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WGU History Hints and Mnemonics

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Event
Hint or Mnemonic
Up to American Revolution   Please Sit Still Till I Quickly Close Our Car -- Proclamation, Sugar, Stamp, Tea, Intolerable, Quebec, Continental Congress, Olive Branch, Common Sense  
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Up to Civil War   Government Chose, Dred Sued, Slaves Returned, States Choose, Kansas Bled, 1850 Comp-ed, Stowe Wrote, Lincoln Elected, South Left -- Missouri Died For Kansas Nebraska, 1850 Bled, Uncle Tom & Lincoln Left -- (Left = Succession)  
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Great Depression   WW1,Money grew,Let's take risks,We'll use credit,Overextended,Stocks on credit,Stocks too hot,down they come,cash 'em in,No money?,Now they're worthless,Money's gone,Banks closed,Government not ready,Tarriff failed,crops stunk,FDR fixed it, Hoover didn't  
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New Deal   FDR came and: Gave 'em money and fixed the banks, Gave 'em houses and jobs, fixed the stocks and the crops  
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Major players in Industrial Revolution   Immigrants had Chavez, Andy Carny had steel, and JPM financed and ran, Rockefeller had oil and Vander Built the RR, Debs had a RR union and AFL had Adolph S. and Samuel G.  
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World War 1   Rivalries & Germany Grew, Russia Worried, France & GB said Germany too big, All too strong, now we worry, Ferdinand is killed, Austria declares war, Germany sank Lusty and Sussex, Aisne Marne battle, 100 Days, We barely enter & then Verailles  
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Wolrd War 2   Japan attacked China, Germany persecuted, Czech seized, Germany and Russia pact, Poland assualted, War declared, US said Cash and Carry, Bases for Destroyers, Lease and Lend, Britain starving, Russia invaded, Pearl Harbor, Tripartite Treaty  
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Preamble   Hey we want a new union, and justice, and tranquility, and defense, and liberty -- Not Usually Just To Deal Liberty  
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Great Depression   War May Rise Credit Or Stocks, Hot Cash Crashes, Most Worthless Banks Fail Crops  
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WW2   China Pursued Check Pack, Poland Was Cash & Carry B4 Deal, Learn & Live Britain Russia Peral Harbor Tried Treaty  
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