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BenGHistory
History Flash Cards for Ben
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1st Commercial Radio Broadcast | 1920 |
| Prohibition | 1920 |
| Discovery of Insulin | 1922 |
| Scopes Trial | Summer 1925 - Dayton, TN - Trial of biology teacher John Scopes charged with illegally teaching Evolution |
| Charles Lindbergh's Flight Across the Atlantic | 1927 |
| St. Valentine's Day Massacre | 1929 |
| Sacco and Vanzetti Case | Claimed: - they were accused of murder just because they were Italian - they were innocent - Executed in 1927 |
| Flappers | 1920's Fashion - shorter dresses, expensive, 19" |
| Gibson Girl | - Wore Hair loose on top of head - Long Straight Skirt - High Collar Shirt |
| Coco Chanel | Female Designer - designed boy looking coats - wore stockings |
| Langston Hughes | Poet Socialist Playwright Columnist |
| Adolf Hitler | German Dictator Leader - "Meinkampg" - wanted to purify Germans - Nazi Party - Chancellor of Germany - Anti-Semitic |
| Alois Schicklgruber | Hitler's Father |
| August Kubizek | Hitler's Mother |
| Hitler's Move to Austria | - Attended a Monastery School (did well) - Idolized Priests - Interested in German nationalism - Mother died and they became homeless |
| Failure of Art Exam | - Hitler dropped out of High School - Sold his paintings; failed art exam |
| WWI Soldierhood | - Hitler found a sense of belonging and purpose - Volunteered at age 25 - Wounded during battle |
| Beer Hall Putsch | - Where Hitler attempted to force Germans to accept him as the leader of Germany - "The National Revolution" has begun |
| Workers' Party | - Hitler ordered to investigate them in 1919 - Idea was to build strong nationalist, pro-military, anti-Semitic party made up of working class people - Hitler invited to join - bacame their featured speaker |
| NSDAP | - Hitler changed name to this from Workers' Party - NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers' Party; Nazi for short - 3000 members by 1920 |
| Mein Kampf | - 1925 - Hitler's book of his political and racial ideas - divides humans into categories - Aryans are superior; Jews inferior - Hitler regretted writing it |
| Structure of Speeches | - began in low, hesitating tones; pitch and tone became higher then voice became frenzied and full of indignation |
| Campaign for President | - 1932 - "Freedom and Bread" (Hitler's campaign slogan) |
| Hitler named Chancellor (year) | January 1933 |
| Burning of the Reichstag | Hitler manipulated HIndenburg into dossolving the Reichstag |
| Clarence Darrow | Led the prosecution against Scopes - zealous - agnostic |
| William Jennings Bryan | Defense of John Scopes |
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