Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
History
Final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| crisis in the 1980s | massive immigration from europe awful poor living conditions corporations would try to lower wages so workers would stop working or strike for higher wages strikes were surpressed strike of 1877 was very violent laber violence through 70 80 90 |
| responses to economic change | Resist all change and seek to destroy or remake the economic system- Populism o Accept the change and try to make it as just and equitable as possible- Progressivism and Corporate Liberalism |
| Farmers alliance | protect farmers by selling and buying as a collective o Didn’t really accomplish what people wanted |
| • Alliance legislators | supported by the Alliance but then does nothing for the Alliance so they form their own party- Populist o Need federalization of the railroads with fixed rates |
| • Frederick Jackson Turner | the frontier in American history –until 1890 every census shows a western frontier o There isn’t one now so that his contributing to the problem o Can’t keep moving for resources because it is finite o No longer is there room to lack of regulation |
| • William Jennings Bryan | Democratic, Populist party backed WJB as well o A nation can be reborn in a day if it’s ideas can be changed. Also sought to use silver as money |
| • Republican- William McKinley | ran a front porch campaign: brought reporters to him for interviews, more effective way to run a campaign |
| • There was a search for order | Americans had chosen to rewire America for a corporate model |
| 1920 | half of population lived in a urban area, street cars connected cities |
| • Dramatic changes | o Communication by telephone and radio o Transportation- Airplane and automobile o Daily schedule- clocks and time zones o Quality of life- electric light and indoor plumbing |
| The triumph of Progressivisms | Industrialization continues o Urbanization of America |
| • Progressivism | accepted changes a national economy and large corporation produced o Supported reforms based upon law, bureaucracy and education |
| • Race | o “nadir” of race relations o Jim crow laws o Disenfranchisement o Lynching |
| • Booker T Washington | Atlanta Compromise Speech 1895 |
| • W.E.B Dubois | first black graduate of Harvard. One must demand civil rights before economic opportunity. Niagara movement- NAACP concluded best way for black advancement was equal civil rights |
| • Captain Alfred Mahan | Basis for any economy is world trade |
| • TR | Phillipines is America’s stepping stone to Asia |
| • Cuban Revolution 1895 | US made it seem like Spanish declared war by attacking |
| • Cold dust | cause ship explosion but US blamed Spain o Guam, Philippines then on to the China markets |
| • Treaty of Paris- | o De facto protectorate- Cuba o Purchased the Philippine o Given Puerto Rico |
| • Emilio Aguinaldo | Feb 1899 insurgent attack between his followers and US troops |
| • War in the Philippines | o 10000 troops occupy the Philippines, unknown number of Filipinos died from combat or starvation, war officially last 3 years but conflict lasted 30 years |
| • Open door Imperalism | o China collapsing o 09/1899 Open door notes, all parts of China open o Boxer Rebellion o Chinese were fighting Europeans without declaration of war o China divided into sections: Germany, Russia, France, US |
| • 1920s Agricultural Crisis | o Economic Problems o Consumer economy is durable goods o Stock market speculation |
| • The Great Depression | o Consumers and businesses increasingly failed to pay their debts o Foreign debtors defaulted on their loans o Credit tightened making it harder to borrow |
| • World Wide Depression | o 1929-1932 World Industrial Production fell 40% o World trade fell 66% o US production fell 150% o Unemployment rose above 30% o Bread lines o Agriculture collapsed |
| • New Deal and WWII | o General Douglas McArthur called in to deal with Bonus Marchers o Hoover continued to say nothing was wrong o Idea for revolution spread |
| • FDR | VP in the 1920s lost ability to walk, rehab at Warm Springso Entered back into politics saying he didn’t know what the government can do but lets use bold experimentation o Brain Trust- best economist, historian, businessman |
| o First Hundred Days | March 5, 1933- National Bank Holiday Special Session of Congress 15 Major pieces of legislature in 3 months Alphabet Soup |
| Later New Deal Programs | • WPA • Social Security Act of 1935 • National Labor Regulations Act of 1936 • Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 |
| • Vienna City Hall- | second time he was blinded, as he was lying on the bed he hears that Germany has surrendered and swore to himself he would recover and enter politics, to restore the rightful place of Germany- Hitler |
| • Nazi created vast empire, goal is to use those enslaved for work | o Purify Germany and its empire, to cleanse it of its impure elements |
| • Lend Lease- | We finance the war-related things needed to fight to Britain and the Soviet Union –Now mobile |
| • Future of World after WWII | o United Nations break down barriers, ultimately need a world government modeled after US Government o Albert Einstein- technological utopias o Henry Wallace and the Century of the Common Man |
| • Containment | o Vandenberg only way to get people to agree to containment is to scare the hell out of them: perfect target is Russia and its communist government |
| • Reasons for containment | o Communism appeals to poor people and after war most people are POOR |
| • Empire & Political Security | o National security act of 1947 creates the Department of Defense o Creates National Security Resources Board o Creates Air Force o Creates CIA o Creates the National Security Council o Selective service act of 1948- peace time draft |
| • Cold War Grows | o 1946- Churchill coins the phrase the “Iron Curtian” o 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia o 1948-1949- Berlin Crisis- USSR creates the Berlin blockade |
| Cold War Grows contd | o US uses airspace to overcome blockade, Russia gave up o September of 1949- Soviet A Bomb o Nov- Dec 1949- Chinese Civil War won by Communist Forces |
| • NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| • NSC | 68- April 1950 |
| • MAD | Mutual assured destruction” |
| • War in Korea | North invaded South, US helped South |
| o Economic Growth | 1945- economy grew 4% per year Growth of suburbs and cars Growth of corporations |
| • Highlander Folk School workshop | o Rosa Parks- attended and learned nonviolent resistance o MLK Jr. arrested in Montgomery in 1956 Asked white Christians “what would Jesus do” |
| • Idealism | Peace Corp |
| • Nashville Movement | students of all race protested by nonviolent resistance- college students can change our society |
| • University of California | Free speech protest |
| • Youthful Idealism reflected in the election of JFK | when assassinated Lyndon B Johnson continued and got things passed in Congress but urging them it was what JFK would want |
| • Idealism spread to containment | Soivets deluded poor people into loving communism- so the US need to show that it is wrong (Policemen of the world) |
| • Ho Chi Mihn- | organized resistance to Japanese in SE Asia, US (Truman President) supported France going into French Indo China, Ho Chi Mihn felt betrayed believed US would help them get their freedom. French against the Vietminh. |
| Dien Bein Phu 1954 | had a battle for peace- didn’t work. Need US help, US doesn’t help and French surrender met in Geneva Accord 1954- all of French Indochina is freed. Diem put in charge of South Vietnam but not favored to win the election, so elections were cancelled. |
| • National Liberation Front | sought to free South Vietnam from American colonialism so they create the Vietcong supported by North Korea. Buddhist monastery turns against Diem and in 1963 he is overthrown and murdered |
| • A military dictatorship took over and wanted Americas help. | In 1964, South Vietnam bombed some places in North Vietnam and US ships blocked theNV patrol boat in pursuit of the South Vietnamese |
| • A military dictatorship took over and wanted Americas help. contd | so they fired on the US ships and got blown to nothing in the Gulf of Tonkin. President got a blank check from Congress to support American policy in Southeast Asia. |
| • In 1965 | constructed Air field at Da Nang, US has to punish NV for supporting insurgencies with Operation Rolling Thunder. Send in marines for search and destroy missions. |
| • General William Westmoreland | the most important thing is to kill more of them than they kill of us- body count. |
Created by:
OoMinorityoO
Popular Standardized Tests sets