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History Test 2
American History
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Undergraduate 1
03/29/2016

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Woodrow Wilson
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Election of 1912, professor from Princeton, Southerner in favor of segregation, progressive, Big Business
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Wilsoms 14 Points
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points for peace, taken for peace negotiations at the end of war, free markets, freedom of the seas-create borders, league of nations (united nations, for equal), popular sovereignty
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Benito Mussolini​
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Italy
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Josef Stalin​
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Russia, Communist Party
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FDR
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Elected 4 times, New Deal to counter Great Depression
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Battle of Midway
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Pacific Theater, naval and air battle, America v Japan because of Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Stalingrad
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eastern front, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, turning point for war, Germans are advancing
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D-Day Landings
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June 6, 1945, led by Eisenhower, allies invaded Normandy, beginning to end of the war, Germans lose power
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General Pershing
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General John “Black Jack” Pershing, first troops 1917, WWI, led American Expeditionary Forces to Victory in Germany (won’t be essay question)
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MAIN
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Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism, Nationalism
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Militarism
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Weapons, and arms race
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Alliance
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everyone goes to war, Triple Entente( Russia, France, United Kingdom) and Central Powers (Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman- Empire)
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Imperialism
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all colonies involved, global issue, world war
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Nationalism
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me and people around me belong together because we’re the same
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Manchuria
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Japan invaded which started WWII, owned by China
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Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941, Japanese bombed
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3 R's of the new deal
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Relief, Reform, Recovery
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Relief
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Direct/ Indirect assistance FERA and CCC
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Reform
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direct institutional change to economy, SEC and FDIC
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Recovery
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long term growth, largest component, AAA and NRA
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CCC
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part of RELIEF, gov’t giving jobs to people who needed work
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AAA
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part of RECOVERY subsidizes farmers, dust bowl
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Culture Clash of the 1920s​
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ollapse of banking system, collapse of morale, series of plunges, 9000 banks, no federal loan or backing, KKK gets strongerlong term growth, largest component, AAA and NRA
long term growth, largest component, AAA and NRA
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Herbert Hoover
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rags to riches, “Rugged Indivilong term growth, largest component, AAA and NRAdualism” Humanitarian, former commerce secretary, bad luck, blamed for Depression, Hoovervilles, “Bonus Army”
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The Manhattan Project
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was to put an end to WWII by using weapons of mass destruction that forced Japan to surrender, Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Harry Truman
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President after FDR decided on Manhattan Project
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FERA
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ederal Emergency Relief Administration, president Hoover created
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Central Powers and Triple Entente
Definition
Austria–Hungary found themselves at war in August 1914 with the rival Triple Entente, Italy pledged to support the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and later the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
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Winston Churchill
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political leader, the Blitz, Battle of Britain
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The "Final Solution"
Definition
Holocaust-death by fire, Jews in concentration camps, ethnic purification, Nazi persecution, ghettos, transit camps, labor camps
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Lend Lease
Definition
act to promote defense of the U.S., supplied food, oil, U.S. was involved before they declared war in WWII
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Adolf Hitler
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master race and Nazis, Germany, committed suicide, concentration camps, ethnic purification
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Axis
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Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan
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Allies
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U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Soviet Union
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Keynesian Economics
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John Maynard Keynes, spending boosts consumption, principles*- balance budget, cut spending during good times, spend during bad times
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Roaring 20s
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defied Prohibitions, new dances and clothes, rejected traditional moral standards, Boom, cars, middle class growth, cause of Great Depression
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Great Migration
Definition
reform, African Americans 6 million from rural South to urban everywhere else
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Red Scare
Definition
happens as a reaction to something, first in 1919, lower class overthrow the government, reaction to Russian Revolution, communist overthrow the government, people are scared but put fear into action
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League of Nations
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weak influence, U.S. Germany, and Russia
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Great Depression
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Lack of diversity, farmers in debt, uneven prosperity, little money/ overconfidence
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