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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition
Who: German government
What: Sent a telegram to the German ambassedor in Mexico that said if the U.S. enters WWI, Germany will help Mexico invade the U.S.
When: WWI - revealed to U.S. March 6, 1917
Where: Germany and Mexico
Significance: President Wilson declared war less than a month later/ U.S. joins war
Term
War Industries Board
Definition
Who: U.S. Government
What: Government commission created to supervise the purchase of military supplies and oversee the converison of the economy to meet wartime demands.
When: WWI / Created in 1917
Where: United States
Significance: Part of a larger effort to get American industry into producing war materials
Term
Espionage Act
Definition
Who: Anyone who tried to oppose the war
What: Outlawed protesting the war and mailing anything to protest the war
When: 1917 / WWI
Where: United States
Significance: Prevented people from protesting the war
Term
Sedition Act
Definition
Who: Anyone who was against the war or the government
What: Punished individuals who expressed beliefs hostile or disloyal to the government
When: 1918 / WWI
Where: United States
Significance: Made it illegal to be against the government at all
Term
League of Nations
Definition
Who: President Wilson
What: International organization proposed after WWI to ensure world peace in the future. Promoted countries having representations of their problems rather than wars.
When: After WWI
Where: The international world
Significance: Promoted peace instead of war for the future
Term
Fourteen Points
Definition
Who: President Wilson
What: President Wilson's plan for having lasting peace, including freedom of the seas, open diplomacy, and self-determination for colonial peoples. Included getting rid of empires and letting people govern themselves.
When: After WWI
Where: The international world
Significance: Promoted lasting world peace on a consistent basis
Term
Red Scare
Definition
Who: Americans
What: Fear of communism in wake of the Russian Revolution that inspired radicalism.
When: 1919-1920
Where: United States
Significance: Inspired radicalism and led to the Palmer Raids
Term
Palmer Raids
Definition
Who: General A. Mitchell Palmer
What: Government roundup of 6000 suspected alien radicals
When: 1919-1920
Where: United States
Significance: Resulted in the deportation of 556 immigrants
Term
Great Migration
Definition
Who: African Americans
What: 400,000 African Americans left the south to head north and west to escape poverty and racial discrimination
When: 1917-1918
Where: South to North and West United States
Significance: Led to another 800,000 African Americans leaving the south in the 1920s. Shifted African American population towards the north and west.
Term
New Women
Definition
Who: Women
What: A new term for the modern sexually liberated women of the 1920s
When: 1920s
Where: United States
Significance: Movement for women to become independent and women started working in factories for war efforts
Term
UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)
Definition
Who: Marcus Garvey (founded the organization)
What: Organization to promote black self-help, pan-Africanism, and racial separatism.
When: 1914
Where: United States
Significance: Promoted racial separation / Garvey wanted one nation of black people and one nation of white people.
Term
National Origins Act
Definition
Who: US Government / immigrants
What: Discriminatory law that limited the number of immigrants based on national origin
When: 1924
Where: United States
Significance: Limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe and prohibited all immigration from east Asia.
Term
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt / US Government
What: New Deal agency that brought low-cost electricity to rural Americans. Built hydroelectric dams made with hydroelectric power.
When: 1933 during the New Deal
Where: Tennessee and other rural areas
Significance: Built and supervised lots of power plants and hydroelectric dams
Term
NRA (National Recovery Administration)
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt / US Government
What: New Deal agency that regulated production, prices, wages, hours, and collective bargaining. Eventually ruled unconstitutional
When: 1933 / Great Depression
Where: United States
Significance: Helped people with collective bargaining, but failed to produce the intended results
Term
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt / US Government
What: New Deal program that hired young, unmarried men to work on conservation projects, like building parks and protecting natural resources.
When: 1933
Where: United States
Significance: Employed about 2.5 million men and lasted until 1942
Term
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt / US Government / farmers
What: Legislation that raised prices for farm produce by paying farmers subsidies to reduce production.
When: 1933
Where: United States
Significance: Benefitted mostly large farmers, declared unconstitutional in 1936
Term
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt / US Government / unemployed Americans
What: New deal agency established to put unemployed Americans to work on public projects ranging from construction to arts
When: 1935
Where: United States
Significance: Kept men working during the Great Depression
Term
Court Packing Plan
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt
What: Proposal to increase the size of the Supreme Court, allow more justices, reduce its opposition to New Deal legislation. Congress failed to pass it.
When: 1937
Where: United States
Significance: Brought three more laws / Increased resentment towards Roosevelt
Term
Social Security Act
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Americans
What: Act that created retirement pensions for most Americans, as well as unemployment insurance
When: 1935
Where: United States
Significance: Older people were now able to have money when they retire
Term
NLRA (National Labor Relations Act) / Wagner Act
Definition
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt / US Government / American workers
What: Act that created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), who protected workers' right to organize labor unions without owner interference
When: 1935
Where: United States
Significance: Encouraged people to buy businesses in America
Term
Neutrality Acts
Definition
Who: US Government
What: Legislation passed to make it more difficult for the US to become entangled in overseas conflicts.
When: First passed during WWI
Where: United States
Significance: Reflected the strength of the isolationist sentiment in 1930s America
Term
Yalta agreement
Definition
Who: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
What: Agreement negotiated at the Yalta Conference that effectively ended the war in Europe between European Allied and Axis powers.
When: 1945
Where: Yalta Conference
Significance: Did little to ease tension between the Soviet Union and its Western allies, but effectively ended the war in Europe.
Term
War Production Board
Definition
Who: US Government
What: Board established to oversee the economy during WWII
When: 1942
Where: United States
Significance: Part of a larger effort to convert American Industry to the production of war materials
Term
FEPC (Fair Employment Practice Committee)
Definition
Who: US Government / military
What: Law that said no discrimination in defense industries / a reaction to worker discrimination
When: 1941
Where: United States
Significance: Helped African Americans have a greater share of wartime industrial jobs
Term
Internment
Definition
Who: US Government / People seen as a threat to US security, especially Japanese
What: The relocation of persons seen as a threat to national security to isolated camps.
When: During WWII
Where: United States, especially West Coast
Significance: Nearly all Japanese people living on the West Coast of the US were forced to sell or abandon their possessions and relocate to internment camps during the war
Term
Truman Doctrine
Definition
Who: Harry Truman
What: US pledge to contain the expansion of communism around the world
When: During the Cold War
Where: Around the world
Significance: This doctrine was the conerstone of American foreign policy throughout the Cold War
Term
Marshall Plan
Definition
Who: Secretary of State George Marshall (developed plan)
What: Post-WWII European economic aid package
When: After WWII
Where: US and Western Europe
Significance: The plan helped rebuild Western Europe and served American political and economic interests in the process
Term
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Definition
Who: US and European governments / militaries
What: Cold War military alliance intended to advance the collective security of the United States and Western Europe
When: During the Cold War
Where: US and Western Europe
Significance: Enhanced the security of the US and Western Europe
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