HIST 2020: Exam 3 Lecture 9
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Modernism
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We have to modernize
It goes into every aspects of life
We need to learn from Europe
Progressives didn't go far enough
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Merchants of Death
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Conspiracy between Gov. and corporations. Some corporations made a lot of money during WWI
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Nye Committee
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Headed up by Gerald Nye.
Studied the public involvement in WWI
They want to find out if Merchants of Death conspiracy is real
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Normalcy
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Warren G Hardy's campaign
Need to get back to what makes america great
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Albert Einstein
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Proposes the theory of relativity E=MC^2
Einstein changed all of physics
Modernist argue we need to start using these discoveries
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Communism
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Bolshevik revolution sets off the red scare
Vladimir Lennon takes Russia out of the war
He takes a Small radical vocal group and seizes power
He Does it during domestic dispute
Lennon takes over by saying the wealthy is more import then the average Russian
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Red Scare
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Fear of communist revolution in the United States
Communist will send spies to take over government
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Nativism
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Red Scare Breeds this
Favoring Native Born citizens over immigrants
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Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
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Anarchists
Accused of robbing story and killing clerk
They were put on trial of capital murder
Had guns on them that were 38s the ballistics on the murder bullet was a 32
Witnesses say they were 50 to 100 miles away
Sentenced to death in 1927
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Emergency Immigration Act
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We are going to cut the immigration to 3%
Slams the door shut on immigration
Link this to the stock market crash
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Census of 1920
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It says there are more people in the city then the country
This puts fear in country people
we are becoming an urban nation
The cities values will be represented instead of the people
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Ku Klux Klan 2nd
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Operate against people who are afraid of them
Anti anyone who was different
Wanted the same suppression just on different people
This clan is nation wide
Emergency Immigration act takes the wind out this
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William Simmons
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Gives a speech on thanksgiving
Calls melting pot a garbage can
Says the immigrants have us by our throats
Face of the new Ku Klux Klan
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TN vs. Scopes
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John Scopes breaks the Butler Act
Not teaching Darwinism
He is arrested and found guilty
The trial becomes a Darwinism vs. Creationism fiasco
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The Butler Act
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You can't teach anything about Darwinism
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Flappers
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Rebellious women
Short hair
short dresses
Women can dress how they want
Caused by Sigmund Fraud
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Robert Graves
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Sums up GB and France's position about WWI
Writes a book called Goodbye to All That
War Sucks
We need peaceful solution
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All Quiet on the Western Fron
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Written by Erich Remarque
German Poet
Never again wants this war
War Sucks
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Ernst Junger
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German novelists and Philosopher
Storm of Steel
War is a glorious event
It separates the men from the boys
Germans are listing to him
Just wait till next time
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Fourteen Point Speech
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President Wilson Puts this out
Lays out a plan for a league of nations
He says we need to be lineate on the Germans
Germans will hold grudge if we don't
Everyone says hell no
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Treaty of Versailles
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Treaty that ended WWI
Stripped Germany of its empire
Strips land from Germany
Minimize army drastically
Reparations
This tore the German economy apart
Inflation
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Benito Mussolini
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Creates Fascism
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Fascism
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They try to go back to the past prime
Very strong leader to unite behind
Pretty much a dictator
Hugh emphasis on the individual contribution to the state
Strong military presence
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Weimer Republic
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Germany Becomes this
It was a forced Democracy
They start printing money and starts to implode
Germans start to hate Democracy
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Dolchstoss Legend
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Stab in the back
German leaders knew they were going to lose but told the citizens otherwise
Someone sold Germany out
Jews and Communists sold Germany out
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