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Out of the MAIN, what started the war

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Alliances

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Causes of WWI

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Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism

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Biggest cause of WWI

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Alliance

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The allies

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France
Britain
Russia

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Central powers

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Germany
Austria Hungary
Ottoman Empire

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Stricter social and moral standards for women than for men in the 1920s

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Double standard

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Which of the following were effects of the federal highway act

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Roadside businesses began to pop up
Wave of Peale moving from the suburbs to the cities
Commercial trucking enabled goods to be transported faster

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New weapons

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Machine gun
Airplanes
Tanks
Poison gas

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Fashion changes for women in the 1920s

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Bright waist less dress an inch above knees
Skin toned silk stockings
Became tighter and shorter
Close fitting felt hats

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3 changes in 1920s women social behavior

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Smoke cigarettes
Drink in public
Talk openly about sex

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Made it illegal to manufacture and sell liquor

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18 amendment

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Too much drinking led to crime, wife / child abuse, laziness, and mistakes at work

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Prohibition

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Gangsters took advantage of the alcohol black market

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Organized crime during prohibition time

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Alcapone took control of the liquor business through bribes and violence

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Organized crime

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Effects of the Great Depression

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Creation of shanty towns
Soup kitchens and bread lines
Mental break downs
Frugal generation

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Severe drought had taken place in the Great Plains during the early 1930s

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Dust bowl

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Dust bowl effects

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Overproduction of crops and plowing on farmlands led to exposed soil
Farmers and families migrated to Cali and other pacific states

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17
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Who did the agricultural adjustment act (AAA) help

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Helped farmers.

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How did the AAA help

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Raised crop prices by lowering production

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19
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What did hitler want to do

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Wanted to annex a German speaking area of Czechoslovakia

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How was he able to convince other continues to let him to do

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Appeasement

The Munich agreement gave hitler that section of land with no conflict w

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21
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Beginning of WW11 war

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Invasion of Poland

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Why did hitler want to invade Poland

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Wanted to regain Poland because it was taken away during the treaty of Versailles

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Invading Poland would put hitler in conflict with which country

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Soviet Union

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Non aggression pact

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Stalin signed agreement with hitler in which each side promised to not attack the other

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How was the non aggression pact broken

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Hitler attacked Poland anyway and Poland fell

France and Britain got involved

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26
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Causes of Pearl Harbor attack

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Japanese expansion interests
Us cut off trade w japan
Dutch East Indies campaign
FDR received word that japan would reject all us peace proposals

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27
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Date of Pearl Harbor

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Dec 7, 1941

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28
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What happened the day of Pearl Harbor

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Surprise attack by the imperial Japanese navy on battleships located in Hawaii

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What were the results of Pearl Harbor

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FDR declare war on japan on December 8
Germany and Italy declared war on the us dec 11
Shift in American foreign policy among citizens
Isolationism-wanted revenge on japan
Jap American internment camps

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30
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Problem with the jewish refugees during the holocaust

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No countries wanted to accept more

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31
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Hitlers invasion on the Soviet Union

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Created two different war fronts to fight, dividing up the German troops

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32
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Germans were conquering in the soviets but that changed when they trapped the Germans and cut off supplies. This forced Germany to retreat and go back

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Battle of Stalingrad

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33
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Biggest mistake japs made at Pearl Harbor

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Missed us supply of both submarines and aircraft carriers in the pacific

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34
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How did we counter that mistake at the battle of midway

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Japs lost multiple aircraft carriers and hundreds of planes.

Allies able to go back from island to island

35
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Dropped in Hiroshima

A

Little boy

36
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Dropped on Nagasaki

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Fatman

37
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Was little boy or fatman dropped first

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Little boy

38
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When did Japanese surrender

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After fat man was dropped

39
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Led a crusade against communism

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Joseph McCarthy

40
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Leader of the second red scare

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Joseph McCarthy

41
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How did McCarthy lost followers

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His accusations against members of the us army led to his downfall

42
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How was the country split in the Korean War

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Communist government created in the north

Americans supported government in the south

43
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Why did the us get involved in the Korea war

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Containment (contain communism) not liberation

44
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Macarthurs strategy during the Korean War

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Attack directly

Nuclear weapons

45
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Effects of the federal highway act

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Rise of suburbs
Roadside businesses
Commercial trucking

46
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Effects of TV

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More people stay home
Hurts hollywood movies
Reinforced general racial stereotypes

47
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Movement of the middle class families out of the cities and into the suburbs

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White flight

48
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White flight and it’s effects

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Tax revenues-city goes down->housing, school, and services fall apart
Urban renewals: tore down slums and built apartments

49
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Reasons for the baby boom

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Decreasing marriage age
Desirability of large families
Economic prosperity

50
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4 factors that led to Kennedy’s winning 1960 election

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Handsome. Has money. Civil rights issues. Has TV on his side.

51
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What did the great society consist of

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Medicare-old peeps

Medicaid-low income and disabled

52
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Tactics of Vietcong

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Ambushes, booby traps, hid in jungles and tunnels,blended in with population

53
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Search and destroy

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Destroy anything that had to do with them

54
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Us Tactics in Vietcong

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Na palm- jellied gas that explodes

Agent orange- chemical that strips leaves off trees

55
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College students protesting the invasion of Cambodia

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Kent state massacre

56
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Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

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Kent state massacre

57
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End of us involvement in Vietnam

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Signed the Paris peace accords with n Vietnam

58
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Vietnam war legacy

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N Vietnam broke peace treaty and took over, uniting Vietnam under communist rule

59
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Supreme Court case about segregated schools

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Brown v board of education

60
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Ruling in the brown vs board of education

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Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

61
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Successful city-wide peaceful protest of segregation and ruled it unconstitutional

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Montgomery bus boycott

62
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Nine African American students were allowed to enroll at an all white high school

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Little rock nine

63
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Ark governor ordered the state national guard to block the students from entering

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LRN

64
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Made segregation illegal in most public places. Required private employers to stop discrimination in the workplace

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Civil rights act of 1964

65
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Voter registration. Now controlled by the federal government and literacy tests were banned

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Voting rights of 1965

66
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An attempt to bring attention tot he horrible conditions of poor black areas in the cities

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The black power movement

67
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MLK believed in

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Nonviolence

68
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Believed that blacks should become part of the dominant white culture

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Stokely Carmichael

69
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Blacks should separate themselves, form self governing communities
Supported self defense, didn’t advocate violence

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Malcolm X

70
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Causes of the Great Depression

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Tariffs and war debt policies that cut down the foreign market for American goods
Crisis in the farm sector
Availability of easy credit
Unequal distribution of income

71
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Why were strikes unpopular

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Strikes linked to communism

Just got out of war and we didn’t need anymore fighting

72
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What were strikes linked to

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Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge became popular and to communism

73
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Effects of television on Vietnam war

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First war shown on TV

Caused many people to not support the war

74
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Supported the war

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Hawks

75
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Did not support the war

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Doves

76
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Commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Al during 1950s and 60s and in charge of policies and fire dept.

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Bull Connor

77
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Reason for our involvement in Vietnam

A

Containment of communism

78
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Why was Cuba a target of the us

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Declared themselves communist and welcomed aid from the Soviet Union. Also seized three American and British oil refineries

79
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Failure of what event was the reason for the increase in popularity of the black power movement

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The Chicago movement

80
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Supreme Court decision in brown v board of education

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Separate but equal

81
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TV did this

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Reinforce stereotypes of women and members of ethnic groups
Reinforce consumerism
Showed primarily white, middle class, suburban experience

82
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Reformed through president Johnson’s “ great society”

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Health care
Education
Civil rights
Welfare system

83
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The little rock crisis was a result of

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Desegregate the schools

84
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T or F The civil rights act of 1964 addressed segregation and voting rights

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False. Just segregation

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