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USS Maine

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Sent to Havana, explodes, killing 260 American soldiers

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Imperialistic

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People who want to control the govt’s and recourses of those nations

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The progressive movement

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Focused on urban problems, govt, and business

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Progressive Education

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Schools wanted to teach good character and citizenship, not just facts

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Music and leisure

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Ragtime and jazz, nickelodeons, vaudville

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Vaudeville

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Variety shows with singing, and dancing

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Theodore Roosevelt

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26th pres, a progressive and a trust buster

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William H. Taft

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27 pres, became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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Woodrow Wilson

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28th pres, throughout WW1

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Henry Ford

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Designed Model T

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Wright Bros.

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First controlled flight

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Carl Marx

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Father of modern socialism

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Archduke Ferdinand

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Heir to the throne, his wife softie is killed with unborn child

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Allied powers

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Russia, France, England, USA

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Central powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

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Trench warfare

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Fighting in ditches protected by barbed wire

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Vladimir Lenin

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Becomes the first dictator if Russia, leads Bolshevik Revolution

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Lusitania

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Sank off the coast of Ireland. 1,200 passengers killed 128 Americans

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Zimmerman Note

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Germany alliance with Mexico will receive the territory

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Doughboys

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American infantry men with big buttons in the uniforms

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The Great War ends

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11/11@11:00 1918 war to end all wars

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Wilsons 14th point

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A plan towards world peace, called for a League of Nations

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Treaty of Versailles

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Forced Germany to claim responsibility for the war, loses land claims, $33million in reparation

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Influenza

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World epidemic spreads killing 25 million ppl

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The red scare
Btwn 1919-1920 the fear of communism was the USA
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18th amendment
Prohibitation of the consumption, and distributation of alcohol
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19th amendment
WOMEN VOTE
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20s culture
The Charleston: dance started in 1913 became popular Jazz introduced: duke Ellington/ Louis Armstrong Speakeasies: underground saloons
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Literature and poets
Known as the lost generation, the great gatsby
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Organized crime
Al Capone...public enemy #1, arrested for failing to pay his income Tax
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Scopes trial
John scopes taught evolution, "monkey trial"
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Warren G. Harding
29 pres, died in SF
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Calvin Coolidge
30 pres, Indian citizenship act
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Charles Lindbergh
Flew first nonstop transatlantic flight in the spirit of st Luis
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Black Tuesday
Stock market crashes, everyone crashes, over production
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Herbert Hoover
31 pres blamed for grape at depression
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Dust bowl
1930 severe drought, windstorms create dust clouds
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FDR
32 pres, polio, the new deal for economic recovery
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The new deal
FDRS plan for economic recovery thru the fed govt many ideas to solve the economic crisis
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Alphabet agencies
They would bring relief, recovery, and reform
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21st amendment
Alcohol is now legal
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Amelia Earhart
First woman pilot to fly across Atlantic, plane vanished while flying around the world
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Zeppelin explodes
1937 a German airship explodes in New Jersey killing 36 people
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Adolph Hitler
Became the Ferhur of Germany, believed in master race
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Arie powers
Germany:Hitler Italy: Benito Mussolini Japan: Hirohito
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World war 2 begins
Sept 1,1939 Germany invades Poland | Blitzkreig: Lightning war
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Operation sea lion
Battle of Britain, Germany bombards factories and airships south of London
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Joseph Stallin
Dictator of Russia, led by terror
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Dec 7, 1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Allied powers
USA, France, Great Britain, Soviet Union, China
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Rosie the riveter
Women who worked in the factories
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Japanese internment camps
120,000 Japanese Americans are put in these camps along the coast
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Deaths
6 mil Jews 2/3 of the Jew pop
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GI's
Nickname for the soldier "govt issue"
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Operation overlord
June 6, 1944 D-day, the longest day, invasion of Normandy
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V-E day
May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders, victory in Europe day
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Harry S. Truman
33 pres, gave the order to drop the bomb
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V-J day
Signed the documents on sept 2, on the battleship Missouri, world war 2 is over

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