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Charlie Chaplin

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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)

  • English comic actor/filmaker during the Silent Era of films
  • Rose in popularity under the screen persona “The Tramp”
  • Considered one of the most important figures in the film industry
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The Passing of the Great Race (????)

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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)

Year: 1916

  • Published in 1916
  • Written by eugenicist Madison Grant
  • Grant argued that the white race was commiting race suicide by mixing with “lesser stock”
  • Pseudo-science based of racism
  • Very popular in its time
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Madison Grant

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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)

  • Lawyer known for his work as a eugencist and conservationist
    • As a conservationist he his credited with saving many species of animals
  • Known primarily for his works on scienfic racism
  • Played an active role in immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws
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National Origins Act (????)

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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)

Year: 1924

  • This legislation was introduced to cut-off immigration to the US from southern and eastern Europe
  • The act said that US could allow a certain percentage of immigrants fro certain countries, but this was based on the census of 1890
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“New Woman”

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American Life in the 1920s (The New Era)

  • Signature style was the “flapper”
  • They wore make-up, wore short hair, drank alcohol in public and many smoked cigarettes
  • Also had new attitudes about sex
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National Banking Act (????)

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Rise of the New Deal Order

Year: 1936

  • Established a system of national banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System
  • They encouraged development of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
    • Comptroller was authorized to examine and regulate nationally chartered banks
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Civilian Conservation Corp (????)

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Rise of the New Deal Order

Year: 1933

  • Program hired jobless young men
  • These young men worked on reforestation, road construction, and flood control projects
  • The CCC was also used to perserve National Parks
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (????)

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Rise of the New Deal Order

Year: 1933

  • Allowed the president to set parity prices (the lowest price that something could be sold for)
  • People were also paid to reduce acreage, and not grow a certain amount of crops
    • This practice was used to avoid a surplus and not affect the cost of crops
  • This act didnt necesarrily help everyone.
    • migrant workers and domestic workers
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Tennessee Valley Authority (????)

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Rise of the New Deal Order

Year: 1933

  • Created an independent public corporation to construct dams and power projects
  • One of the main things that it did was to modernize the rural south
  • One way that the TVA modernized the South was by bringing electricity to the region
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National Industrial Recovery Act (????)

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Rise of the New Deal Order

Year: 1933

  • Program that manipulated the economy in a number of ways
  • This “tinkering” with the economy was done to stimulate it
  • The NIRA did public works projects on roads and schools. A great deal of money was spent on such projects
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Works Progress Administration (????)

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Rise of the New Deal Order

Year: 1935

  • Put unemployed men and women to work on projects proposed by local governments
  • This project expanded on what began in 1933
  • This program employed more than 8 million people on various public works projects
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Social Security Act (????

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Rise of the New Deal Order

Year: 1935

  • Established unemployent compensation and old-age insurance
  • One could get Social Security at retirement age
  • Children could get benefits from a deceased parent until the children reached the age of 18
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Executive Order 9066

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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II

  • Issued on Feb 19, 1942, this order authorized the removal of more than 110,000 Japanese from “exclusion zones”
    • 70,000 were US citizens
  • Japanese were interned in camps in Washing, Oregon, and California
    • These were mostly temporary
  • Permant camps were in places like Utah, Wyoming, and Arizona
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“Yellow Peril”

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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II

  • Theory that Japanese were a danger to the rest of the world
    • Fear they would take over US jobs and wages
    • They would rape white women
    • Destroy western civilization by replacing way of life and values
  • Belief East Asians would attack and eradicate western civilizations
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Issei

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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II

  • First generation japanese immigrants to the US
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Internment Camp

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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II

  • Concentration camps that were used to hold people of japanese descant in America
    • Held about 127,000 people
  • Temporary camps were used to people until permanent camps were constructed
    • Usually stables and small building
  • About 2/3 of those held were Nisei
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Nisei

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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II

  • Second generation of Japanese immigrants
  • Put in interment camps with their families after Executive Order 9066
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Yoshika Uchido

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The Internment Of Japanese-Americans In World War II

  • Author of Desert Exile
    • ​A book about her experience as an interened Japanese American
  • She describes being taken to Tanforan racetrack in San Bruno, CA with her mother and sister
    • Her father was removed before the rest of the family adn sent to another camp
  • Later she and her mother and sister were taken to a permanent camp in Topaz, Utah.
    • Here she taught 2nd grade
  • She and her family remained at the camp until they were released in 1943
    • She was reunited with her father here
  • Went on to New York for graduate school
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Munich Analogy

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The Expansion of the Cold War

  • Analogy against weakness in foreign policy
  • Used by US government to warn the public of the inherent dangers of appeasing aggressors
    • “Don’t negotiate with Terrorists”
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George Kennan

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The Expansion of the Cold War

  • US diplomat to the Soviet Union, and he was considered its foremost expert
    • He spoke Russian fluently
  • He wrote the *Long Telegram * and signed *X *
    • This essay about containment appeared in Foreign Policy magazine
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Long Telegram

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The Expansion of the Cold War

  • The USSR perceived itself at perpetual war with capitalism;
  • The USSR viewed left-wing, but non-communist, groups in other countries as an even worse enemy of itself than the capitalist ones;
  • The USSR would use controllable Marxists in the capitalist world as allies;
  • Soviet aggression was fundamentally not aligned with the views of the Russian people or with economic reality, but rooted in historic
  • Russian nationalism and neurosis;
    The Soviet government’s structure exhibited objective or accurate pictures of internal and external reality.
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Truman Doctrine (????)

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The Expansion of the Cold War

Year: 1947

  • Truman introduced the concept of containment which is also known as the Truman Doctrine
  • In his address to congress he did not use the word containment, but did explain how the US should work to keep communism form expanding
  • First major test of conatinment was the Korean War
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Massive Retaliation

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The Expansion of the Cold War

  • The idea that one country would not be so quick to attack another country if it thinks it will be attacked with atomic bombs
    • This dominated the course of the arms race
  • Massive Retalliantion is one idea that kept teh US and USSR from firing atomic bombs during the Cold War
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Atomic Energy Commission

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The Expansion of the Cold War

Year: 1946

  • Organization that took control of the “Manhattan Project”
  • This organization kept control over all infromation about nuclear energy
  • Also decided what information could be provided to the public about atomic energy
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House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

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The Expansion of the Cold War

  • Created to find communist Americans
  • Labeled people who refused to comply or hesitated answering questions as “red”
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John Maynard Keynes

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American Culture And Family in the 1950s

  • British economist whose ideas have greatly affected the theory and practice of macroeconomics
    • Decison making of an economy as a whole (region, national, global)
  • Considered one of the founders of modern economics
  • Ideas are the basis of Keynesian Economics
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Keynesian Economics

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American Culture And Family in the 1950s

  • Economic output is greatly influenced by aggregate demand, total spending of the economy.
  • This aggregate demand doesn’t equal the total productivity capacity of the economy
    • instead affected by numerous conditons that affect employment, production, and inflation
  • Ideas to solve the Great depression
    • A reduction in interest rates (monetary policy)
    • Government investment in infrastructure (fiscal policy)
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Levittown

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American Culture And Family in the 1950s

  • First mass produced suburbs
  • Considered the archetype of post war suburbia
  • William Levit considered the father of modern suburbia in the US
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Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

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American Culture And Family in the 1950s

(G. I. Bill 1947)

  • Bill that gave a vareity of benefits to returning WWII veterans
    • low-cost mortgage, low interest on startup businesses, cash payments for tution and living expenses for school, one year of unemployment wages
  • Created the middle class, but furthered the race gap
    • many soldiers of color were not given GI benefits
  • Helped sped economic growth in the US after the war
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Federal Highway Act (????)

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American Culture And Family in the 1950s

Year: 1956

  • Plan to build an interstate highway
    • Covered over 41,000 miles
  • Biggest government project at its time
  • Used for defense in case of an attack military troops could easily tranverse the country
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Rebel Without a Cause (????)

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American Culture And Family in the 1950s

Year: 1955

  • Film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers
  • The film was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth, critique parental style, and explore thedifferences and conflicts between generations

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