 | Term | Definition |
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Franz Ferdinand Assassinated |
"The spark" to beginning WWI in Europe |
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The Sinking of the Lusitania |
Ticks us off but doesn't cause us to go to war |
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Wilson is re-elected |
us will remain neutral |
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ZImmerman Telegram |
violation to Monroe doctine one of the factors that leads us to enter WWI |
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US enters WWI |
We turn back German Forces in Spring Offensive |
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Russia Withdraws from WWI |
Germany can begin spring offensive and focus of the western front |
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Meuse Argonne offensive |
Central powers are defeated (Allies win) |
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paris peace talks |
germany isn't invited but are destined to debt and guilt |
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harding is elected |
promises a return to normalcy |
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the twenties |
new/old clashes |
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19th amendment |
women get the right to vote |
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hoover is elected |
rugged individualism |
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stock market crash |
worsens the great depression |
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bonus army march |
army is called in to end the protests and govt wouldn't give bonuses early |
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FDR is elected |
new deal is implemented/direct aid |
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The new deal |
direct aid/ raises employment, raises faith in the syste, helps but doesn't end the depression |
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2nd new deal |
social security and more direct aid |
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FDR is re-elected |
african americans and labor unions switch to being democrat |
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Japan invades/occupies manchuria |
Stimson doctrine: we won't signify it |
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Italy invades ethiopia |
league of nations says not to do that so Italy drops out of league |
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Japanese invade China |
Us become more isolationist |
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Germany demands the Sudetenlands (Czechoslovakia) |
Say they won't take anything else |
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Munich Conference |
Germany can have sudetenlands/ appeasement (French had agreement with Czechs to defend them) |
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Germany invades poland |
begins war in Europe |
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WWII begins in Europe (no sig) |
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Japanese occupy Indochina |
US embargo against selling goods to Japan (steel and oil) and japanese see the embargo as an act of war |
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Pearl Harbor |
US enters the war |
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Executive order 9066 |
Japanese are put in internment camps (immoral) showed the paranoia of the time |
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Coral Sea |
First major non-victory for japan/stops japan from getting port moresby |
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Midway |
TURNING POINT in the pacific theater (stops japanese advance/japan looses 4 aircraft carriers/japanese navy never recovers) |
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Operation Torch (North Africa) |
US sucessfully takes over North Africa (stop Germany from controlling middle east/oil)/opens upp a 2nd front/ Us easily enter the war |
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Guadalcanal |
begin pushing back on japans land control |
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Stalingrad |
TURNING POINT in european theater/Gradual push back o Germany's land control |
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Italian campaign |
air rights to attack european axis powers (Italian government falls) |
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Normandy (operation overload) |
Nazi surrender seems close |
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Philippines |
US gain control of Philippines |
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Battle of the Bulge |
Germany was almost done (last offensive) |
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Yalta conference |
allied leaders meet and stalin is left unhappy (divide up poland) |
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Bombing of dresden |
Controlversial to this day |
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Iwo Jima |
Us dominated and leap frog campaign continues |
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battle of berlin |
Final major battle in European theater of wwii |
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Victory in Europe day (no sig) |
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FDR dies and truman takes office (no sig) |
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Okinawa |
US decided to drop atomic bombs due to the number of casualties |
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HIroshima/nagasaki |
japanese surrender/ scares soviets/controversial |
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End of WWII |
Baby Boom, nuclear weapons |
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china civil war |
we aid nationalists in china (Peoples republic of china wins (communists)) |
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NSC-68 |
We need to build more weapons/propoganda/defense |
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Korean war |
increase in fear (mccarthyism) |
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McCarthyism |
Shows fear of communism in the US |
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Eisenhower is elected (no sig) |
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Iran (Cold War) |
Prevent Iran from becoming communists/ we took out democratically elected leader so they are bitter to us now |
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Guatemala (Cold War) |
We contain communism in Latin America/ leads to 30 years of civil war |
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Indochina/Dien Bien Phu |
Geneva accords split Vietnam (war later)/free elections were to be held |
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Suez Canal (Cold War) |
Eisenhower doctrine (US will interfere in middle east if necessary) |
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Hungary (Cold War) |
Eisenhower didn't intervene becuase he thought it would lead to all out war/ makes soviets look bad in propaganda |
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Sputnik (Cold War) |
Competition for technological suprmecey/ Us expansion of education |
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U-2 incident |
Paris summit meeting failed due to bad relations between US and USSR/ mistrust leads to intensified cold war and cuban missile crisis |
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Bay of Pigs |
Cuban and US relations decrease/ embarrassing for JFK |
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JFK takes over (no sig) |
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Berlin (Cold War) |
Bad for USSR propaganda (everyone wants to leave east berlin) |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
Closest we ever came to war with the soviets |
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Diem is overthrown |
Kennedy approved his overthrow (revolving door of failing gov't in south vietnam) |
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Gulf of Tonkin |
Gulf of tonkin resolution: LBJ can take any necessary measures w/o declaring war |
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Fleiku |
first combat troopps deployed |
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Operation rolling thunder |
Bombing campaign is intesifed and isn't effective enough |
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Tet offensive |
Huge psychological turning point (shows us how strong our opponent is)./increases "credibility gap" what the gov't tells us/ LBJ says he wont run for re-election and he seeks negotiations with north vietnam |
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CHicago Democratic Convention |
Damaged reputations of chicago and democrats |
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Nixon is Elected |
begins vietnamization and wants slow withdrawl |
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US invades cambodia |
Kent State |
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Cease fire declared |
US troops leave vietnam |
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Nixon resigns/ water gate |
Secret tapes are resleased from the oval office |
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Saigon Falls |
End of war (veitnam is communist) |
