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Teddy Roosevelt

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Big Stick
- using US military force to enforce American dominance in the Western Hemisphere

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Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy

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  • Expand trade
  • Invest in Central America + the Caribbean
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Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy

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  • Spread peace and democracy
  • Self government
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Open Door policy (China/Hawai’i)

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  • No colonies
  • Free trade
  • New markets
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Social Darwinism

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Life consists of competition struggles in which only the fittest survive

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Isolationsim

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  • Laws to limit immigration (keep people out)
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Nationalism

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American dominance

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Pearl Harbor

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Causes of the Depression

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  1. Bank failures in 1930
  2. Stocks crash in 1929
  3. Contraction in money supply
  4. Uneven distribution of wealth
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Hoover’s Economic Policies

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  • Encourage states and businesses to build
  • Cut profits, not wages
  • Encouraged labor to avoid strikes
  • Encouraged state aid for public works
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3 Rs

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Relief, Recovery, Reform

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Cash + Carry

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Other countries could purchase US weapons if they paid in cash and transported goods on their own ships

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Lend Lease

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Allowed the US to lend/lease war supplies to countries that were considered vital to the defense of the US

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Harlem Renaissance

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  • Cultural Movements in literature and art
  • Novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture and heritage while questioning views on race
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4 Freedoms

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Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear

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New Deal

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Executive order 9066

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German, Italian, Japanese immigrants deported if they seemed like a threat to national security

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Prohibition

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1920-1933:
production, sale, transportation, importation of alcohol ILLEGAL in the US

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Fundamentalism

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conservative movement that opposed modernism and wanted to preserve the authority of the bible

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Marshall Plan

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US program that provided economic assistance to W. Europe post WWII (help rebuild)

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Containment

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keep communism OUT!

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Truman Doctrine

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US sends money to Greece and turkey to help them fight against Soviet aggression

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NATO/Warsaw Pact

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NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization - military alliance to fight Soviet Union
Warsaw Pact: oppose NATO

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Berlin Airlift

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US and UK supplied W. Berlin w/ supplies via airlift

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CIA
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Korean War
- NK invades SK, American troops provide aid to SK until June, 1949 - NK remains communist, become allies w/ China and USSR
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Space Race
- US wanted to send men to space first to prove that capitalism works
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Arms Race
competition between us and USSR to develop nuclear warfare and military technology
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Military Industrial Complex
industry focused on producing military goods
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Levittowns
segregated, planned communities
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Interstate Highway System
- Federal Aid highway act of 1956 - spends $129 billion to build highways - create evacuation routes in case of nuclear emergency
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McCarthyism
Term to describe extreme, repetitive, reckless charges - McCarthy made irresponsible allegations against innocent people
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Rosenbergs
charged w/ conspiring to pass secret info about nuclear science to Soviet agents
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Hollywood 10
US gov tries to "uncover communists" in hollywood
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Truman Order 9981
ends military discrimination based on race, color, religion
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COINTELPRO
- prevent communist takeover - infiltrate to divide, weaken
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Johnson's Great Society
- strengthen us against communism - funding for education, medicare, urban development, land conservation - fight against poverty and increase crime control
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Black Power
- more militant approach to fighting for civil rights/went against the pacifist movement - "sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down"
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Fred Hampton
- chairman of Illinois chapter of Black Panthers - labeled as "radical threat" by the FBI - drugged, shot in his bed by law enforcement, coordinated by COINTELPRO
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Malcom X + Nation of Islam
instead of asking for equality, TAKE it - civil rights group that was almost anti-pacifist
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SEATO
protection against communism in southeast asia
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Dien Bien Phu
French final defeat - 1954
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Gulf of Tonkin
USS Maddox was attacked by N. Vietnamese torpedo boats - US becomes involved in Vietnam
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My Lai
Response to Tet - 300 hours long - 700 innocent civilians killed, TELEVISED - ppl @ home see this and are horrified
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Tet Offensive
84000 Vietnamese soldiers attack US military base
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Viet Cong
communist military organization that formed in S. Vietnam
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Royal Dutch Shell
USSR helps N. Vietnam look for oil, oil flowed to Viet cong
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The Draft
Names of ALL American men aged 18-35 collected by SSS - name called: report to local draft board
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Domino Theory
one country becomes communist, surrounding countries become communist
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Pentagon Papers
47 volume report - we CAN'T win the war - leaked to NYTimes, other outlets, Nixon begs to not let it be published - SCOTUS declares unconstitutional
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Star Wars
Missile defense system
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Chernobyl
Pripyat, Ukraine - workers made to violate safety protocols, power surge - chain reaction of explosions, nuclear core exploded - 57 metric tons of uranium exploded
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Fall of Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall falling symbolizes the end of the Soviet Union
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Reaganomics
- tax cuts for the wealthy - increased military spending - cuts on social programs - $132 billion bailout for savings + loans
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Watergate
series of illegal activities/scandals by Nixon the 4 Wars - war against the antiwar movement - war against the media - war against democrats - war against justice
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Zimmerman Telegram
- Germany proposes alliance w/ Mexico in trade for Mexico getting New Mexico, Texas, land - GB intercepts note and gives it to American authorities
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Treaty of Versaille
Germany's punishments - take back land - reparations - weaken military - no building weapons, no tanks, no soldier enlistments
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Urban Riots/Kerner Commision
- Kerner Commision created to investigate the causes of violence in urban areas - racial discrimination: #1 cause of violence - expand federal programs to provide aid
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Brown V Board
-"Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race...deprive children of the minority group equal education opportunities?" - inherently, segregated schools are not equal
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De Jure segregation
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De facto segregation
- no explicit segregation laws, was just accepted as a "fact of life" - black people denied housing, jobs, etc
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Loving V Virginia
- Virginia anti-miscegenation law - whites may not marry an "other"
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Civil Rights Act
outlaws racial discrimination in voting, education, public accomodations

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