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Schlieffen Plan
A plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries -
MAINE
M: Militarism,A: Alliances, I:Imperialism, N:Nationalism, E:Extreme leaders -
Allies/Central Powers
Allies:France,USA,Great Britain,Russia/Central Powers:Germany,Austria-Hungary,Turkish Empire -
The Spark
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand(Austria Hungary) by Princip(Serbia) -
The landing of WWI
Battle of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles Campaign, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I -
Great migration
Six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970 -
Armistice
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time -
Red Scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920 -
Prohibition
The law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933 -
Liberation movement
Organization or political movement leading a rebellion, or a non-violent social movement -
Jazz Age
The US characterized as a period of carefree hedonism, wealth, freedom, and youthful exuberance, reflected -
Xenophobia
Fear of immigrants -
Immigration quota
limited number of immigrants of each country(2%) -
Teapot dome
Oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 -
Maldistribution of Wealth
Money was distributed disparately between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States , and between the U.S -
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. -
Government Inaction
The failure to do anything, especially when you should do something. -
Easy Credit
The depression in the 1930s was caused by excess expansion of credit -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States -
Stock Market
The U.S. Stock Market underwent rapid expansion -
Business Cycle
A cycle or series of cycles of economic expansion and contraction. -
Overproduction
Production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed. -
Monet in Circulation
The Money Supply and the Banking System Before and During the Great Depression -
Smoot-Hawley
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, formally known as the United States Tariff Act of 1930 and sometimes referred to in reverse order as the Hawley-Smoot Act -
Bad Banking System
Estimated that 4,000 banks failed during the one year of 1933 alone. -
Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as Chancellor of Germany -
Enabling Act
A statute empowering a person or body to take certain action, especially to make regulations, rules, or orders. -
Pearl Harbor
The site of a naval base after the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 -
Ghettos
A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. -
Nazi
A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
