<p> Ouarter Exam Study Notes Chapter 23 Test Notes 1. Austria-Hungry, Germany, and Italy, made up the Triple Alliance. 2. Britain, France, and Russia made up the Triple Entente. 3. Selective Service Act established the draft. 4. The Committee on Public Information produced American propaganda. 5. The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Allies and Germany. 6. A feeling of intense loyalty to one’s country or group is called nationalism. 7. In the early 1900s European nations competed for colonies, they created an atmosphere of militarism. 8. An understanding between nations is called an entente. 9. The airplane was the most dramatic new weapon of World War I. 10. The U-boat was the German weapon that changed the course of the war. 11. Not one American soldier bound for Europe was lost to submarine attacks because of the convoys. 12. After declaring war on Germany, Americans immediately began mobilization. 13. People who believe industries should be publicly owned are called socialists. 14. People opposed to the use of violence are called pacifists. 15. Of the Fourteen Points, the one Woodrow Wilson considered the most important concerned was the League of Nations. Chapter 24 Test Notes 1. Capitalism-economic system based on free enterprise. 2. Marcus Garvey – founded Universal Negro Improvement Association. 3. Warren G. Harding – promised a return to “normalcy”. 4. Flappers – 1920’s “liberated women”. 5. Jazz – blend of ragtime and blues. 6. The “Red Scare” – In late 1919 and early 1920, A. Mitchell Palmer deported about 500 people because of this. 7. Boston police force – when they went on strike in 1919, they were all fired. 8. Treaty of Versailles – This treaty marked the first time in modern history the world powers agreed to disarm. 9. The gross national product – the total value of all goods and services produced in a country. 10. Welfare capitalism – this was begun in an attempt to improve relations with employees. 11. Nineteenth Amendment – this constitutional amendment guaranteed women in all the states the right to vote. 12. Herbert Hoover – won the presidential election in 1928. 13. Zora Neale Hurston – This writer came out of the Harlem Renaissance. 14. Eighteenth Amendment – This amendment established Prohibition. 15. National Origins Act – This legislation reduced the annual immigration quota from 3 to 2 percent per country. Chapter 25 1. On margin is buying stocks with loans. 2. New Deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program. 3. Civilian Conservation Corps are work relief programs. 4. The SEC regulates stocks and bonds. 5. The FDIC insures bank deposits. 6. In the 1930s the United States went into a severe economic state called the Great Depression. 7. In 1931 President Herbert Hoover authorized spending on highways, parks, and libraries, or relief projects. 8. Charities and churches worked to provide aid for the needy called relief. 9. A New New Deal called the TVA built dams to provide cheap electricity in some Southern states. 10. Eleanor Roosevelt was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “eyes and ears”? 11. Ralph Bunche was the Black Cabinet member who worked for the State Department. 12. Daytime radio shows sponsored by laundry detergents earned the nickname soap operas. 13. Dorothea Lange was the photographer who took photographs of migrant workers. 14. The Social Security act provided monthly pensions for retired people. 15. The Roosevelt Recession disaster was reversed by government spending on public works. </p>