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APUSH Review #7

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World War I   A war between the allies (Russia, France, the British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918   First war that involved the entire world  
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Triple Alliance   Germany, Austria and Hungary formed an alliance for protection from the Triple Entente   Made the war larger than two countries  
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Triple Entente   Britain, France and Russia all had economic and territorial ambitions and they all disliked Germany, so they formed an alliance for protection   Made the war larger than two countries  
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Trench Warfare   A type of combat in which the enemies fight from a system of trenches   Allowed soldiers to shoot and be protected at the same time  
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U- Boats   A submarine of the German navy   Led to German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare  
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Lusitania   May 7, 1915, British passenger ships were regularly sunk by German subs, the Lusitania had Americans aboard and brought the U.S. into the war and eventually sunk   Germany promised to stop submarine warfare  
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Election of 1916   The Democrats emphasized a program of domestic reform   Promised to keep the peace  
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Zimmerman telegram   Telegram sent to the German ambassador from the German minister suggesting an alliance between Mexico and Germany   It was intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilize against Germany, which had proven it was hostile.  
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General John J. Pershing   Military general who led his 11 thousand-man troops into Mexico to chase Villa   A year passed and the general didn’t find Villa. Carranza forced war on the bandits and put through a liberal constitution  
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Selective Service Act of 1917 and 1918   All men between the ages of 21-30 (later 18-45) had to register for the service   By the time the lottery came around 24 million men were registered only 2 million Americans crossed the Atlantic and about 1.4 saw combat  
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Herbert Hoover   He led the Food Administration and started many programs to streamline food production and distribution.   Raised crop production while he reduced civilian use like “meatless Tuesdays”  
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Great Migration   Northern business sent recruiting agents into the Deep South to find workers for their factories and mills, and over 400,000 southern blacks   African Americans living in the north had rippled from the 1910 levels  
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George Creel   Organized a propaganda machine to convey the allies war aims to people where it might encouraged the forces of moderation   Mobilized public opinions  
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Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917   Effectively outlawed criticism of government leaders and war policies   These laws led to more than 1500 prosecutions 1000 convictions  
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Schenck v. United States   Circulated a flyer to drafted men. The flyer cited the 13 amendments provision against “involuntary servitude”   Charged with conspiracy recently drafted soldiers to petition  
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October Revolution   The Russian government succumbed to a revolution, which promised the Russian people, “Peace, land, and Bread”   The Central Powers were now free to concentrate their forces on the western front  
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Western Front   Series of battles that took place in 1918 during WWI   Second Battle of Marne was the turning point. The allied morale was decreased  
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Second Battle of the Marne   American troops retook Cantiguy and held it. A marine brigade blocked the Germany Belleau Wood.   It had little military significance, their effort and allied morale was great  
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Meuse- Argonne   Employed American divisions in a drive toward the rail center at Sedan   - It supplied the entire German front. The largest American action of the war, it cost 117,000 American casualties, including 26,000 dead.  
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“Reds”   Nickname of the Russian Communists   The Bolsheviks were able to obtain their power, defeat the “whites”, and withdraw from the WWI. The Russians therefore they didn’t participate in the peace settlements  
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Fourteen Points   Wilson’s ideas that he wanted included in the WWI peace treaty   His most important was the League of Nations  
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Paris Peace Conference   President Wilson and the prime ministers of France, Britain, and Italy met in Paris on January 18, 1919   Hoped to end the war  
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League of Nations   Devised by President Wilson, it reflected the power of large countries.   Would provide a forum for nations to discuss and settle their grievances without having to resort to war.  
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Versailles Treaty   The Palace of Versailles was the site of the signing of the peace treaty that ended WWI on June 28, 1919.   Created the League of Nations  
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Henry Cabot Lodge   Lodge was against the League of Nations, so he packed the foreign relations committee with crisis   Was successful in convincing the Senate to reject the treaty  
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Spanish Flu   During postwar life many Americans came down with the flu   More people died of the flu than in the war (22 million world wide and 500,000+ were Americans)  
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Red Scare   In 1919, the Communist Party was gaining strength in the U.S.   4,000 “Communists” were jailed, some were deported  
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Nativism   An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840’s and 1850’s and again after WWI.   Limited immigration  
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Sacco and Vanzetti   Convicted on circumstantial evidence   Demonstrates the fear Americans had for immigrants  
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Ku Klux Klan   Based on the post-Civil War terrorist organization, the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was founded in Georgia in 1915 by William Simmons to fight the growing "influence" of blacks, Jews and Catholics in US society   It experienced phenomenal growth in the 1920's, especially in the Midwest and Ohio Valley states. Its peak membership came in 1924 at 3 million members, but its reputation for violence led to rapid decline by 1929  
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Fundamentalism   Protestant movement grounded in a liberal in interpretation of the Bible   They were skeptical of scientific knowledge and argued that all the knowledge people needed was in the Bible  
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Scopes “Monkey” Trial   Prosecution of Dayton John Scopes for violation of the Butler Act.   evolution vs. Creation  
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William Jennings Bryan   prosecuted the case “Monkey Trial”   Scopes was convicted and fined $100  
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Clarence Darrow   Defended Scopes in the “Monkey Trial”   Scopes was convicted and fined $100  
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Prohibition   1919, the 18th Amendment outlawed the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors.   generated disrespect for the law but had other harmful effects  
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union   group of women who advocated total abstinence from alcohol   Influenced government to ban alcohol during the1920s  
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Eighteenth Amendment   The manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol into the U.S. was prohibited.   The first bootleggers came about  
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Al Capone   An Italian crime boss in Chicago   Created organized crime  
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Jazz Age   African and European musical tradition blended together   Produced new music  
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The Jazz Singer   first feature length introducing sound into pictures   Films became more popular  
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Flappers   A fashion rebellion against prudishness   Women became more liberated to make own choices  
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F. Scott Fitzgerald   A famous writer whose works include The Great Gatsby   Showed life in the 1920’s  
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Nineteenth Amendment   Constitutional amendment passed in 1920   Women were allowed to vote  
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Harlem Renaissance   Blacks showed a cultural expression in literary and artistic movement   Harlem was a center for blacks  
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Marcus Garvey   Black leader who advocated “black nationalism”   Give blacks more reason to fight for equal rights  
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NAACP   National Association for the Advancement of Colored People   Promote more blacks to fight for equal rights  
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Albert Einstein   German physicist   Made other scientists research the unknown including the atom  
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Werner Heisenberg   Pioneering German physicist   Proved that human knowledge had limits  
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Ezra Pound   Leader of imagist movement   New form of poetry was introduced  
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T.S. Eliot   Poet in America during WWI; born in St. Louis   In 1948 Eliot received the Nobel Prize for literature during a fellowship stay at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study  
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Ernest Hemingway   Wrote Farewell to Arms   Influenced the development of twentieth century fiction  
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William Faulkner   New southern Writer   A triumph of modern style  
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Election of 1920   Republican, Warren G. Harding ran against democrat James Cox   This was the first election in which all women were allowed to vote  
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Warren G. Harding   29th president of the U.S.   Only served 27 months into his term of presidency before dying of pneumonia  
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Andrew Mellon   A wealthy banker   helped organize Union Trust Company and Union Savings Bank of Pittsburgh  
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Teapot Dome scandal   Albert Fall illegally leased oil to Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny   Fall received gifts from the oilmen totaling about $404,000  
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Ohio Gang   A group of officials within Warren G. Harding’s administration   Committed scandals like the Teapot Dome scandal  
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Election of 1924   Coolidge ran against Davis   Coolidge won the election  
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Calvin Coolidge   The 30th president of the U.S   became the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech  
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Babbit   Novel by Sinclair Lewis   Showed the power of conformity  
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Federal Communications Commission   A radio commison that regulated industry   Made radio popular  
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Wright brothers   Made first airplane   Introduced new form of technology  
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Model T   Ford’s first car   Pioneered the assembly line  
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Yellow Dog contract   a legal contract or agreement made between an employer and an employee   prevented an employee from working for other employers in the same industry  
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Election of 1928   Hoover vs. Smith   Herbert Hoover won  
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Herbert Hoover   30th president of the U.S.   signed an act that made The Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem  
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Stock Market Crash of 1929   Much debt, stock prices spiraling up, over-production and under-consuming - the stock market crashed. Germany's default on reparations caused European bank failures, which spread to the U.S   led to the Great Depression  
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Great Depression   Millions were out of work   Hoover and Roosevelt took different approaches to handle the depression  
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Hooverilles   Shacks of tarpaper and iron along city dumps and railroad tracks.   Caused Hoover not to win re-election  
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation   Created in 1932 to make loans to banks, insurance companies, and railroads, it was intended to provide emergency funds to help businesses overcome the effects of the Depression   It was later used to finance wartime projects during WW II.  
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Bonus Expeditionary Force   Facing the financial crisis of the Depression, WW I veterans tried to pressure Congress to pay them their retirement bonuses early   Angry veterans marched on Washington, D.C., and Hoover called in the army to get the veterans out of there.  
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