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Airplanes, rifles, pistols, and machine guns were new technology used in the war.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that sparks World War I.
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Russia mobilizes its vast army to intervene against Austria-Hungary in favor of its ally, Serbia. This move starts a chain reaction that leads to the mobilization of the rest of the European Great Powers, and inevitably to the outbreak of hostilities.
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Germany invades Belgium, beginning World War I.
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A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans.
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Reacting to international outrage at the sinking of the Lusitania and other neutral passenger lines, Kaiser Wilhelm suspends unrestricted submarine warfare. This is an attempt to keep the United States out of the war, but it severely hampers German efforts to prevent American supplies from reaching France and Britain.
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British intelligence gives Wilson the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. In return, Germany promises to return to Mexico the "lost provinces" of Texas and much of the rest of the American Southwest. Mexico declines the offer, but the outrage at this interference in the Western Hemisphere pushes American public opinion to support entering the war.
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Congress passes the Selective Service Act authorizing the draft. Although criticized for destroying democracy at home while fighting for it abroad, President Wilson claims he sees no other option and signs the bill into law.
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The Germans sign a peace treaty with the new Bolshevik government of Russia. The terms of the treaty give Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukraine and Poland, and peace on the Eastern Front allows Germany to shift soldiers to the Western Front, causing serious problems for the French, British, and Americans.
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A promise from Germany not to attack ships without warning.
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One of the most important treaties in the world that brought world war 1 to an end. Ended state of war between Germany and allied powers. The allied powers came together to create it.
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Person who smuggled alcohol
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An illegal bar that served alcohol during prohibition
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The use of print and broadcast methods to communicate to large numbers of people, produced a national culture
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An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem New York known as "negro movement" during the time.
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A young science teacher challenged a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution.
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One party control of people and land
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President Harding's slogan to Americans that America needed to return to the "normal" way of life before WW1
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the time period where America was "dry" of alcohol due to 18th amendment.
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Young woman declared independence from traditional rules
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A bribery scandal where 2 guys, Harry Sinclair, and Edward Doheny bribed Albert fall to lease the teapot dome reserve to them. Albert got jail time while they got off hook.
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Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas
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Allowed payment for items over a period of time.
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The practice of buisnesses providing welfare services to their employees
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Investors bought a stock for a fraction of its price and borrowed the rest
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Process in which each worker does one special task which makes it more efficient.
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A model representing nations economic activity and strength.
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Recession- slow down in economy for 2 consecutive quarters or 6 months in a row. people nervous and cautious
Depression- break down in the economy. people panic
Recovery- active economic growth people become optimistic
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unemployment averages were at 3.2% for the year
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American stock markets crashed, the start of the great depression.
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It was a worldwide economic depression. It began after the stock market crash. It sent Wall Street into panic and wiped millions of investors.
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New York stock market crashed stock brokers wanted to continue selling their stocks.
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Congress passed it raising import duties in an attempt to protect manufacturers from their foreign competition. The Tariff increase had very little impact on the economy, but Europe plunges further into crisis.
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New York bank of the U.S. collapsed in largest bank failure dating all the way back in American history. $ 2 million in deposits gone. banks customers left holding bag.
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"Radio Priest" Charles Coughlin's weekly broadcast draws an average of 45 million listeners
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An employer promises specific pension payment.
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Paralyzes shipping and trade in California, Oregon, and Washington. Strike ends with a victory for the longshoremen's union. 2 people killed
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His share of wealth speech made his followers grow. He was then assassinated before he became president. He was a senator and a former governor.
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Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency.
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The principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WWll. Brought the U.S. one step closer to entry in the war.
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Surprise military strike by Japanese navy air service upon the United States against naval base at pearl harbor
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied Invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during WWll. largest seaborne invasion in history
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A military situation in which neither side can gain an advantage
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America gave aid to western Europe
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American policy that they would provide economic and military aid to any nation fighting communism.
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divides north and south korea
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A war between South and North Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border
