Period 7 Foreign Policy
Foreign policy of Teddy Roosevelt using the military to sway foreign politics.
What was Big Stick Diplomacy?
This policy, articulated by George F. Kennan, aimed to prevent the spread of Soviet influence abroad.
What is containment?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Cultural, social, & artistic explosion in a specific part of New York during the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
What was the Great Migration?
The two reasons the US entered WW1
What are the Sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare) and the Zimmerman Telegram?
The televised North Vietnamese assault on American bases in Vietnam.
What was the Tet Offensive?
This muckraking journalist exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Goals of the New Deal
Bonus points: name a New Deal program
What is "relief, reform, recovery?
This muckraking journalist exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
What was the League of Nations?
This massive economic aid package was designed to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II and prevent the appeal of communism.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This act, passed by congress solidified American infrastructure to be reliant on cars, leading to a century of suburbanization and increased car consumerism.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This piece of legislation, passed in response to the September 11th attacks, expanded government surveillance powers.
What is the PATRIOT Act?
Two universities where students were killed by authorities during anti-Vietnam War protests.
What are Kent State and Jackson State?
Reason US entered WW2 - a day that will "live in infamy"
The name is French for "relaxation," symbolic for the easing of US tensions with the USSR and China during the 1970s.
What is detente?
This legislative package, championed by Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to create programs addressing poverty, education, and civil rights.
Bonus points for a specific law passed under it.
What was the Great Society?
This embargo in the 70s led to shortages in oil in the American economy and an increase in gas prices.
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
Black civil rights organization founded in 1960 that drew heavily on younger activists and college students
What was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
Japanese towns the US dropped atomic bombs on
What were Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This event in in Latin America in 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The crisis that began with an illegal break-in at the Democratic Headquarters and ended with Richard Nixon's resignation
What was the Watergate Scandal?
The fear that spread across the nation that a communist revolution would take place in the U.S.; many threats and people were deported or arrested
What was the Red Scare?
School districts solution to desegregation mandates.
Bonus points for naming the North Carolina SCOTUS case that upheld it.
What is busing?
Swann v. Charlotte-Meck Board of Education