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World War I
Roaring
Twenties
Great
Depression
World War II
Cold War
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Describe U.S. foreign policy toward
Isolationism
Europe prior to World War I
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Free Speech could be limited in
What
didinthe
Supreme
Court rule
in
cases
which
that speech
posed
the case
v. U.S.? to
a “clear
andSchenck
present danger”
the U.S.
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Reasons for U.S. Entry into WWI
Make world Safe for Democracy
Name two reasons why the U.S.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
entered WWI in 1917.
U.S. mainly traded w/ Allies
Zimmerman Note
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World War I for 400
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The Fourteen Points
Self-Determination of Colonies
Name two parts of Wilson’s
League of Nations
Fourteen Points.
“Peace w/out Victory”
No Reparations for Germany
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Economic Effects
U.S. Becomes a Lender Nation
Deficit Spending (Liberty Bonds)
Anti-Unionism
Name one economic
and one social
Gov Cooperation
w/ Big Businesses
effect of World
War I.
500
Social Effects
Great Migration
Women work in factories
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Roaring Twenties for
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The Roaring Twenties
Changing values… flappers, new styles
Describe two reasons why the
Prohibition & bootlegging
decade is sometimes labeled the
Jazz
“Roaring Twenties”
Economic Prosperity
Effects of Automobiles
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The Scopes Trial and the reReligious
emergence
Fundamentalism
of the KKK were
examples of this trend…
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This group was left out of the
Farmers
economic prosperity of the 1920s.
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Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott
Fitzgerald
The “Lost
wereGeneration”
members of this
group.
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Describe the economic policies of
Pro-business
the Harding
and
and
Laissez-faire
Coolidge
administrations.
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Causes of the Great Depression
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Lack of gov. regulation of banking & stock markets
Name
major
causes
of the
Inflatedthree
stock prices
(“buying
on margin”)
Loose
credit
Great
Depression.
Overproduction
Problems w/ international loans
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Hoover believed that the duty to
provide economic relief should
come from the states and from
Describe President Hoover’s
private charities. He did NOT want
approach to ending the Great
to see people becoming
Depression.
independent on the Federal
government for direct relief
payments.
200
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Bank Holiday
Emergency Banking Relief Act
What did FDR do to stop the bank
Set
up
FDIC
runs of 1932?
Increased regulation of banks by
the Federal Reserve System
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Great Depression for
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Schecter
WhatPoultry
Supreme
Corp.
Court
v. U.S.
caseruled
the
encouraged
National Industrial
FDR to tryRecovery
to “pack
Act the
(NIRA)
Supreme
unconstitutional
Court”
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Works Progress Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
List two New Deal Programs that
Civil Works Administration
put people to work.
Public Works Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
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What did Congress do to try to
prevent the U.S. from being drawn
Congress passed the Neutrality Acts
into a European conflict in the late
1930s
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Bases
NameDestroyers
one wayfor
that
FDRDeal
tried to
Act the U.S.
help theLend-Lease
Allies before
U.S. Navy
escorted
British
Ships War
in Atlantic
formally
entered
World
II.
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In what Supreme Court case did the
court rule that the Japanese
Korematsu v. U.S.
Internment did NOT violate the
14th amendment?
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Economic Effects of World War II
Deficit Spending (Liberty Bonds)
Unemployment Dropped
Ended the Great Depression
Name one social and one economic
U.S. became an economic superpower
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effect of World War II on the U.S.
Social Effects of World War II
African-Americans demand more rights
Women moved into male jobs (temporarily)
Wages Rose (Less Poverty)
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Arguments in Favor of the Bomb
It would save lives
Japan would
neverarguments
surrender otherwise
Name
two major
that the
Keep
USSRadministration
out of war in theused
Pacific
Truman
to
justify
the for
usePearl
of the
atomic
Revenge
Harbor
bombs
Justify
theagainst
expenseJapan.
of R&D
Experimentation
Use to scare Soviets into negotiations
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Both were conferences between the
U.S, GB, & USSR at end of WWII
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Results
Why were Yalta
and Potsdam
Soviet Sphere of
Influence
in
East
Europe
important?
USSR would declare war on Japan
Planned to divide Germany into zones of
occupation
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Examples of Containment
Name one example of a specific
Marshall Plan: $ to rebuild W. Europe
action taken by the U.S. as part of
Truman Doctrine: Military aid to Greece
its policy of “containment”
Berlin Airlift
between 1945 and 1950
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Korean War
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To root out communist influence in
The main goal of HUAC and
the U.S. government and in
McCarthy’s investigations was…
American culture.
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The Korean War ended in a stalemate
with the borders staying
approximately where they had been at
How the
didbeginning
the Korean
War
end?
of the
war.
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USA agreed never to invade Cuba
(also secretly agreed to remove outdated
Describe the agreement made by
missiles from Turkey & Eastern Europe)
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JFK and Khrushchev to deescalate
theto
Cuban
missile
USSR
agreed
remove
missilescrisis?
from
Cuba
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