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| what did william seward do and what was it called? |
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| Purchase for alaska, icebox, seward's folly |
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| Believed the path to global superpower is to have great navy, helped us build up that yung navy. |
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| US wants to be part of china's sphere of influence to gain resources |
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| Us wanted to annex hawaii. Hawaii was a kingdom didn't want it, revolted, US took it over finally state in 1959, Muricuh. |
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causes of spanish american war? Effects? |
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| Cuba wanted independence, led to independence in guam, puerto rico, and the philippines. Spain got kicked out. |
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| uss maine mysteriously sunk in havana harbor |
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| let less japanese people in US, but made segregated japanese schools |
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| talk first but remember to show ur guns in case they refuse. Then of they do beat their ass up then talk again. |
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| Wanted to continue construction w/ canal under Teddy Roosevelt, wanted to pay Colombia but they said no so USA supported Colombian-Panaman Revolution |
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| Woodrow wilson, not the use of force, democratic ideals, negotiating, promoted human rights and self-determination |
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US, FRANCE, BRITIAN, RUSSIA, SLOV COUNTRIES, SERBIA (Triple Entente->Allied Powers)
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY EMPIRE, OTTOMAN EMPIRE, ITALY (Triple Alliance->Central Powers) |
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| Causes of ww1? Nationalism, militarism, economics, imperialism |
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Nationalism- each country had strong feelings for their country
militarism- militaries were growing
economy- was in the shit, looked for resources for more money
Imperialism- took up the world, fight for more resources
assassination of archduke ferdinand by gavrilo princep of the black hand |
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| Dig trenches fight in trenches, if you win, move up to next trench. Filled with death, disease, etc. |
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| American involvement in the war. Causes? |
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Sinking of lusitania
zimmerman telegraph
sussex pledge
we helped win |
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| Selective service act of 1917 |
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| Committee on public information |
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| CPI- helped influence us people to agree with american participation in ww1 (propaganda) |
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| Military ships guard merchant, cargo ships from being sunk. |
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| Wilson's failure of a UN that we weren't even a part of that attempted but failed to enforce anything |
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| New nations form from old empires |
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| Ended ww1, created league of nations, germany pay reparations |
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| Wilsons points, only league of nations went through |
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| Red scare/fear of foreigners/national origins act of 1924 |
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| scared commies, scared of commies, |
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| Prohibition cause? Effect? Repeal? |
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| Stopped grain for war kept going with prohibition, bootlegging, repealed |
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| Cars/henry ford/new inventions |
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| Cars bought more often, henry ford gets rich, mass production, assembly line |
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| Oil reserves sold to military |
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| womens roles in the 20s/flappers |
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| some women rebeled and were liberal, flappers. |
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| Reparation payments, economy crashes |
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| Stock market crash (cause? Effects?!?!?) |
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| black tuesday, black thursday, poor people |
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| Bank collapse and close money gone |
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| Urban unemployment/bread lines |
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| City no jobs lines for food |
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| Crops ruined in kansas area dusty |
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| Sreserved water and provided jobs |
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| Reconstruction finance corp (rfc) |
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| Hoover gives $ to corps n banks for employees but didnt give it |
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| Veterans want bonus money earlier |
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