apush unit 7
Apush Unit 7 sighhhh
Imperialism - US goes out and tries to take other land and became a world global power
Pro imperialism, anti imperialists
PI - economics will lead to new markets, give us political power, WASPS (spread christianity)
AI - being an empire contradicts DEI, racism, ppl didnt want non whites living here, and ideas that we should do whatever we can HERE not out (Andrew Carnegie)
Spanish american war
Cuba didnt want to be controlled by Spain anymore and US wanted to help
USS Maine got sank cause of explosion and US propaganda blamed it on Spain
US will fight Spain and it’ll be fought in Cuba
We won!
Battle of manila bay
Rough riders lead by Theodore Roosevelt
Another treaty of Paris
Spain will give up Puerto Rico Guam and Philippines
Philippine american war wanted independence not to be part of us
Us didnt care
Cuba was independent but had lots of us soldiers occupying them and having bad laws so not really independent
Opened up a lot of trade with Asia like china
Progressive era!
Responded to political currutopn and economic inquelaity made by really rich people
A bunch of little movements all occurring simultaneously so we lumped them into one big group called progressive movement
Reformers were middle/upper class and many were women
Muckrakers = writer who investigates corrupt things
The Jungle - book that exposed disgusting meat packing and pushed for food safety checks
Ida Tarbell - investigated oil and corrupt monopoly tactics
Where the Other Half Lives - exposing bad housing condition of the poor
Politics
Theodore Roosevelt
SQUARE DEAL!
Protect consumers and environment Ig???
Woodrow wilson
New freedom
Restore economic opportunity, lower tariffs, reform banking system
Womens rights movement yayyy
Again
Susan B Anthony, Alice Paul
Contributed to 18 and 19 amendment
African American ppl and rights rn
Progressive were split or ignored civil rights movement
Booker t Washington
I think he was less on civil rights, less then WEB tho
WEB Du bois
Demanded full civil rights
Immigration - support or restrictions
Environment -
Preservationists - protect nature for its own sake
Conservationists - responsible long term resource management, national parks
WW1 YAY!
Lots of countries in Europe had a LOTTTT of weapons (militarysim) had a LOT of messy alliances and most were all full of themselves (Nationalism)
President in Austria got assassinated, caused war on Serbia and there was a big domino affect
War statements
US isnt doing anything tho they wanted to be neutral
Send ships with supplies to allies tho
Two causes for us entering WW1:
Germany kept sinking ships
Lusitania
America got really mad when the Zimmerman telegram got leaked, from Mexico to Germany.
Britain caught it and translated : Mexico has to declare war on US if they enter the war!!!
Us is MAD
We enter war
American entry + american supplies means allies and US won while Germany lost
Ended with treaty of Versailles
Forced all blame of war on Germany and they have to pay reparations
Woodrow wilson - League of Nations!! Now another war will never happen again!!
Didn’t work he lost republican support and congress didnt even join their own League of Nations
Back home us is a little unstable
Limiting civil liberties, freedom of speech because of anxiety about disloyalty
Espionage + sedation acts - banned anti war speech and disloyal language
American protective league APL reported suspicious people
First Red Scare - communism is affecting US
Nativism - native Americans should be protected - increased!
Quotas, immigration act - numerical limits on immigration by creating quotas on national origin
Factory work a lot in the south
Great Migration - African Americans moved out of south
Red Summer of 1919 - white mobs attacked SO many black people in that summer as they migrated over
Roaring 20’s
Tech and mass media
Henry ford made assembly lines - broke down production into repeated steps making it way faster, prices went down
Scientific management - priotitizing efficiency over anything else
Automobiles yayyayayayaya made
Commuting changes, suburban growth, roads change
Cinema and radios!
People are all listening to the same stuff
Consumer economy
Speakeasy (alcohol is banned so they made secret bars)
Harlem renaissance
Black culture popped off
Ban of alcohol made crime spike
Ozawa v US
Japanese people aren’t white and not citizens
Us v Bhagat Sigh Thind
indian peoople arena white and not citizens
Great Depression oops
Everything is built on borrowed money so thats how it crashed SO fast
Scopes monkey trial - banned evolution teaching
Buck v bell - banned some people from having kids
Nicola sacco Bartolomeo vanity - unfair murder trial because theyre Italians and they got executed but they were innocent
Overproduction during the 20’s
Lots of debt for businesses cause things bought were bought by credit
Risky loans and banks were shaky
Economy was scaryyyyy very weak
Stock market crash of 1929
Millions lost jobs savings homes
Breadlines for food
Hoovervilles - just a giant area of makeshift shelters for people who lost their homes
Children had nos school
Liberalism
Regulation of markets, social insurance, responsibility in hands of government
Bye bye laissez faire
Herbert hoover didnt know what to do cause of depression and got kicked out
Franklin won over him easy
New Deal Plan
Aggressive gov intervention to stabilize economy and prevent another
Relief, recovery, reform
Programs -
Civilan conservation corps - employed young men to build
Public works - built roads schools parks etc
Existed for more jobs
Biggest gov intervention ever basically
Radicals+ populists + union
Yes intervene as MUCH as possible
Conservatives -
Limit new deals scope
Institutions - social security act - old people retirement money, unemployment insurance, aid for disabled
Interwar period basically
Should we lead globally or stay out of conflicts?????
Dawes plan - Germany couldnt pay for reparations so US helped them pay until they got their money back and could pay back
Kellogg - briand pact
Dont solve world problems with war!!
Both failed cause of Great Depression and no way to enforce it
US continued intervention in like haiti
Hitler doing his shit in Europe conquering land
Roosevelt starts moving away from isolationism
We got into ww2 because we got bombed on Pearl Harbor
All work needed gave a lot of jobs so we stopped the Great Depression!! Y-yay
Women had a lot more jobs cause men went off to war
Black people got to work more too
Immigrants caused growth of states like crazy
Mexican immigrants entered a lot under war
Bracero program - Mexicans get to work temporarily in railroad jobs
Zoot suit riots - Mexicans attacked in LA a lot
Roosevelt
Ww2 - forced Japanese people into camps ummmm not great
Americans will view war as fight for survival of freedom against fascism (hitler)
Jews forced into death camps
6 mil died
Rape of nankin - chinese people and disarmed soldiers mass murdered and looted
Allies HADDD to win otherwise the world would basically end
Industry surged
Women started to come in
Germany took france and Soviet Union
Battle of Stalingrad
US Canadian and brits stormed france
D DAY!
Big win!! Yayyyy
Hitler defeated yayyayayaya
US started taking islands
Japanese people unfortunately liked to fight to the death tho
Island hopping dangerous
2 Atomic bomb woah
Forced Japanese to surrender
80 million people died during that war
Fought everywhere except US so we kinda safe over there
Europe got COOKEDDDD tho
US now most powerful country in the world
Yalta/potsdam
Germany divided into zones and Japan will be rebuilded with US supervision
War crime trials held against nazi leaders
Borders will be reorganized
United Nations
Allowed countries to negotiation and communicate
Europe still had communism