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Truman doctrine

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Foreign policy
President Harry Truman in 1947
Provide economic & military assistance to Greece and turkey
Did it to prevent fall to communism

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Prohibition

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Laws banning manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages
Added to US constitution (18th amendment-1918)
Repealed by 21st in 1933

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Sacco-Vanzetti trial

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Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Convicted of murdering Mass. Paymaster & guard
1922 convicted of murder
They were anarchists & italian immigrants
Case offended many and seen as prejudice

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Scopes trial

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John t scopes
Teach evolution in Tennessee
Charged with it
Suites difference between old teachings and new

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Flappers

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Young women
Short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz, smoked in public
Wore heavy makeup and so on
Seen as disgrace to society

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Harlem Renaissance

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Modern & artistic literary movement
Celebrated African life & culture in harlem NY
Langston Hughes, Richard wright, duke Ellington, Aaron Douglas

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Wagner act

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National labor relations act
Gave workers right to bargain & organize collectively
Also created national labor relations board to supervise union elections and stop unfair labor practices

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Lend lease act

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Military aid measure
President franklin d Roosevelt in 1941
Empowered pres to sell, lend, lease, transfer $7 billion of war material to any country
Country had to be vital to US

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Taft Hartley act

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1947 federal law
Outlawed closed shop & secondary boycotts
Union leaders had to sign that they weren’t communists

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Marshall plan

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1947 by George Marshall
Use American aid to rebuild war torn economics of Europe
1948 adopted by congress
$13 billion to euro countries

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Tennessee valley authority

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Built & operated dams & power plants on Tennessee River

Promoted flood Comtrol, soil conservation, & reforestation

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Bonus army

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20,000 world war 1 veterans in Washington DC
June 1932
Demanded adjusted compensation bonuses determined in 1924
Congress rejected demands
President Hoover had them driven from capital

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Social security act

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Franklin Roosevelt new deal
1935
System of old age unemployment & insurance
Funded by payroll taxes & wage

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Agricultural adjustment act

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New deal legislation that raised farm prices
By restricting output of staple crops
Restricted production
Unconstitutional in 1936

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Manhattan project

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Us military project
1942
Build an atomic bomb
$2 billion dollars 
Helped in destruction of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945
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Battle of midway

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US destroyed Jap carriers
Turning point in war
Ended jap offensive in pacific theatre

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The jazz singer

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1927
American music film
Decline of silent film
First motion picture w/ synchronized dialogue

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Court packing

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Stuff that Roosevelt passed is becoming unconstitutional
Bc of Supreme Court
So Roosevelt offered a judge to retire @ 70 or
If won’t retire then president can add up to 6 judges of his choice

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Huey long

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Share our wealth plan
Confiscate anyone with over $5 mil of property & wealth
100% tax on people making 1 mil
Wanting to give people $2-3000 for homes & cars, etc

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Civilian conservation corps

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Employed 3 mil men working and planting trees

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Herbert Hoover

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President in March 1929
Wanted to deal with depression by giving faith to citizens
Campaign of prohibition & prosperity

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Executive order 9066

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Sent Japanese into internment camps

Fear of war

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Stock market crash

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1929
World went into Great Depression
Stock prices plunged

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Dust bowl

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Severe drought killing all the crops
Topsoil into dust with blew around easily
Everything was coated even in houses

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Lost generation

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Writers in 1920s

Claimed they were lost In generation of materialistic & greedy world which lacked morals

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Washington conference

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The Washington Naval Conference was held by President Warren G. Harding in 1921 and 1922. This was attended by nine countries. This conference created three big treaties including the Non-Power Treaty, Five-Power Treaty and Four-Power Treaty.

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Containment

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Contain communism after world war 2

Didn’t want more war

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Pearl Harbor

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Surprise attack of Japanese on us naval base
Many us ships destroyed
Resulted in declaration of war

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August 6

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Atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Killed over 70,000

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August 9

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Bombing of Nagasaki
40,000 killed
Japan surrendered after

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