WWI-WWII Flashcards
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Origins of WWI
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- Assassination of Ferdinand
- Entangled Alliances
- Colonies and competition, imperialism, and nationalism are growing and being challenged
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American “neutrality”:
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- Sold goods to both sides
- Avoid internal divisions that existed in the country, although ethnic Americans took sides
- Significant ties to both sides of the war
- Monroe Doctrine and the growth of the American Isolation Movement
- Wilsonianism - Only America as a beacon of freedom in an unobstructed world of commerce and democracy
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Lusitania:
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- German U-boats took down a passenger Ship carrying ammo to Britain, and Americans passed away
- A few years later, used by Americans as a justification for the war
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Committee on Public Information (CPI)
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- Control War Narrative
- Created Propaganda and censored
- Had to shape American Morale because Americans are not interested in war
- Dehumanized Enemy
Created by George Creel
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Espionage & Sedition Acts:
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- Created in response to Socialist and worker criticism of the war
Sedition Act(1917): made it a crime to convey information intended to interfere with the war effort. - Espionage Act(1918): It was intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of United States enemies during wartime.
- Justified by spy fears/ rhetoric and criticism ⇒decreased war effort
- Led to peacetime comments ≠ and wartime comments(less can be said)
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“Roaring Twenties”:
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- People became freer after the war with their spending and acted like rich people
- Created a situation where people heavily invested in the economy which backfired
- Consumerism, sexual openness, loser restriction of women, harlem renaissance, underground protests of prohibition
- A response to the war and Spanish Flu
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The Great Depression:
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- Reasons:
1. Risky Loans/↓regulation of stagnant industries
2. Agricultural collapse(Euro didn’t need as much as from Am→ Overproduction);
3. International Economy Collapse (Germany to Britain and France who could not pay back the united states, people don’t have money) - A perfect storm where every part of the U.S. (and the world) economy was threatened
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Associationalism
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- voluntary programs for business and state/local gvt to solve nation’s economic problems
- Solution by Herbert Hoover
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POUR:
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- Generate private contributions to aid the destitute.
- Successful up to mid-1932
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Herbert Hoover
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- 31st US president
- Believed in limited gvt aid and relief(==> decreasing self-gvt)
- Called Bonus Army March=Mob –> decreased support
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Herbert Hoover
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- 31st US president
- Believed in limited gvt aid and relief(==> decreasing self-gvt)
- Called Bonus Army March=Mob –> decreased support
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Bonus Army
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- 15k vets march on DC to get WWI bonuses early
- Senate voted down–> Shantytown
- Troops forcibly removing by HH orders
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FDR & the New Deal
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- 32nd president of the U.S.
- Strong Leader
- ND(plan for US to exit GD)
- Used Fed Pwr
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NRA
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- National Recovery Administration
- Admin NIRA
- Established fair trade codes[wages, union rights, production limits, no price cutting] for industries–> Eco growth
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AAA
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- Decreased farm surplus with subsidies
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CCC
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- Employed jobless men in gvt projects = reforestation and park maintenance
