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Ch 23-28 (US History) Flashcards

1
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Model T

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Developed by Henry T
aka The Tinlizzie

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Assembly Line

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Created by Henry Ford
Goods rolled past workers on a conveyer belt

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Auto-touring

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Leisure time traveling/seeing friends
aka cruising

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Al Capone

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Gangster of the 20s
Controlled sales of liquor during prohibition

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Flappers

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New woman of the 20s
Smoke, drank, and partied
Defied female norms

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Prohibition

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Cant manufacture, sell, or transport liquor

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18th amendment (1919)

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Begins prohibition

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21st amendment (1933)

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Repealed the 18th amendment
No more prohibition

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Speakeasies

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illegal bars

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10
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Scopes Trial (1925)

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Trial of John Scopes
A science teacher prosecution for teaching the theory of evolution

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Jazz

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Popular music of the 20s
Originated with African Americans

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Writers of the 1920s

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wrote about society’s flaws: lost of morals, horror or death/destruction from WWI

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Palmer Raids

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Anti-communist raids led by A Mitchell Palmer

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Red Scare

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Panic over communist threat

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Reason for fearing communists in 1920s

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Russia was just taken over by Lenin & Bolsheviks
People feared it will spread to the US

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Black Tuesday (1929)

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The day of the stock market crash

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Causes of the Depression

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Living on credit
Paying it back with little money
Bad farming techniques
Poor investing in stock market
Trade barriers
Failures of key industries

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Effects of the Depression

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Hoovervilles
Lack of food–> breadlines/soup kitchens
Dust Bowl
Lack of jobs
Suicide rates increase
Lack of desire to go to school
No marriages or kids

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Bank Holiday

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FDR closed all banks to stop the withdraw of money

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20
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Hoovervilles

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Under President Hoover
Shanty Towns
Homes were being made of cardboard

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Laissez Fair & Hoover

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“hands off” or “less gov intervention”
Hoover (as a republican) thought things would fix itself

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Bonus Army Marchers

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WWI veterans marched to DC wanting to get their bonus pension to feed their families
Turned away by the Hoover Admin

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23
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Hawley-Smoot Tarrif

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Raised US import duties
Goal: protect American farmers from foreign competitors
Caused other countries to retaliate
Reason for global trade decline

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New Deal

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FDR slogan
“Every American will get a chance to succeed”

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

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Provided loans for businesses

26
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Dust Bowl

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1930s
Name given from a severe drought
Happened in Great Plains area

27
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Black Blizzard

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Top soil blown by winds–> caused errosion

28
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Correction Efforts of the Soil

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Government paid farmers to practice conservation techniques
Farmers got proper instruction
CCC planted more than 200 million trees

29
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Packing the Court

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Congress declared some of FDR New Deal details unconstitutional–>FDR tried to add another judge (on his side) to the court

30
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Anti-semitism

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Hostility and Prejudice toward Jews

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Adolf Hitler

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Killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust

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Benito Mussolini

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Leader of the Fascist Party
Believed military government should be in control

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Black Shirts

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Followers of Mussolini

34
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Joseph Stalin

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Got rid of anyone in his way in the communist/red party

35
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Nazi Party

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Led by Hitler who rose to power in the 1930s

36
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Brown Shirts

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Followers of Hitler

37
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Francisco Franco

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Spanish General
Dictator
Ruled Spain from 1939-1975

38
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Start and end of WWII

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1939-1945

39
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Appeasement

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To give in/satisfy
Allies gave into Hitler to avoid problems

40
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why WWII began

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Germany invaded Poland

41
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Blitzkrieg

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“lightning war””’
Fast type of air raid used by Germany

42
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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy, Japan

43
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Allied Powers

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Britain, USSR, France, US

44
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why Japan wanted an empire in East Asia/Pacific

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More resources
Reduce dependency on imports

45
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Battle of Guadalcanal

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Turned the tide of war in the Pacific

46
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Doolittle’s raid

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Moral booster for the US

47
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1941

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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
US enters WWII

48
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Atomic bomb dropped on…

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

49
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VE Day

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“Victory in Europe Day”
End of WWII in Europe

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VJ Day

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“Victory in Japan Day”
Ending WWII in Pacific/overall

51
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Manhattan Project

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when US built the nuclear bombs

52
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Potsdamn Conference (1949)

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Meeting of Henry Truman (US), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), Joseph Stalin (USSR)
Divided Germany into four zones of occupation

53
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Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949)

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Wartime trials held in which allies prosecuted German military leaders

54
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Adolf Eichmann

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Major organizer of the Holocaust
Executed by hanging

55
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Hideki Tojo

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Army officer
Prime Minister of Japan
Invaded Manchuria (1937)

56
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United Nations

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International peace organization between all nations

57
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Zionism

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Movement to establish a Jewish Nation

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