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America since 1890
Final review
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History
Undergraduate 2
12/01/2010

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VE DAY
Definition
May 8th 1945
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Operation Barbarossa
Definition
Hitlers greatest mistake , the surprise invasion of the Soviet Union
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Battle of Okinawa
Definition
Heavy air attacks from kamikazi suicide planes
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VJ Day
Definition
August 15, 1945
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Anschluss
Definition
Annexation of Austria
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Douglas MacArthur
Definition
Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific
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Operation Sea Lion
Definition
Hitler's Planned invasion of Great Britain
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Battle of Guadalcanal
Definition
First offensive against the Japanese from US
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Battel of the Coral Sea
Definition
All fighting carried out on carrier based planes
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Operation Overlord
Definition
Allied invasion of Normandy
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D-Day
Definition
June 6th 1944
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Hitlers last offensive ... Dec 1944
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Appeasement
Definition
British policy of doing business with Adolf Hitler
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Selective Training and Service Act
Definition
First peacetime draft in US History
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German Invasion of Poland
Definition
September 1st, 1939
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German Air Force
Definition
Luftwaffe
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Erwin Rommell
Definition
the desert fox
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Definition
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII
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Hiroshima
Definition
August 6, 1945
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Russo-German Non aggressive pact
Definition
Pact signed by Hitler and Soviet that shocked the world
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Winston Churchill
Definition
War time prime minister of Great Britain
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
attack by Japanese at Hawaii... Dec 7th 1941
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Lend-Lease Act
Definition
Allowed for the sale, transfer, lending or leasing of arms
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Crisis in the 1920's
Definition
Evolution, Prohibition and Stock Market Crash... not banking
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WEB DuBois
Definition
Founder of the NAACP
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Dawes Plan
Definition
solution to Germany's war reparations after WWII
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Andrew Mellon
Definition
Secretary of the Treasury under several US presidents
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Business in trouble during 1920s
Definition
Railroads, Agriculture, Coal Mining... not auto industry
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Black Tuesday
Definition
stock market crash in 1929, Oct 29th
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Causes of the Great Depression
Definition
Uneven distribution of wealth, easy credit, and unbalanced foreign trade...not not enough food
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The New Deal
Definition
President Roosevelts promise to the American People during the depression
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Civilian Conservation Corps.
Definition
provided jobs for young males on conservation projects
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
Definition
aided farmers and regulated crop production
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Fair Labor Standards Act
Definition
set up minimum wage in the US
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How did Roosevelt Address the banking crisis in the US?
Definition
closed all banks and reopened the solvent ones
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Fireside Chats
Definition
way to communicate between Roosevelt and americans... explained the new deal
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Definition
New Deal legislature that protected bank deposits
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Public Works Administration
Definition
created as part of the new deal to creat jobs in public works
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TVA
Definition
set up to develop the nations natural resources
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Red Scare
Definition
the fear of communists in the early 1920s
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National Origins Act
Definition
established a quota system for immigration in the US
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Social Security Act
Definition
provided a pension for the elderly, their spouses and the handicapped
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John J. Pershing
Definition
Commander of US forces during WWI
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"Blank Check"
Definition
German assurance of support for Austria Hungary
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Nationalism
Definition
the immediate case of WWI
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Sussex Pledge
Definition
Germany agreed to not sink any more ocean liners
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Schlieffen
Definition
German war plan to stop 2 front war
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Jutland
Definition
only major naval battle during WWI
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Triple Alliance
Definition
Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary
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Battle of Ypres
Definition
Battle in which Germany introduced poison gas
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Government bonds
Definition
one way US paid for WWI
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League of Nations
Definition
World Organization the US failed to join
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Definition
assassinated on June 28th 1914
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Lusitania
Definition
English passenger liner sunk by a German U boat
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Unrestricted sub warfare
Definition
the major reason US joined WWI
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Bolshevik Revolution
Definition
Reason the Russians withdrew form WWI
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Battle of Masurian Lakes and Tannenberg
Definition
Catastrophes for the Russian armies
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Espionage/Sedition Acts
Definition
passed to stop criticism of the US war effort
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Marne
Definition
Battle of attrition... stalemate.... on the western front
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Versailles
Definition
Treaty signed to end WWI with Germany
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Triple Entente
Definition
France, Russia, Great Britain
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National War Labor Board
Definition
Set up by Wilson to deal with disputes between Management and labor during WWI
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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition
this suggested an alliance between Mexico and Germany
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Best equipped army
Definition
advantage of the central powers
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Manpower
Definition
advantage of the allied powers
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Battle of Somme
Definition
Battle in which British introduced the tank
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Causes of WWI
Definition
Nationalism, Economic Imperialism, Rivaling Alliances, Militarism, International Anarchy
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President Wilson Fourteen Points (3)
Definition
Open Covenant, Arms Reduction, Freedom of the Seas
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Imperialism
Definition
the acquiring of overseas colonies
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Yellow Journalism
Definition
Attempt by American newspaper to use sensationalism to sell newspapers
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Delome Scandal
Definition
Scandal invloving the Spanish Ambassador to the US
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Dollar diplomacy
Definition
Policy of America bankers taking over foreign debts in Latin America
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USS Maine
Definition
Incident which convinced Congress to go to war against Spain
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Rough Riders
Definition
Calvary regiment led by Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War
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Income Tax
Definition
economic proposal put forth by the Populist movement... 16th amendment
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
warned Europe to stay out of Latin America
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McKinley Tariff Act
Definition
The raised duties on manufactured goods to the highest in US history
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Admiral Mahan said US must aquire....
Definition
modern naval fleet, panama canal, pacific islands, Caribbean navy bases
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Colonies US acquired as a result of Spanish American War
Definition
Puerto Rico, Guam
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Definition
Act passed by Congress in 1906 to regulate the food and drug industry
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Direct Election of Senators
Definition
Amendment 17th to the US Constitution
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Clayton Act
Definition
Act passed by Congress in 1914 which gave labor unions the right to strike, exist, bargain, etc...
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"New Freedom"
Definition
Wilsons campaign theme during the election on 1912
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Progressive
Definition
Reform movement aimed at improving society after the turn of the century
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Federal Reserve Act
Definition
Act passes in 1913 to regulate the banking industry
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Underwood-Simmons Act
Definition
Act passes by Congress in 1913 which lowered the tariff from 41% to 29%
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Bull Moose
Definition
3rd party started by Teddy Roosevelt in 1912
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Payne-Aldrich Act
Definition
Act passed under President Taft in 1909 to cut tariffs in the US
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Hepburn Act
Definition
Act passed by Congress in 1906 which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to act against the railroads
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Upton Sinclair
Definition
Writer who exposed the working conditions in the meat packing industry
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Muckrackers
Definition
name given to writers who exposed corruption, ills of society and working conditions in the early 1900s
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Square Deal
Definition
Media nickname for Roosevelt's plan to reform during the 1904 campaign
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Robert LaFollette
Definition
Progressive Governor of Wisconsin in 1900--his successful reform became a model for other states
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Teddy Roosevelt
Definition
Progressive President of the US--was successful in prosecuting many trusts
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Recall
Definition
allowed voters to remove elected officials from office
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National Labor Union
Definition
the first national labor union
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Patronage
Definition
practice of paying off people to vote for a certain candidate of party
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Yellow Dog Contract
Definition
a signed pledge not to join a union
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Big Business
Definition
Politicians turned to this group for support after loosing patronage
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Pinkertons
Definition
private detectives used to infiltrate unions and break up strikes
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Populist
Definition
Reform movement led by farmers in the late 1800s
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Knights of Labor
Definition
Union founded bu 1869 bu Uriah Stevens --organizations of individuals
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Ellis Island
Definition
Chief immigration station of the US in the late 1800s
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injunction
Definition
court order used my management to get workers back to work
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Haymarket Affair
Definition
Riot which took place in Chicago May 4th 1886
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American Federation of Labor
Definition
Union founded by Samuel Grompers
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initiative
Definition
enable people to introduce bills to Congress
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Industrial Workers of the World
Definition
Union founder my miners, dockworkes, lumbermen..etc
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Pendelton Act
Definition
Act that set up a merit system for federal jobs
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Referendum
Definition
would allow people to vote on bills after being passed by state legislature
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tariffs
Definition
income source prior to income tax
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sweatshops
Definition
used to parcel out work to a contractor on a piecework basis
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John D. Rockefeller
Definition
Oil tycoon
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Samuel Morse
Definition
invented telegraph machine
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Alexander G. Bell
Definition
Invented telephone
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Revolutionized the steel industry
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Professor C.F. Dowd
Definition
convince railroads to adopt time zones
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Boss Tweed
Definition
Leader of the political machine scandal involving Tammany Hall in NYC
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Christopher Sholes
Definition
invented typewriter
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Horatio Alger
Definition
wrote books on the rags to riches theme
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Thomas Edison
Definition
harnessed electricity
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Railroads involved in the first transcontinental railroad
Definition
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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Americas problems during the Industrial age
Definition
housing, transportation, water and sanitation, law and order
Term
Issue between farmers and railroads
Definition
tariffs
Term
Credit Mobilier
Definition
Scandal involving the Union Pacific Railroad
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Grangers
Definition
Organized by farmers in 1867 that turned into a political movement to fight the railroad
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United Nations
Definition
US, Britain, France, Russia, and China.. 6 rotating nations
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Germany divided into 4 zones after WWII...
Definition
Britain, US, France, and Russia... Russia stayed causing cold war
Term
Harry S. Truman
Definition
The buck stops here
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Point System
Definition
used to determine who returned home
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Taft-Harley Act
Definition
prohibited closed shops... shops in which you had to be a part of the union to get hired
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NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
defensive alliance of Soviet Union and allies
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McCorran Internal Security Act
Definition
unlawful to plan any action that may lead to communism
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McCarthyism
Definition
Senator of Wisconsin, thought all government was overrun with communists
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Korean War
Definition
N Korean communist try to take over S. Korea... cease fire country split at 38th parallel
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Sweatt vs. Plainter
Definition
separate law school for black student
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Brown vs. BOE
Definition
overturned Plessy vs Ferguesson...establish integration in schools in due haste
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
Definition
set up comission and gave ability to file lawsuits id needed
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Dulles--Massive Retaliation
Definition
if US decided necessary can use nukes against an agressor
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Eisenhower Doctrine
Definition
speech that stated the US will defend the Middle East against soviet attack
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Indochina... vietnam
Definition
colony of France, country divided at 17ths parallel
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Nov 22, 1963
Definition
Assassination of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas Texas... superseded by LBJ
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