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| The first shots of the civil war were fired at Fort Sumter |
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1.Militarism-Led to agressive building up of a nations army.European nations spend millions of dollars on new weapons and war ships.
2.Imperialism-European powers rushed to claim the uncolonized areas of the world, particularly in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Competition for the uncolonized lands led towards Tendency of countries to act in their natural interest. Also, ethnic groups wanted to be able to govern themselves
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Economic Diffrences
Nature of the federal Union
Control of Central Government
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No single cause brought about the civil war. Rather it resulted from the interrealtionship of many complex factors. The causes of the civilw ar remain a subject of debate. |
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| The state or policy of being neutral, especially nonparticipation in war. |
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| land and carrier-based American planes decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands, also part of wwI |
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| The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper. |
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| A system of farming that developed in the South after the Civil War, when landowners, many of whom had formerly held slaves, lacked the cash to pay wages to farm laborers, many of whom were former slaves. The system called for dividing the crop into three shares — one for the landowner, one for the worker, and one for whoever provided seeds, fertilizer, and farm equipment. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| A Civil War-era declaration, formally issued on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln, that freed all slaves in territories still under Confederate control. |
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- Former Slave who became prominent abolitionist
- Urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight Union Army |
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Confederate General of the Army of Northern Va
Opposed secession as well as force to keep Union together
-Sided with South after Ft. Sumter
-Urged reunification after the war |
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| in late 19th and early 20th century. african americans began the great migration to the northern cities in search of jobs and to escape pverty and discrimination in the south |
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| the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union. |
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| the strategy employed by the U.S. military of bypassing heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrating the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were less well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. |
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| granted black men the right to vote |
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| A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. |
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- The supreme court ruled that "seperate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment, upholding the "Jim Crow" laws of the era
- Most often, seperate was NOT equal! |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| The supreme court determined the beliefe of "seperate but equal" ws inherently unfair and discriminatory. All public schools were required to desegregate tehiur facilities in a timely fashion. |
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| Buses lined the streets in washington where thousands marched in protest to racial injustice. Their ultimate destined was to the washington monument where they were to hear Martin Luthor King Jr. deliver his famous "I have a dream" speech |
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| She was arrested for refusal to give up her seat and move to the back ofr the bus where the "colored" were delegated to sit, |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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- Outlawed literacy testing as a voting qualification.
- Federal registers were sent to South to register the voters
-Provided for marshals to investigate actions of discrimination.
-Resulted in large increase in black voting |
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| Black and White activists set out to desegregate bus terminals. |
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| used as a tactic to change social mores and laws by many African American activists. Frequent abuse, both verbal and physical, was often endured by those who took turns "siting". |
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| Guarenteed equal protection of the laws to all citezens |
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| Law guarenteed african american "equal benefit of laws enjoyed by white citezens" |
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| in World War I, the coalition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. |
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| Soviet politician. The successor of Lenin, he was general secretary of the Communist Party (1922–1953) and premier (1941–1953) of the USSR. |
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| American journalist and reformer who campaigned nationwide against lynching and founded the Negro Fellowship League in 1910. |
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| An African American attorney who was instrumental in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. |
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| secret telegram sent on Jan. 16, 1917, by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to Count Johann von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to the United States. In it Zimmermann |
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| A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. |
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| The political right of the majority to the exercise of power within the boundaries of a generally accepted political unit, area, or territory. |
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| A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships. |
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| 32cnd president of the united states |
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| The Nazi program of exterminating Jews during the Third Reich. |
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| The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. |
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| Holocaust The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II |
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| The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during World War II. |
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| A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence. |
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| A conflict that lasted from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by United Nations forces consisting primarily of U.S. troops |
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| 40th president of the United States |
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| Coalition of countries headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan, 1936–45 (see World War II). |
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| detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians. |
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| an agreement concerning the treatment of war prisoners |
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| A major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II. The battle was fought in the winter of 1942-1943 and ended with the surrender of an entire German army. Stalingrad is considered a major turning point of the war in favor of the Allies. |
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| The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II (June 6, 1944). |
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| Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the corrupt regime of the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and soon after established a Communist state. |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A collective security group that was established by the North Atlantic Treaty (34 U.N.T.S. 243) in 1949 to block the threat of military aggression in Europe by the Soviet Union. |
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| A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital, into four sectors. |
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| a shelter (often underground) reinforced against bombing; used during air raids |
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| The actions taken by President John F. Kennedy's administration prevented the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just ninety miles from Florida. The crisis also illustrated the limitations of international law, as the United States relied on military actions and threats to accomplish its goal. |
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| An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world. It was founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development |
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| Communism in the United States is something of an anomaly. The basic principles of communism are, by design, at odds with the free enterprise foundation of the U.S. government. The freedom of individuals to privately own property, start a business, and own the means of production is a basic tenet of U.S. government, and communism opposes this ideal. |
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