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| Policy in China urging all foreigners in China to obey Chinese law and observe fair competition |
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| Secretary of State John Hay proposed a policy that would give all nations access to China's markets |
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| Taft urged American banks and businesses to invest in Latin America and he promised that the U.S. would step in if unrest threatened their investments |
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| First era of a true "global economy" from |
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| the late 1800s to World War I |
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| Results of the Spanish American War |
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Puerto Rico was annexed by the United States
United States asserted its right to intervene in Cuban affairs |
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| How United States gained access to the Panama Canal |
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| encouraging Panama's independence from Columbia |
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| Panama Canal's importance to the United States |
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| to transport the navy from ocean to ocean quickly |
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| United States policy in Hawaii |
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| United States helped to overthrow Hawaii's monarchy and annexed Hawaii |
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| Countries that went to war in 1914 |
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| Germany, Austria Hungary, Ottoman Empire(Central Powers) went to war with France, Great Britain, Russia later joined by Italy and the United States (Allied Powers) |
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| Why United States remained neutral for three year |
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| strong American sentiment to not get involved in a European war |
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| Why United States does not stay neutral |
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| continuing German submarine warfare (violated freedom of the seas)and American cultural ties to Great Britain |
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| Reason Woodrow Wilson gives for the United States entering World War I |
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| "to make the world safe for democracy" |
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| Led to Germany's defeat in World War I |
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| American's military resources of soldiers and war materials |
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| Name of Wilson's plan to eliminate the causes of war |
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| Four key ideas of the Fourteen Points |
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| self-determination, freedom of the seas, League Covenant, Mandate System |
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| How French and British differ with Wilson on the treatment of Germany after World War I |
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| French and British insist on punishing Germany |
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| Treaty that ended World War I |
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| International Organization formed to keep the world from future wars |
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| Big Four nation that did not join the League of Nations |
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| How Treaty of Versailles dealt with national boundaries |
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| redrew national boundary lines creating many new nations and ethnic problems |
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| Why United States Senate would not approve the Treaty of Versailles |
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| objected to United States foreign policy decisions being made by an international organization (League of Nations), not by United States leaders |
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| War that ensured America's role as a world power |
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| How media and communications challenged traditional values in the 1920s and 1930s |
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radio broadcast jazz and fireside chats
movies provided escape from Depression- era realities
newspapers and magazines shaped the cultural norms and sparked fads |
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| Challenges to traditional values |
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| traditional religion was challenged by Darwin's Theory and the Scopes Trial |
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| Challenges to traditional values |
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| Traditional role of women challenged by flappers and the 19th amendment |
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| Challenges to traditional values |
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| Open immigration gave rise to the new KKK |
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| Challenges to traditional values |
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| Prohibition led to smuggling alcohol and speakeasies |
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| Causes of the stock market crash of 1929 |
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| Business was booming, but overspeculation occurred because of investments that were made with borrowed money |
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| Causes of the stock market crash of 1929 |
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Excessive expansion of credit
Business failures led to bankruptcies
Bank deposits wereinvested in the market
Banks had no money when the market crashed |
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| Consequences of the stock market crash |
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Clients panicked, attempting to withdraw their money from the banks, but there was nothing to give them
No new investments |
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| Causes of the Great Depression |
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| The stock market crashed and stock prices collapsed in 1929 |
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| Causes of the Great Depression |
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| Federal Reserve's failure to prevent widespread collapse of the nations banking system in the late 1920s and early 1930s led to severe contraction in the nation's supply of money in circulation |
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| Causes of the Great Depression |
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| high protective tariffs that produced retaliatory(get back at) tariffs in other countries, strangling world trade |
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| Effects of the Tariff Act of 1930 (Hawley-Smoot Act) |
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| Result of the nations banking system collapsing |
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| not enough money in circulation |
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| Impact of the Great Depression |
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unemployment and homelessness
collapse of financial system (bank closings)
demand for goods declined
political unrest (growing militancy of labor unions)
farm foreclosures and migration |
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| Elected President in 1932 |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| Franklin Roosevelt's program that changed the role of government to a more active participant in solving problems of the people |
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| Why did Roosevelt say "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself?" |
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| to rally a frightened nation in which one in four workers was unemployed |
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| The 3 parts of the New Deal |
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direct payment to people for immediate help
Example - Works Progress Administration |
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programs designed to bring the nation out of the depression over time
Example - Agricultural Adjustment Administration |
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measures that corrected unsound banking and business practices
Example - Social Security and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| offered safeguards for workers and their dependents |
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| Influenced the public's belief in the responsibility of government to deliver public services, to intervene in the economy, and to act in ways that promote the general welfare |
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