History keeney midterm
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- espionage
- spying
- Babe Ruth
- Major League Baseball player for the Yankees. He set the record for the most homeruns in the season.
- sedition
- trader
- aryan
- hitler's ideal race containing blond hair blue eyes
- flapper
- a young woman in 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress.
- neutral
- not taking sides
- Abraham Flexner (page 23):
- ): He was and educator who was asked by Carnegie Foundation to study medical schools in Amercia, insepcted each of the country's 155 medical schools and ddescirbed them as horrible. He spoke out against them and became very influential.
- eugenics
- social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention
- kristallnacht
- a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9-10, 1938. On a single night, 91 Jews were murdered and 25,000-30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps
- Jesse Owens
- He was an African that set the record for running at the German Olympics a when Hitler was Chancellor 1936.
- suffragist
- an advocate of the extension of voting rights. In the 20s it was for women and women's right to vote. Many women fought for the right to vote.
- Woodrow Wilson
- elected in 1917. Created the 14 points and lead the US through WWI even though he was against it at first. He wanted to do everything to lead his nation on a path of righteousness. He also wanted to be a peace maker. He was well admired. His 14 points wanted to give out democracy.
- prohibition
- Prohibition was the banning of alcohol making alcohol more "fashionable" and caused more illegal clans.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:
- He is a supreme court judge who stated that free is speech is not a clear and present danger. He is saying that free speech is a guareenteed and that people in the US are allowed to speak out against the War because of relatives and that people should not condemn them as traders. (no clear and present danger.) page 20
- Charles A lindbergh
- He was the first person to fly to paris france a trans atlantic flight. He flew around the eifel tower and arrived in paris.
- bootlegger
- someone who sells illegal alcohol
- Louis Armstrong
- A famous African American trumpet player who played jazz.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- She was an athletic girl who was better than the boys in softball so it gave her the Babe. She was an all American basketball player, and a softball star. She competively was a tennis player, a swimmer and she did some boxing
- isolation
- serparating oneself from other nations
- epidemic
- a local spread of disease
- Georges Clemenceau Jr
- A french men that supported Woodrow Wilson and signed off on the League of Nations. He was the prime minister of France at the Treaty of Versailles and wanted reparations.
- inquisition
- persecution against all races that weren't christian, done by the roman catholic church.
- antisemiticism
- the hatred towards jews
- pandemic
- a world wide spread of disease
- Duke Ellington
- A famous African American piano player who was inspired by all diferent cultures.
- xenophobia
- fear of strangers
- self determination
- a country choosing a path for itself.
- Robert H Goddhard
- In 1935 he was the first man to shoot a liquid fuel rocket into the air at supersonic speed.
- anarchist
- an anarchism (no government)