Fall Semester US History
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- Samea and Hawaii
- Pacific Ocean Islands
- The Maine
- U.S. ship that was blown up in Havana, Cuba and was blamed on Spain
- The causes of the war with Spain
- economics
- Results of the War with Spain
- US won and Spain pulled out and lost Cuba
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Filipino leader, politician and independence leader
- Goals of progressivism
- better able for the government to be able to serve to the peoples needs
- Prinicples of progressivism
- Institute against child labor, public education and the right for women to vote
- Election of 1892
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson wins
- Central powers
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria who fought against the Allies in WW 1
- The Zimmermann Telegram
- coded telgram from German Empire to instruct German Ambasador in Mexico to speak with Mexican government to form an Alliance against America
- The Allies
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France, Italy, Russian and Britain Empires, and America
The Entente Powers - The Espionage Act of 1917
- United States federal law after WW 1 that made a crime for anyone to hold information or interfere with the Armed Services with a $10,000 fine and 20 yrs. in prison
- Sedition Act of 1918
- Law passed by Woodrow Wilson concerning the use of free speech, any type of vulgarity against the government during the war EX: flag burning was sentenced to prison; minimum 10 yrs.
- The Fourteen Points
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Speech given by Woodrow Wilson concerning the design of Europe after the war
It also encouraged the Central Powers to surrender - Red Scare from 1919-1920
- heightened suspicion of communists in the U.S. government
- Reactions of the Red Scare in 1920
- duck drills at schools, and fallout shelters were made
- John T. Scopes
- was charged in Tennessee for violating the act of teaching evolution in the classroom
- 18th Amendment
- prohibition of alcohol
- 19th Amendment
- guarantees the womens right to vote
- The "Great Migration"
- movement of millions of African Americans out of the southern states to bigger industrial cities, including Philadelphia, and Chicago
- Presidential election of 1920
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issue over the desruction of WW 1 and how peace treaties were going to be made
Warren Harding beat James Cox after Wilson became very unpopular - Calvin Coolidge
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30th President of the United States
was in his presidential reign of high economic boost - Presidential election of 1928
- Hebert hoover won the election
- 1938 Munich Agreement
- agreement between major powers of Europe after a conference in Munich
- outbreak of WW2
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rise of Nazism
Imperialism-states wanted to expand but others wanted to keep their own land-like Hitler - The Neutrality Act
- insure that the US would not get involved within foreign relations concerning Asia and Europes turmoil
- lend lease act
- program that let the US supply Britain and Soviet union with war supplies
- American Japanese relations in 1940
- Japanese Americans were thriving on US soil life was good for them
- War relocation camps
- the scare of every Japanese person living in the U.S. to be put in camps
- Allied Campaign in Sicily
- invasion of Allied forces onto the island called Operation Husky
- Operation Overlord
- codename for Normany invasion of Allied forces on June 6 D-Day
- American Strategy in the Pacific
- take the central Pacific on the east side of Japan and push west
- Yalta
- meeting in southern Russia to organize the United Nations
- atomic bomb
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used against Japan instead of risking more lives of soldiers to invade Japan
150,000 deaths appro. - cost of WW2
- Phillipines were granted their independence 62 million deaths
- president from 1901-1909
- theodore roosevelt Republican
- 1909-1913
- William Taft republican
- 1913-1921
- Woodrow Wilson Democrat
- 1921-1923
- Warren Harding Republican
- 1923-29
- Calvin Coolidge Republican
- 1929-1933
- Herbert hoover Republican
- 1933-1945
- Franklin roosevelt Democrat
- 1945-1953
- Harry Truman Democrat