1920's and WWII Flashcards

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Bolshevik Revolution

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communists come into power. 1917

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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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4
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Criminal Syndicalism Laws

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Outlawed violence for social change

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5
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American Plan

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Laborers call for all union shops

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6
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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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8
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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

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Sigmund Freud
Oedipus Complex
26
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes and shhhitt
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H.L Mencken
Bad Boy of Baltimore writer
28
Fitzgerald
exemplified lost generation
29
Theodore Dreiser
American tragedy, pitfalls of social climbing
30
Ernest Hemingway
wrote fiction books, explored human soul
31
T.S Elliot
Wrote the Wasteland
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Bull Market
speculation ,banks failing, tariffs
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Warren G. Harding
Inherited predicament
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Adkins v. Childrens Hospital
Supreme court makes unions back peddle
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Nine Power Treaty
keeps open door policy in China alive
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
defensive war permitted, Calvin Coolidge signs
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Fordney McCumber Tariff Law
boosts tariff to 38.5%, economic warfare
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Teapot Dome Scandal
shows corruption
39
Calvin Coolidge
takes Harding's spot, wants to reduce taxes and debts, isolationist
40
McNary-Haugen Bill
wanted to keep agricultural prices high by selling excess abroad, vetoed
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Dawes Plan
creates plan to settle European indebtness
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Agricultural Marketing Act
money sent to farm organization to sell agricultural surpluses
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Frances Perkins
Burst through gender barrier
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Good neighbor policy
refreshes relations with Latin America
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Johnson Debt Default Act
prevented debt dodging nations from borrowing further from the USA
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Lend Lease
lends allies munitions and shhhiittt
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Atlantic Charter
8 point program for a democratic world
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Wilkie
republican rep in 1940 against FDR
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ABC-1 Agreements
Allie's plan
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Executive Order No. 9066
Japanes qurantine in states
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Office of Price Administration
kept prices low
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Smit-Connally Anti Strike Act
imposed ceilings on wage increases
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Women organization
WAACS, WAVES, SPARs
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Bracero Program
recruits beaners
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Fair Employment Practices Commission
threatened black march on Washington
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Leyte Gulf
MacArthur Battle, wins 3 battles
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Atlantic Campain
enigma cracked
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Casablanca
Italian campaign begins
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Potsdam Conference
Big 3 meet to discuss end of Japan