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US hist. after 1877
test 2
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History
Undergraduate 1
08/01/2011

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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
Ended ww1
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The Irreconcilables
Definition
Senators opposed to the treaty
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The League of Nations
Definition
Part of the treaty
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Germany and Reparations
Definition
Had to pay the cost of the war (part of the treaty)
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The Red Scare
Definition
Fear of communist takeover in US
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Xenophobia
Definition
Fear of foreigners
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Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Definition
1920s, 3 factors: marketing campaign, spread to new parts of the country, new groups of people that they did not like
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Laissez-Faire Government
Definition
Warren G. Harding
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Warren G. Harding
Definition
died of heart attack
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Calvin Coolidge
Definition
return to Gilded Age
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
Election of 1928, 3rd republican landslide, believed America was on the right track financially
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“Normalcy”
Definition
Campaign slogan, people want to go back being normal
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Hoover’s tax plan
Definition
Tax cut for the wealthy
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Stock Market Crash
Definition
Contributing factor to the depression
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Hoover’s response to the crash/depression
Definition
Nothing
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Movie stars influence on society in the 20s
Definition
Fashions, speech, and attitude towards sex
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“Talking Pictures”
Definition
Jazz singer (first movie with sound)
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Radio
Definition
advertising and the birth of jazz
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18th Amendment
Definition
Prohibition, banned sale of alcohol
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Speakeasies/Blind Pigs
Definition
Underground bars
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Flappers
Definition
Women that had shorter haircut, short dresses
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Causes of the Great Depression
Definition
Stock market crash, bank failures, too many poor people, farm failures
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Senior Citizens/Minorities and the Great Depression
Definition
Most effected groups during the great depression
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Unemployment during the Depression
Definition
(25%) highest during depression
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“Hoovervilles”
Definition
Shantytown
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Bonus Army
Definition
WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding early payment of pension, army sent into ‘contain’ them
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FDR
Definition
the New Deal
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1st Hundred Days
Definition
15 major legislative pieces passed to lighten the Depression- alphabet soup agencies
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Alphabet Agencies
Definition
(CCC – civilian conservation corp, TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority, CWA – work projects administration)
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Social Security Act
Definition
1935, provided unemployment insurance and retirement pensions
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Changes in Democratic Party in the 30s
Definition
African American voted Democrat for the first time nationwide
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Court Packing Plan
Definition
Supreme Court decisions threatening the New Deal Programs, FDR enlarge Supreme Court, became unnecessary in the end
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Hitler/Germany
Definition
National Socialists German Worker’s Party, criticized Weimar Republic, exploited the poverty and despair caused by a severe economic depression, emphasized the german resentment to the Versailles treaty
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Mussolini/Italy
Definition
Fascism, party program promised to restore order and pride in a country fragmented by dissension and self-doubts
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Stalin/Soviet Union
Definition
Totalitarian State: gov. is a single party dictatorship that controls every aspect of their lives of its citizens
Five year plans – tried to industrialize Russia
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Appeasement
Definition
Giving into dictator to give peace
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Munich Pact
Definition
September 1938: Hitler agreed to meet to discuss the Czech crisis, agreed to occupy only the Sudetenland
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Lebensraum
Definition
Crisis over Czechoslovakia
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
German blitzkrieg against Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, soviet union
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Normandy Invasion/D-Day
Definition
Allied invasion of France
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Definition
Over oil embargo, Japanese attacked American naval, early morning Sunday dec 7, 1941
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Midway (Pacific)
Definition
Turning point in the Pacific
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Harry Truman
Definition
Gave green light to drop 2 bombs
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Big Three
Definition
Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
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Atomic Bomb
Definition
2 reasons, save American lives, ended war against Japan
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