A document signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941 that said after the war, all countries should be free to chose their own form of government and the USA and England did not want to annex or control them.
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What started WWI?
The death of Archduke Ferdinand.
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Who is Alfred Mahan?
Spent 40 years in the Navy. Wrote books and articles about his Navy life. Loved the Navy, hated to go out to sea. Served in the Spanish American War
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What are the five Burroughs of NYC?
Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens
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Who was Czarina Alexandra?
Russian people did not like or trust her because she was German. When WWI broke out, they called her “that German Woman”
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What is the Four Freedoms?
Franklin Roosevelt proposed these in his State of the Union Address, Jan. 1941, which outlined what the Allies were fighting for. Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and freedom from want.
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Who is John J Pershing?
Commander of the American Expeditionary forces.
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Who was Grover Cleveland?
USA President who was sympathetic to the Hawaiian people. He did not want to annex Hawaii. He was an isolationist.
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What was The Johnson Act?
Set quotas on how many immigrants from certain countries were ALLOWED to come in to America. Very low quota for non-Protestant countries in Europe and Asia.
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What was February/March Revolution?
Revolution that lasts 6 days that ends the reign of the Czar and establishes the Provisional government.
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What is the Yalta Conference?
In February 1945, the USA, Great Britain and Russia met to discuss what will happen after the war.
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What was the Draft?
When the U.S. men are picked from a lottery to be a soldier in World War I. All men 21-30 and later 18 to 45 registered for draft.
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What is the name of the explorer that found Hawaii. What did he call Hawaii when he found it and why?
Captain James Cook; The Sandwich Islands because of his sponsor, The Earl of Sandwich.
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What was alphabet soup?
President Roosevelt’s critics called his New Deal programs this because of their initials.
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What was the October Manifesto?
A document that was written by Czar Nicholas II that gave the Russian people SOME rights, including a Duma and a few freedoms. He did not follow through with his promises.
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Where did Japan hit with an atom bomb and why?
Hong Kong(Owned by Great Britain at this time) and Pearl Harbor(Owned by the USA). Japan wanted the USA and Great Britain to trade again.
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What were two sides in WWII and which countries were them?
Allied Powers, which had France, Russia, England (eventually USA), and the Central Powers, which had Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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Commodore George Dewey
USA Navy, sailed into Manila Bay- Philippians and sank or disabled every Spanish ship there in FIRST battle of SPAM War.
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What was the Smoot Hawley Tariff?
In June of 1930, a high tariff was place on agricultural products that came into the USA. This made the importers from other countries mad. To get even, other countries put a high tariff on American goods that were imported into their countries. In the end, the Smoot Hawley Tariff did more harm than good.
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Name at least 4 facts about Czar Nicholas II?
-Known as Bloody Nicholas because 1000 people were hurt or killed during the celebration to honor him.
-Did not want to be Czar.
-Was shy and did not make decisions easily
-Was short, thin and not intelligent
-Ruled because he believed God wanted him to.
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How was the Atom Bomb created?
In 1939, a Hungarian physicist who had immigrated to the USA wrote President FDR a letter. He told the president about the possibility of splitting the nucleus of a powerful atom, such as uranium, releasing a tremendous amount of energy and producing a chain reaction leading to the creation of the atom bomb.
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What were the three parts of the League of Nations?
Council, Assembly and Secretariat
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What was the Platt Amendment?
Gave the USA the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuba, which means that we can get involved if the Cuban government is doing anything we don’t like OR if anyone invades them.
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What was Bonus March?
20,000 WWI veterans and their families marched to Washington, D.C. to ask Congress to pay them the $1000 bonus they had been promised. Congress had promised to pay them $1000 in 1945 as a thank you for their service in WWI, but the veterans wanted the money NOW.
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What was Bloody Sunday?
Led by a priest from the Ukraine in 1905, thousands of workers marched to the Winter Palace of the Czar to beg for an end to hunger and poverty.