Final Exam Flashcards
(153 cards)
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Populism
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Farmers seeking reforms
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Musckrakers
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Journalists exposed govt.
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Upton Sinclair
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The Jungle; exposed meat packing industry; Meat Inspection Act
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Ida Tarbell
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Exposed Rockefeller
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Socialism
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Women rights
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Eugene V. Debs
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ARU (American Railway Union
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McKinley
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Assassinated by anarchist
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Square deal; National Park Conservation; Big Stick Diplomacy; mediated coal strike; trust regulator
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Taft
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Trust buster; not really liked; Dollar Diplomacy; split republic; sided with Cannon
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Joseph Cannon
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Conservative
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Election of 1912
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Roosevelt (vamoos)! Taft (republican) vs. Wilson (democrat). Wilson won.
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16th amendment
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Income tax
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17th amendment
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Direct election of senate
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18th amendment
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Prohibition
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19th amendment
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Women’s suffrage
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Triple entente
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Britain, France, Russia
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Allies:
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Italy, _____ , _____
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Central powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Stalemate
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Dead block; not moving anywhere
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Reparation
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War payments made by defeated nation
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Trench warfare
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WWI
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Schliffen Plan
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Dead eating two fronts (France and Russia)
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Selective Service Act
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Hoover; WWI;
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Herbert Hoover
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Food administration
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League of Nations
Never joined by U.S.
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Treaty of Versailles
Ended WWI; signed by big four- France, Brit, U.S., Italy
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Big four
France, Italy, U.S., Italy
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Ho Chi Minh
Leader of french colony
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Underwood Tariff
Longest tariff
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Ku Klux Klan
Racist group; everyone escort whites who are protestant
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Bloc
Voting together
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Charged with murder; Italian immigrants
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Washington Naval Conference
Reduce evil arts
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Warren G. Harding
Pres. of 1920s; many scandals (ten pot dome)
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Andrew Mellon
Sec. of Treasury for Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
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Charles Evans Hughes
Sec. Of State
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Albert B. Fall
Sec. of interior (indicted in teapot scandal)
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer raid; arrested
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Herbert Hoover
Great Repression blame
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God Neighbor Policy
Foreign Policy; Hoover (FDR get credit)
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Red Scare
Fear of communism
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Uneven distribution of income causes
Easy credit
| Buying on margin
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Bonus army
WWI veterans
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Rugged individualism
Hoover's philosophy; pick yourself up
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 terms; democrat; preserved New Deal to
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Brain trust
Smart people in office
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Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC; young men
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National Industry Recovery Act
Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court
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Social Security Act
Elderly
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
Unconstitutional pay farmers to not do so much
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Electricity for rural communities
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Court Packing Bill
Of you're old, add additional judge or replace them
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Huey Long
Governor of Louisiana; assassinated
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Charles Coughlin
Catholic priest; had radio show
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Sudetenland
In chekoslovokia
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Nuremberg Trials
Stripped Jews of rights
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Manchuria
Japan attacked (for resources)
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Axis Powers
Italy, Germany, Japan
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Neville Chamberlin
British Prime Minister before 1940
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Appeasement
Avoid war
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Winston Churchill
Prime minster after 1940
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Francisco Franco
Spanish fascist dictator
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Josef Stalin
Former Premier of Soviet Union
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Benito Missolini
Italian; leader of National Fascist Party
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Facism
Totalitarian state; dictators
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Sitzkrieg
Phony war; winter illusion
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Blitzkrieg
"Lightning war"
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Erwin Rommel
Desert Fox; German General
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Big Three
Stalin, Churchill, FDR
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Atlantic Charter
After Woodrow Wilson; self-determination
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Office of Price Administration
WWII; control consumer prices to avoid inflation
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Manhattan Project
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Issei
1st generation
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Nissei
2nd generation
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Kamikazes
Suicidal pilots
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Hirohito
Emperor of Japan;
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Pacific theater; island hopping
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
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Nagasaki
2nd city bombed; japanese surrendered here
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Truman
Authorized bombing
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V-E Day
Victory
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V-J Day
Victory in Japan
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D-Day
WWII; allied forces invaded northern France through Normandy
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Cold War
Not real war; constant fighting
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GI Bill
Five assistance to veterans
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1948 presidential election
Truman won (against Dewey)
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NATO
U.S. and F___
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Warsaw Pact
USSR
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Truman Doctrine
Fight communism
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Marshall Plan
European recovery program
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Korean War
North attacked first!
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Joseph McCarthy
Everyone's a communist
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Douglas MacArthur
Fired because criticized Truman's war policy
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Satellite Nations
USSR watching
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Dynamic Conservatism
Eisenhower
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Mao Zedong
Communist China
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John Foster Dulles
Sec. of State under Eisenhower
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Massive Retaliation
Nuclear weapons; brinkmanship
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Gama Abdel Nasser
Egyptian leader; Suez Canal Crisis
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Eisenhower Doctrine
Fight communism in Middle East
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Eggheads
Out of touch with common people, but are book smart
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Levittown
Massive suburban housing
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Beatniks
Pre-hippies
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Brown v. Board of Education
Reserved Plessy v. Ferguson
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Malcolm X
Back power
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Governor Ross Barnett and George Wallace
Symbols of racism; blocked entrance of schools
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March on Washington
Passage of south
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JFK
New Frontier; space programs; economic aid to Latin American countries
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Bay of Pigs
Sent cuban exiles; failed
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Fidel Castro
Cuban dictator
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Berlin Wall
Separated east and west; U.S. for west.
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Alger Hiss
Accused of being spy
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Great Society
LBJ; war on poverty and social rights
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Assassinated JFK
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Lyndon Johnson
Veteran; Great Society; Civil Rights Act
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Voting Rights Act 1965
No poll tax
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Dien Bien Phu
North Vietnamese took over
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Geneva Accords
North and South Vietnam
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Hi Chi Minh
Leader of North Vietnam
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Leader of South Vietnam
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17th parrallel
Divided Vietnam
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Domino Theory
One country becomes Communist, it will spread
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
LBJ decided to send more forces; U.S. needed excuse to go to war
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Search and Destroy Missions
Tactic. Search and destroy Viet Congs
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Viet Congs
Vietnamese who aided ?????
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Delayed Stress Syndrome
PTSD
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Nixon Policy
Vietnamization
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1968
Everything bad; King assassinated; Bobby Kennedy assassinated; U.S. televised being terrible.
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Richard Nixon
Republican
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Deficit Spending
Spending more than getting
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Realpolitik
Dr. Henry Kissinger
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SALT
U.S. And USSR signed it
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Pentagon Papers
Important, private info about war; Nixon paranoid
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Spiro Agnew
VP to Nixon; got caught for extortion & bribery; appointed Ford
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George Wallace
Wanted to become president, but shot
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Ford
Pardoned Nixon; people angry
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Stagflation
Stagnant economy; WHIP
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ERA
Equal Rights Amendment for men and women
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Carter
President
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Panama Canal
Given back to Egypt
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OPEC
Trade embargo
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Camp David Accords
Greatest accomplishment; Ford; Peace between Egypt and Israel
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Ronald Reagan
Moral majority
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George Bush
Up to Reagan
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Reagonomics
Giving tax advance to wealthy
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Moral Majority
Christian group
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Geraldine Ferraro
First to email to run to become president
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AIDS
Big issue; Gays suffered
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Premier; glasnost
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Sandra Day O' Connor
First female Supreme Court Justice
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INF
Immediate Nuclear Force
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Progressive movement
Reform progress; Woodrow Wilson: Teddy; Taft
