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Final Exam, Important Terms Flashcards

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What was the Red Scare about?

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It was about how the us feared communision could come to America, because of what the US saw in the bolshevik rebellion

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Who was A.Mitchell Palmer, and what was a popular term he got.

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He was a attronty general who went after people he thought were communist. He got the name “Fighting Quaker” and he rounded up over 6 thousand people he thought could be communist.

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Who were the mass media makers?

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Babe Ruth and Jack Gibson

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Who came up with scientific management? What was SM’s goal?

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Fredrick W. Taylor came up with it, and its goal was for industrial efficency.

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Who used Scientific Mangement the most?

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Henry Ford

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The Bolsehvik Revolution was essentially how what came to power?

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How communism came to power in Russia.

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What were the original types of movies?

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They were silent movies

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What was the first movie?

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The birth of the nation

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The 20’s was known as the?

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Sexeual Awakening

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Who was a activist for birth control

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Margaret Sanger

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What was Louis Armstrong Known as?

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He was known as the instigator of jazz

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What did the city of chicago become known as?

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lawlessnews and gangstrism

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What did Harlem become known as for blacks?

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It became known as a center for a lot of blacks. Also known as the Black Universe

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Who was Markus Gravy, and what was he promoting

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He was promoting the UNited Negro Improvement Association, and which goal was to get blacks to resettle in africa.

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What disease did FDR Have?

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He had polio

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Who was FDR’s wife

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Elmor

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What did some peple consider FDR

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They considered him the greatest orator

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What was FDR considered the catalyst of?

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The new deal

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What was his statement in July 1932

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“I pledge you and I pledge myself for the new deal of the united states”

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What was the democratic platform in 1932

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It was a compaign for a balanced budget

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How would FDR combat the depression?

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With bold new programs

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Who was blamed for the great depression?

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President Hoover

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In the election of 1932, what happended to black voters?

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They made a shift to the democratic party

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What was the 20th amendment

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it shorted the time till a new president could take office

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What was the 21st amendment

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ended prohibition, and it was passed in 1933.

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Who was the first lady cabinent,

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Francis Perking

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Who was Harold Ickes

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Secretary of interior

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Who was Harry Hopkins

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The cheif administrator of relief, head of the federal emergency relief administration

29
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What does “100 days” mean?

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they are looking at the presidents first 100 days of stuff that gets passed.

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What was the popular talk roosevelt did for the people?

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Fireside chats

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What was the purpose of the Glass-Steagall act? and what bill does it additional make?

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it created the federeal desposit insurance agency, and insured up to 15,000 additionally makes trust and securities act

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What did the trust and securities act do?

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delt with the stock market. It requires them to transmit sworn statements about the stocks

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What was the Nicole Socoo and Barthomoeo case?

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They were convicted of murder and robbery, what got the attention of the press was that the prosecutors focused on their nationality, religion, and how they avoided the military draft

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What was the scopes trial?

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Basically this was a trail aboul evolution being taught in schools. It was debated in Dayton, Tennessee. THe ACLU, provided lawyers for the teacher, the laywer was Darrow, and the prosecutors goet William Jennings Bryan After this, fundamentyalism still stayed a active part of religious life.

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Under what law was drinking made unlawful?

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18th amendment, prohibition

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What was bootlegging?

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making beer illegally during the 18th amendment time.

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What book did Bruce Burton write?

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The man nobody knows.

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What did the civilian conservation group do?

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relief that provided work for young men 18-25 years old in food control, planting, flood work, etc.

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What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act designed to do?

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Raised farm prices by restricting output of staple crops. Gave farmers $ to pay mortages. Restricted production and paid subsidies to growers; declared unconstitutional in 1936.

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What was the Butler V U.S.

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They challend the AAA act saying the tax on factories was unconsitutional

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What was the Civilian Works Adminstration

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was a short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34.

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Who was Huey P Long

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proposed by Senator Huey P. Long from Louisiana, one of the demagogues that appeared during the winter of 1933-1934. The program promised to make “Every Man a King.” Every family was to receive $5,000, supposedly at the expense of the prosperous.

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What was the Works Progress Administration

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Congress authorized this administration in 1935 with the objective of employment on useful projects. It was supervised by Hopkins and ultimately spent about $11 billion on thousands of public buildings, bridges, and hard-surfaced roads. Nearly 9 million people were given jobs over a period of 8 years. Its agencies also found part-time occupations for needy high school and college students and for such unemployed white-collar workers as actors, musicians, and writers. Through this, precious talent was nourished, self-respect was preserved, and more than a million pieces of art were created, many of them publicly displayed. Critics sneered that “WPA” stood for “We Provide Alms.”

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What was the National Recovery Adminstration?

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it was in charge of watching relief.

45
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What was the Dust Bowl?

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huge desert storms and because of this the resettlement adminstration was created.

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What was the Tennessee Valey Authority?

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An act creating this enterprise was passed in 1933 by the Hundred Days Congress. It was a result of the vision and zeal of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. The new agency was determined to discover precisely how much the production and distribution of electricity cost, so that a “yardstick” could be set up to test the fairness of rates charged by private companies. The project brought employment, cheap electric power, low-cost housing, abundant cheap nitrates, restoration of eroded soil, reforestation, improved navigation, and flood control to the area around the Tennessee River. It combined the immediate advantage of putting thousands of people to work with a long-term project for reforming the power monopoly. Critics complained that it was socialism.

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What would happen under the Judiciary reorganization Bill

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this would force supreme court justices to retire at 70, this was so that Roosevelt would have a better chace at his new deals being passed.

48
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What happen under Executive order no 9066

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Japan were forced into internment camps

49
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What was the battle of midway

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An enormous battle that raged for four days near the small American outpost at Midway Island, at the end of which the US, despite great losses, was clearly victorious. The American navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and lost only one of its own; the action regained control of the central Pacific for the US.

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Who was the german commander of Germany in North Africa

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Marhsal Erwin Romel “Desert Fox”

51
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What happend in Stalingrad

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this was where the russians were able to be turned around. It the first major german defeat on land.

52
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What was the Battle of the Bulge

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Hitlers last front last attempt.

53
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When did Adolf commit suicide

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April 30th 1945, in a underground bunker

54
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Where did Roosevelt suddendly die?

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Warm Srpings, April 12th 1945

55
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What happen on May 8th 1945?

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VE day was declared.

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What was the potsdam conference

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The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference of February 1945, Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, and the Allied leaders agreed to meet over the summer at Potsdam to continue the discussions that had begun at Yalta. Although the Allies remained committed to fighting a joint war in the Pacific, the lack of a common enemy in Europe led to difficulties reaching consensus concerning postwar reconstruction on the European continent.

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What was the cold war essentially

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the cold ward basically was the period right after ww2, it was the frosty relationship with them.

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What was Russia’s goal? US goal during the cold war.

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Russias goal int he cold war was to spread communisim and the US goal was to stop it

59
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What was the spheres of influence

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In international affairs, the territory where a powerful state exercises the dominant control over weaker states or territories

60
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Who was George Kennen

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Brilliant U.S. specialist on the Soviet Union and originator of the theory that U.S. policy should be to “contain” the Soviet Union

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What is the Resettlement Adminstration

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this was a New Deal US. Federal agency that between April 1935 and Decemeber 1936, relocatred struggling urban and rural familes to communities planned by the federal government.

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What was the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?

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otherwise known of Wheeler-Howard Act, was US federal legistlation that delt witht he status of Native americans. It was the centerpiece of whathas been often called the “Indian New Deal”

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What was the Teheran Conference?

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A war time conference held at Theran Iran that was attended by FDR, ChurchHill, and Stalin. It was the first meeting of the “big threee: and it was agreed on an opening of a second front (overlord), and that the Soviet Union should enter the war against Japan after the end of the war in Europe.

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What did the Truman Doctrine State?

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Stated that the US would support Grece and TUrkey with ecomic and militatry aid to prevent their falling into the soviet sphere. Stopping the spread of the sphere of communist influence

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