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| Why did the US enter WW1? |
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- The sinking of the Lusitania. (a british cargo ship bound for the US)
- Woodrow Wilson wanted to make the world "safe."
- The Zimmerman Note.
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| What were some technological advances made by the US during WW1? |
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- tanks
- poison gas
- tracer bullets
- air traffic control
- hydrophones
- aircraft carriers
- pilotless drones
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| What was the Paris Peace Conference? |
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| The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918. It took place in Paris during 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 32 countries and nationalities |
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| What was the Scopes "Monkey Trial?" |
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| The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. |
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| What was Henry Ford's great contribution to modern industrial culture? |
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a. the invention of the gasoline engine.
b. his sensitivity to the needs of the modern worker.
c. his commitment to standardization and assembly-line mass production
d. his canny use of product diversification to appeal to a wide range of individual tastes. |
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| What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? |
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, but it had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II.
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What was the McNary-Haugen Bill?
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| A farm-relief bill that was championed throughout the 1920s and aimed to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad. Congress twice passed the bill, but President Calvin Coolidge vetoed it in 1927 and 1928. |
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| What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? |
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| Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, formally United States Tariff Act of 1930, U.S. legislation (June 17, 1930) that raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression. |
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| What was the Stimson Doctrine? |
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| The Stimson Doctrine was named after Henry L. Stimson. Stimson was United States Secretary of State during the Hoover presidency. At that time, a policy of non-recognition of territory taken by force by Japan during the war was favored. This policy became known as the Stimson Doctrine, and was used again against the Soviet Union. |
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| What was the Glass-Steagall Act? |
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| The term Glass–Steagall Act usually refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations between commercial banks and securities firms |
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| What was the Securities Act of 1933? |
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| A federal piece of legislation enacted as a result of the market crash of 1929. The legislation had two main goals: (1) to ensure more transparency in financial statements so investors can make informed decisions about investments, and (2) to establish laws against misrepresentation and fraudulent activities in the securities markets. |
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| What was the 20th Amendment? |
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| The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the President and Vice President from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no President-elect. The Twentieth Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933 |
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| What was the Good Neighbor Policy? |
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| The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. While its rule became effective during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, Henry Clay paved the way for it and coined the term "Good Neighbor". |
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| Who were the dictators of WW2? |
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| The four main dictators of World War II were Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, and Joseph Stalin. Hitler was German, Mussolini was Italian, Tojo was Japanese, and Stalin was Russian. |
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| What was the Munich Conference? |
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| The Munich Conference was a conference that was held in the City of Munich when Hitler demanded part of the Czechoslovakia. In attendance during that meeting were the leaders of France Italy and the Great Britain. The conference was held in the year 1938 to try to make Hitler drop his stand on acquiring part of the Czechoslovakian republic. |
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| What was the Lend-Lease Act? |
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| The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. The act authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to "the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States." Britain, the Soviet Union, China, Brazil, and many other countries received weapons under this law. |
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| What was the Casablanca Conference? |
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| The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco that took place from January 14–24, 1943. While Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin received an invitation, he was unable to attend because the Red Army was engaged in a major offensive against the German army at the time. The most notable developments at the Conference were the finalization of Allied strategic plans against the Axis powers in 1943, and the promulgation of the policy of “unconditional surrender.” |
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| What was the Marshall Plan? |
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| The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which theUnited States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism |
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| The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. |
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| What was Brown vs. Board of Education? |
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| Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. |
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| What was the Suez Crisis? |
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| On October 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis. The Israelis soon were joined by French and British forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and damaged their relationships with the United States. In the end, the British, French and Israeli governments withdrew their troops in late 1956 and early 1957. |
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| What were the effects of the Sputnik Launch? |
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| It was a symbolic demonstration of Russia's force through the space race, in which it's concurrent were the United States. It showed that if Russia had the power to do this Russia had the power to launch a ballistic missile on a target anywhere around the globe. Plus, it circled 10 times a day the United States. |
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| What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? |
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| President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in January 1957, and Congress approved it in March of the same year. Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. |
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| What was the role of the United States in the Vietnam War? |
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| The role of the United States in the Vietnam War began soon after the Second World War and escalated into full commitment during what is termed the Vietnam War from 1959 to 1975. |
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| What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? |
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| The Cuban missile crisis—known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis in the former USSR—was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict and is also the first documented instance of mutual assured destruction being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in theUnited States that prohibits discrimination in voting. Echoing the language of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Act prohibits states and local governments from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color." It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. |
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What was President Johnson's policy in Vietnam? |
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| He firmly believed in the Domino Theory and that his containment policy required America to make a serious effort to stop all Communist expansion. At Kennedy's death, there were 16,000 American military advisors in Vietnam. Johnson expanded their numbers and roles following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had nominated Barry Goldwater for President). |
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| What was the Nixon Doctrine? |
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| This doctrine meant that each ally nation was in charge of its own security in general, but the United States would act as a nuclear umbrella when requested. The Doctrine argued for the pursuit of peace through a partnership with American allies. The Nixon Doctrine implied the intentions of Richard Nixonshifting the direction on international policies in Asia, especially aiming for "Vietnamization of the Vietnam War." |
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| What was Griswold vs. Connecticut? |
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| Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that theConstitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy". |
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| Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women's health. Arguing that these state interests became stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the trimester of pregnancy. |
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| The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government—which replaces sovereign nation-states—and an all-encompassingpropaganda that ideologizes its establishment as the culmination of history's progress. Significant occurrences in politics and finance are speculated to be orchestrated by an unduly influential cabal operating through many front organizations. |
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