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| the development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy. |
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| a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation. |
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| consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. |
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| the policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means. |
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| military operations in which forces attack and counterattack from trenches rather than an open battle field and fight for mere yards of ground. |
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| British liner that German U-boat sank that had killed 1198 people, in which 128 were Americans. This incident caused Americans to become outraged. |
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| a telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents which stated that Germany would help Mexico recover the land they lost if war ever broke out between them. |
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| This act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service. |
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| having destroyers escort merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups to stop German U-boat attacks. |
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| American Expeditionary Force (AEF) |
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| force that included men from widely separated parts of the country who had little experience on the battlefield. |
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| a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions. It was used to popularize the war. ex:CPI |
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| Espionage and Sedition Act |
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| under this act, a person could be fined and sentenced to jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort. |
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| Espionage and Sedition Act |
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| under this act, a person could be fined and sentenced to jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort. |
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| established 9 new nations and shifted the boundaries of other nations. It gave five areas out of the Ottoman Empire to France and Britain as mandates. The treaty barred Germany from maintaining an army. It also required Germany to pay reparations(war damages). |
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| Prejudice against foreign-born people. WW1 led to fear of outsiders. |
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| a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs. |
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| an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship. |
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| people who opposed any form of government |
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| Set up by The Emergency Quota Act of 1921, this system established the maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country. |
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| enabled people to buy goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase. |
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| legal prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. |
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| hidden underground saloons and nightclubs that serve liquor illegally. |
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| the protestant movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic, interpretation of the bible. They believed that the bible was inspired by god and it was unconditionally true. |
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| an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. They wore flashy cloths in order to shout their independence. |
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| the people who hid alcoholic beverages on their boot. |
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| he merged traditional elements with American jazz and became famous by creating a new sound that was identifiably American. |
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| a painter who produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York. |
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| an expatriate author who wrote to criticize the glorification of war. |
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| an author who wrote to reveal the negative side of the period's gaiety and freedom, portraying rich and attractive people leading imperiled lives in gilded surroundings. |
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| A literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture. It was basically black people getting famous. It provided a foundation of African-American intellectualism to which African American writers, artists, and musicians contribute today. |
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| an arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for purchases. |
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| buying stocks and bonds on the chance of a quick profit, while ignoring the risks. |
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| paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest. |
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| the day when stock market crashed. Prices plummeted, debts were stacking, and savings were lost. |
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| Dow Jones Industrial Average |
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| the most widely used barometer of the stock market's health. The dow is a measure based on the stock prices of 30 representatives large firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange. |
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| the regions that was the hardest hit by the dust storm cause by decaying of topsoil such as parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) |
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| an effective, reform-minded leader who worked to combat the problems of unemployment and poverty. Opposite of Hoover. |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| hoover's most ambitious economic measure. It authorized up to 2 billion dollar for emergency financing for banks, life insurance companies, railroads, and other large businesses. |
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| Federal Home Loan Bank Act |
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| act which lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loads and avoid foreclosure. |
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| authorized the government to pay a bonus to WW1 veterans who had not been compensated adequately for their wartime service. This was however denied by Hoover and the Senate. |
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| WW1 veterans who wanted their bonus compensation for their wartime service. |
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| cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor. |
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| the president after the stock market crash who believed the economy would fix itself. He thought the government should play a limited role in helping to solve problems. |
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| originally called boulder dam. Worlds tallest dam and the second largest. Provided electricity and flood control. It also provided a regular water supply, which enabled the growth of California's massive agricultural economy. |
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| program designed to focuse on 3 general goals: relief for the need, recovery, and financial reform. |
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| during this period, congress passed more than 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation. These laws significantly expanded the federal government's role in the nation's economy. |
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| established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). It provided federal insurance for individual bank accounts of up to 5k, reassuring millions of bank customers that their money was safe. |
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| required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings and made them liable for any misrepresentations. This helped regulate the stock market that many people lost faith in. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
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| sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which the government achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded. This was designed to put more money in farmers' pockets. |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| provided relief through work projects and cash payments. It put young men to work and paid a small wage of 30 bucks a month. It also supplied free food and uniforms and lodging in work camps. |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) |
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| provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and other community buildings. |
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| Federal Housing Administration |
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| fixed housing and home mortgage problems. This agency still continues to furnish loans for home mortgages and repairs today. |
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| Home owners Loan Corporation |
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| provided government loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure because they couldn't meet their loan payments. |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |
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| provided direct relief for the needy. |
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| spending more money than the government receives in revenue. |
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| a social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills. She urged the president to help the need and appoint women to government positions. |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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| Helped workers by creating as many jobs as possible as quickly as possible. |
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| National Youth Administration |
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| provided education, jobs, counseling, and recreation for young people. |
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| reestablished the NIRA provision of collective bargaining. It allowed workers right of joining unions and allow for collective bargaining. |
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| It gave Old-age insurance for retirees 65 or older and their spouses, an unemployment compensation system, and aided to families with dependent children and the disabled. |
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| America's first female cabinet member. |
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| an educator and government appointee who dedicated herself to promoting opportunities for young african americans. |
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| commissioner of Indian affairs who helped create the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. |
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| Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 |
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| this act allowed for Native American autonomy instead of assimilation and helped restore some reservation lands to tribal ownership. |
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| an alignment of diverse groups dedicated to supporting the democratic Party. |
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| Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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| Labor organization composed of industrial unions founded in 1938. |
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| movie dealing with the life of Southern plantation owners during the civil war. |
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| A radio show created by Orson Welles that scared many people into thinking that aliens were taking over the world. |
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| paid artists a living wage to produce public art. |
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| hired actors to perform plays and artists to provide stage sets and props. |
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| gave the future Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner Saul Bellow his first writing job. |
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| reveals the lives of Oklahomans who left the Dust Bowl and ended up in California. |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| to insure individuals bank accounts, and protected people against losses due to bank failure. |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission |
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| monitored the stock market and enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| harnessed water power to generate electricity and to help prevent floods. |
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| Man of Steel. focused on creating a model communist state and wanted the Soviet union to be an industrial power. |
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| government that tried to exert complete control over its citizens |
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| Dictator of Italy who established the Facist party. |
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| stressed nationalism and placed interests of the state above those of individuals. |
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| dictator of Germany who established Nazism which is just the copy of facism with a different name except it was based on EXTREME nationalism. |
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| leader of the rebels that rebelled against the spanish republic. He won the civil war and becamse Spains fascist dictator. |
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| This act extended the ban on arms sales and loans to nations engaged in civil wars. |
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| Book that hitler wrote that explains his belief of nazism. |
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| giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. |
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| a pact not to attack each other. |
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| systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half were Jews. |
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| "night of broken glass" when Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany. Many Jews were arrested and some were killed. Then the Nazi's blamed the Jews for the destruction. |
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| systematic killing of an entire population |
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| Group of nations including Italy, Germany, and Japan that opposed the allies in WW2. |
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| Allowed U.S. to ship arms and other supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting with Axis Powers. |
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| joint declaration of war aims. |
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| Britain, Russia, and U.S. |
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| Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
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| women volunteers who served in noncombat positions like nursing. |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods. |
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| decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production |
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| Allied U.S. commander who led operation torch. |
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| June 6 1944, first day of the invasion of operation overlord. |
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| Turning point in the war in europe where american troops pushed back the German attackers. |
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| Allied Commander in the war in the islands |
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| an island critical to the U.S. as a base from which heavily loaded bombers might reach Japan. Was very heavily defended by the japanese because of it's importance. |
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| an important Japanese military center; the place U.S. Bombed the crap out of. |
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| was A bombed. Fat man ( the second A bomb) leveled half the city. |
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| provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government. |
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| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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| purpose was to confront urban segregation in the North. |
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| state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WW2. |
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