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Social Studies Final Flashcards

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established trade between US and Japan; presented letter calling for Japan to grant trading rights to Americans

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Perry’s trip to Japan

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US bought Alaska; his purchase was looked at as a frozen wasteland

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Seward’s Folly

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Cleveland rejected a proposal to annex; argued vote had been illegal and was not supported by the people of the islands

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President Cleveland and the annexation of Hawaii

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Congress voted to make it a territory of the United States under McKinley

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vote to annex Hawaii

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wanted to guarantee the rights of all nations to guarantee the rights of China on an equal basis; helped protect the US right to trade with China

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The Open Door Policy

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sinking led to war between US and Spain, explosion, killed 260, Spain was blamed, one of the causes of the Spanish American war

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The Battleship Maine

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war between Spain and US, US declared war on Spain, 4/11/1898, nine days later Congress agreed, under McKinley

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Spanish American War

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Panama was Province of Columbia, Roosevelt wanted to give Columbia 10 MIL up front and 250K a year to rent and build Panama Canal

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Columbia and the Panama Canal

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gave US permanent use and control of the ten mile across the Isthmus

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the signing of the canal treaty

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Monroe asserts US will NOT permit European nations to interfere with the free nations of Latin America

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The Monroe Doctrine

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Taft policy protects US economic investments in Latin America and in other regions; urges US bankers to invest heavily in Latin America and Asia

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Dollar Diplomacy

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tensions erupt in Europe; imperialism, nationalism, militarism were all causes; competing for trade and territory in Africa Asia and the Pacific

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The start of WW1

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military defeats; food shortages, uprising, czar overthrown, new govt vows to keep Russia in war

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Russia in March 1917

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380,000 men, opportunities restricted, widespread racism, still encouraged by African civil rights leaders to support the war; only 10 percent were sent to combat

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African American troops in WW1

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headed to run new food administration, hoover had directed relief in Belgium, now job to assure adequate food supply for civilians and troops

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Herbert Hoover in WW1

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encouraged to spy on your neighbors; opened mail, tapped phones, pry into medical records

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American Protection League

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SHe had a victory garden which was part of something Hoover urged. Garden was on WHite House Lawn

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President’s Wilson’s wife

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American troops in Europe

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The American Expeditionary Force

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Germans pulled back from Paris France, at first they continued to fight despite lots of losses over 800k

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Germans reaction to American troops joining the war

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prevent future wares

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Wilson’s goal at the peace conference in Paris

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21
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the big 4, France, Britain, Italy and US

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Paris Peace Conference - countries involved

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toward the end of the war, troop movements contributed to worldwide epidemic, killed more people than 4 years of war

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influenza

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soldiers came home to seek jobs, prices rising, stiff resistance management to unions, led to strikes

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soldiers returning from the war

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devotion to the interests of one’s own country; pride in one’s nation or ethnic group

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nationalism

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government took stern meaures to suppress criticism of the war; under acts closed newspapers and jailed individuals for expressing anti war moves

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espionage and sedition acts

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under Lenin, seized govt in 1917 wanted to set Russia on Road to COmmunism

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Bolsheviks

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27
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made alliance with France, fought to push Germany out of France

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How the US got involved in WW1

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France, Britain, Russia

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WW1 the three top European allies

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Wilson’s idealistic plan to prevent future wars, first five points dealt with factor that had led to war, the 6th thru 13th dealt wih territorial issues from war, the 14th and most important set up international organization and associatin of neighbors to guarantee world peace

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Wilson’s 14 points

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Technological advances made the war more lethal biplanes flew overhead and observed battleground and airplanes had machine guns and engaged in 1 on 1 dog fights

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Airplanes in WW1

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biggest scandal settled o Teapot DOme Wyoming a govt pwned oil reserve; rep secretly leased land and reserve in return for bribe; FZall was sentenced and sent to prison

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Teapot Dome

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post war economy had rebounded; economy roared

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American Economy in the mid 1920’s

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Coolidge sent troops to represent American business interests there in 1926 - property, lives, interest

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Coolidge and Nicaragua

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new limits do not apply to people from the Americas, limited immigration into the US; limited numbers admitted from Eastern and Southern Europe; completely prohibited immigration from Asia

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1920s Immigration laws

35
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prohibited making selling transporting of alcohol

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18th Amendment

36
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total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

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Prohibition

37
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reduced time in makin cars from 12 to 1; middle class families could now afford to buy a car since prices dropped

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THe assembly line

38
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buying on credit

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Installment buying

39
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more people chose to invest; people could afford, more money in, prices kept rising, called a bull market

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booming stock market in the 1920s

40
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during this scare, thousands of anarchists and communists/reds were arrested, deported and expelled

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red scare

41
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two italian immigrants arrested and charged with robbing and murdering two payroll in Massachusetts; little evidence was presented; prosecution focused on that they were foreigners and anarchists; they were convicted and executed.

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sacco and vanzetti

42
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a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage

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Herbert hoover campaign slogan

43
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caused by the stock market crash in 10/29/29 known as Black Tuesday. It was a 12 year economic and social disaster

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The Great Depression

44
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in june 1932 a protest began that will seal president’s fate; bonus of 100 for every veteran; was not supposed to be paid til 1945 angry vets demanded pay now; 20k veterans marched and camped out; 2k remained in tents and abandoned buildings; tear gas and tanks used; killed 1 vet injured 100 and left tent city in ruin; americans were outraged at the firing on unarmed vets

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Bonus Army

45
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FDR vs Hoover. FDR won

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1932 presidential election

46
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advisors to FDR during his administration, this brain trust speech writer (Rosenman) suggested Academic team to advise in 1932 Columbia Law professors helped shape the policies of the first New Deal

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brain trust

47
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federal deposit insurance corporation created in 1933 to protect bank depositors

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FDIC

48
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support for needy, retiree pension, support for needy children under FDR in 1935 because of suffering through no fault of their own

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Social security

49
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war quickly ended it; jobs opened up in factories even for minority workers

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end of the great depression

50
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October 29, 1929 the day the stock market crashed

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black Tuesday

51
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He declared a bank holiday

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Roosevelt and the day after he was inaugurated

52
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had been hit hard; suffered more from homelessness, illness, hunger

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African Americans and the Great Depression

53
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tents because no one could afford homes, shanty towns built by homeless people named after the president and who they blamed for it

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Homerville AKA Hooverville

54
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germany

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Who paid reparations after WW1

55
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signed a nonaggression pact at he beginning of ww2

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hitler and stalin

56
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Germany decided to invade the soviet union and then the soviets joined Britain in fighting after Germany joined the fighting

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Germany and the soviet union

57
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tide began to turn with the historic naval battle in the Pacific; American and Japanese navies wage new warfare; lanes began taking off decks and attack ships form miles away

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the coral sea and the Midway

58
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Truman dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagaski

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atomic bombs

59
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Germany invaded Poland and france, Britain decided to intervene

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how did ww11 start

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leader of Russia; signed nonaggression pact with hitler; when hitler broke it he joined forces with allied

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josef stalin

61
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a day that will live in infamy; pearl harbor; japan attacks on US soil

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december 7 1941

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holocaust

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“final solution to the Jewish problem”

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difference among war time allies; churchill, stalin, rosevelt, stalin promised to hold free elections in the parts under his control, Truman tried to stop expansion of communism. communist led revolt broke out in Greece, soviets started to threaten turkey

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Cold war beginnings

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provided funds for a vast system of freeways to link all parts of the UNited States

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interstate highway act

65
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N Korea was trying to invade s korea and make it one whole communist country

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Korean war

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macarthur said we could win in korea onl if we fought in china and bombed ther supply bases; Truman was more cautious and thought this would start a whole new world war

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truman and macarthur

67
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10/1957 soviet launched sputnik started race between US and soviet union

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first human made satellite

68
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north korea and south korea set up this to separate the two area from which military forces are prohibited

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demilitarized zone

69
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In the South, these laws separated races in schools theaters, restaurants, transportation

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Jim crow laws

70
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Rosa Parks not moving from her seat

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Montgomery bus boycott

71
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Banned discrimination in employment and public facilities

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The civil rights act of 1964

72
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missile treaty signed by Nixon and Soviet leaders

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SALT

73
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Ford became president as a result of Nixon resigning because of the Watergate scandal

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President Ford and WAtergate

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Vietnam declared independence from France after WW2

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Vietnam and France

75
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CHemical weapons used in Vietnam

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Napalm and Agent Orange

76
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US bombed in an effort to pressure North Vietnam in negotiating peace

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United States and Cambodia

77
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Nixon won against Humphrey

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1968 Presidential Election

78
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South Vietnam surrendered after the loss of Saigon

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Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war

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