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to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, esp. in politics. |
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a concept in foreign affairs stating that, in principle, all nations should have equal commercial and industrial trade rights in China. |
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a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country. |
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Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers. |
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established Prohibition in the US. Its ratification was certified on JAn 29 1919. It is notable as the only amendment to the United States Constitution that has been repealed (by the 21st Amendment). |
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also known as Dry Law, which prohibits alcohol. Typically, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. |
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the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. |
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The term is used to describe the foreign policy of the U.S. at the time which Roosevelt claimed had the right to oppose Erupean actions in the Western Hemisphere. he also said, the US had the right to intervene economically, and militarily in the domestic affairs of it's neighbors if they proved incappable of maintaining peace and sovereignty on their own. |
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an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws |
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The 14 points were listed in a speech delivered by Pres. Wilson to the US congress on Jan 8 1918. This speech was intended to assure the country that the war was being fought for a moral cause and for peace in Europe after WWI. |
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a cultural movement in 1920s America during which black art, literature, and music experienced renewal and growth, originating in New York City's Harlem district |
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The encampments of the poor and homeless that sprang up during the Great Depression. They were named with ironic intent after President Herbert Hoover, who was in office when the depression started. |
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an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946. |
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The programs and policies to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. |
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A nickname given to young women in the 1920s who defied convention by refusing to use corsets, cutting their hair short, and wearing short skirts, as well as by behavior such as drinking and smoking in public. |
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1919 guaranteed women the right to vote. |
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| was an American Legal case that tested the law that made it unlawful, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." The case was a watershed in the vreation-evolution controversy. |
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| scandal that troubled the administration of President Harding. over the control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and at Elk Hills, Calif., |
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| 1935 US federal law that protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands |
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The Zimmermann Telegram was intercepted and decoded by the British cryptographers. The revelation of its contents in the U.S. press on March 1st caused public outrage that contributed to the United States' declaration of war against Germany on April 6th. |
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| the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. |
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| 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945) |
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| individualism in social and economic affairs; belief not only in personal liberty and self-reliance but also in free competition |
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1863-1947.
American automobile manufacturer who developed a gasoline-powered automobile (1893), founded the Ford Motor Company (1903), and mass-produced the Model T (1908-1927), the first generally affordable and widely available automobile. |
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| Repealed 18th and ended Prohibition |
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| a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s |
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A series of informal radio addresses given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. In his fireside chats, Roosevelt sought to explain his policies to the American public and to calm fears about the Great Depression. |
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| | to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles. |
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| British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965) |
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| harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941 |
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| Japanese internment camps |
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| Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor |
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| A bomb deriving its destructive power from the release of nuclear energy. |
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| elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972) |
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| A war between Spain and the United States in 1898, as a result of which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam to the United States and abandoned all claim to Cuba, which became independent in 1902. |
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