Everything Flashcards

(62 cards)

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The Second KKK

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White Anglo-Saxon protestant (wasp)
100% Americanism
1915 reemerges
Prominent in north and west
Anti-Catholic and antisemitic

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1921 immigration

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Temporary immigration restriction law (357,000 per year)

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1924 immigration

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Permanent immigration restriction law (150,000 per year)

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1920s immigration

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Unequal distribution of restricted immigrants
Racial hierarchy

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Horace Kallen

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Cultural pluralism

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Harlem

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The great migration
Capital of black America
Widespread poverty

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The Harlem Renaissance

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Vibrant, black, cultural community
Black values and black experience
Theme of protest

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President during economic crash

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Herbert Hoover

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October 21, 1929

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Golden anniversary of the festival of light

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October 24, 1929

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Black Thursday

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Cause of economic crash

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Heavy investment into the margin
80% of Rockefeller Fortune disappears

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1932 economic crash

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Economy hits rock bottom

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1932 reconstruction financial corporation

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14
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The new deal

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Created by FDR

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Banking crisis during the depression

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Bank holiday
Emergency banking act
Glass steagall act

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New agencies during the depression

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National industrial recovery act
National recovery administration
Civilian conservation Corps
Public works administration
Civil works administration
Agricultural adjustment act

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17
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The dust bowl

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1935 Supreme Court

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Supreme Court begins to invalidate the new deal

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American Federation of labor

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Organized unions

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20
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Congress of industrial organization

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Organized unions

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December 1936 strike

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UAW, sit down strike
Worker stay in buildings to stop production

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The second new deal

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Focus on economic security

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Work progress administration (WPA)

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Built roads, airports, pools, pest control, and other public services

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Other acts from the second new deal

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Wagner act
Social Security act

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1936 Roosevelt proposes change to the Supreme Court, but Congress rejects it.
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1937 new deal loses momentum, severe economic downturn, Keynesianism
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Only two major democratic states in Europe during 1939
Great Britain and France
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Totalitarianism
Requires loyalty and commitment of citizens to the regime goals
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Benito Mussolini
Opportunistic path to power, joins socialist party, but kicked out due to supporting intervention in World War I, gains power in 1923, institutional framework for fascist dictatorship by 1926
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Weimar republic
Disaster leaders not in favor of republic
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1919 fascism Germany
Hitler begins political career
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Nazi as in Germany 1933
Hitler appointed Chancellor and by fall Nazi party in control
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1942-1943
North African campaign Battle of the Atlantic Invasion of Sicily
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June 6, 1944
D-Day
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Industrialization during World War II in the United States
Unemployment down, production up Massive government spending Sells war bonds
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1944 women make up 1/3 of civilian labor force
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World War II a catalyst for change of black status
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Over 1 million black Americans served in the Armed Forces during World War II
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December 1944
Battle of the bulge
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March 8, 1945
V— E day
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The United States came out of World War II as the world’s greatest power. It had 50% of the world’s manufacturing capacity. Most powerful Navy and Air Force also had the atomic bomb.
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The US and the USSR quickly at odds after World War II
1946 long telegram, Iron Curtain
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Truman doctrine
Containment is the protector of freedom, the US must defend the free world
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Truman puts containment into effect by supporting Greece and Turkey
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Containment also entailed, economic recovery abroad
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The Marshall plan
One of the most successful foreign aid programs in history
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Reconstruction of Japan
MacArthur supreme Commander of Japan New constitution with one article stating no more war
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Germany divided by allies in World War II
New currencies issued Stalin cuts off Berlin 11 month air lift to provide supplies to other side of Berlin Germany split into two
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1949 Soviet Union successfully test and atomic bomb and NATO is formed
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CIA in Jackson Pollock
Uncontrolled expression in art, unlike the USSR
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October 1947 commission on civil rights February 1948 civil rights program presented to Congress, Congress did not approve July 1948, Truman desegregates military
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McCarthy took advantage of the anti-communist atmosphere to gain power
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Mai Zedong takes control of China 1949
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Korea was occupied by Japan during World War II
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June 1950 North Korea invades South Korea
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Where did the Korean war first stabilize?
38th parallel
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A peace conference in Geneva split Vietnam into northern and southern sections
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NAACP begins challenging separate but equal and segregation itself
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December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks refuse to move to the back of the bus
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Montgomery bus boycott
Hundreds of blacks gathering local church and vowed to refuse rides in the bus