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| Influences of US involvement in WWI |
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1. Sinking of the Lusitania
2. German U-boat aggression
3. Canadian merchant ships carrying supplies to Germany's enemies in Europe |
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| telegram: Germany communicated with the Mexican govt its intentions to invade the U.S. with Mexico's assistance |
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1. American railroads into single system for military and domestic supplies
2. American Red Cross sent clothes for troops
3. Liberty bonds: more than 1/5 of Americans bought them |
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Five points: general ideas
Eight points: resolve immediate problems of political and territorial nature
One point: organization of nations with the intent of maintaining world peace |
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| Why did US not join the league of nations? |
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final agreement: punish Germany and central powers more than it originally intended
Henry Cabot Lodge wanted unconditional surrender from Germany
Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and Wilson refused Lodge's demands |
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Jazz Age or Roaring Twenties
automobile and entertainment, Charles Lindbergh, electricity, radio, telephone lines, great changes to everyday live |
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African Americans move to Harlem
many writers: e.g. Zora Neale Hurston
jazz: improvisational style and blues: e.g. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald |
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| National Origins Act of 1924 |
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# of immigrants allowed into the US based on pop of nationality of immigrants in the country in 1890. Only 2% of each nationality were allowed to immigrate
led to disparities between immigrant nations, Asian immigration not allowed at all
-general fear of immigrants and communism |
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jobs disappear after WWI
International Workers and Socialist party on the rise led by Eugene Debs
violent strikes blamed on the "reds"
many people jailed for supposedly being communist or socialist |
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| Growth of Civil Rights for Afr Americans |
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Marcus Garvey: UNIA: black nationalism
NAACP: to defeat Jim Crow, against lynching and segregation, helped WWI black officers, defended Scottsboro boys |
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1866 former Confed veterans: against Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and blacks
filmed Birth of A Nation to promote their views
membership declined during the Great Depression, resurged later |
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| American Civil Liberties Union |
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| ACLU helped conscientious objectors avoid going to war, helped those prosecuted under the Espionage and Sedition Acts, to protect immigrants and labor union |
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| formed to prevent anti-Semitic behavior and racism. spoke against KKK and other racist organizations, still exists today |
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| What factors created/caused the Great Depression? (5) |
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1. growing economic disparity between the rich and middle class
2. disparity between in economic distribution in industries
3. growing use of credit, leading to inflated demand for goods
4. Govt support of new industries rather than give support for agri
5. Risky stock market investments leading to the 1929 crash |
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1. Relief: creating jobs
2. Recovery: stimulating economy through National Recovery Admin
3. Reform: legislation to prevent similar crashes |
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Alphabet Soup (New Deal organizations)
Name 5 |
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1. Civilian Conservation Corps: forestry jobs
2. Agriculture Adjustment Admin: increased agriculture income by adjusting production and prices
3. Tennessee Valley Authority: dams, electricity
4. Public Works Administration and Civil Works Administration
5. Works Progress Administration: unemployed to work on government projects |
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| 4 acts to prevent future crashes and stabilize the economy |
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1. Glass Steagall Act: separate investment from banking
2. Security Exchanges Commission: regulate Wall street investment practices
3. Wagner Act: improve relations between employees and employers
4. Social Security Act of 1935: pensions and unemployment insurance |
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| 3 Labor regulations of New Deal |
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Wagner act: unions legal
David Bacon Act: fair compensation for contractors
Walsh Healey Act: minimum wage, child labor laws, safety standards, overtime pay |
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| Roosevelt said the US should be neutral, but still willing to give supplies to aid the Allies |
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| US should not provide aid to the allies including supplies, led by Charles Lindbergh and that any involvement weakened the US national defense |
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1937 Japan invaded China and US halted exports to Japan
1941: December 7: Pearl Harbor bombed and the US declared war
Tripartite Act: Germany and Italy declared war on the US |
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1941 Hitler broke pact with Stalin and invaded USSR and Stalin joined the Allies
Allied forced drove out Axis in Africa, Germans defeated at Stalingrad
Allied troops liberated Italy
Allies invaded Normandy
Berlin surrounded by USSR troops
May 7: Germany surrendered |
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Japanese still fighting after German surrender
doing island hopping: midway US victory
US dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan surrendered in September |
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| 442 Regimental Combat Team |
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| Japanese americans the most highly decorated unit in US history with 93% casualty rate |
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| first black Americans to fly for the military |
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| transmit info to allies in code using Navajo language, instrumental in victories like Iwo Jima |
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Flight Nurses Corps
Workforce: Rosie the River symbol of these women and to get other women to work
grew Victory Gardens for food |
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most powerful weapon ever invented in WWII, controversial move on Japan
200,000 immediate deaths and later ones due to radiation poisoning |
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| Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met in Yalta to discuss postwar treatment of Europe, esp. Germany. |
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| Clement Attlee, Trumann, Stalin to formalize Yalta Conference plans |
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| 8 Provisions of Yalta & Potsdam Conference |
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1. dividing Germany into 4 zones
2. demilitarization of Germany
3. Poland under USSR control
4. Trial for Nazi leaders
5. Outlawing Nazi Party
6. USSR join United Nations
7. Establishing the United Nations Security Council |
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| US Goals with Post war Japan |
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| US goals: removing Japan's military and making it a democracy, 1947 constitution meaning women could vote, 25 people tried for war crimes, US signed peace treaty |
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| 1940 required all aliens older than 14 to be registered and fingerprinted |
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| Why did the US create Japanese internment camps? |
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tension bt whites and Japanese in California had been building
paranoia they were spies and still loyal to their emperor and over 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent to the camps |
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1. US bc the strongest political power in the world
2. US determined to stop communism
3. worked for greater equality and growth of communications with different areas of the country
4. American government attempted to meet basic needs of citizens |
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made the decision to drop the bombs on Japan and made decisions on post-war Germany
expanded social security, public houses, supported south Korea ag north Korea, and formed NATO |
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