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Central Powers
Consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire -
Allied Powers
Consisted of France, Russia, and the United Kingdom. At the end of the war also consisted of Spain and U.S. They opposed the central powers -
Eastern Front
Where troops from Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the Balkans fought, was larger than the Western Front. Was located in Russia. -
Causes of WW1
M- Militarism
A- Alliances
I- Imperialism
N- Nationalism
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Trench Warfare
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. -
The Spark
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary in Sarajevo -
Western Front
Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat -
Sinking of the Sussex
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Great Migration
Was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
Russian Revolution
Russia surrendered to Germany and became a communist power. Made Americans more willing to join the Allied powers -
U.S. joined the war
Sent a small army and resources to Europe but needed to institute a draft to build a large army. -
U.S. arriving in Europe
Helped save Paris from German attack -
Jazz Age
Largely credited to African Americans employing new musical techniques along with traditional African traditions, jazz soon expanded to America's white middle class. -
Senate and the League of Nations
They thought would threaten American independence -
Prohibition
Time period where America was "dry" of alcohol due to the 18th Amendment -
Red Scare
Fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution -
Flappers
A young woman, who shows bold freedom from conventions in conduct and dress -
Speakeasy
Illegal bar during the prohibition era -
Return to Normalcy
President Harding's slogan to Americans that America needed to return the "normal" way of life before The Great War (World War I). -
Installment Buying
Buying on credit and paying it back over time with interest -
Harlem Renaissance
African American culture showcased through literature, poetry, art and music -
Fundamentalism
Movement in the 20th century emphasizing the literally interpretation of the Bible as a fundamental to Christian life and teaching -
wet
Against prohibition -
Dry
In favor of prohibition -
consumer economy
economy driven by consumer spending as a percent of its gross domestic product -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
Presidency
Herbert Hoover won the election of 1928 -
Federal Farm Board
farm cooperatives would voluntarily coordinate crop production, and withhold crops from the market -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Hoovervilles
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s. -
Business Cycle
A cycle or series of cycles of economic expansion and contraction. -
Hawley-Smoot tariff act
Raised protective tariffs to the highest level ever, to protect farmers and manufacturers -
Hoover Blankets
The people living in Hoovervilles used newspaper as blankets to keep them warm and called them Hoover Blankets -
japan invades Manchuria
Chinese province with minerals -
Bonus Army
WW1 Veterans marched on Washington D.C. demanding their money -
election of 1932
Hoover lost the election of 1932 in a landslide to FDR -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Granted $2B in loans to save big businesses, banks, and railroads -
Hitler annexed Austria
and demanded the Sudetenland -
start of WW2
the start of world war 2 -
Germany invades Poland
with blitzkrieg attack and starts WW2 -
German resumed Blitzkrieg attacks
Neutral nations fell quickly (Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway) -
Allies
GB, France, Soviet Union, U.S. -
Axis powers
Germany, Italy, Japan -
Hitler double crossed stalin
invades Russia through Poland. stalin used scorched earth military tactic -
Attack of Pearl Harbor
japan bomb pearl harbor in Hawaii
