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
Winston Churchill
Prime minster after 1940
Francisco Franco
Spanish fascist dictator
Josef Stalin
Former Premier of Soviet Union
Benito Missolini
Italian; leader of National Fascist Party
Facism
Totalitarian state; dictators
Sitzkrieg
Phony war; winter illusion
Blitzkrieg
“Lightning war”
Erwin Rommel
Desert Fox; German General
Big Three
Stalin, Churchill, FDR
Atlantic Charter
After Woodrow Wilson; self-determination
Office of Price Administration
WWII; control consumer prices to avoid inflation
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Manhattan Project
Issei
1st generation
Nissei
2nd generation
Kamikazes
Suicidal pilots
Hirohito
Emperor of Japan;
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Pacific theater; island hopping
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Nagasaki
2nd city bombed; japanese surrendered here
Truman
Authorized bombing
V-E Day
Victory
V-J Day
Victory in Japan
D-Day
WWII; allied forces invaded northern France through Normandy
Cold War
Not real war; constant fighting
GI Bill
Five assistance to veterans
1948 presidential election
Truman won (against Dewey)
NATO
U.S. and F___
Warsaw Pact
USSR
Truman Doctrine
Fight communism
Marshall Plan
European recovery program
Korean War
North attacked first!
Joseph McCarthy
Everyone’s a communist
Douglas MacArthur
Fired because criticized Truman’s war policy
Satellite Nations
USSR watching
Dynamic Conservatism
Eisenhower
Mao Zedong
Communist China
John Foster Dulles
Sec. of State under Eisenhower
Massive Retaliation
Nuclear weapons; brinkmanship
Gama Abdel Nasser
Egyptian leader; Suez Canal Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine
Fight communism in Middle East
Eggheads
Out of touch with common people, but are book smart
Levittown
Massive suburban housing
Beatniks
Pre-hippies
Brown v. Board of Education
Reserved Plessy v. Ferguson
Malcolm X
Back power
Governor Ross Barnett and George Wallace
Symbols of racism; blocked entrance of schools
March on Washington
Passage of south
JFK
New Frontier; space programs; economic aid to Latin American countries
Bay of Pigs
Sent cuban exiles; failed
Fidel Castro
Cuban dictator
Berlin Wall
Separated east and west; U.S. for west.
Alger Hiss
Accused of being spy
Great Society
LBJ; war on poverty and social rights
Lee Harvey Oswald
Assassinated JFK
Lyndon Johnson
Veteran; Great Society; Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act 1965
No poll tax
Dien Bien Phu
North Vietnamese took over
Geneva Accords
North and South Vietnam
Hi Chi Minh
Leader of North Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Leader of South Vietnam
17th parrallel
Divided Vietnam
Domino Theory
One country becomes Communist, it will spread
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
LBJ decided to send more forces; U.S. needed excuse to go to war
Search and Destroy Missions
Tactic. Search and destroy Viet Congs
Viet Congs
Vietnamese who aided ?????
Delayed Stress Syndrome
PTSD
Nixon Policy
Vietnamization
1968
Everything bad; King assassinated; Bobby Kennedy assassinated; U.S. televised being terrible.
Richard Nixon
Republican
Deficit Spending
Spending more than getting
Realpolitik
Dr. Henry Kissinger
SALT
U.S. And USSR signed it
Pentagon Papers
Important, private info about war; Nixon paranoid
Spiro Agnew
VP to Nixon; got caught for extortion & bribery; appointed Ford
George Wallace
Wanted to become president, but shot
Ford
Pardoned Nixon; people angry
Stagflation
Stagnant economy; WHIP
ERA
Equal Rights Amendment for men and women
Carter
President
Panama Canal
Given back to Egypt
OPEC
Trade embargo
Camp David Accords
Greatest accomplishment; Ford; Peace between Egypt and Israel
Ronald Reagan
Moral majority
George Bush
Up to Reagan
Reagonomics
Giving tax advance to wealthy
Moral Majority
Christian group
Geraldine Ferraro
First to email to run to become president
AIDS
Big issue; Gays suffered
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Premier; glasnost
Sandra Day O’ Connor
First female Supreme Court Justice
INF
Immediate Nuclear Force
Progressive movement
Reform progress; Woodrow Wilson: Teddy; Taft
