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Impact of pre-WW1 nationalism in Germany

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Germany was proud of her military and industrial leadership and resentful that other European leaders were not giving her the respect they felt she was due

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Triple alliance

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Originally was Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

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Central powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire were the main countries that comprised the Central powers during WW1

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Causes of WWI

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Militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism

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Schlieffen plan

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90% of Germany’s forces would attack Belgium quickly and then move to Russia before they could mobilize. Failed because Belgium’s resistance and Russia mobilized faster than expected

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What brought Britain into WWI

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Germany’s invasion of Belgium

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Western front stalemated

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Develops early. Trenches made it difficult for one side to win

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1st battle of the Marne

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Oct 1914. It ended Germany’s hope of a quick victory

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Battle of Somme

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Diversion tactic. Started by the Brits to relieve pressure off the French in the battle of verdun. Tanks were introduced

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Zimmerman note

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One of the reasons US joined the war. Arthur Zimmerman offer Mexico things to join the war with Germany. They would gain American land

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Convoys

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Were used during world war 1 to protect submarines. British created a blockade

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Lusitania

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Sinking of this will gradually bring the U.S. Into the war

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Bolsheviks

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Seized control of Russia in 1917. Keno was their leader. Brings communism to Russia. Russia withdraws

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14 points

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Conceived by Wilson. Were his views on a postwar world. Freedom of the seas, national determination. Wilson conception of a League of Nations

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The big three

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U.S. With Wilson, G.B. With David George, France

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George Clemenceau

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Prime minister of France during WW1 who wanted to make sure Germany never rose up again. Treaty of versatile punished Germany

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Ottoman Empire

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Valuae ally during Ww1. Controlled the Dardnelle straights. Creates serves problems for Russia

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Peace without victory

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Wilsons go was for the treaty of Versailles to reflect this. The terms of peace should not punish the defeated nations

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Willsons goals for the League of Nations

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Establish a body where nations could peacefully resolve their problems

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Reservationists

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Group of American legislature who had reservations in the treaty of versallie. article 10 of the League of Nations convent constricted the powers that congress had to declare war. With change could support

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Irreconcilables

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Totally against the treaty of versallie

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18th amendment

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Prohibited the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol

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19th amendment

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Gave American women the right to vote

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21st

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Repealed the 18th amendment and therefore prohibition. It was supported by FDR and ratified in 1933. Only one to repeal another amendment.

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President warren G. Harding

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29th pres. Mission as a republican he was the opposite of Wilson. Very average 1920. “Turn the nation away from progressive” reduce regulation and taxes on bussiness . Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover agreed

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Calvin Coolidge

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He was the both pres. upon the death of Harding. Only man to be sworn in by his father. Supported bussiness growth and continuation of Harding.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Albert hall, it involved navy oil reserves from the Macy to the department of the interior. He accepted bribes to lease it to 2 men.

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Henry ford/assembly line/ car production

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Reduce sale price of car. Car sale went up stimulated growth in other industries.

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Buying on margin

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Purchasing of stocks. You put a certain value down and pay that to a stock brooker and then promise to pay the rest back over time. Worked as long as the stock market was okay.

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Cultural split between rural and urban areas of the U.S.

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Different values. Flappers helped illuminate division

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Scopes trail

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Bio teacher in Tennessee, John scopes volunteered to break the butler act.was arrested and jailed and later found guilt. Basically a trail about rural vs urban

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KKK

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Developed in the south was to intimidate African Americans corruption brings them down. Who didn’t support them believed that America was a meting pot

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Nativists

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Born in America disliked immigration. They thought they were dirty

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Both were natives of Italy. Anarchist were accused of killing a shoe factory worker in Ma. The judge was biased they were executed

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Flappers

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Women who did not follow the Victorian era. Smoked, drank, wore short dresses, short hair

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Black Thursday

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Major drop in sales in the stock market. By Friday wealthy investors bought most of those stocks

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Black Tuesday

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Investors sold 16 million shares. Oct. 29, 1929 the stock market crashes.

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Hawley-Smoot tariff

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Largest tariff everpassed in American history. Raise taxes on imports from other countries. Other countries reacted badly. Worsened the GD

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Hovers response to the Great Depression

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Cautious. He Evelin Ed the economy would recover cause the business cycle would correct itself.

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Hovers general philosophy on government and volunteerism

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Limited g’ment. Believed volunteerism would gets us out.

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Hoovervilles

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Shantytowns of the suddenly poor and displaced

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Reconstruction finance corporation

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Loaned money to banks and insurance companies so they could lend money to bussiness

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Bonus army

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Brave veterans of WWI were promised a bonus. The certificate could be cashed in, in 1945 but when the GD hit they wanted their money then. So they marched to DC and took up resident at public buildings.

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Franklin D Roosevt

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Crippled by polio. Elected 1932. Wins in a landslide

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The number of terms FDR was as president

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4

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New deal

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The more g’ment spending the better

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John Maynard Keyenes

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British economist, believed g’ment should pay attention to demand . G’ment should spend money, supported FDR’s new deal

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France’s Perkins

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First female cabinet member

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Emergency banking bill

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1st bill passed in FDR’s first 100 days. Was passed to deal with the runs on the banks.

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Securities and exchange commission

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Created to regulate the stock market. Joseph Kennedy was the first one go head this

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Agricultural adjustment act

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Sought to stop overproduction of crops. Paid farmers to kill livestock and crops

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Social security act of 1935

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Helped retires pay into the system. Once you were 65 you could collect the money. Townsend supported this. One flaw was it didn’t support domestic and farmers .

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Rural electrification

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Provided electricity to farmers

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Tennessee valley authority

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G’ment entity, took contr by taking water and giving electricity to the Tennessee valley

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Nation labor relations act

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Named after senator rover Wagner of New York. It permitted collective bargaining because of the belief that it ensures equality and protects the flow of business

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Goals of the new deal

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Relief recovery reform

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Conservative criticisms new deal

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It made g’ment too powerful and threatened individual rights

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Liberal criticism of new deal

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Did not go far enough

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Senator Huey long

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Liberal critics, initially supported but he came to think it did not do enough. Want to tax the wealthy then redistribute that wealth

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American liberty league

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Made up of conservative democrats and republicans to oppose the new deal

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Social Darwinists

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The idea of survival of the fittest. Facts used it to justify invading other countries

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Manchuria

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Providence of China, Japan took control. 1st aggressive act of WW2

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Ultranationalists in Japan

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The military really pushed for renewed expansion so they could seize control of other nations resources to help them out during theGD

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Facism

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Preach supremacy of state over individual. Goals of state are more important. Glorifies the state and not communists

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Dawes Palm

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1924, Secretary of State Charles Dawes. New York banks would loan money to Germany so they could pay their reparation payments

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Nuremberg laws

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Deprived Jews of their citizenship. They could not practice law or medicine and could not marry a non Jew

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Adolf hitler

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Arrested for treason. And judge is sympathetic and sentences him to 7 months where he wrote me in Kampf. He replaced the Weimar Republic and craated the secret police

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Benito Mussolini

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Gained power legimately able to maintain power by outlawing other parties . He ended corruption by taking dictoral power

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