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American Student Union, the Glossary

Index American Student Union

The American Student Union (ASU) was a national left-wing organization of college students of the 1930s, best remembered for its protest activities against militarism.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 33 relations: Adolf Hitler, American Youth Congress, Collective security, Columbus, Ohio, Communism, Communist Party USA, Conscription, Franklin D. Roosevelt, House Un-American Activities Committee, Intercollegiate League for Industrial Democracy, Jay Lovestone, Joseph P. Lash, King and Country debate, League for Industrial Democracy, Left-wing politics, Louis E. Burnham, Lovestoneites, Militarism, National Student League, Pacifism, Parliamentary procedure, Popular front, Poughkeepsie, New York, Social democracy, Social fascism, Socialism, Socialist Party of America, Soviet Union, The Journal of African American History, Third Period, United States House of Representatives, Vassar College, Winter War.

  2. Communist Party USA mass organizations
  3. Defunct organizations based in the United States
  4. New Deal
  5. Organizations disestablished in 1941
  6. Student organizations established in 1935

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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American Youth Congress

The American Youth Congress (AYC) was an early youth voice organization composed of youth from all across the country to discuss the problems facing youth as a whole in the 1930s.

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Collective security

Collective security is a multi-lateral security arrangement between states in which each state in the institution accepts that an attack on one state is the concern of all and merits a collective response to threats by all.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Conscription

Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. American Student Union and Franklin D. Roosevelt are new Deal.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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Intercollegiate League for Industrial Democracy

The Intercollegiate League for Industrial Democracy (known from 1933 as the Student League for Industrial Democracy) was the official youth section of the League for Industrial Democracy and a de facto junior section of the Socialist Party of America during the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s.

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Jay Lovestone

Jay Lovestone (15 December 1897 – 7 March 1990) was an American activist.

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Joseph P. Lash

Joseph Paul Lash (December 2, 1909 – August 22, 1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and writer.

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King and Country debate

The King and Country Debate was a debate on 9 February 1933 at the Oxford Union Society.

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League for Industrial Democracy

The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was founded as a successor to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society in 1921.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Louis E. Burnham

Louis Everett Burnham (September 29, 1915 – February 12, 1960) was an African-American activist and journalist.

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Lovestoneites

The Lovestoneites, led by former General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Jay Lovestone, were a small American oppositionist communist movement of the 1930s.

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Militarism

Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values.

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National Student League

The National Student League was a Communist led organization of college and high school students in the United States. American Student Union and National Student League are communist Party USA mass organizations.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Parliamentary procedure

Parliamentary procedures are the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization.

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A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".

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Poughkeepsie, New York

Poughkeepsie, officially the City of Poughkeepsie, which is separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it, is a city in the U.S. state of New York.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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Social fascism was a theory developed by the Communist International (Comintern) in the early 1930s which saw social democracy as a moderate variant of fascism.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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The Journal of African American History

The Journal of African American History, formerly The Journal of Negro History (1916–2001), is a quarterly academic journal covering African-American life and history.

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Third Period

The Third Period is an ideological concept adopted by the Communist International (Comintern) at its Sixth World Congress, held in Moscow in the summer of 1928.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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Winter War

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.

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See also

Communist Party USA mass organizations

Defunct organizations based in the United States

New Deal

Organizations disestablished in 1941

Student organizations established in 1935

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Student_Union