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Semester 2...... Flashcards

1
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USS Maine

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Sent to Havana, explodes, killing 260 American soldiers

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Imperialistic

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People who want to control the govt’s and recourses of those nations

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The progressive movement

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Focused on urban problems, govt, and business

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Progressive Education

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Schools wanted to teach good character and citizenship, not just facts

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Music and leisure

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Ragtime and jazz, nickelodeons, vaudville

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Vaudeville

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Variety shows with singing, and dancing

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Theodore Roosevelt

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26th pres, a progressive and a trust buster

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William H. Taft

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27 pres, became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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Woodrow Wilson

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28th pres, throughout WW1

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10
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Henry Ford

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Designed Model T

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Wright Bros.

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First controlled flight

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Carl Marx

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Father of modern socialism

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Archduke Ferdinand

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Heir to the throne, his wife softie is killed with unborn child

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Allied powers

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Russia, France, England, USA

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Central powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

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16
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Trench warfare

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Fighting in ditches protected by barbed wire

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Vladimir Lenin

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Becomes the first dictator if Russia, leads Bolshevik Revolution

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Lusitania

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Sank off the coast of Ireland. 1,200 passengers killed 128 Americans

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Zimmerman Note

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Germany alliance with Mexico will receive the territory

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20
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Doughboys

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American infantry men with big buttons in the uniforms

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21
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The Great War ends

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11/11@11:00 1918 war to end all wars

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22
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Wilsons 14th point

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A plan towards world peace, called for a League of Nations

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Treaty of Versailles

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Forced Germany to claim responsibility for the war, loses land claims, $33million in reparation

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Influenza

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World epidemic spreads killing 25 million ppl

25
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The red scare

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Btwn 1919-1920 the fear of communism was the USA

26
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18th amendment

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Prohibitation of the consumption, and distributation of alcohol

27
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19th amendment

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WOMEN VOTE

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20s culture

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The Charleston: dance started in 1913 became popular
Jazz introduced: duke Ellington/ Louis Armstrong
Speakeasies: underground saloons

29
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Literature and poets

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Known as the lost generation, the great gatsby

30
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Organized crime

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Al Capone…public enemy #1, arrested for failing to pay his income Tax

31
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Scopes trial

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John scopes taught evolution, “monkey trial”

32
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Warren G. Harding

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29 pres, died in SF

33
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Calvin Coolidge

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30 pres, Indian citizenship act

34
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Charles Lindbergh

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Flew first nonstop transatlantic flight in the spirit of st Luis

35
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Black Tuesday

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Stock market crashes, everyone crashes, over production

36
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Herbert Hoover

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31 pres blamed for grape at depression

37
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Dust bowl

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1930 severe drought, windstorms create dust clouds

38
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FDR

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32 pres, polio, the new deal for economic recovery

39
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The new deal

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FDRS plan for economic recovery thru the fed govt many ideas to solve the economic crisis

40
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Alphabet agencies

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They would bring relief, recovery, and reform

41
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21st amendment

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Alcohol is now legal

42
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Amelia Earhart

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First woman pilot to fly across Atlantic, plane vanished while flying around the world

43
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Zeppelin explodes

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1937 a German airship explodes in New Jersey killing 36 people

44
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Adolph Hitler

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Became the Ferhur of Germany, believed in master race

45
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Arie powers

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Germany:Hitler
Italy: Benito Mussolini
Japan: Hirohito

46
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World war 2 begins

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Sept 1,1939 Germany invades Poland

Blitzkreig: Lightning war

47
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Operation sea lion

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Battle of Britain, Germany bombards factories and airships south of London

48
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Joseph Stallin

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Dictator of Russia, led by terror

49
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Dec 7, 1941

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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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Allied powers

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USA, France, Great Britain, Soviet Union, China

51
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Rosie the riveter

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Women who worked in the factories

52
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Japanese internment camps

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120,000 Japanese Americans are put in these camps along the coast

53
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Deaths

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6 mil Jews 2/3 of the Jew pop

54
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GI’s

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Nickname for the soldier “govt issue”

55
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Operation overlord

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June 6, 1944 D-day, the longest day, invasion of Normandy

56
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V-E day

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May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders, victory in Europe day

57
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Harry S. Truman

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33 pres, gave the order to drop the bomb

58
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V-J day

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Signed the documents on sept 2, on the battleship Missouri, world war 2 is over

HISTORY8 Final (5 decks)

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