Final Exam Flashcards
Populism
Farmers seeking reforms
Musckrakers
Journalists exposed govt.
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle; exposed meat packing industry; Meat Inspection Act
Ida Tarbell
Exposed Rockefeller
Socialism
Women rights
Eugene V. Debs
ARU (American Railway Union
McKinley
Assassinated by anarchist
Theodore Roosevelt
Square deal; National Park Conservation; Big Stick Diplomacy; mediated coal strike; trust regulator
Taft
Trust buster; not really liked; Dollar Diplomacy; split republic; sided with Cannon
Joseph Cannon
Conservative
Election of 1912
Roosevelt (vamoos)! Taft (republican) vs. Wilson (democrat). Wilson won.
16th amendment
Income tax
17th amendment
Direct election of senate
18th amendment
Prohibition
19th amendment
Women’s suffrage
Triple entente
Britain, France, Russia
Allies:
Italy, _____ , _____
Central powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
Stalemate
Dead block; not moving anywhere
Reparation
War payments made by defeated nation
Trench warfare
WWI
Schliffen Plan
Dead eating two fronts (France and Russia)
Selective Service Act
Hoover; WWI;
Herbert Hoover
Food administration
League of Nations
Never joined by U.S.
Treaty of Versailles
Ended WWI; signed by big four- France, Brit, U.S., Italy
Big four
France, Italy, U.S., Italy
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of french colony
Underwood Tariff
Longest tariff
Ku Klux Klan
Racist group; everyone escort whites who are protestant
Bloc
Voting together
Sacco and Vanzetti
Charged with murder; Italian immigrants
Washington Naval Conference
Reduce evil arts
Warren G. Harding
Pres. of 1920s; many scandals (ten pot dome)
Andrew Mellon
Sec. of Treasury for Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
Charles Evans Hughes
Sec. Of State
Albert B. Fall
Sec. of interior (indicted in teapot scandal)
A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer raid; arrested
Herbert Hoover
Great Repression blame
God Neighbor Policy
Foreign Policy; Hoover (FDR get credit)
Red Scare
Fear of communism
Uneven distribution of income causes
Easy credit
Buying on margin
Bonus army
WWI veterans
Rugged individualism
Hoover’s philosophy; pick yourself up
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 terms; democrat; preserved New Deal to
Brain trust
Smart people in office
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC; young men
National Industry Recovery Act
Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court
Social Security Act
Elderly
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Unconstitutional pay farmers to not do so much
Tennessee Valley Authority
Electricity for rural communities
Court Packing Bill
Of you’re old, add additional judge or replace them
Huey Long
Governor of Louisiana; assassinated
Charles Coughlin
Catholic priest; had radio show
Sudetenland
In chekoslovokia
Nuremberg Trials
Stripped Jews of rights
Manchuria
Japan attacked (for resources)
Axis Powers
Italy, Germany, Japan
Neville Chamberlin
British Prime Minister before 1940
Appeasement
Avoid war