Exam 2 Flashcards
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; 1910
racial discrimination and prejudice
promote civil rights for blacks
Muckrakers
journalists
propelled Progressivism by exposing corruption, economic monopolies, and moral decay in American society.
New Nationalism
Roosevelt
1910 and 1912
strong federal government
regulate corporations, stabilize the economy, protect the weak, and restore social harmony.
Meat Inspection Act
obligated the government to monitor the quality and safety of meat being sold to American consumers
Federal Reserve Act
act that brought private banks and public authority together to regulate and strengthen the nation’s financial system.
New Freedom
Wilson’s reform program of 1912 that called for temporarily concentrating government power so as to dismantle the trusts and return America to 19th century conditions od competitive capitalism.
Article X
Covenant;
Treaty of Versailles
League of nations to undertake military actions against aggressor nations
Irreconcilables
14 Midwestern and western senators
opposed the treaty of Versailles
Teapot Dome
Albert Fall allowed oil tycoons access to government oil reserves in exchange for $400,000 in bribes
Immigration Act of 1924
Johnson-Reed Act; Limited immigration to the US to 165,000 per year
banned immigration from East and South Asia.
Theodore Roosevelt
The first great progressive leader on the national scene who changed the face of American politics and government; president in 1901 because of the assassination of McKinley
Progressivism
The first great wave of 20th century reform
Domestic reform
The response to the great abuses and social problems associated with industrialization and the concentration of wealth and power growing out of industrialization
The US response to global conflicts
WWI and WWII
Three great waves of reform:
Progressivism (TR & Wilson)
New Deal & Fair Deal (FDR & Truman)
New Frontier & Great Society (JFK & LBJ)
Problems defining progressivism:
It was non-partisan;
It existed in all sections of the country;
It existed at all levels of the government (local, state, national);
It was an attitude
Progressivism relies on:
Moralism & optimism;
Belief in science to improve society;
Emphasis on efficiency;
Liberal nationalism
Frederick W Taylor
Efficiency
Jefferson & Jackson
Liberal nationalism
Liberalism
Opposite of progressivism;
Don’t want government to become to strong
Dark side to progressivism
Belief in ordering society from above;
Darwinism & racism;
Birth control;
Eugenics
Eugenics
Science in improving the human race
Coal strike (1902)
Beginning of government taking control; TR made the mine owners reach an agreement
Northern securities case (1904)
Came to Supreme Court;
Sherman anti-trust act;
TR revised the Sherman act
Elkins act (1903)
Prohibited railroads giving rebates to big businesses - there are always economic interests behind reforms
Woodrow Wilson
Initiated the greatest round of domestic reform legislation in American History;
Won presidency because he won the electoral college
William Howard Taft
Hand picked by TR;
Conservative;
Reformer
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
Dispute that broke out over conservation
16th amendment
Tax amendment;
Progressive movement
Conception of presidency
Has to be a party leader and a moral leader
Big three measures of early administration
Underwood-Simmons Tariff (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Later Significant measures of Early Administration
Establishment of Federal Trade Commission
Federal Highway Act (1916)
Adamson Act (1916)
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)
Adamson Act
Established an 8 hour work day for railroad workers
Consequences of WWI
Destruction of four great empires (German, Austria, Russian, Ottoman)
Communist takeover in Russia;
Rise of Hitler &Naziism;
Beginning of the end for British, French, and others in Africa and Asia;
Beginning of the middle eastern conflict between Jews and Arabs;
Merging of American and world history;
Discrediting of European traditions
June 28, 1914
Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914 attitude of the US
Progress, scientific advance
Great War year
1914
Schlieffen Plan (1914)
German military plan
First battle of the Marne (Sept 1914)
Key turning point in Great War!;
French and British stop German advance
How WWI was different
Numbers engaged
Firepower
Continuous war
Verdun
German offensive
Somme
British offensive
WWI key people
Wilson
William Jennings Bryan
Robert Lansing
Edward M House
Objectives of American neutrality
Protect national interests;
Stay out of the war
Neutral rights
The right of a neutral to conduct commerce with countries at war subject to certain restrictions (blockades, contraband)
Great dilemma of US neutrality policy
Conflict between two objectives
Lusitania
Many killed; resulted in diplomatic crisis
Election of 1916
Wilson v. Charles Evans Hughes
Wilson’s crusade ended in failure because:
Peace conference and the Senate’s rejection of the peace treaty
US declaration of WWI
April 1917
AEF
American Expeditionary Force
John Pershing
Fourteen Points!
- Open Diplomacy
- Freedom of the Seas
- Free Trade
- Reduction of Arms
- Adjustment of colonial claims
6-13. Self Determination - League of Nations
Self determination
The right of people or a nation to determine its own destiny
Liberal internationalism
One can achieve peace and stability through free trade, disarmament, and a powerful international peacekeeping organization.
What went wrong at Paris?
Specific elements of the treaty of Versailles (reparations)
General sense that it was not consistent with 14 points
Wilson’s problems at Paris
Lack of leverage Lack of US unity Enthusiasm for league Exaggerated hopes Flaws in liberal program
Treaty of Versailles
Did not live up to 14 points; Article X (security)
Cultural reaction in 1920s
Kkk Nativism Sacco-Vanzetti Johnson-Reed Fundamentalism Scopes
Sacco-Vanzetti
Convicted and executed for murder
Scopes Trial
Evolution - teacher
Elements of an emerging modern America
Social liberation (women's rights) Mass communications Consumerism Automobile culture Sports
Inflation
-1%
Unemployment
2-3%
Real wages
Up 26%
Per capita income
Up 37%
Inequities of the economic system
Mall distribution of wealth
Bad corporate structure
Weak banking system
Poor intelligence
Babe Ruth
Baseball
John Steinback
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Depression
Worst economic collapse;
Crisis of Confidence;
Crisis in traditional American values
American revolution years
1775-1815
Depression and WWII
1929-1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New deal
Glass Steagall Banking Act
Bank reform
Revenue Act of 1935
Higher taxes on wealthy
NLRA
National Labor Relations Act
Wagner Act
Promotes unionization
Social security act
Old age pensions
Election of 1936
FDR v. Alf Landon
FDR’s mistakes
Court packing plan (1937)
Attempt to purge southern democrats (1938)
Economic downturn (1938)
Fair labor standards act (1938)
Minimum wage
Max work week (40 hours)
Prohibitions on child labor
New Deal
Did NOT end Great Depression;
Preserved the basic American capitalist social economic order;
Made American version of the welfare state;
Changed America forever
Democratic Party founded by:
Martin Van Buren & Andrew Jackson
Old Democratic Party
White south and border states;
White ethnic groups (Irish);
Intellectuals &reformers
New Democratic Party of FDR (1940)
Old party;
Organized labor;
African Americans
Forces strengthening presidency
Domestic crisis
International crisis
Communications revolution
Strengthened presidency
Leader in legislative process, determining economic policy, and foreign policy
Supreme Court concerns in 1933
Limited government
Property rights
Supreme courts concerns after 1937
Rights of defendants in criminal trials;
Racial discrimination;
Freedom of expression
Old republican attitudes and values
Limited government
Individual responsibility
No government involvement
Good for business, good for America
FDR & new deal attitudes and values
Government involvement
Minimum standard of living
Skeptical of business
International crises posed by three powers:
Benito Mussolini (Italy), Hitler (Germany), Emperor Showa (Japan)
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936
Annexation of Austria
1938
Sudentenland Crisis & Munich Conference
1938
Annexation of Czechoslovakia
1939
Nazi-Soviet Not-Aggression Pact
1939
German invasion of Poland & beginning of WWI
1939
Why didn’t the US stop Hitler?
Runs against isolationism, No interest in Europe, Memory of WWI, Anti-war movement, History repeats itself
What was FDR thinking about foreign policy during 1930s?
Economic recovery took priority
Neutrality acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937
No loans to warring countries,
No sales of arms and munitions,
No travel into war zones,
No American ships in war zones
Flaws in isolationist position
Hitler is evil,
History does not repeat,
Japanese blunder
Great reversal
German annexation of Czech,
German conquest of France
FDR’s response
Revision of neutrality legislation, Aid to Britain, Destroyers if bases deal with GB, Lend lease, Undeclared naval war
Lend lease (1941)
Gave British military materials without having to pay
What was FDR thinking on Dec 1, 1941?
Wanted declaration of war,
Providing aid to war without actually entering the war
WWII in pacific
Pearl Harbor
Philippine islands
Malaya & Singapore
Dutch East Indies
WWII turning points
Coral sea
Midway
Guadalcanal
Buna
Coral sea
No one fires
Guadalcanal
Japan couldn’t defend themselves against Americans
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
WWII in Europe
Anti submarine war North African campaign Sicily & Italy Strategic Bombing Campaign Normandy From Normandy to Germany
Prohibition
Ban of sale of alcohol
Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Promote economic recovery by reducing supply produced by farmers
NRA
National Recovery Association
1933 attempt to promote economic recovery by decreasing production, limiting hours, etc
WPA
Works progress administration
1935 relief agency that funded public art
National Labor Relations act
Wagner Act
Have workers the right to join a union
Social security act
Set up finds to take care of groups that could not take care of themselves
Court-packing plan
1937 attempt by Roosevelt to appoint one new Supreme Court justice to prevent dismantling of the new deal.
CIO
Committee for industrial organization
Organized the unskilled and semiskilled
Good neighbor policy
Roosevelt’s policy that renounced the right for US to intervene in Latin American Affairs
Fascism
Government that used terror and violence to suppress opposition
Harlem Renaissance
1920s African american literary and artistic awakening linked to black culture
Pearl Harbor
Dec 7, 1941
Japan attack on US base in Hawaii leading to WWII
Underconsumptionism
Weakness in consumer demand caused depression
Lead to second new deal
John J Pershing
Commander of AEF (American Expeditionary Force)
Henry Cabot Lodge
Led campaign to reject Treaty of Versailles
Joseph Stalin
Worked with allied leaders in WWII
Al Capone
Fortune from gambling during prohibition
Marcus Garvey
Black nationalist
1920 movement calling for black separatism and self-sufficiency
WEB Du Bois
NAACP
Race relations
Charles Lindbergh
Fly solo across Atlantic
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Pure food and drug act
Part of prohibition
Battle of the Meuse-Argonne
Americans, under control of John J Pershing, against Germans
WWI
Reparations
Money lost from war
Consumerism
The protection of the interests of consumers
Hundred days
March 9 - June 16, 1933 CCC TVA AAA NRA
Tehran Conference
Stalin, FDR, Churchill
Meeting with allied leaders
Yalta Conference
FDR, Stalin, Churchill
Meeting at the end of WWII
Divide Europe
Potsdam Conference
Stalin, FDR, Churchill
Post war plans
Noted Negro Improvement Association
Marcus Garvey
Axis
Germany, Italy, Japan
F Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz age
Ernest Hemingway
Iceberg theory
Langston Hughes
Writer during Harlem Renaissance
Harry Hopkins
FDR new deal:
WPA and lend lease
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Prohibited war in matters of self defense
Nye Committee
Studied the involvement of the US in WWI
America First Committee
Non- interventionist pressure group against US entry into WWII
Second front
British and American invasion of France to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union in the east
Dust bowl
Drought driven plains that people were sent to during the Great Depression
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
NIRA
National Industrial Recovery Act
John Maynard Keynes
British
New deal deficit spending
First new deal
Roosevelt
Fight depression
ABC acts
Second new deal
More protection for labor unions
Destroyers for bases
Roosevelt
Exchange US destroyers for Britain bases
Neutrality act
Sussex pledge
German torpedo hit ship. Pledge to stop
League of Nations
Wilson body that constituted the provision of the Versailles Treaty
Protocols
Jewish plan for world domination
Vladimir Lenin
Leader or Russian revolution and head of USSR
George S Patton
US army
Louis Brandeis
American lawyer
Supreme Court
Robert LaFollette
Presidential candidate 1924
Al Smith
Presidential candidate in 1928
Robert Lansing
Secretary of State under Wilson
Charles Evans Hughes
Chief Justice in Supreme Court
Zora Neale Hurston
Author during Harlem Renaissance
Hal Mencken
Critic of American life and culture
Gavrilo Princip
Assassinated Franz Ferdinand
Henry ford
Automobiles
Georgy Pyatakov
Russian revolution leader
Leon Trotsky
Helped Lenin
John T Flynn
Journalist
Opposed Roosevelt
Battle of midway
American planes landed on Japanese fleet and defeated them
Battle of Guatalcanal
Japanese lost to Americans in WWII
Battle of Iwo Jima
Americans captures Iwo Jima from japan
Battle of Okinawa
Operation iceberg
Lasted 82 days
Battle of Normandy
Establishment of western allied forces
Battle of the bulge
Attack from forest and caught allies by surprise
Battle of Tarawa
Operation galvanic
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany v. Soviet Union
Battle of kasserine pass
During the Tunisia campaign
Battle of Moscow (1941)
Napoleonic wars
Battle of Britian
Bombardment of British cities
Luftwaffe
Battle of France (1940)
Successful German invasion of France