WW2
Reasons for WW2
Rise of dictatorships; Failure of the League of nations; Failure of appeasement; leftover state of Germany after WW1
two Individuals who were President during the great depression
Who is Herbert hoover and FDR?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This agreement gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary
What is the Platt Amendment?
A significant political corruption scandal in the United States during the early 1920s, involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who secretly leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding
What is Teapot Dome Scandal?
A strategy meeting held U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The chief discussion centred on the opening of a “second front” in western Europe.
What is Tehran conference?
Was a group of 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D.C. in 1932 during the Great Depression. They demanded immediate payment of bonuses that had been promised to them for their wartime service, as many were suffering economically at the time
What is Bonus Expeditionary Force?
Amendment that banned manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages; Roots in reform campaigns of 1830s; caused the roaring 20's
What is Prohibition/18th amendment?
A foreign policy declaration made by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904-05, which stated that the United States could intervene in Latin American countries in cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing.
What is The Roosevelt Corollary?
Revive of a group that targeted Blacks, Jews, urbanites, and anyone whose behavior deviated from their narrow code of acceptable Christian behavior; grew to almost 5 million members
What is Ku Klux Klan?
was the first peacetime conscription in the United States. It required all able-bodied men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft, marking a significant shift in U.S. military policy as it mobilized an army while still at peace
What is Selective Training and Service Act?
Act passed in 1930's that aimed to protect American businesses and farmers by raising import duties on a wide range of goods. This legislation significantly increased tariffs, which led to a decline in international trade and exacerbated the economic conditions of the Great Depression
What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
A landmark U.S. law aimed at promoting free competition and preventing monopolies. It prohibits any contract, conspiracy, or combination that restrains interstate commerce or trade, making it illegal to attempt to monopolize any part of commerce in the United States.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
passed by Congress two months after the United States declared war against Germany in World War I. The act made it a federal crime for any person to interfere with or attempt to undermine the U.S. armed forces during a war, or to in any way assist the war efforts of the nation’s enemies.
What is the Espionage act?
A significant cultural and artistic movement that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, New York City. It marked a period of intellectual and cultural revival among African Americans, encompassing various forms of art, including music, literature, and visual arts.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
A research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom
What is The Manhattan Project?
A series of programs and reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States during the 1930s, specifically from 1933 to 1939. Its primary aim was to provide immediate economic relief and to address the severe economic and social issues caused by the Great Depression
What is New Deal?
A piece of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1914. It defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
What is Clayton Antitrust Act?
This Act made it criminal to use speech to incite resistance to the war effort, as well as to criticize the United States or to support a country at war with the United States.
What is the Sedition Act?
A highly publicized trial in where a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
What is Scopes Monkey Trial?
A meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. Allies agreed on a number of issues concerning borders and settlements and to help create the United Nations
What is The Yalta conference?
An economic downturn that occurred during the Great Depression in the United States. It marked a sharp decline in industrial production and rising unemployment after a brief period of recovery from the Great Depression
What is 1937 recession?
27th president of the U.S; followed Theodore as president; was hated by many for taking little action; Strengthen anti-trust laws; became a supreme court justice
Who is William Howard Taft?
Americans adopted this policy in WWI because the war didn't concern the United States. It was important for American to stay out of "entangling alliances". Staying out of the war also allowed the US to economically recover from a slowdown.
what is U.S. Policy of neutrality?
known as the Johnson-Reed Act, was enacted to address concerns about rapid social and demographic changes in the United States. It significantly reduced immigration from countries outside the Western Hemisphere
What is Emergency Quota Act?