moral diplomacy/thinking that it was gonna
be the war to end all wars
Wilsons 14 points he based
america's idealistic foreign
policy on
1.A proposal to
abolish secret treaties
2.Freedom of the seas
3.A removal of economic
barriers among nations
4.Reduction of
armament burdens
5.An adjustment of colonial claims in the
interests of both native people and the
colonizers was reassuring to the anti
impearalists
6.Establish A league of nations
to promote collective security
Impact of WW1 on womens rights?
join the workforce and becuase apart of
the war economy, got more job
opportunities and the right to vote
Treaty of Versailles on Woodrow Wilsons popularity at home
after the war americans are sick of change,
popularity declines and impealists/nationalist
tired of being imperalists/nationalist. librals
think wilson hasnt done enougn
America
1920's and 1930's
Main Problem facing American
manufactures in the 1920's?
Developing expanded markets of
people trying to buy their products
The supreme court ruling pattern in the 1920's
often ruled against progressive legislation
Biggest influence on government policy
during Coolidge Admin.
The business community
Exception to American Isolationism in 1920's
Good neighbor community,
like the armed invasion of the
Caribbean/Central America
Post WWI Dawes Plan
Negotiated by Charles Dawes,
the Dawes plan of 1924,
resolved this issue. It
schedueled German reparations
payments and opened the way
for further american private
loans to Germany. US bankers
loaned money to Germany,
Germany paid the reperations
to France and Britain, and the
Allies paid war debts to
America.
Five Manifestations of Postwar anxiety and
intolerance of americans in the 1920's
1.Sacco Vanzetti Case
2.Scopes Monkey Trial
3.Russian Deportations
4.Resurgence of the KKK
5.Immigration act of 1924
20 and 21st amendment
20th-shortened time
between election and
inaguration
21.Ended Prohibition
Causes of the Great Depresssion
Agricultural Overproduction
Unequal Distribution of Wealth
Overextension of Credit
Anemic Foreign Trade
Economic Troubles in Europe
President Hoover's
Approach to the great
depression
Directly Assisting business and banks,
keeping faith in the efficency of industrial
system, continuing to rely on ruggged
individualism, lending federal funds to feed
farm animals, NOT providing aid to the
people, big buisness hoping money will
trickle down through the system
Significance of Glass
Stegal Act on americans
Created the FDIC and insured
deposits up to 5,000, money
was now safe in banks
Signifigance of Federal
Securities act and securities
exchange commerce
stocks were now safe for
investment and buisness had to
desclose info, the FSA was the
act that created the SEC
Change to supreme court
rulings during Roosevelts
2nd term
Roosevelt tried to pack the supreme
court by creating a law saying that
there was to be a new judge for every
judge over 70 who wouldn't retire.
Congress got mad, but the judges
retired eventually so he got his way.
He wanted Judges that would not
stop his progressive legislation.
1940's
WWII African American Migration Pattern
The movement of african americans from the south to the
industrial centers of the Northeast and mideast (CALLED
THE GREAT MIGRATION) Causes for migration included
decreasing cotton prices, the lack of immigrant workers in
the north, increased manufacturing as a result of the war,
and the strengthening of the KKK. Migration led to higher
wage, more educational opportunities, and better
standards of life for blacks. (South to industrial centers of
Northeast and mideast)
Status of Nat. Debt During WWII
$49 billion in 1941 to $259 bullion in 1945.
SKYROCKETED
1950's
Significance of Taft-Hartley Act?
Outlawed all-union shops and made them liable for
damages. People believed it is not right for the
government to be so involved in businesses
Ecomonic
Motivation for
creating a GI bill
Fear that the economy would not be able
to contain all of the men coming home
from war
Reason for much of
the prosperity of the
1950s and 1960s in
the U.S.?
Colassel Military Budgets
Basis of Sunbelts Prosperity
the government is giving fundng to
encourage settling in the sunbelt
McCarthyism
He came up with the conclusion that there
are accusations made that are unsound (it’s
a term for making ruthless and and unfair
accusations)
Baby Boom
After WWII ended, soldiers were coming
home and they could afford to go move to
the suburbs, which led to an increased
birthrate
Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of
being spies of the Soviets and were sentenced to
death by electrocution, leaving their children
orphaned
Consequence of Federal Housing
Authority’s refusal to grant home loans to
blacks?
public housing was provided for blacks
that created really poor areas
WWII
Significance of Munich
Conference Decision
Britain and France met with Hitler and
agreed to let him take over part of
Czechoslovakia if he expanded no
further he agreed, and this was seen
as an agreement of peace Hitler didn’t
actually hold up the end of his bargain
though. Also Sudetenland is involved
with Czechoslovakia somehow.
Blitz Reaction of Nazi Soviet Pact
Agreement beetween Hitler and
Stalin to split poland but Hitler
takes all of Poland and makes an
enemy out of Stalin (agreement
was decided during the non
agression pact)
Reason for US (jappanese) interment camps
Americans feared a japanese
threat after pearl Harbor
Decision made by big 3 at Yalta
Consisted of Stalin Churchill and
Roosevelt and they decided what was
gonna happen to Poland (revised
boundaries and with representative
government) and the proper war
reperations for Germany aimed at
creating the Untied Nations
Difference between League of Nations and United Nations
League-didnt work, didn't have the
support of the US could not do much,
the UN-had us support and was
created after the war
League was not united
while the United
Nations was
Most Serious Failure of the UN
inability to control atomic energy
especially the manufacturing of
weapons
Reason many southern Democrats split from
their party in 1948 to support Governor J.
Strom Thurmond
Truman supported equal rights
of whites and blacks (southerners
not happy)
1948 presidential campaign, why did almost everyone
expected Governor Thomas Dewey to win? And what was
surprising outcome of election of 1948?
Dewey was expected to win because of
Trumans support for equal rights but
truman was the suprise winner.
Berlin Airlift
When France, Britain, Germany, and America were all trying to
get control of Berlin, Germany shut down the roads of access that
the other half of Germany (the part the Allies were in - West)
needed to supplies. America solved this problem by airlifting in
supplies for about 300 days, until Stalin finally gave up and
reopened the roads
D-Day
June 6, 1944, American Allies storm the beaches of Normandy
to liberate France and get rid of the Germans that have taken
control of the country Maybe this will be on the test, idk, but the
US originally started fighting in non-European places
Cold War
President Harry Truman -General
Douglas MacArthur conflict?
MacArthur Criticized trumans tactics concerning
the Korean War and that led to him being fired
Marshall Plan?
George C. Marshall invited the Europeans to get together and work
out a joint plan for their economic recovery and if they did so, the US
would provide them with financial assistance. The plan worked very well
overall. Economic recovery of Europe centrally (I think that’s how it’ll
look on the test but who knows because #lyfe)
For what cause did President Truman
risk American access to Middle Eastern oil
supplies?
Recognizing the New Jewish state of israel
· Benefits for America in gaining
membership in the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization?
protection against communist imput, Truman
docterine of containment is helped strengthen,
helps germany rejoin europe again, and shows
german the US is here to stay
Truman's action upon hearing of the
invasion of South Korea illustrated his
commitment to a foreign policy of what?
containment
Truman Docterint
Stated that communism
will be stopped at all costs
to promote and secure
democracy. (Containment)
Truman promised
unlimited support to any
free peoples that were
resisting communist
aggression.
Brinkmanship
Brinkmanship was used first by the
US Secretary John Foster Dulles
during the Cold War regarding his
policy against the Soviet Union.
Dulles defined the policy of
brinkmanship as "the ability to get
to the verge without getting into the
war". His critics blamed him for
damaging relations with communist
states and contributing to the Cold
War.
China Civil War
Conflict where communists overtook the
Nationalist govt of China, US supported the
Nationalists (Jiang Jieshi) But country
eventually fell to Communism.
Space Race
this was where Russia was developing all of
this amazing new satellite technology and
America wanted to keep up with them “space
race”
Korean War
Russia occupies Northern Korea and the US in
Southern Korea; both want to lead under their
type of ruling, but they cannot decide, so the
38-parallel line divides their areas. MacArthur
disobeys Truman and gets fired. The Korean War
ends up being a bad loss for Americans and
ultimately nobody's win.