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14 Point Peace Proposal

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Woodrow Wilson proposed; called for Germany to become democracy; it’s turned down by European countries

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League of Nations

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representation of European powers; meant to keep everyone out of another war; America doesn’t join; more talk than anything else

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Treaty of Versailles

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arguably why WW2 gets started; allies make this without consulting Germany, put whole war bill on them to bankrupt the country; reduces all of the German army, navy, & airforce; communists start causing trouble

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Espionage Act

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wants to prevent spies; in order to find spies you have to invade privacy

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Sedition Act

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disallows badmouthing the government

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The Red Scare

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The Soviet Union, the Communist International, the American Communist Party; Russian empire surrendered, communist party overtakes and kills royal family; renamed the Soviet Union

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The Communist International

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CommInter; goal is to infiltrate all foreign goverments and turn them communist; would take all orders from Soviet Union

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The American Communist Party

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funded and trained by Soviets; all Americans; blamed for race riots, post-war bombs, and recession

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The Palmer Raids

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attorney general Mitchel Palmer and assistant J. Edgar Hoover; fear of foreigners and socialists; raid homes, go to offices, question people; hardly found anything

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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two Italian immigrants charged with murder without hard evidence; confessed anarchists; quick trial w/ bigotted judge; people called for their release but they were put to death

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Consumer culture

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people are putting everything on credit; newest appliances & cars

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Flapper

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woman of the 1920’s; they curse, they drink, they smoke, they show some ankle

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Harlem Renissance

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African American culture, writing, music; cotton club;Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston; Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington.

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The Lost Generation

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The young men who came back with ‘shell shock’ (PTSD) and were never quite the same

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Stock Market crash

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October 1929; too much of the stock isn’t tangible and they are devalued; people panic and cash out, causing horrible crash beyond repair

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Great Depression

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worst between 1929-1932; unemployment rises to 25%; banks start closing and shutting down; no guarentee of money back; people in poverty not heavily effected

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Hoovervilles

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makeshift homes set up in public places; named for president Hoover

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Hoover

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does nothing to help in the depression; volunteerism

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The Dust Bowl

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people trying to go out west; record drought, high rate of dust storms; livestock killed

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Volunteerism

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Volunteer to go to work without pay, do not quit your job, do not close your business

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Agricultural Marketing Act

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farmers have been suffering; tries to set prices for products; too late for that

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Bonus Army

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goverment had promised bonus checks for WWI veterans in 1919 and planned to give them out in 1945; the soldiers wanted them in the depression; organize and go to DC to protest; Hoover gets Douglas McArthur to take a standing army to violenty make them leave, ruins Hoover

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FDR

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Franklin Roosevelt; elected 4 times; runs with ‘new deal’; preforms Fireside Chats; uses shotgun method & mini projects

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Fireside Chat

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live radio show with FDR

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New Deal

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FDR’s campaign

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Bank Holiday

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FDR shuts down banks for a week holiday; emergency banking act has some banks permanently close and money is moved to strong banks; rescue measures include borrowing federal money

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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says how much of x crop you can grow per acre; will prevent over / under production

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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Give people jobs; put them to work doing things such as public works and maintenance

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National Recovery Administration (NRA)

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set maximum hours per work week (40) + overtime; set minimum wage

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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Bring electricity and development to rural regions

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Popular Front

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Communist party in America; oppose FDR; act pro-American when Germany threatens Russia

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American Liberty League

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made of wealthy conservatives who oppose FDR;

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Dr. Franklin Townsend

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Has a growing following; believes in goverment help for elderly and disabled; FDR takes the idea and makes Social Security, the party falls

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Huey Long

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Socialist party, ‘share our wealth’; Lousiana ‘King Fish’; becomes nationally popular but is beaten up in New York, later killed

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Second New Deal

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brings Social Security & Wagner Act (prevents employers from bothering unions)

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Congress of Industrial Organization

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broke from AFL; go on strike continually; sit down strikes

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Washington Naval Conference

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Charles Evans Hughs, Secretary of State; designed to prevent naval arms race

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Five Power Pact

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Deas with US, Britain, France, Japan, and Italy; says how many ships can be built; fot every 5 tons US builsds, UK gets 5, France and Italy get 1.75, and Japan gets 3; Japanese are angry and violate this

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Dawes Plan

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reduce Germany’s payments to get the world out of the depression

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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want to make war illegal; 48 nations sign

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World Disarmament Conference

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held by Hoover, failure

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Manchuria

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invaded by Japan; true start to WWII

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Henry Stimson

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Wants Japan outta Manchuria, literally does nothing

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Good Neighbor Policy

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policy towards other parts of the Americas

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Neutrality Act

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official statement saying US trades with everyone and won’t be bothered; very biased towards England tho

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Adolph Hitler

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austrian; failed painter; fought with Germany in WWI; fought in every major battle, injured, and destroyed that Germany lost the war; becomes a goverment worker to spy on Nazi party… ends up leading the Nazi party; leads Germany out of the depression

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Nazi

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popular party of Germany; if you aren’t part of it, you have no living

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Munich Beer Hall Putsch

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failed takeover of Bulgarian goverment, ends with Hitler in jail, wrights ‘Mein Kamph’

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Anschluss

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the joining of Austria and Germany

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Reinland

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place Germany was NOT supposed to militarize (they do)

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Pact of Steel

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Germany & Italy

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Sudetenland

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piece of Germany that was lost; Munich conference gives it to Hitler; Checs get no vote; Neville Chamberlaine thought this secured peace with Germany but had taken Chec’s defense

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Axis Powers

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Germany and Italy, later includes Japan

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning War; uses Panzers (tanks), mechanized infantry, and airplanes

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Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact

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Is what it sounds like; doesn’t last but agree to split Poland for the time

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Phoning War

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Britain and France v Germany; no one is doing shit; Norway and Denmark are invaded

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Vidkun Quisling

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leader of Norweigen Nazi Party; makes things quick; is put in charge of the area

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The Maginot Line

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very resistant system; can’t turn and when France goes to help Belgium, they’re defeated and overrum

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Dunkirk

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All British boats (all of them) go to Dunkirk to evacuate French soldiers; lets British stay in the war

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Viche France

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Nazi France

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Operation Sea Lion

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was meant to take out Britain, unsuccessful

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Battle of Britain

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German attempt to take out British airforce; accidental bombing of German city leads this astray and they start bombing the cities; kids sent to live with strangers

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Chruchill

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“We will never surrender”; everyone worried of invasion that doesn’t come

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Operation Barbarossa

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largest invasion ever of Soviet Union; gives Britain an ally despite differences; Germans don’t plan well and 3 month plan lasts 4 years; casualties high because you don’t wanna be a POW

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American Neutrality

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still neutral but selling Britain all war supplies; def Brit leaning

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American Public Opinion

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v afraid

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Great East Asian Posperity Sphere

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Only good for Japan; incredibly brutal

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America First Party

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want to stay isolationist; supported by Nazi sympathizers; doesn’t make them look great

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Pearl Harbor

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Japanese bomb American ports after America freezes their assets; aircraft carriers not there (unsure where they were); Japanese expect America to back down… quite oppisite

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Japanese Americans

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lots of hysteria and paranoia; relocated

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d-day operation overlord

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largest seaborne invasion in history; troops arrived in Normandy

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