Unit 5 APUSH

Unit 5 APUSH

WWI
1. President Wilson entered WW1
  1. moral diplomacy/thinking that it was gonna be the war to end all wars
2. Wilsons 14 points he based america's idealistic foreign policy on
  1. 1.A proposal to abolish secret treaties
  2. 2.Freedom of the seas
  3. 3.A removal of economic barriers among nations
  4. 4.Reduction of armament burdens
  5. 5.An adjustment of colonial claims in the interests of both native people and the colonizers was reassuring to the anti impearalists
  6. 6.Establish A league of nations to promote collective security
3. Impact of WW1 on womens rights?
  1. join the workforce and becuase apart of the war economy, got more job opportunities and the right to vote
4. Treaty of Versailles on Woodrow Wilsons popularity at home
  1. 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
1. 1920's and 1930's
  1. Main Problem facing American manufactures in the 1920's?
    1. Developing expanded markets of people trying to buy their products
  2. The supreme court ruling pattern in the 1920's
    1. often ruled against progressive legislation
  3. Biggest influence on government policy during Coolidge Admin.
    1. The business community
  4. Exception to American Isolationism in 1920's
    1. Good neighbor community, like the armed invasion of the Caribbean/Central America
  5. Post WWI Dawes Plan
    1. 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.
  6. Five Manifestations of Postwar anxiety and intolerance of americans in the 1920's
    1. 1.Sacco Vanzetti Case
    2. 2.Scopes Monkey Trial
    3. 3.Russian Deportations
    4. 4.Resurgence of the KKK
    5. 5.Immigration act of 1924
  7. 20 and 21st amendment
    1. 20th-shortened time between election and inaguration
    2. 21.Ended Prohibition
  8. Causes of the Great Depresssion
    1. Agricultural Overproduction
    2. Unequal Distribution of Wealth
    3. Overextension of Credit
    4. Anemic Foreign Trade
    5. Economic Troubles in Europe
  9. President Hoover's Approach to the great depression
    1. 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
  10. Significance of Glass Stegal Act on americans
    1. Created the FDIC and insured deposits up to 5,000, money was now safe in banks
  11. Signifigance of Federal Securities act and securities exchange commerce
    1. stocks were now safe for investment and buisness had to desclose info, the FSA was the act that created the SEC
  12. Change to supreme court rulings during Roosevelts 2nd term
    1. 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.
2. 1940's
  1. WWII African American Migration Pattern
    1. 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)
  2. Status of Nat. Debt During WWII
    1. $49 billion in 1941 to $259 bullion in 1945.
      1. SKYROCKETED
3. 1950's
  1. Significance of Taft-Hartley Act?
    1. 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
  2. Ecomonic Motivation for creating a GI bill
    1. Fear that the economy would not be able to contain all of the men coming home from war
  3. Reason for much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S.?
    1. Colassel Military Budgets
  4. Basis of Sunbelts Prosperity
    1. the government is giving fundng to encourage settling in the sunbelt
  5. McCarthyism
    1. 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)
  6. Baby Boom
    1. After WWII ended, soldiers were coming home and they could afford to go move to the suburbs, which led to an increased birthrate
  7. Rosenberg
    1. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of being spies of the Soviets and were sentenced to death by electrocution, leaving their children orphaned
  8. Consequence of Federal Housing Authority’s refusal to grant home loans to blacks?
    1. public housing was provided for blacks that created really poor areas
WWII
1. Significance of Munich Conference Decision
  1. 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.
2. Blitz Reaction of Nazi Soviet Pact
  1. 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)
3. Reason for US (jappanese) interment camps
  1. Americans feared a japanese threat after pearl Harbor
4. Decision made by big 3 at Yalta
  1. 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
5. Difference between League of Nations and United Nations
  1. 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
  2. League was not united while the United Nations was
6. Most Serious Failure of the UN
  1. inability to control atomic energy especially the manufacturing of weapons
7. Reason many southern Democrats split from their party in 1948 to support Governor J. Strom Thurmond
  1. Truman supported equal rights of whites and blacks (southerners not happy)
8. 1948 presidential campaign, why did almost everyone expected Governor Thomas Dewey to win? And what was surprising outcome of election of 1948?
  1. Dewey was expected to win because of Trumans support for equal rights but truman was the suprise winner.
9. Berlin Airlift
  1. 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
10. D-Day
  1. 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
1. President Harry Truman -General Douglas MacArthur conflict?
  1. MacArthur Criticized trumans tactics concerning the Korean War and that led to him being fired
2. Marshall Plan?
  1. 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)
3. For what cause did President Truman risk American access to Middle Eastern oil supplies?
  1. Recognizing the New Jewish state of israel
4. · Benefits for America in gaining membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
  1. 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
5. Truman's action upon hearing of the invasion of South Korea illustrated his commitment to a foreign policy of what?
  1. containment
6. Truman Docterint
  1. 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.
7. Brinkmanship
  1. 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.
8. China Civil War
  1. Conflict where communists overtook the Nationalist govt of China, US supported the Nationalists (Jiang Jieshi) But country eventually fell to Communism.
9. Space Race
  1. this was where Russia was developing all of this amazing new satellite technology and America wanted to keep up with them “space race”
10. Korean War
  1. 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.

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