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Final Exam Flashcards

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Who is Mitchell Palmer

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Wilson’s Attorney General who was known for his mechanisms to rapidly deport radical aliens suspected of potentially seditious activity. “Palmer Raids”

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Red Scare

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Red Scare, period of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state. - stemming from Palmer’s radical actions

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What was Woodrow Wilson’s Ideology vs Hoover

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Progressivism
vs
hoover - free marker

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Economic transitions
????

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Radios, which drove communication, advertising, etc
railroad - product delivery, etc.

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What percent of American families owned radios in by 1929?

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60%

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What did advertising promote in the 1920s

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Leisure, consumer spending

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Who called prohibition a noble experiment

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Herbert hoover

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what is hoover known for in his economic policies

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Not wanting to had off money to individuals but more so bigger companies

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New Deal ( check book)

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FDR
The First New Deal - new deal for american public

The Work Progress Administration - built various public works

Reconstruction finance corp
Emergency relief act
repeal prohibition
Social Security Act

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Great Depression bank stat and employment

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more than 13hundred banks closed in 1930
employment was nearing 25%

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what type of campaign was FDR known for

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Optimistic hopeful campaign

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drum that quietly beat louder and louder - describes

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WW1

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Nazi blitzkrieg

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aka lightening war - Highly mobile military aircrafts for attacking the opponent with short, fast thrusts

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What is Marshall Plan

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Rebuilding Europe after ww2

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who is known for Court Packing and what is it

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FDR - adding supreme court justice during your term who r more than likely going to agree with you

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Nixon’s phrase

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“Peace with Honor” - U.S. President Richard Nixon used in a speech on January 23, 1973 to describe the Paris Peace Accords to end the Vietnam War.

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Peace accords With Jimmy Carter

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The Camp David Accords, facilitated by President Jimmy Carter, aimed to establish peace between Israel and Egypt, two nations that had been in a state of war for years.

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what was the Output during the waring 20s

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debt decreased from 33billion to 16 billion
economy grew 42%
GNp rose 4.7% per year

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what is Henry Ford known for

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Making cars

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T/F prohibition was called a “Nobel cause”

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true

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21
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was prohibition successful?

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Alc consumption decreased but it was overall costly and gave organized crime its start

22
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How many people were killed world wide and in America by the spanish influenza

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22 mill world wide
675,000 Americans
( mass graves had to be built)

23
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Hoover philiosophy

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Known for staying within the rules observing federal limitations

24
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FDR policies

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willing to bend the rules

25
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Wilson saying

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Make the world safe for democracy

26
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Which proposal did the court seem unconstitutional during FDRs presidency

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The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and NIRA ( national industry recovery Act) were deemed unconstitutional

27
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Who was president after FDR

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truman

28
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Who was known as ruthless, conniving, deceitful, unscrupulous

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Lyndon B Johnson - very skilled politician

29
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was America interested in joining WW2

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No, the US wanted to stay out of the war but maintain trade - this is not considered isolationism

30
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Did the automobile industry impact WW2 and how

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Economic growht, workforce changes, research and development, mass production techniques, communication, efficiency

31
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What were Regan’s Economic Policies

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Reduce Taxes, cut government spending
Economic
- 25% decrease in personal income taxes for the
- cuts in taxes in other areas - page 403
- increased defense spending which offset budgetary gains from cuts

32
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What were the mixed results of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society

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poverty rate dropped from 22% to 13%
medicare cared for the elderly but costs soared
welfare addressed the needs of the poor but did so in a way that caused dependency on cash support rather than moving people into productive work
aid to families with dependent child disincentivizing marriage
bad timing of civil rights movement

33
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What were programs Regan couldn’t undo

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National Debt
unable to fully resolve was the Iran-Contra affair
social security
medicare
medicaid
EPA
New Deal Programs

34
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Who stepped down from offcie bc of the watergate scandal

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Nixon

35
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Who was president after Nixon

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Gerald Ford

36
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How did scientist James Burns Refer to Carter

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“there are two kinds of leaders, “transactional” ones and “transforming” ones - JImmy carter is the first kind, someone who merely dealt with the exchange of existing goods, playing the game within the existing boundaries, rather than speaking to the deeper needs of the people and calling forth fresh political possibilities for the realization of those needs,

37
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what was Desert Storm?

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designed to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait , avoid the mistakes of vietnam

38
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Lend lease Bill

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Under FDR - The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States/ the president to provide military aid and supplies to Allied nations during the war. (page 324)

39
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battle of Midway

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US vs Japan decisive victory for the US and turning point in the pacific war
lasting 6months

Goal is to resupply and relieve Australia
??

40
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Battle of the bulge

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Germany’s counterattack in Belgium which depleted their resources

41
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meeting of Yalta

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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union during World War II. It took place from February 4 to 11, 1945, in Yalta, Crimea. The three main participants were President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.

three principle leaders of the allied forces

42
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Us strategy of containment

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? check notes
Standard of containment was less physical containment of communism and more are you an ally?

The basic idea behind containment was to prevent the spread of communism beyond its existing borders. Rather than trying to roll back communism where it already existed, the United States would seek to contain its spread, believing that over time, internal weaknesses would lead to the collapse of the Soviet system.

43
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which was is referenced as the forgotten war

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Korean War

44
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some random title

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45
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Containment doctrine

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page 381
ssues ^
1. Telegraphed to the enemy what you are going to do
?

46
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Tet Offensive

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Tet Offensive was a fierce assult on American and South Vietnamese forces throughout the country, extending even to a brief occupation of the American embassy grounds in the south vietnam

miliary failure for the vietnamese and political / social relations disaster for JOhnson
Johnson is barely wins re-elected from his party

(north vietnam attcks south vietnam and allies (US))

47
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Eisenhower warned against standing military bc it would

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that it would bread more war

48
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Paris Peace accords

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The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 27, 1973, ending direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.Allowed the US to get back more than 500 prisoners of war
duringpresident Nixons term

49
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Fiat currency

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not backed by gold

50
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Watergate

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The Watergate scandal involved a range of illegal activities, including the break-in, attempts to cover it up, and other abuses of power by the Nixon administration.

51
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Iran contra-scandal

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trading weapons for support in latin america? - read - to back door what congress said

The investigations revealed that senior officials in the Reagan administration had been involved in the arms sales and the diversion of funds to the Contras.

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