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Test 3 Flashcards

1
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The Triple Alliance/Central Powers consisted of…

A

Austria-Hungary and Germany

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2
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The Triple Entente/Allies consisted of…

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Britain, France, and Russia (eventually, the U.S.)

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3
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What event started WWI in 1914?

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the murder of Francis Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary throne

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4
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President Woodrow Wilson believed the United States should remain _____ in WWI.

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Neutral

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5
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WWI was also called _____.

A

trench war

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6
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What were the inventions in WWI?

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poison gas
tanks
flame throwers
barbed wire

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7
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What made real neutrality difficult in 1914?

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America’s economic importance and geographic position

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8
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What was the United States’s policy during war time Europe in trade?

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All those fighting in the war (and those not) were free to buy supplies

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9
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British naval power meant that in practice only the _____ could trade with the USA. In the interest of neutrality, Wilson and Secretary of State _______ withdrew their opposition to loans and bank credits.

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1) Allies

2) William Jennings Bryan

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10
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What would cause American industry and prosperity to fall into a financial crisis during WWI?

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1) German victory
2) embargo on munitions
3) prohibition on loans
4) sudden peace

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11
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_____ was the great sea power and _____ was in the great land power WWI.

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1) Britain

2) Germany

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12
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Germany created the _____ in WWI.

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Submarine

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13
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What were three choices Wilson had in the blockades in WWI?

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1) Strict neutrality
2) Intervene on Allied side
3) Mediate

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14
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Russians get out of war because of ______.

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Internal conflicts

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15
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What caused the U.S. to enter WWI?

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Zimmerman Telegram

the Germans sinking the ship, Lusitania in 1915

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16
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What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

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German note to Mexico that said they’ll help get back Texas and California from America if Mexico joined WWI on Germany’s side.

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17
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England’s _____ on ships like American merchant ships increased as WWI continued, which caused tension between America and Britain.

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blockade

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18
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After winning the re-election against Hughes, Wilson attempts to mediate by ______.

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making a public request to both sides for a statement of war aims

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19
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Wilson’s famous speech on the war between the Allies and Central Powers was called _____.

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Peace without Victory

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20
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American soldiers in WWI were called ______.

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Doughboys

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21
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Name three battles Americans fought in….

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Battle of Cambrai
Aisne
Battle of Lys

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22
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The second Russian revolution was caused by the _____ overthrowing the Kerensky government (democratic) and led to the Soviet Union.

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Bolsheviks

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23
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_______ helped finance the war effort in America by the expansion of bank credit.

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Federal Reserve System

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24
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In WWI, Congress gave the President almost _______ powers over the war economy in 1918.

A

dictatorial

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25
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Name the boards/industries formed under President Wilson’s (and later Herbert Hoover) war agencies in WWI.

A 
War Industries Board
War Labor Board
Food Administration 
Fuel Board and Shipping Administration
Railway Administration
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26
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The _______ blanketed the country with pamphlets and speeches about the goals of war.

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Committee on Public Information

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27
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A ______ in 1918 forbade abusive language about the American flag, uniform, or acts bringing into contempt the form of government or the Constitution.

A

Sedition Act

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28
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Wilson created his famous ______ in 1918.

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Fourteen Points

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29
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The first five of the Fourteen Points were:

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open-treaty making
freedom of the seas
removal of trade barriers
impartial adjustment of colonial claims in the interest of the natives

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30
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What was the most important part of the Fourteen Points and Wilson’s baby?

A

League of Nations

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31
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Germany called for an armistice based on the _______ with the United States in 1918.

A

Fourteen Points

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32
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Who were the Big Four in the Treaty of Versailles in 1918?

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Lloyd George (Britain)
Clemencaux (French)
Wilson (USA)
Orlendo (Italian)

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33
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Germany was stripped of _____ and _____, ______, _____, and pay _______ in the Treaty of Versailles (WWI).

A

colonies and merchant marine
disarmed
forced to surrender border areas
reparations

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34
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The Senate was divided into three groups over the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

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Wilsonians–favored treaty/League of Nations
Irreconcilables– foes of treaty/League of Nations
Reservationists–accept the treaty with changes and restricting authority of League

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35
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Opposition to the Treaty of Versailles was led by ______.

A

Henry Cabot Lodge

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36
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The treaty was never ______ after Wilson suffered a severe stroke.

A

ratified

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37
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Presidential Election of 1920 candidates and the Treaty

A

Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio (Democrat)–support the Treaty and League of Nations
Senator Warren G. Harding (Republican)–opposed it both ambiguously

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38
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Who won the election of 1920?

A

Harding

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39
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Flappers were _____ in the Roaring Twenties.

A

dancing girls

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40
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Roaring Twenties were also called _____.

A

Jazz Age

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41
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Famous Jazz musicians

A

Louis Armstrong

Gershwin

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42
Q

Famous ’20s mafia boss

How was he caught?

A 
Al Capone ("Scarface")--prohibition
jailed by tax invasion
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43
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What were flivvers?

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Cars

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44
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’20s period of _____, ______, and ______.

A

Republican prosperity
conservatism
isolation

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45
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Famous authors and novels.

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Hemingway–Farewell to Ernst

Fitzgerald–The Great Gatsby

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46
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Famous movie stars in the ’20s.

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Greta Garbo
Charlie Chaplin
Valentino

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47
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Progressive causes reached nationwide victory in 1920s.

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18th Amendment (prohibition)
Volstead Act of 1919--made illegal the manufacture, sale, transportation or possession of intoxicating beverages
19th Amendment--women right to vote
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48
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_____ movie with talking dialogue (sound)

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The Jazz Singer

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49
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_____ Yankees baseball and disease named after him

A

Lou Gehrig

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50
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African American baseball player

A

Babe Ruth

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51
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_____ created the FBI

A

J. Edgar Hoover

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52
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The railroads were placed under strict regulation by the ____. This law’s purpose was partly to promote rather than prevent consolidation into fewer systems.

A

Esch-Cummins Act of 1920

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53
Q

The main public enemy in 1919 was the high cost of ____.

A

living

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54
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Citizens blamed _____, ______, and _____ on radical conspiracy in 1920s.

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strikes
high cost of living
foreign crisis

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55
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The ________ operated from Moscow and called for revolution. Its message was repeated by two small American Communist parties. A few ______, believed to be ____origin, roused public emotions.

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Third International
bombings
anarchist

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56
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In 1919, Attorney General ______ organized his famous series of raids (Red Scare) on alleged foreign radical organizations.

A

A. Mitchell Palmer

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57
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The last episodes of the Red Scare, two philosophical anarchists named ____ and _____ were arrested for robbery and murder. Despite impassioned agitation for their release, the two men were finally _____ in 1927.

A

Sacco
Venzetti
executed

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58
Q

In his 1920 campaign, Harding didn’t define his ______.

A

foreign policy

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59
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In 1921, an international conference in Washington struggled with the related problems of _____ and the ______.

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disarmament

Far East

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60
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Series of treaties the USA obtained accomplished….

A

1) Anglo-Japanese alliance was terminated
2) status quo in Far East and integrity of China were guaranteed by all major powers concerned
3) major naval powers agreed to curtail the construction of the capital ships

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61
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United States negotiated series of funding agreements extending payment over 25 years with ________ scaled down according to ability to pay for the Europeans who took loans. In return, U.S. surrendered the possibility of ______ and agreed not to fortify possessions in the ______.

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rates of interest
naval superiority
western Pacific

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62
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Congress enacted the protective _______ in 1922 due to payments by any schemes had problems.

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Fordney-McCumber Tariff

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63
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The plans that successively scaled-down German payments, stabilization of German currency, and an international loan to Germany to make these steps possible.

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Dawes Plan of 1923

Young Plan of 1929

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64
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France occupied the industrial _______.

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Rhineland

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65
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_____ emotions were appeased by drastic changes in immigration policy. Fear and dislike of the New Immigration from S and E Europe was spread by ______ propaganda.

A

Anti-foreign

alarmist

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66
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Unions opposed the admission of ______ and the advance of _____ had made a mass of unskilled workers less important to industrialists.

A

cheap labor

technology

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67
Q

Congress passed new legislation in 1924 that established a ____ system limiting immigration from each country to 2 percent of its proportion of resident aliens according to the census of 1890. A special provision totally excluded the Orientals, which angered the _____.

A

quota

Japanese

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68
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Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon called for _____ _____ and proposed ____ in taxes on profits and high incomes. Depression ended quickly (1922-1923)

A

strict economy

cuts

69
Q

Vice President Calvin Coolidge replaced Harding after he fell ill after returning from an ____ _____ in 1923.

A

Alaskan junket

70
Q

Scandals during progressive/Harding times made people believe a political upheaval was on the rise. Farm organizations supported _________ as presidential candidate for the Progressives. His platform stressed anti-monopoly, public ownership of railroads, conservation, farm relief, and curbing of the Supreme Court.

A

Robert La Follette

71
Q

Republicans nominated ______ and the divided Democrats nominated ______.

A

Coolidge (Republicans)

John W. Davis (Democrats)

72
Q

Surviving Congressional Progressives, led by __________, were able to prevent the administration from turning over to private interests the government built nitrate plants on the ______ ______.

A

Senator George Norris of Nebraska

Tennessee River

73
Q

In August 1928, Coolidge was able to get 15 nations to sign the _____ that renounced war as an instrument of national policy.

A

Kellogg-Briand Pact

74
Q

Nominees for the presidential election of 1928

A 
Herbert Hoover (Republican)
Al Smith (Democrat)
75
Q

Major campaign issue during election of 1928 was the difference in opinion toward _______.

A

Prohibition

76
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In the summer of 1929, while stock rices rose beyond all relation to earnings or dividends, most industrial and financial experts predicted nothing but permanent prosperity. Signs of trouble included declines in two key industries, ______ and ______,were ignored

A

construction

automobiles

77
Q

What are Hoovervilles?

A

poor camps during the Great Depression where people with no money or jobs stayed

78
Q

The crash of 1929 was not a mere correction of _____ _____.

A

inflated values

79
Q

From 1929 to 1933, manufacturing production was halted to a large extent. _____ and _____ failed, low _____ income was cut in half, and ______ grew steadily.

A

Banks and businesses
farm income
unemployment

80
Q

Hoover fought farmers’ proposals that involved ______ and ______. He instead secured __________, which empowered to promote such time-honored remedies as cooperative marketing.

A

subsidy
price fixing
Federal Farm Board

81
Q

prosperity will eventually trickle down from top to the bottom

A

trickle down economy

82
Q

By 1930, the _______ _______ created by Federal Farm Board were buying and storing surplus wheat and cotton.

A

Stabilization Corporations

83
Q

President Hoover proposed tariffs on _______ _______.

A

agricultural products

84
Q

Tariffs on agricultural products led to further demands in Congress for industrial protection and the enactment of ________, which ended all prospects of reviving foreign trade.

A

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

85
Q

By 1930, the Hoover administration turned to more drastic remedies. The long-brewing revolt against the _______ was speeded by the _______, which made Hoover lose support in Congress.

A

Republicans

Depression

86
Q

Hoover was able to secure large public works ______ and measures to refinance _____ _____ and further _____ ______.

A

appropriations
home mortgages
stimulate credit

87
Q

The ____________ lent large sums to banks, railroads, and businesses and eventually to states, cities, and agricultural credit corporations.

A

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

88
Q

Term for newspapers during the Great Depression

A

Hoover blankets

89
Q

WWI vets who don’t have jobs or money for their families went to White House to demand payment. The army was called in to destroy the vets’ camp with tanks and tear gas in 1932

A

Bonus Army

90
Q

FDR talked to the people through the radio and TV to keep them calm during the Depression

A

Fireside chats

91
Q

_____ ran for presidency in next election after Hoover’s scandal with the Bonus Army and won.

A

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York

92
Q

FDR delivered his famous speech called ______

A

Only thing we have to fear is fear itself

93
Q

In 1933, Congress passed series of administration measures with unheard speed. FDR’s objectives summarized as _____, _____, and ____.

A

“Relief, Recovery, and Reform”

94
Q

Direct federal help for the unemployed began with the _______, which set young men to work on reforestation and other conservation projects.

A

Civilian Conservation Corps

95
Q

Larger unemployment relief programs included ____ _____ to states and _____ for vast public works.

A

federal grants

plans

96
Q

Recovery of the economy called forth the most spectacular measures of the ____ _____ _____, measures which demonstrated its lack of consistent economic theory.

A

First New Deal

97
Q

Approaches to recovery included the ______ _____ which reflected the traditional belief that government spending somehow caused economic decline

A

Economy Act

98
Q

gave the president power to negotiate low-tariff agreements in order to revive foreign trade

A

Trade Agreements Act

99
Q

legalized the beer industry and eventually ______ swept away Prohibition completely

A

Beer Act

21st Amendment

100
Q

Most important recovery programs of the First New Deal relied on two main methods:

A

1) raising prices by restricting output and controlled competition
2) inflation

101
Q

Codes in business that cooperated with people and the Unions

A

Blue Eagle

102
Q

______ gave industry the legal right to agree on binding codes of common practice. These codes would end sharp practice, unfair treatment of labor, and unjust, below cost cuts in prices.

A

National Industrial Recovery Act

103
Q

To compensate for the end of antitrust laws, workers were promised in the famous _____ of the _____ the right to “organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing…free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers.”

A

Section 7A of NIRA

104
Q

sough primarily to raise farm prices by many and complex methods; most striking feature was a system of subsidies to be given farmers who agreed to decrease production

A

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

105
Q

_____ was provided for in an amendment to the AAA, sponsored by Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. The _____ ______ gave the president power to inflate the currency in many ways.

A

Inflation

Thomas Amendment

106
Q

Talks about the Dust Bowl and the great drought that starts in 1934 (based on true fact)

A

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinback

107
Q

The ________, formed by the President to arbitrate multiplying controversies, lacked both authority and consistent policy.

A

National Labor Board

108
Q

During 1935-1939, the ______ movement achieved some influence among American intellectuals and among some elements of labor.

A

Communist movement

109
Q

Who wrote The Jungle

A

Upton Sinclair

110
Q

“Every Man a King” proposal was created by _____ and was about taking from the rich to give to the poor.

A

Huey P. Long

111
Q

The __________ wasn’t really aimed at a systematic alteration of the economic or social system; contained no measures aimed at direct regulation of business on the scale of NIRA and none whose objectives were as sweeping at those of TVA; and main focus was to get the economy going and correct in the process some obvious injustices.

A

Second New Deal

112
Q

A special agency provided employment for unemployed youths and assisted students to stay in college

A

National Youth Administration

113
Q

_______ administered by the former social worker Harry Hopkins that built roads, schools, parks, and countless other projects and employed actors, musicians, and writers.

A

Works Progress Administration

114
Q

tried to move families from submarginal land

A

Resettlement Administration

115
Q

brought power lines to areas not served to private utilities

A

Rural Electrification Administration

116
Q

_____ laid the foundations for a system of old age, unemployment, and disability insurance financed largely by employer and employee contributions

A

Social Security Act

117
Q

a banking act in 1935 insured the banks and increased the power of the Federal Reserve Board to buy and sell government securities in the open market for stabilization purposes

A

FDIC

118
Q

go into place of protest and sit down so you can’t be replaced by other workers

A

Sit-downs

119
Q

Organized without employer interfering and to collect bargain; outlawed employer coercion and support of the company unions

A

Wagner Act

120
Q

_______ of 1935 sharply increased taxes on high incomes, corporations, and estates

A

Revenue Act

121
Q

restricted the practice of piling one company on another in the fashion popular in the 1920s

A

Public Utility Holding Company Act

122
Q

Led by ______, the head of the United Mine Workers, a group of rebels formed within the ________, a Committee for Industrial Organizations. Eventually became the independent Congress of Industrial Organizations.

A

John L. Lewis

American Federation of Labor

123
Q

In 1936, the Republicans nominated ______, the moderately liberal governor of Kansas, to oppose FDR.

A

Alfred M. Landon

124
Q

FDR in February 1937 unveiled a drastic proposal for changing the _____ ______ after series Supreme Court rulings against the New Deal laws. One justice was to be added for every member who failed to retire after 70.

A

Court’s personnel

125
Q

In the summer of 1936, production, profits, and wages had been edging toward the levels of 1929. The president acted to tighten credit and cut the budget, particularly ____ ____.

A

WPA funds

126
Q

English economist _______ argued that in time of depression deficit spending by government was necessary in order to induce and prime the pump of private investment.

A

Keynes

127
Q

__________ the administration worked hard with some success to reduce naval armament further according to the pattern set by the Washington Conference of 1921 and was the last victory for disarmament.

A

London Conference of 1930

128
Q

_____ was the most dramatic collapse of international order due to the _______ breaking the League Covenant and the Republican security structure, consisting of Washington Nine-Power Treaty and the Kellogg Peace Pact.

A

Far East

Japanese

129
Q

Resorting to purely moral force, Secretary of State _______ announced that the U.S. would not recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. He wouldn’t recognize any situation brought about by force in violation of the ____ ____ or _____ _____.

A

Henry Stimson
Open Door
Chinese integrity

130
Q

forbade loans to nations in default and created by Midwestern isolationist Progressives

A

Johnson Act of 1934

131
Q

FDR continued program of cementing good relations with Latin America. The nonintervention policy was not only restated by intervention in Panama and Cuba was repudiated.

A

Good Neighbor Policy

132
Q

From 1934 on, the administration had and used authority to negotiate mutual ____ _____ through reciprocal trade treatites.

A

tariff reductions

133
Q

Revival of international trade was involved in FDR’s decision in 1933 to recognize _____ ______.

A

Soviet Union

134
Q

In 1936, ____ opened a Fascist rebellion against the republican government of Spain. He was associated with Hitler and Mussolini.

A

Franco

135
Q

In 1936-1937, the _____ united the major dissatisfied, essentially aggressive states. Leader of the Japanese was _______.

A

Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis

Hirohito Hiroshito

136
Q

Hitler’s steps to WWII:

A 
remilitarize
Rhineland
Austria
Czech/Sudentanland
Poland
137
Q

American Neutrality Acts ()

A

1) forbade arms shipments to all belligerents
2) forbade loans to belligerents
3) existing prohibitions permanent and forbade American travel on belligerent ships
4) President has power for 2 years to list commodities other than munitions which belligerents would be required to pay and transport on their own (cash and carry provision)

138
Q

gunboat attacked and sunk by the Japanese, but apologies made without much excitement

A

Panay

139
Q

new name for the Japanese Empire

A

New Order in Asia

140
Q

In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria and began threatening Czech., which led to the ______ ______ that was created by the Prime Minister of Britain _______ that was between Britain, France, Italy, and Germany.

A

Munich Agreement

Chamberlain

141
Q

Forced Czech. to surrender certain strategic frontier districts inhabited by German-speaking people and was nullified later after Hitler took over the rest of Czech. in 1939.

A

Munich Agreement

142
Q

Created peace pacts _____ and _____ with Hitler.

A

Russia

trade and nonaggression

143
Q

After Hitler invaded ______ on Sept. 1, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

A

Poland

144
Q

WWII also called ______ _____ after nothing happens in the beginning.

A

Phony War

145
Q

What is blitzkrieg?

A

lightning war

146
Q

After half of Europe was conquered by Nazi Germany, Britain replaced their previous Prime Minister with ____.

A

Winston Churchill

147
Q

In the Battle of Britain, the ____ ____ _____ defeated the German effort to clear the way for invasion.

A

Royal Air Force

148
Q

Anti-interventionist side with the traditional Midwestern isolationist were _______.

A

Anglophobes

149
Q

______ _______ was conquered France by the Germans and ruled by Henri Petain

A

Vichy France

150
Q

First president to break two-term tradition after being renominated by Democrats in 1940 for the Presidency.

A

FDR

151
Q

allowed the government to lend, lease, or otherwise transfer military equipment to nations resisting aggressors and amounted to a declaration of partial war from USA

A

Lend Lease Act

152
Q

June 22, 1941, Hilter sent his troops into Russia in an operation known as….

A

Operation Barbarossa

153
Q

Roosevelt and Churchill met in the Atlantic on August 14, 1941, to discuss war aims and to illustrate Anglo-American solidarity. The _____ _____ was issued with their joint signatures.

A

Atlantic Charter

154
Q

document disclaimed for the USA and Great Britain any desire for territorial changes not in the interests of the people concerned; asserted the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they wished to live; it promised objectives included improved labor conditions, the unhindered use of the high seas, and the disarmament of aggressor nations as a step toward the abandonment of the use of force in international relations.

A

Atlantic Charter

155
Q

in 1941, undeclared navy warfare with Germany began

A

United States

156
Q

Open Door Policy and Japan’s New Order in conflict with each other, and long-standing _______ ______ between Japan and the United States would be abrogated in 1939.

A

commercial treaty

157
Q

In 1940, _____, ______, and ______ signed the Tripartite Pact (Axis Powers), which obliged each other to help the other in case of an attack by any power not then at war.

A

Germany, Italy, and Japan

158
Q

Neither Japan nor the USA was willing to compromise about future actions. The Japanese did say they would not advance beyond Indo-China if the USA agreed to _____, _______, ______, and _____.

A

1) supply them with their needs for gas and oil
2) restore normal commercial relations
3) guarantee the delivery to Japan of strategic supplies from the Netherlands Indies
4) give no further aid to China

159
Q

USA countered Japan’s demands for compromise with _____, _____, and _____ and _____.

A

1) Japan withdraw from both China and French Indo-China
2) recognize the government of Chiang Kai-shek
3) abide by the principles of nonaggression and commercial equality

160
Q

Became head of the Japanese military government in October

A

Tojo

161
Q

A special envoy, _______, was sent to Washington in November with further proposals for peace. While conversations with him were in progress on Dec. 7, a Japanese carrier-borne air force attacked _____ _____.

A

Saburo Kurusu

Pearl Harbor

162
Q

December 8, 1941, Congress recognized the existence of a _______ with Japan after Pearl Harbor. Subsequently, _____ and ____ declared war on the United States.

A

state of war

Germany and Italy

163
Q

Fought the Japanese at Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines, but both places were lost to the enemy; left the islands to go to Australia to take command of the Allied Forces there

A

General MacArthur

164
Q

______ tried to accelerate war production by prohibiting the manufacture of certain civilian products containing iron and steel by a system of priorities directing essential materials and products to manufacturers and consumers and by a kind of national budgeting of steel, aluminum, and copper.

A

War Production Board

165
Q

_____, ____, and ______ were set by the ________.

A

1) Wages, rents, and prices of all basic commodities and services
2) Office of price Administration

166
Q

In November 1942, the Anglo-American armada landed troops in _____ _____ _____.

A

French North Africa

167
Q

_______ and his men faced little serious fighting except at Casablanca and Oran.

A

Eisenhower

168
Q

________ was able to outmaneuver Henri Giraud to become the French leader in North Africa

A

Charles de Gaulle

U.S. History 202 (2 decks)

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