History 1302 exam 2
FDIC
A u.s government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks. (your money is insured)
Election of 1928
Herbert Hoover wins against Alfred smith so he becomes the 31st president of the United states
(1917) Zimmermann Telegram
a secret telegram proposing a joint German-Mexican attack on the U.S
(12/7/1941) Pearl Harbor
a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. they decide to attack us because we wouldn't sell them oil.
(1917) Unrestricted submarine warfare resumes
a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning. it was suspended because the Lusitania was sunk. it began in 1917 because Germany thought that they could beat Britainn by using unrestricted submarine warfare.
Dust Bowl
an environmental disaster that hit the Midwest in the 1930s. A combination of a severe water shortage and harsh farming techniques created it. it destroyed farming.
(1937) Rape of Nanking, China
an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops in nanking china
The League of Nations
an international organization,created after the First World War to disarmament, prevent war through collective security, settle disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare. Woodrow Wilson creates it. It is part of the treaty of Versailles. The senate rejects it so we continue to be at war with Germany.
John pershing (Black Jack)
commanded the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe during World War I.
Election of 1936
franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Governor Alf Landon with 46 states. he continues to be the 32nd president of the US
(9/1/1939) World War Two begins
germany invaded poland which causes the beginning of WWII
(1939) Germany invades Poland
germany makes a pact with russia to divide poland, after the invasion that lasted 4 weeks and ended in poland's defeat England and France declare war on Germany initiating WWII
W.E.B. Dubois
he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.)
admiral nagumo
he used up 353/425 planes?. after 2 strikes he decides to go back to japan instead of bombing our oil reserves.
Babe Ruth and the rise of baseball
he was a pitcher for red socks before he got traded to the Yankees. He was very good and millions could hear the game through the radio. this causes the rise of ___
Calvin Coolidge
he was the 30th president of the United States. he was known for his quiet demeanor, which earned him the nickname "Silent Cal.
The Florida Land Boom busts
in 1926 the miami hurricane kills about 300-500 people this decreases the land sales in Florida
Manchuria
in 1931 japan sets a bomb off in japan and blames it on china so they take the Chinese territory by force. they then drop out of the league of nations because what they did is banned. by 1937 they declare war on china.
1938 Congressional elections
in the middle of FDRs second term. The Democratic Party lost 72 seats, mostly to the Republican Party, in the House of Representatives. The Democrats also lost 7 seats to the Republicans in the U.S. Senate. FDR promotes primary democrats and only one wins.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
it was established under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. they build things in every county and put people back to work
Spirit of Saint Louis
it was the aircraft that Charles Lindbergh used in his transatlantic flight. The Spirits of St. Louis were one of two teams still in existence at the end of the American Basketball Association. they got their name from the the aircraft that Charles Lindbergh used.
Russia out, USA in
Under the treaty of breast-litovks Russia retreat from wwII and usa goes in
Battle of Verdun (1916)
it was the largest and longest battle of the First World War between the German and French armies. it killed 250,000 french and it cost Germany $200,000
Neutrality Acts
limit U.S. involvement in future wars.
Spring 1918-Germany's last chance
loose to france (close fight) USA aid France.
the allies
Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States.
triple alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Herbert Hoover the Great Engineer
He gets made fun in the phrase.... The stock market crashes so he loses the next election to FDR
Francisco Franco
The general and dictator ,___ ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
election of 1932
. Hoover Lost due to the prohibition and the stock market crash. FDR won and became the 32nd president of the United states
(1919) Wilson's stroke
He has a stroke that paralyzes ½ of his body.
Edith Wilson
She controls the access after woodrow wilson's stroke.
pancho villa
a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. Invades New Mexico during WWI
Munich Crisis and the Sudetenland
was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders (sudetenland) mainly inhabited by German speakers
Hoovervilles
was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it.
Japan seizes French Indochina
was a short undeclared military confrontation between the Empire of Japan and Vichy France (unoccupied "Free Zone") in northern Indochina. they do this to get oil.
The 100 Days
was perhaps the Great Depression's darkest hour. The stock market had plunged 85% from its high in 1929, and nearly one-fourth of the workforce was unemployed. it is a feverish period of legislation.
(1940) Fall of France
was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
(1940) Denmark and Norway fall
Germany invaded Denmark (1 day) and Norway (1 month) they become part of the german empire
1924 Immigration Act
It skews from northwestern europe to southern, central and eastern europe.
Rise of radio
It was more emotional and timely than newspaper
triple entente
France, Russia, and Great Britain
Overseas Highway
113 miles, Completed in 1912, the Overseas Railroad was heavily damaged and partially destroyed in the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. the U.S government buys it and turns it into a highway
Fireside chats
30 different messages from FDR over the radio between 1933 and 1944..
(1896-1924) Voter turnout falls
80-90% of the U.S citizens used to vote. Now only about 50-60% of them vote.
Packing the Supreme Court
A move by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court and then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the Court. he did this to neutralize justices hostile to his New Deal. he wanted to add 6 justices
(1939) The Stock Market Crash
A severe downturn in equity prices that occurred in the United States, marked the end of the "Roaring Twenties." it was spread out over a two-week period beginning in mid-October.
Austria annexed
German troops march into ___ to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
(1919) Treaty of Versailles
Germany and the Allies signed a peace treaty at the end of World War I. The United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy negotiated the treaty at the Peace Conference held in Versaille beginning on January 18, 1919.
Blitzkrieg (lightning war)
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the ___. it required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front.
the central powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
Charles Lindbergh
He made the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight. 3,600 miles and he won $25,000
Vladimir Lenin
He was the first leader of the USSR and the government that took over Russia in 1917. he was brought into Russia while he was in exile at Switzerland
USA chooses isolationism
Isolationists advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics. Due to the great depression and WWI
11/11/1918 Armistice Day
It became veterans day
The Great Depression
It was a long and severe recession in the economy It began after the stock market crashed and wiped out millions of investors.Banks failed and people were unemployed. farmers were broke and things turn into 10% DOWN AND 90% LOANS
WW1 payments stop
It was a pay triangle France was supposed to pay us we were supposed to pay Germany and Germany were supposed to pay France. the payments stopped when Germany stopped paying france and France stopped paying us.
The New Deal
It was a set of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the united states during the 1930's in response to the great depression. IT DOES NOT END THE GREAT DEPRESSION
(1922) Washington Naval Arms Conference
It was created After WW1. It dealt with battleships and aircraft carriers. It turns out USA:5 Britain:5 Japan:3 Italy:1.75 France 1.75 Japan has 4 islands and they get 2nd position on the treaty so they decide to withdraw from the treaty and cheat, We don't build battleships for the next 10 years a so our ships are 35,000 tons and japan has better ships that weigh 72,000 tons
Fordlandia
It was named after henry ford. Rubber come from south america. We try to grow rubber trees and it fails
Rise of movies
Jazz singer: the first movie with sound Hell's angels: the second movie with sound. Howard Hughes makes everyone re-start the movie and add sound
Prohibition (18th Amendment)
Manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol is prohibited. It is then repealed by the 21st amendment
(1936) The Rhineland occupied
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the ___, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. (Under the Treaty of Versailles, German troops were banned from all territory west of the Rhine and within 50 kilometres east of the Rhine.)
Adolf Hitler
President Paul von Hindenburg names ___, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. unit crisis, the annexation of austria, he rebuilds his military and plays tricks to get into the rhineland
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. he forged alliances with the United States and Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Won the nobel prize.
(1939) Nazi-Soviet Pact
Russia, Britain and France met to form an alliance to defend Poland but by August 1939, Russia had swapped sides and made a pact with Germany! Through the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Stalin and Hitler agreed not to go to war with each other and to split Poland between them.
Solid South
The southern states of the United States became "solid" behind the Democratic Party following the Civil War
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force.
Huey Long
The Kingfish, was an American politician ran as a third party in 1936 along with FDR and Alfred smith. he plans to become a president in 1940 but gets shot.
(1936-1939) Spanish Civil War
The Spanish army led by General Francisco Franco (dictator) helped by Germany and italy. he wins the civil war and stays in power until 1975.
The CCC
The ___ was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed. they plant 1.3 billion trees.
Gavrilo Princip and the Black Hand
The ___trained guerillas and saboteurs and arranged political murders. Princip was one of three men sent by Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the chief of the ___, to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of ___ of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were killed by Gavrilo Princip. then WW1 started
Ethiopia
The war was fought between Italy and the ___ Empire. ___ was defeated, annexed and subjected to military occupation. Italy and ___ were members of the League of Nations yet the League was unable to control Italy or to protect ___
Al Capone
The wealthiest guy off booze sales. Taxed (the IRS brings him down for not paying taxes.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
Election of 1920
Warren G Harding wins against James M. Cox and becomes the 29th president of the U.S
Flappers
Young ladies that wore short skirts and had short hair. They also smoked cigarettes
cash and carry
___ allowed the US to be neutral with european countries and at the same time aid british by selling them our weapons. (Becase they didnt pay debt from wwI)
(1941) Lend-Lease Act
___ allowed us to lend guns, tanks, weapons
Trenches and stalemate
___ emerged due the failure of the Schliffen Plan. In the ___, the two sides fighting each other dig 1.) ___in a battlefield to stop the enemy from advancing. This resulted in 2.)___ which is a situation in which neither side can make progress.
Warren Harding and normalcy
___ is , a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920.
Neville Chamberlain
___ trades a czechoslovakia for a promise, Chamberlain (prime minister before churchill) is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement
The Great War (WWI)
a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 1914-1918
Albert Fall/Teapot Dome Scandal
a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921. senator Albert fall goes to jail for taking oil from the navy. he has a heart attack and dies.
(1941) Hitler invades Russia
operation Barbarossa aims to conquer the western Soviet Union. Germans destroy 200,000 planes in on day. 3000 tanks, 2000 planes and 3 million men. Russia fails to hold their ground. Hitler takes 600k prisoners. in typhoon the Germans get bashed by Moscow weather and Germans retreat.
wilsons racism
president Woodrow Wilson was very racist.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.
appeasement of Hitler
seized Czechoslovakia in defiance of his promises given at the Munich crisis, they did nothing when he; occupied the Rhineland ,broke the treaty of Versailles ,he decides to rebuild his military. they gave him anything he wanted
Social Security
social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. baby boomers are collecting retirement money now.
Lusitania
the British passenger ship was sunk by a German submarine during WWI
Von Schlieffen Plan
the German army's plan for war against France and Russia. The plan failed.
admiral yamamoto
the commander of the Japanese navy. he orders the attack on pearl harbor. he is against the idea because he knows how big the u.s is but he is a good soldier so he decides to attack.
Alfred Smith
the first mayor catholic party
Battle of the Somme (1916)
the impact the battle of Verdun had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme. it was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. neither side won
Eleanor Roosevelt
the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office
From New Deal to World War Two
the new deal goes down and WWII begins, (transitional term). the new deal creates many job openings and WWII ends the great depression.
Battle of Jutland (1916)
the only major battle of the war fought at sea, but became known as perhaps the largest surface battle in naval history.
2nd Battle of the Marne
the turning point in World War I. It began with the last German offensive of the conflict and was quickly followed by the first allied offensive victory of 1918. (allies win)
Bonus Army (BEF) vs. MacArthur
the veterans march for their money and win
