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American History Flashcards

1
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Sensational reporting, in which writers often exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers

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Yellow Journalism

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Crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption

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Muckraker

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The right to vote

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Suffrage

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Laws banning the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol

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Prohibition

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The idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole

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Socialism

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Information used to affect public opinion; information designed to influence opinion

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Propaganda

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German submarines that attacked ships bound for Britain were called

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U-boats

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American soldiers during World War I were nicknamed

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Doughboys

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The economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weaker nations.

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Imperialism

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10
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Began the rebellion against the government of Cuba and it failed

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Jose Marti

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11
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Owned the New York Journal

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William Randolph Hearst

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Leader of Philippine troops that fought against the Spanish for the US- Filipino revolutionary leader

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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13
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He wrote “How the Other Half Lived”

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Jacob Riis

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14
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Governor of Wisconsin- made changes that led to the 17th Amendment

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Robert La Follette

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15
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First head of US Forestry Service

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Gifford Pinchot

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16
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Led the revolution that over threw tsar

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Vladimir Lenin

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17
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Anarchist accused, convicted and executed for murder

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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18
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Greatest baseball player that ever lived

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Babe Ruth

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19
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Taught evolution in Tennessee

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John Scopes

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20
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First solo flight across the Atlantic- Spirit of St. Louis

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Charles Lindbergh

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21
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Conservation- friend of Theodore Roosevelt- founded the Sierra Club

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John Muir

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22
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Ascended the Hawaiian throne

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Queen Liliuokalani

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23
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Headed the American Expeditionary Force

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John Pershing

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24
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Person who believes that there should be no government

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Anarchist

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25
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A temporary agreement to end fighting

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Armistice

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26
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Idea of Woodrow Wilson- meant to stop another war

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League of Nations

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27
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One of the causes of our entry into WWI

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Zimmerman Telegraph

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28
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Passenger ship that the Germans sank

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Lusitania

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29
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Organization who killed Arch Duke Ferdinand

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Black Hand

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30
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Policy under which all nations could trade with China

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Open Door Policy

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31
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Roosevelt’s foreign relations policy in which the US would speak softly but carry a big stick

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Big Stick Policy

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32
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Attempt by government official to make money by leasing land that had government oil reserves to private companies

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Teapot Dome

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33
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Rebellion in China to try and get foreigners out

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Boxer Rebellion

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34
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Gave women the right to vote

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19th Amendment

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35
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What amendment stated that the US Senators would be elected by popular vote/direct election of senators

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17th Amendment

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36
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Brought American steamships into the harbor of present day Tokyo; took a naval expedition to Japan to negotiate a trade treaty

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Mathew Perry

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37
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Build a canal across Panama

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Hay- Paunceforte Treaty

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38
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Led by Teddy Roosevelt and took the hills of Ole Santiago

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Rough Riders

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39
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It was blown up in harbor of Canvana

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U. S. S. Maine

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40
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Allowed us to pay income tax

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Underwood Tariff

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41
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The American Midwest during the Depression

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Dustbowl

42
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Where homeless people lived during the Depression

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Hoovervilles

43
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Lived in hobo jungles and road the rails

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Hobos

44
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When the bank takes your property bc you can’t pay for it

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Foreclosure

45
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President FDR’s radio chats with the American people

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Fireside chats

46
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Welded instead of riveted

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Liberty Ships

47
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Policy that was followed by European leader with Hitler until he attacked Poland- the giving into demands

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Appeasement

48
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Lightning war

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Blitzkrieg

49
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The killing of 6 million Jews and other minorities by the Germans

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Holocaust

50
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Paid back the cost plus a bonus if produced quickly

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Cost- plus system

51
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When cargo or passengers are escorted by battle ships

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Convoy System

52
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Lessening the amount of certain things that were available to support the war

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Rationing

53
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Dirt wall around a field

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Hedgerow

54
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Americans planted these to conserve good

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Victory Garden

55
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Last German offensive in WW2

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Battle of the Bulge

56
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Led the American 3rd army in North Africa and the Battle of the Bulge

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George Patton

57
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Supreme leader of the Allied forces in Europe

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Dwight Eisenhower

58
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Led the British forces in Europe and North Africa

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Bernard Montgomery

59
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Prime minister of Britain

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Winston Churchill

60
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Leader of Germany during WW2

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Adolf Hitler

61
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Leader of Italy during WW2

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Benito Mussolini

62
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Leader of Russia during WW2

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Joseph Stalin

63
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First woman in the cabinet

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Frances Perkins

64
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President during WW2- passed the New Deal

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FDR

65
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Executed for war crimes

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Hideki Tojo

66
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Led the group of scientist who helped build the bomb

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Robert Oppenheimer

67
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Head of Japanese navy

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Yamamoto

68
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Head of the land forced for the US in the Asian theater

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Douglas MacArthur

69
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Head of the naval forces in the US in the Asian theater

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Chester Nimitz

70
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Photographer during the Depression of the homeless

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Dorothea Lange

71
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Leader of the rebellion who overthrew Spain’s government

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Francisco Franco

72
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Desert fox

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Irwin Rommel

73
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A system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford which divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do

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Assembly line

74
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Buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest

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Margin

75
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President Harding’s secretary of the interior secretly allowed private interest to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves causing a scandal

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Teapot Dome

76
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A long period of rising stock prices

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Bull Market

77
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A period of falling stock prices

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Bear Market

78
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The day the stock market crashed

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Black Tuesday

79
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Veterans marched on Washington to receive their bonuses

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Bonus Army

80
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15 bills passed by FDR in his first 100 days in office

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New Deal

81
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Set up a benefit for the elderly and disabled

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Social Security Act

82
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Separated investment banks from commercial banks

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Glass-Stegall Act

83
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Anti communist- extreme authorian government

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Fascism

84
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Forced rejoining of German and Austria

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Anschluss

85
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One of the new political parties to ride during the political and economic chaos in Germany after WW1 was the socialist German workers party known as

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Nazi Party

86
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When Hitler tried to take over the government of Munich

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Beer Hall Putsch

87
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Written by Hitler when in prison- my struggle- ideas why Germany had problems

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Mein Kampf

88
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Destruction of Jewish business, a night of anti-Jewish violence

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Kristallnacht

89
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String of concrete bunkers built along the French/German border

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Maginot Line

90
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Took away citizenship from the Jews

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Nuremberg Laws

91
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Where the final solution was decided

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Wan see Conference

92
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Icon for the women on the war

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Rosie the Riveter

93
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Black pilots aka Red Tails

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Tuskegee Airmen

94
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Turning point of the war in Europe

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Stalingrad

95
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Code name for the invasion of France

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Operation Overlord

96
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To help farmers in the Southwest overcome the labor shortage, the government introduced

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Bracero Program

97
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Where the German people were tried for the crimes against humanity

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Nuremberg Trials

98
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Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb

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Enola Gay

99
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The city where the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan

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Hiroshima

100
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Japanese pilots deliberately crashing their planes into American ships, killing themselves

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Kamikaze

101
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Code name for the American program to build an atomic bomb

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ManHattan Project

102
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When 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to march 65 miles to a Japanese prison camp

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Bataan Death March

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