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| (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. |
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| The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. |
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| United States Supreme Court decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. |
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| term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.Popular by Alain LeRoy Locke. |
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| 30th President of the United States,signed the Immigration Act,favor of civil rights,signed the Indian Citizenship Act |
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| United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country |
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| Italian-born US anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company, committed April 15, 1920 |
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| case in 1925 teacher John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act,unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. |
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| Became huge and targeted more than blacks |
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| Business control,high tariffs,Agricultural difficulties,overproduction,overspeculation,buying on margin,buying on credit,Stock Martket Crash 1929 |
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| World War Two (Mass spending and Employment) |
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| Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, legislative initiative proposed by Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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| established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector. |
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| For New deal, Democratic-liberal parties, Minorities, poor, labor unions. Oppose ND, Repulican- wealthy, business owners, Conservatives. |
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| established a system of old-age benefits for workers,victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, blind, physically handicapped. |
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| FDR’s New Deal increased the role of government in people’s lives to unprecedented levels |
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| group of advisers to Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first campaign for the presidency |
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| evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944 |
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| period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US |
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| people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. |
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| landing operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during WWII |
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| Under this program, Mexican workers, many of whom were rural peasants, were allowed to enter the United States on a temporary basis. |
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| meeting of Winston Churchill(British), (Soviet) Joseph Stalin,and Roosevelt early in February 1945 at WWII ending |
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| Victory over Germany & Japan be accompanied by victory of segregation at home |
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| issued during WWII by Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. |
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| series of racial attacks in 1943 during World War II in Los Angeles, clothing against Wartime regulations |
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| genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators |
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| cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, |
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| U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans. |
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| dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage WWII (Manhattan Project) |
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| 10 producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations,after in prison for contempt of Congress, were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios |
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| American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing info about the A bomb to the Soviet Union. |
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Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' access to Berlin Soviets would drop the blockade if withdrew from West Berlin.
ALLied organized the Berlin airlift |
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| Sep. of West & East Germany, Capitalism vs. Communism, Allied Powers vs. Soviet. |
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| Rebuild Europe, money for those affected by war. Soviet nation refuses money. |
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| Money for defense of Greece&Turkey to prevent Russia from taking (stopping Communism) |
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| abolished racism in the US Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.Executive Order 9981 July 26, 1948 |
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| any position or situation in which no action can be taken or progress made; deadlock |
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| Containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. George Kennan, advocate of the policy |
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| led by General Douglas A. MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms in Japan after War |
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| Accusations of communists, anti-communist pursuits of Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin |
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| American five-star general of the Philippine Army. Chief of Staff of the US Army in 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during WWII. |
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| North Korea,(Soviet Union&China), invaded South Korea, (US). Containment, Stopping spread of communism. |
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