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a ship that was blown up by "Spain"
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this treaty ended the spanish American war in which spain freed cuba, turned over the island of Guam and puerto rico to the U.S. and sold the phillippines.
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dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers. a law inducted in 1906
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The Big Four were the Allied leaders who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, after World War I (1914–18). They were President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) of the United States, Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863–1945) of Britain, Premier Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) of France, and Premier Vittorio Orlando (1860–1952) of Italy
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established nine new nations. including Poland czech and yugoslavia. and shifted the boundaries of other nations.
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a flowering of african american creativity durring the 1920s centered in the harlem comunity of New york city
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an Ohio senator that assumed the presidency in 1921
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albert b. fall's secret leasing of oil rich land to private companies in return for money and land
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a set of regulations enacted by congress in 1922 that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American businesses against foreign competition.
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a sensational 1925 court case which the biology teacher John T. scopes was tried for challenging the tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution
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arrested and charged with robery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard. little evidence but sentenced to death anyways.
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tariffs and war debt policies that cut down the forgein market for American goods, a crisis in the farm sector, the availability of easy credit, and an unequal distribution of income
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the region that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s.
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the systematic murder or genocide of Jews or other groups in Europe by the Nazis before and during WWII
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a law enacted in 1933 to raise crop prices, by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted, lowering production
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Americas first female cabinet member during the New Deal. as secretary of labor, she played a major rule in creating the Social Security system and supervised labor legislation.
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agreement that the Sudetenland would be Hitler's last purchase
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a law passed in 1941 that allowed the U.S. to ship arms and other supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting the axis powers.
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the first day of the invasion; three divisions parachuted down behind German lines and followed by thousands of seaborne soldiers
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seceretly built by the Manhattan project, splitting uraniumatoms made a releasing a enormous amount of energy
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an extension of Roosevelt’s New Deal, included a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance and a crop subsidy system.
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a US policy, announced by president Harry S Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatend by internal or external opponents
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the US would provide aid to European nations that needed it.
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expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million to meet the armed forces needs.
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a war in which North Korea attacked South Korea and the United Nations supported South Korea.
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the board wouldn’t allow an African American join a white school, so they fought against it and supreme court agreed that segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Cause
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a resolution adopted by congress in 1964 giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam
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a law that increased the number of immigrants allowed to settle in the U.S.
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between Nationalist side led by Chiang Kai-shek that the US supported in contrast there's the Communists, led by Mao Zedong. it was not enough, the country went communist.
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stipulated that the president must inform the congress 48 hours of sending forces into a hostile area without a declaration of war. In addition the troops must stay there no longer then 90 days
