Populism and Progressivism
They were mad at the banks and railroads for charging high monopoly prices for money and transportation.
Whom were the Populists mad at and why?
It was when lines of enemy troops dug long holes in the ground and fired at each other in a permanent stalemate, moving little.
What was trench warfare?
A worker with purchasing power, i.e. somebody with a job who spends the money they earn.
What is a consumer?
The replacement of human labor by machines, which allows us to produce a lot but also unemploys people who had those jobs.
What is the industrial revolution?
These are rows of single-family homes built en masse after WWII thanks to the car boom.
What are suburbs?
Who were the Progressives?
Attacks by these by Germany on the seas provoked the US to enter the war.
What are U-Boats?
A line moving a car would assemble the car by adding parts in a standardized, repititive way, with each worker at each station doing the same thing over again.
What was the moving assembly line?
It was a turning point because the island, midway between Japan and Hawaii, was going to be used by the Japanese to invade Hawaii, but at the battle, the Americans turned the Japanese back and destroyed their airpower.
Why was the Battle of Midway a turning point in the Pacific?
Because he thought restoring the economy --people having jobs, producing things, buying things-- under conditions of peace, not fear, would stop ideologies from emerging.
Why did George Marshall want to lend money to Europe after the war?
The gold standard --or 'Cross of Gold'-- that kept the price of money high and the rest of society, including farmers, in debt.
What did Populist-leader William Jennings Bryan say the problem with the Gilded Age was?
Wall Street was financing the British war effort and America was continuing to trade with Britain, so Germany decided to sink any American ships going to Britain in order to starve out Britain.
Why did America enter World War I?
In the first phase, transmission stations were built by Edison, then the Edison companies were consolidated. In the third phase, progressives aimed to turn the power companies into public utilities, and in the 1920s, free reign was given to the companies to build everywhere.
What are the four phases in the build-out of the electric grid?
He stopped doing this because the Japanese had invaded the Philippines and Indochina.
Why did FDR forbid selling oil to Japan?
The difference is the former international organization was not backed by the US economy and military, while the latter, under Eisenhower, was.
What is the difference between the League of Nations and the United Nations?
He broke up a railroad trust back into its three original companies, and negotiated a deal between coal-miners and the owners of the coal mine in order to prevent a strike.
What were Teddy Roosevelt's opening moves as the first progressive president?
A world of free trade among nations, fewer weapons, not punishing Germany, and an open assembly for nations to talk about their problems with each other instead of making secret treaties.
What world did Woodrow Wilson want with his League of Nations?
The first you have to pay back and the second is given for free by the state. Hoover only allowed the former for key sectors of the economy, while FDR was open to the second.
What is the difference between a loan and welfare?
The first wanted the central state to regulate industry and redistribute the profits of capital to labor. The second wanted to slow down the progressive state and preserve the rights of property, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.
What is the difference between progressive and conservative liberalism?
This bill gave returning soldiers a ticket to college, thus making a college-education a feature of life like homes and cars for many new families and vastly expanding the university system.
What was the GI Bill?
It controlled the cost of money for the entire of country by pooling the savings of all the big banks into one central bank that was managed both by bankers and by government officials.
What was the Federal Reserve founded to do?
Americans rejected it because it required America to intervene in any dispute between countries.
Why did Americans reject the League of Nations?
It crashed because more and more people were buying in on credit, thus driving up prices artificially, until people stopped, at which point prices plummeted below their natural level.
What was the stock market crash?
It was invented to break secret military codes by the national socialists, like the Enigma Code.
Why was the first electronic computational processor, or computer invented?
He did not do this because he trusted Stalin would honor the Yalta Agreement and did not think, like Churchill, that we needed to 'shake hands with Russia as far east as possible.'
Why did Eisenhower not get to Berlin first?