List Two ^ Flashcards
(10 cards)
Allies and Central Powers in WWI
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire the Central Powers fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Canada, Japan, and the United States the Allied Powers (Impact on Today) destroyed empires, created numerous new nation-states, encouraged independence movements in Europe’s colonies, forced the United States to become a world power and led directly to Soviet communism and the rise of Hitler
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary? His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I (Impact on Today)
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the “war to end all wars” because it set off a series of war declarations on numerous nations because of alliances that had been formed.
Calvin Coolidge as President
Calvin Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts of frugality amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying during the 1920s era. (Impact on Today) During his presidency, he restored public confidence in the White House after the many scandals of the Harding administration.
The Dust Bowl
Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices, and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to making the Dust Bowl. The seeds of the Dust Bowl may have been sowed during the early 1920s. (Impact on Today) he Dust Bowl had a catastrophic effect on crops where wheat and maize production in the USA plummeted by 36% and 48% during the 1930s.
The lost Generation
was the social generational cohort in the Western world that was in early adulthood during World War I. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900. The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s. (Impact on Today) made an impact on society because the writings that came out of this period showed the effects war has on people. War was a terrible thing that made men lose their masculinity, gave people a sense of disillusionment, and made people want to return to a simpler, idealistic past.
The people’s reaction to the Stock Market Crash
The crash frightened investors and consumers. Men and women lost their life savings, feared for their jobs, and worried whether they could pay their bills. Fear and uncertainty reduced purchases of big ticket items, like automobiles, that people bought with credit. (Impact on Today) The main cause of the Wall Street crash of 1929 was the long period of speculation that preceded it, during which millions of people invested their savings or borrowed money to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels.
Supreme Court Packing Plan
Members of both parties viewed the legislation as an attempt to stack the court, and many Democrats, including Vice President John Nance Garner, opposed it. The bill came to be known as Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan”, a phrase coined by Edward Rumely. In November 1936, Roosevelt won a sweeping re-election victory. (Impact on Today) It attempted to change the Supreme Court by adding an additional justice for any of its members who were older than 70.
The Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps. Almost 1000 aviators were produced as America’s first African American military pilots. (impact on today) The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps. Almost 1000 aviators were produced as America’s first African American military pilots.
The women in WWI
They served as stenographers, clerks, radio operators, messengers, truck drivers, ordnance workers, mechanics cryptographers and all other non-combat shore duty roles, free thousands of sailors to join the fleet. In all 11,272 Women joined the US Navy for the duration of the war. (Impact on Today) Women got the federal vote in three stages: the Military Voters Act of 1917 allowed nurses and women in the armed services to vote; the Wartime Election Act extended the vote to women who had husbands, sons or fathers serving overseas; and all women over 21 were allowed to vote as of January 1, 1919.
The Zimmerman Telegram
was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. With Germany’s aid, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. (Impact of Today) clearly had helped draw the United States into the war and thus changed the course of the war, which ended with an armistice, an agreement in which both sides agree to stop fighting, on November 11, 1918.
