Stop the Steal.
Stop the Steal is a far-right advocacy organization which formed to contest the results of the 2020 election after Democratic nominee Joe Biden (D) was declared the winner. The organization alleged that then-President Donald Trump (R) had won the election, and that the results had been stolen by widespread voter fraud.
January 6, 2021.
On January 6, 2021, supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
the Manhattan Project
the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II
Bataan Death March.
Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day,
On May 8, 1945 - known as Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day - celebrations erupted around the world to mark the end of World War II in Europe. The war had been raging for almost five years when U.S. and Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.
Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg is a coordinated military effort by tanks, motorized infantry, artillery and aircraft, to create an overwhelming local superiority in combat power, to defeat the opponent and break through its defences.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese military planners hoped to destroy enough battleships and aircraft carriers to cripple American naval power for years. Twenty-four hundred Americans were killed in the attack.
Reason why the United States joined the war.
In 1939 the United States dissolved its trade treaties with Japan and the following year cut off supplies of war materials by embargoing oil, steel, rubber, and other vital goods. It was hoped that economic pressure would shut down the Japanese war machine. Instead, Japan’s resource-starved military launched invasions across the Pacific to sustain its war effort. The Japanese called their new empire the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and, with the cry of “Asia for the Asians,” made war against European powers and independent nations throughout the region. Diplomatic relations between Japan and the United States collapsed. The United States demanded that Japan withdraw from China; Japan considered the oil embargo a de facto declaration of war.
This is what led for the Japanese to attack in Pearl Harbor
German’s Schlieffen Plan of 1914
Schlieffen Plan, battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war.4
he Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
gave Adolf Hitler a free hand to attack Poland without fear of Soviet intervention.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China
The broken Chinese army gave up Beiping (Beijing) to the Japanese on August 8, Shanghai on November 26, and the capital, Nanjing (Nanking), on December 13. Between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, and tens of thousands of women were raped, when the Japanese besieged and then sacked Nanjing. The Western press labeled it the Rape of Nanjing.
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanjing in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning on December 13, 1937, the massacre lasted for six weeks.
isolationism
a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
Guano Islands Act of 1856.
enables citizens of the United States to take possession, in the name of the United States, of unclaimed islands containing guano deposits.
Hooverville”
"Hooverville" became a common term for shacktowns and homeless encampments during the Great Depression.
associationalism
Associationalism or associative democracy is a political movement in which "human welfare and liberty are both best served when as many of the affairs of a society as possible are managed by voluntary and democratically self-governing associations."
bank runs
when a large number of customers of a bank or other financial institution withdraw their deposits simultaneously over concerns of the bank's solvency.
On October 29, Black Tuesday, the stock market began its long precipitous fall.
A crowd of investors gather outside the New York Stock Exchange on "Black Tuesday"—October 29, when the stock market plummeted and the U.S. plunged into the Great Depression. On October 29, 1929, the United States stock market crashed in an event known as Black Tuesday.
the social gospel.
a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age.
Meat Inspection Act
prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.
“Red Shirt
The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States.
the Dyer Bill
Protecting all from lynching
Ida B. Wells,
is best known for her tireless crusade against lynching and her fearless efforts to expose violence against blacks.
chain migration
the social process by which immigrants from a particular area follow others from that area to a particular destination.
ex.) when individuals, usually men have migrated first, established themselves, and sent money for fiancés, wives, and children to migrate
famine
extreme scarcity of food.
Indian wars
were a series of seemingly sporadic, localized, and often brief engagements between U.S. military forces and various Native American groups
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."