Test Review 2 Flashcards
(31 cards)
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Charlie Chaplin
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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)
- English comic actor/filmaker during the Silent Era of films
- Rose in popularity under the screen persona “The Tramp”
- Considered one of the most important figures in the film industry
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The Passing of the Great Race (????)
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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)
Year: 1916
- Published in 1916
- Written by eugenicist Madison Grant
- Grant argued that the white race was commiting race suicide by mixing with “lesser stock”
- Pseudo-science based of racism
- Very popular in its time
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Madison Grant
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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)
- Lawyer known for his work as a eugencist and conservationist
- As a conservationist he his credited with saving many species of animals
- Known primarily for his works on scienfic racism
- Played an active role in immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws
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National Origins Act (????)
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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)
Year: 1924
- This legislation was introduced to cut-off immigration to the US from southern and eastern Europe
- The act said that US could allow a certain percentage of immigrants fro certain countries, but this was based on the census of 1890
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“New Woman”
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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)
- Signature style was the “flapper”
- They wore make-up, wore short hair, drank alcohol in public and many smoked cigarettes
- Also had new attitudes about sex
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National Banking Act (????)
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Rise of the New Deal Order
Year: 1936
- Established a system of national banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System
- They encouraged development of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- Comptroller was authorized to examine and regulate nationally chartered banks
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Civilian Conservation Corp (????)
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Rise of the New Deal Order
Year: 1933
- Program hired jobless young men
- These young men worked on reforestation, road construction, and flood control projects
- The CCC was also used to perserve National Parks
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (????)
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Rise of the New Deal Order
Year: 1933
- Allowed the president to set parity prices (the lowest price that something could be sold for)
- People were also paid to reduce acreage, and not grow a certain amount of crops
- This practice was used to avoid a surplus and not affect the cost of crops
- This act didnt necesarrily help everyone.
- migrant workers and domestic workers
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Tennessee Valley Authority (????)
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Rise of the New Deal Order
Year: 1933
- Created an independent public corporation to construct dams and power projects
- One of the main things that it did was to modernize the rural south
- One way that the TVA modernized the South was by bringing electricity to the region
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National Industrial Recovery Act (????)
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Rise of the New Deal Order
Year: 1933
- Program that manipulated the economy in a number of ways
- This “tinkering” with the economy was done to stimulate it
- The NIRA did public works projects on roads and schools. A great deal of money was spent on such projects
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Works Progress Administration (????)
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Rise of the New Deal Order
Year: 1935
- Put unemployed men and women to work on projects proposed by local governments
- This project expanded on what began in 1933
- This program employed more than 8 million people on various public works projects
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Social Security Act (????
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Rise of the New Deal Order
Year: 1935
- Established unemployent compensation and old-age insurance
- One could get Social Security at retirement age
- Children could get benefits from a deceased parent until the children reached the age of 18
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Executive Order 9066
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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II
- Issued on Feb 19, 1942, this order authorized the removal of more than 110,000 Japanese from “exclusion zones”
- 70,000 were US citizens
- Japanese were interned in camps in Washing, Oregon, and California
- These were mostly temporary
- Permant camps were in places like Utah, Wyoming, and Arizona
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“Yellow Peril”
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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II
- Theory that Japanese were a danger to the rest of the world
- Fear they would take over US jobs and wages
- They would rape white women
- Destroy western civilization by replacing way of life and values
- Belief East Asians would attack and eradicate western civilizations
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Issei
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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II
- First generation japanese immigrants to the US
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Internment Camp
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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II
- Concentration camps that were used to hold people of japanese descant in America
- Held about 127,000 people
- Temporary camps were used to people until permanent camps were constructed
- Usually stables and small building
- About 2/3 of those held were Nisei
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Nisei
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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II
- Second generation of Japanese immigrants
- Put in interment camps with their families after Executive Order 9066
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Yoshika Uchido
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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II
- Author of Desert Exile
- A book about her experience as an interened Japanese American
- She describes being taken to Tanforan racetrack in San Bruno, CA with her mother and sister
- Her father was removed before the rest of the family adn sent to another camp
- Later she and her mother and sister were taken to a permanent camp in Topaz, Utah.
- Here she taught 2nd grade
- She and her family remained at the camp until they were released in 1943
- She was reunited with her father here
- Went on to New York for graduate school
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Munich Analogy
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The Expansion of the Cold War
- Analogy against weakness in foreign policy
- Used by US government to warn the public of the inherent dangers of appeasing aggressors
- “Don’t negotiate with Terrorists”
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George Kennan
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The Expansion of the Cold War
- US diplomat to the Soviet Union, and he was considered its foremost expert
- He spoke Russian fluently
- He wrote the *Long Telegram * and signed *X *
- This essay about containment appeared in Foreign Policy magazine
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Long Telegram
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The Expansion of the Cold War
- The USSR perceived itself at perpetual war with capitalism;
- The USSR viewed left-wing, but non-communist, groups in other countries as an even worse enemy of itself than the capitalist ones;
- The USSR would use controllable Marxists in the capitalist world as allies;
- Soviet aggression was fundamentally not aligned with the views of the Russian people or with economic reality, but rooted in historic
- Russian nationalism and neurosis;
The Soviet government’s structure exhibited objective or accurate pictures of internal and external reality.
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Truman Doctrine (????)
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The Expansion of the Cold War
Year: 1947
- Truman introduced the concept of containment which is also known as the Truman Doctrine
- In his address to congress he did not use the word containment, but did explain how the US should work to keep communism form expanding
- First major test of conatinment was the Korean War
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Massive Retaliation
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The Expansion of the Cold War
- The idea that one country would not be so quick to attack another country if it thinks it will be attacked with atomic bombs
- This dominated the course of the arms race
- Massive Retalliantion is one idea that kept teh US and USSR from firing atomic bombs during the Cold War
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Atomic Energy Commission
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The Expansion of the Cold War
Year: 1946
- Organization that took control of the “Manhattan Project”
- This organization kept control over all infromation about nuclear energy
- Also decided what information could be provided to the public about atomic energy
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House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The Expansion of the Cold War
* Created to find communist Americans
* Labeled people who refused to comply or hesitated answering questions as "red"
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John Maynard Keynes
American Culture And Family in the 1950s
* British economist whose ideas have greatly affected the theory and practice of macroeconomics
* Decison making of an economy as a whole (region, national, global)
* Considered one of the founders of modern economics
* Ideas are the basis of Keynesian Economics
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Keynesian Economics
American Culture And Family in the 1950s
* Economic output is greatly influenced by aggregate demand, total spending of the economy.
* This aggregate demand doesn't equal the total productivity capacity of the economy
* instead affected by numerous conditons that affect employment, production, and inflation
* Ideas to solve the Great depression
* A reduction in interest rates (monetary policy)
* Government investment in infrastructure (fiscal policy)
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Levittown
American Culture And Family in the 1950s
* First mass produced suburbs
* Considered the archetype of post war suburbia
* William Levit considered the father of modern suburbia in the US
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Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
American Culture And Family in the 1950s
(G. I. Bill 1947)
* Bill that gave a vareity of benefits to returning WWII veterans
* low-cost mortgage, low interest on startup businesses, cash payments for tution and living expenses for school, one year of unemployment wages
* Created the middle class, but furthered the race gap
* many soldiers of color were not given GI benefits
* Helped sped economic growth in the US after the war
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Federal Highway Act (????)
American Culture And Family in the 1950s
Year: 1956
* Plan to build an interstate highway
* Covered over 41,000 miles
* Biggest government project at its time
* Used for defense in case of an attack military troops could easily tranverse the country
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Rebel Without a Cause (????)
American Culture And Family in the 1950s
Year: 1955
* Film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers
* The film was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth, critique parental style, and explore thedifferences and conflicts between generations
