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US II Sem I Terms
Tosneen's Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The belief that no sacrifice is too great for one's country, force that pushed many to war. | Nationalism. |
| The enlargement of a country's power by the use of armed forces, it created international tension before WWI. | Militarism. |
| WWI sparked by the assassination of ______, heir to the throne of the _____-_____ Empire. | Franz Ferdinand, Austro-Hungarian. |
| Alliance System was composed of: | Central Powers: Austro-Hungary, Germnay, Ottoman Empire. Allied Powers: Britain, France, Russia. |
| Germany's ____ Plan: Invasion of _____, then ______, before turning to ______. | Schlieffen, Belgium, Paris. |
| ______ warfare caused _____ between opposing forces. Area between trenches known as ________. | Trench, Stalemate, No Man's Land. |
| Inventions first introduced by the Germans during WWI: | Poison gas, tank warfare, trench warfare, airplanes, U-boats. |
| Effect of British blockading German ports: | Attacks on Allied ships by means of U-boats. |
| ______ was blamed for trying to seize the ______ peninsula and Turkish capital ______. Resulat was ______. | Churchill, Gallipoli, Constantinople, Disaster. |
| Throughout the beginning of WWI, the US remained _____. | Neutral. |
| US passenger liner ______ sunk by ______ submarines, effect on US: _______. | Lusitania, German, Almost enter war. |
| ______ re-elected, defeated _____. Used famous slogan "_________" | Wilson, Charles Evan Hughes, "He kept us out of war". |
| Germany renounces ______ Pledge in 1917 and resumes unrestricted attacks on Allied ships. | Essex. |
| ______ Telegram decoded by US, in which Germany tried to ally with _____ by offering help in regaining ______ and southern states. | Zimmerman, Mexico, California. |
| Frankfurters were renamed: _____, Sauerkraut renamed: ______, because of _____ for _____-_____ immigrants. | Hot Dogs, Liberty Cabbage. |
| Supreme Court upholds _______ Act in the case ______ vs. US: ____ could be restricted if it ever presented _____ to public safety. | Schenk, Speech, Danger. |
| Women gained right to vote in the ___ Amendment. | 19th. |
| AEF, known as: ______ commanded by Gen. ______, alos included future president _______. | American Expeditionary Force, Pershing, Truman. |
| Red Scare in 19__ leads to the ______ raids, led by FBI leader ______. | 19, Palmer, Hoover. |
| _____ elected president in 19__. | Harding, 20. |
| "____ ____" scandal involved selling of ___ leases by the Sec. of Interior Albert Fall. | Teapot Dome, oil. |
| 30th President: _____, also known as "___ ___". | Calvin Coolidge, Silent Cal. |
| Railroad industry replaced by _____ industry in the '20s. | Automobile. |
| assembly line inventor ____ ____ increased efficiency while decreasing costs of his _-model, the most popular car in US history. | Henry Ford, T. |
| ______ Conference in 1921 led to the naval ______, by means of limiting number of ships. | Washington, disarmament. |
| ______-______ Treaty in 19__ renounced all purposes for warfare, except for ______ purposes. | Kellogg-Briand, defensive. |
| US loaned _____ money after WWI, who owed the US reparations and war debts, made possible by the _____ Plan. | Germany, Dawes. |
| Stock market speculators bought on "____" which meant they only had to pay __% of the price for their investement. | Margin, 10. |
| Stock Market began to crash on ____ __, 19__, aka: ____ ___. | October 24, 1929, black Thursday. |
| US income had fallen by__% by 1933, and unemployment rose to __%. | 50, 25. |
| Pres. ____ believed that it was the ____'s job to provide the people with relief. | Hoover, State. |
| _____-____ tariff reduced international ____. | Hawley-Smoot, Trade. |
| "____ Army" ordered by Hoover to remove unemployed WWI vets from the front of the White House. | Bonus. |
| Democratic nominee _____ elected in a landslide against Hoover in 1932, who promised a ____ for the US people. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Deal. |
| First Communist govt. created by the _____ Revolution in 19__ under _____ _____. | Bolshevik, 1917, Vladimir Lenin. |
| Bolsheviks also known as the ___s, who later became the ______. | Reds, Communists. |
| USSR: | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
| Trotsky's career: member of ____ party, exiled by Stalin to ____. Trotsky assassinated in 19__ in country of _____. | Communist, Siberia, 1940, Mexico. |
| Cult of Personality and examples: | A leader who is above question, viewed os God-like. Hitler, Stalin. |
| Totalitarianism: | Dictatorial state in which all of society is controlled by the secret police. |
| Italian fascism: | Strong sense of nationalism, glorification of the state, one-party system w/ strong strong ruler. |
| Hitler's plan, _____ ______ for his June 1941 invasion on _____. | Operation Barbarossa, USSR. |
| December 7, 1941: | Japanese attack on US naval base Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. |