
Soviet Union (Stalin),
United States (Franklin Roosevelt),
China,
Commonwealth countries
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| - Who was Senator Gerald Nye? Who were the “merchants of death?” |
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| led an investigation against The so-called “Senate Munitions Committee” came into being because of widespread reports that manufacturers of armaments had unduly influenced the American decision to enter the war in 1917. These weapons’ suppliers had reaped enormous profits at the cost of more than 53,000 American battle deaths |
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| - Know that Britain and France responded to early German aggression by attempting to appease Hitler. What occurred at the Munich Conference? Did it work? |
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| Hitler had sent troops to Sudetenland before the Munich Conference and admitted it to UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Hitler basically was telling him you cannot appease me and I will do what I want. He invaded Poland after that. |
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| - What was Franklin Roosevelt’s response to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939? |
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| he wanted the U.S. to remain neutral |
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| - Know what unofficial aid Roosevelt provide the British before the United States became involved in World War II. |
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| - What was the Rueben James? |
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| was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in World War II and the first named for Boatswain's Mate Reuben James (c.1776–1838), who distinguished himself fighting in the Barbary Wars. |
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| - What measures did the United States employ to control Japanese aggression before Pearl Harbor? |
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| - Know that during World War II the closest ally of the US was England. |
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| - Who was Winston Churchill? |
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| prime minister of Britain (England, Scotland, Wales and British controlled Northen Ireland) from May 1940-July 1945. |
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| - Know that the Allies gave priority to the European theater of World War II rather than the Pacific struggle. |
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| - What was the Soviet Union’s view of the second front? Why did the US and Britain wait to open a second front. Where did the Americans and British begin their offensive? |
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| - Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower? |
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| Dwight Eisenhower was the Allies Supreme Commander in the lead up to D-Day and in the actual landings in Normandy. He commanded the Allied forces in the last great counter-attack by the Germans in World War Two – the Battle of the Bulge. Eisenhower was one of the most important generals of World War Two and one who went on to greater success as president of America from 1953 to 1961. |
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| - Why was the Battle of Midway important? |
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| The battle of midway was important to the US because the US destroyed the Japanese Imperial Navy . This gave the USA complete control of the Pacific Ocean. |
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| - Did World War II play a role in movements of African-American to Northern cities? Why? |
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| though they were free, african americans were still shown discrimination in the south. they traveled up north because of the economy during the war. |
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| - Were there internment camps in the United States during World War II? What purpose did they serve? |
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| The u.s thought the japenese had spies after the bombing of Pearl harbor so they put all the Japanese in one camp to watch them |
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| - Know that a fundamental disagreement between the West and the Soviet Union involved the question of control of post-war Europe. How did this disagreement manifest itself? |
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| - What was the Truman Doctrine? |
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| It offered support to all countries that declined communism, attempting to contain it, and untimately end it. The Truman Doctrine also consisted of Marshall Aid, which was money that was offered to all European countries for rebuilding. The Soviets declined the "capitalist" money! |
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| - What was the Marshall Plan? Was it effective? |
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The U.S. will finance the reconstruction of western European Economies.
Stalin doesnt let his countries recieve money in fear of them following America |
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| - What was the purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? How did it represent a major change in American foreign policy? |
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| From its founding, NATO’s primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies’ military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. In the early 1950s NATO relied partly on the threat of massive nuclear retaliation from the United States to counter the Warsaw Pact’s much larger ground forces. |
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| - Know that the main Soviet response to containment was the Berlin blockade. How did the United States respond? |
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President Truman responded to the blockade by sending planeloads of much-needed supplies to West Berlin.
a.k.a Berlin Airlift |
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| - What did the National Security Act of 1947 do? |
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signed by United States President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1947, and realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II.
The Act merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment, headed by the Secretary of Defense. It was also responsible for the creation of a Department of the Air Force separate from the existing Army Air Forces |
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| classified report issued in the United States on April 14, 1950 during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. It pledged the US not only to contain communism, but to take a further step to drive back Communist influence wherever it appeared and to "foster the seeds of destruction within the Soviet Union". |
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| - What were the sides within the Korean War? What was the result of the Korean War for the United States? |
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North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union.
South Korea was supported by United Nations Forces
Preserving the nation of "the Republic of South Korea"; and stopping communist aggression at the 38th parallel. |
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| - Was the Republican Party able to use the Cold War to their advantage? How so? |
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| - - What factors contributed to Truman’s unexpected success in the election of 1948? |
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| because of the break in the democratic party, the dixicrats |
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| - Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? |
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| American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history. |
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| - Who was Joseph McCarthy? |
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| A republican senator from Wisconsin who was widely responsible for panic in the U.S. by making claims about communist spies working in our government. |
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| - What factors does Brands attribute for the “flight to the suburbs” in the post-war era? |
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| integrated schools, as well as the newly constructed highway systems aided the white population of suburbs |
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| - How does Brands characterize the economy of the 1950s? What does he see as the contributing factors? |
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| - What role did the automobile play in the post-war era? |
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| the growth of suburbs after ww11 made the automobile and necessity. raising the demand |
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- How did Americans’ perception of women in the workforce change through the 1940s to 1960s?
- How |
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| changes were results of extraneous circumstances, the Great Depression and World War II. The down ward spiral of heavy industries during the Depression and the labour shortages of WWII both pushed women into the work force. Women became responsible for increased percentage of household income and took on traditionally male jobs in industries. The Depression and WWII put on women's shoulders responsibilities traditionally reserved for men, and in doing so allowed women to demonstrate their capabilities and confidence. |
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| - How does the author perceive 1950s Americans view of organized religion? |
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| - Did the Sputnik satellite contribute to American education? |
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| yes because we studied harder than the soviets to become the first to land on the moon |
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| - Was a college education important? |
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| yes because of the GI bill, post war veterans were able to go to college and in doing so boost the American economy |
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| - Who were the “beats?” In what way was it connected to abstract expressionism? |
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a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included experimentation with drugs and alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of exuberant, unexpurgated means of expression and being. Even still the Generation is in motion.
Or early hippies |
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| Know that by the 1960s the most racially integrated institution in American society was the military. |
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| - Know that Harry Truman was the first president to attempt to seriously alter the historical patterns of racial discrimination. What measures did he take? Did it succeed? |
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| he wanted to apply FEPC fair employment practices however congress didnt approve. |
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| - What occurred through the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka? |
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| was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation |
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| - How did Dwight Eisenhower support school integration? |
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| he sent troops to Arkansas to allow african american students to attend the newly integrated school |
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| - Who was Orville Faubus? |
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| Governor of Arkansas, best known for for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of Little Rock public schools during the Little Rock Crisis, in which he defied a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court by ordering the Arkansas National Guard to stop African American students from attending Little Rock Central High School. Despite his initial staunch segregationist stances, Faubus moderated his positions later on. a very racist governor |
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| - How did the Montgomery bus boycott begin? What civil rights leader emerged as a result? |
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rosa parks refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as a result. |
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| - What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference? Did it advocate violence? |
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| In January 1957 approximately 60 black ministers assembled in Atlanta to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to continue the civil rights fight |
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