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The Red Cross Women
- They were the only women remembered in the war aganist France
- They built planes used in War
- They helped the wounded soilders
- Candy bars meant so much to the soilders because it reminded them of home
- They helped to keep soilders spirts high
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Assignment 4 : 1910-1930
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Birth of a Nation
- Made D.W Griffin famous and made exterme consiveracy
- People didn't know they could be so moved after Woodraws movie
- It lasted 3 hours
- Battle scene were so real that the audience were "swept up" by emotion
- His moive was described as "like wirting history with lightning."
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Espionage Act
- A person could be fined as much as 10,000 dollars
- 20 years to prison if they tired to be in any war activities
- both acts were violated by the 1st amemdment
- The Sedition Act was similar to the Espionage Act because harsh penilties toward people making false statements about the war
- Congress repealed the act
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Wilson's 14 points for peace
- The Germans have nothing left and lost when America comes with more troops
- The allies were pushing forward
- They wanted peace without victory
- The League of Nations was part of the 14 points
- Britain and France still wanted to fight Germany
- Britian and France agree to be apart of the League of Nations but france doesn't want one of the laws it has
- France wants Germany to pay them millions of dollars for the war
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Red Scare
- Labor spread across the country
- Others became suspecious of imigrants
- They feared they might be communist
- There was an election in 1919 and Hardy won the election
- He promised a return to Normacy
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Treaty of Versallies
- Was a peace treaty with France, Germany, Britian, Hungary, the U.S after WW1 were part of the treaty
- The French made it hard for the Germans to start a new war
- Germany had to get rid of battleships, submarines
- They had to reduce their military
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The Jazz Age
- It was also known as the roaring twenties
- A time when women got freedom and more rights
- Movies were huge in the Jazz Age
- Flappers were women known to smoke, drink, dance, and work
- Gershwin produced music that became known as Jazz
- Women found plessure and entertainment by the radio and reading magazines
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The Mellon Plan
- Andrew Mellon was secretary of treasure
- He presented congress his Mellon Plan
- Gerneral production on income taxes
- Cut the top income prices 50%-25%
- Reduced lowest bracket from 4%-3%
- It passed
- People stopped buying foregin foods because they were too expensive
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Kellogg-Braind Pact
- International agreement
- States promised not to use war to resolve conflicts
- It prevented another war, but WW2 still happened
- It was little affect on WW2
- It was also known as the Pact of Perris
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The Great Depression
- The sotcked market crashed and wondered if that was puinshment for too much fun in
- It was an econmic depression
- Unemployment rose 25%
- People lost their jobs, nearly starved, buissnesses crashed
- Depression was the worst in the U.S out of all the other countries
