APUSH Period 7: 1890-1945 Flashcards

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Spanish American War

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1898

conflict between US and Spain, because of US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence

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Closing the Frontier

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Progressive Era

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1890-1920
eliminating corruption in the government, taking down political machines, regulation of monopolies and corporations through anti-trust laws.

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Harlem Renaissance

“New Negro Movement”

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1920s

rebirth of African American Arts.

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World War I

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1914-1918

Imperialism

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Treaty of Versailles

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Peace Treaty at the end of WWI ended state of war between Germany and allied powers

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League of Nations

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Organization whose main purpose it to maintain world peace.

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Japanese Interment

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Relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps during WWII.

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Great Migration

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1910-1970

Movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern states to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.

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Red Scare

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promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism in the US.

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Great Depression

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1929-1939

Bad economy

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New Deal

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1933-1938

domestic programs, FDR, in response to the great depression. Relief, Recovery, Reform.

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Immigration Act

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1924

limited annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2%

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World War II

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1939-1945

total war, imperialism.

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Roosevelt Corollary

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1904
Extension of Monroe Doctrine, asserted a right to intervene in Central American and Caribbean countries is they couldn’t pay back debts

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