APUSH Unit 7 1890-1945

Reform movements at turn of 20th century through WW1 sought to improve life in industrial age --> through action by government. improve democracy and limit power of corporations. Directly caused by industrialization and urbanization.

protect social welfare moral improvement efficiency creating economic reform

Theodore Roosevelt term for people that wrote about corruption

Attempt to improve Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. Forbade creation of monopolies. Officers had to be responsible for anti-trust violations.

political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources

1899-1902 fought to quell Filipino resistance to US control Philippine islands. Filipinos gave up when leader was captured.

1909-1913 efforts of United States (President = William Howard Taft) to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia. Increase American influence by investing in foreign markets.

the imposition of a set of moral values onto a culture that does not share those values, either through force or through cultural criticism

People like Theodore Roosevelt who insisted that the nation defend its "honor" and economic interests against the demands of the pacifists

people who thought USA shouldn't get involved in foreign affairs

Consisted of 3M men in army 2M that joined various branches of armed services voluntarily. It was the most diverse fighting force in US ever assembled; women were permitted to enlist

Created by the leaders victorious allies Nations: France, Britain, US, and signed by Germany to help stop WWI. The treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to rapair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manufacture any weapons

Wilson's idea was the creation of a permanent international organization to oversee world affairs &prevent future wars. Jan 25, 1919, Allies voted to accept it, but Congress didn't approve of it. This provided for an assembly of nations that would meet regularly to debate means of resolving disputes the peace

a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. resulted in three major treaties: Four-Power Treaty, Five-Power Treaty, the Nine-Power Treaty, which preserved peace during the 1920s but are credited with enabling the rise of the Japanese Empire as a naval power leading up to World War II. United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal

June 28, 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo began war. Lasted from 1914-1918. Allies: UK, France, Russia, Italy ('15) Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire

intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries

1918 act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.

case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school

cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.

The fear that spread across the nation that a communist revolution would take place in the U.S.; many threats and people were deported or arrested

100,000s of blacks from rural S moved into N industrial cities. Push=poverty, indebtednes, racism, in S Pull=prospect of factory jobs in urban N to live in community where blacks could have more freedom

the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.

series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933-37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. First: Series and Exchange Commission, Federal Housing Administration, End of the Gold Standard RECOVERY+RELIEF Second: attacking corporate interests RELIEF+REFORM

a system in which the government is responsible for the economic and social well-being of its people.

political philosophy founded on ideas of liberty and equality

FDR 1933, provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression

FDR's New Deal 1933, employing people to build public works

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. FDR tried to add more justices to the Supreme Court because he wanted more Republicans (more support) and claimed that the current ones were too old. The court had ruled some legislation in the New Deal unconstitutional.

Part of FDR's 2nd New Deal, 1935, social welfare legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States.

1942, Mexican workers received temporary contracts to work in the US while WW2 was going on, many ended up staying in the US. (FDR)

Secret meeting between FDR and Winston Churchill to discuss war aims and strategies about WW2, although the US had not joined yet.

1939-1945 Allies (US, UK, China, Russia --> unlikely bedmates) vs. Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan)