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1
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Bolshevik Revolution

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communists come into power. 1917

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2
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Red Scare

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WS bomb, deportation, response to B revolution

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3
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Mitchell Palmer

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Quaker rounds up 6,000 people to question

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Criminal Syndicalism Laws

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Outlawed violence for social change

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American Plan

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Laborers call for all union shops

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Nicola Vanzetti

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victim of nativists, Italian anarchists, atheists and draft dodgers

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7
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Bible Belt

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Southern belt supported by Klan

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Emergency Quota Act of 1921

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Races given quota for acceptance into US

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9
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Horace Kallen

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defends melting pot of culture, “pluralism

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10
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Randolph Bourne

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wanted mixing between races

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11
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18th Amendment

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Prohibiton

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12
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Volstead Act

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enforces 18t ammendment

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13
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Gangsterism

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illegal selling alcohol gets huge monies

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14
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Al Capone

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got all kinds of monies from gangsterism

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15
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St. Valentine’s Fay 1929

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7 members of a rival gang killed

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16
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Racketeers

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Extorted people with threat of breaking stuff

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17
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Charles A. Lindbergh

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aviator hero, American first

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18
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Fundamentalism

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reconciling religious ideals

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19
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Scopes Monkey Trial

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Teacher chastized for teaching evolution

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20
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Consumer Economy

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Buying on credit, people buy not for need, for consumerism

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21
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Frederick W. Taylor

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Scientific management, emphasized stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance

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22
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Henry Ford

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assembly line, created Model T

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23
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Fordism

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mass production assembly line

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24
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United Negro Improvement Association

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Marcus Garvey, wants to retake Africa

25
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Sigmund Freud

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Oedipus Complex

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Harlem Renaissance

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Langston Hughes and shhhitt

27
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H.L Mencken

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Bad Boy of Baltimore writer

28
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Fitzgerald

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exemplified lost generation

29
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Theodore Dreiser

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American tragedy, pitfalls of social climbing

30
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Ernest Hemingway

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wrote fiction books, explored human soul

31
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T.S Elliot

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Wrote the Wasteland

32
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Bull Market

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speculation ,banks failing, tariffs

33
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Warren G. Harding

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Inherited predicament

34
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Adkins v. Childrens Hospital

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Supreme court makes unions back peddle

35
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Nine Power Treaty

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keeps open door policy in China alive

36
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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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defensive war permitted, Calvin Coolidge signs

37
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Fordney McCumber Tariff Law

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boosts tariff to 38.5%, economic warfare

38
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Teapot Dome Scandal

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shows corruption

39
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Calvin Coolidge

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takes Harding’s spot, wants to reduce taxes and debts, isolationist

40
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McNary-Haugen Bill

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wanted to keep agricultural prices high by selling excess abroad, vetoed

41
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Dawes Plan

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creates plan to settle European indebtness

42
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Agricultural Marketing Act

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money sent to farm organization to sell agricultural surpluses

43
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Frances Perkins

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Burst through gender barrier

44
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Good neighbor policy

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refreshes relations with Latin America

45
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Johnson Debt Default Act

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prevented debt dodging nations from borrowing further from the USA

46
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Lend Lease

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lends allies munitions and shhhiittt

47
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Atlantic Charter

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8 point program for a democratic world

48
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Wilkie

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republican rep in 1940 against FDR

49
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ABC-1 Agreements

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Allie’s plan

50
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Executive Order No. 9066

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Japanes qurantine in states

51
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Office of Price Administration

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kept prices low

52
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Smit-Connally Anti Strike Act

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imposed ceilings on wage increases

53
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Women organization

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WAACS, WAVES, SPARs

54
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Bracero Program

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recruits beaners

55
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Fair Employment Practices Commission

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threatened black march on Washington

56
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Leyte Gulf

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MacArthur Battle, wins 3 battles

57
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Atlantic Campain

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enigma cracked

58
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Casablanca

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Italian campaign begins

59
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Potsdam Conference

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Big 3 meet to discuss end of Japan

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