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Period 7
WWI
Causes of War:
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Russian revolution, fought for triumph of
democracy
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare:
- Germany reannounces it after sinking the
British Lusitania
- US broke diplomatic ties
Mobilization:
- War Industries Board
- Food Administration
- Fuel Admin
- Railroad Admin
- all supported war effort
Propaganda
Espionage Act (1917):
- 20 yrs of prison for
anyone who tried to
obstruct the war draft or
incite rebellion in the army
Sedition Act (1918):
- Prohibited disloyal remarks
about the US gov't
Schneck v. US:
- violation of Sedition
Act
- pamphlets distributed
against the draft
Changes in society:
- African Americans took jobs
in agriculture and mining
- women entered the workforce
Peacemaking
Fourteen Points:
- peace negotiations
- Woodrow Wilson
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Treaty of Versailles:
- peacekeeping and
self determination
- left Germany with
high war reparations
- League of Nations
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Values
Dollar Diplomacy:
- Taft
- use economic power to
guarantee foreign loans
Moral Diplomacy:
- Wilson
- make the world safe for democracy
- support nations with democratic values
Big Stick Diplomacy:
- Teddy Roosevelt
- use the threat of weapons
to peacefully negotiate treaties
WWII
Under FDR
War Production Board:
- supervised war production
- regulated production and
allocation of materials during
war
Beginning of war:
- hostile since Japan invaded
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor:
- Japanese surprise
bombing
- Congress declared war
Dec. 7, 1941
Hitler and Stalin:
- Germany invaded Russia,
breaking non-aggression
pact
Big 3:
- three allied leaders
- Churchill, Roosevelt,
and Stalin
Japanese Internment:
- All Japanese Americans were
suspected of being spies and
saboteurs
- over 100,000 Japanese Americans
were forced to leave their homes
and go to internment camps
Battle
Pacific theater:
- Japan reached height of their
power when they controlled
Pacific islands
- Allies occupied and seized control
over Pacific islands
- US used naval power and
advanced aircraft
- used firebombing specifically
Tokyo
European Theater:
- European Allies v.
Germany
- D-day: where Britain and the
US liberated France from Germany
- Germany surrendered after
this Allied victory
Manhattan Project:
- developed first atomic bomb
- dropped it on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
- ended the war
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Wartime Conferences:
- Teheran: Big Three agreed
that they would liberate France
from Germany in 1944 and that
the Soviets would eventually
join the war against Japan after
invading Germany
- Yalta: Germany would be divided
into occupation zones, free elections
in liberated Eastern Europe countries,
new world peace union (future UN),
Soviets would join war against Japan
- Potsdam: demand surrender of Japan
and hold war-crime trials for Nazis
Imperialism before WWI
Alaska:
- Congress bought Alaska
in 1867 for $7.2 billion
- Russia sold it bc it was
an economic burden
Anglo Saxonism:
- belief that the white race was
superior
- paired with international Darwinism
or the survival of the fittest
- spread democratic society to the
"uncivilized" world
Spanish-American War:
- War with Spain for annexation
of Cuba
- jingoism, US wanted to show its
world dominance
- Cuban nationalists were trying to
overthrow Spanish rule
-Teller Amendment authorized war
War:
- first shots fired in the Philippines
- quick, easy victory for the US
- neither army was prepared but
the Spanish army was especially
unprepared
Philippine American War:
- controversy in the US over whether
to acquire the Philippines
- Outraged of US's annexation
- War btwn US and Filipino
independence forces after Spain
- battle took three years, US won
Treaty of Paris:
- 1898
- Cuban independence
- US got Puerto Rico and Guam
- US got the Phillipines
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