Industrialization
An organized association of workers formed to protect their rights, improve wages, and secure better working conditions
What is labor union?
This president served from nearly the beginning of the Great Depression through until nearly the end of World War II.
Who is FDR?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This attack in Hawaii is what resulted in the US getting involved in the war.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This stone structure was built during the Cold War and physically separated citizens in Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The process of increasing integration and interconnection between the world's economies, cultures, businesses, and societies.
What is globalization?
Instead of individuals working at home, jobs began having workers gather in these large structures to work simple jobs, such as on an assembly line.
What is a factory?
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
These four countries are the main core group of the Allied forces in World War II.
Who are England, France, Russia, and United States?
The Watergate Scandal resulted in President Nixon doing this.
What is resigning?
In the Iran-Contra Affair, this country was responsible for selling weapons to Iran in an attempt to save hostages.
What is the United States?
A term that describes the growing population of cities.
What is urbanization?
During the 1920's, this event saw the rise and integration of African-American culture into the mainstream.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The goal of this project was to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans were able to.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is arms race?
2 of many reasons why the Soviet Union ended up dissolving
What are economic stagnation, Glasnost, arms race struggle, and rising nationalism?
2 of the 3 things that happened to immigrants arriving at Angel and Ellis Island
What are health checks, documentation checks, and deportations?
This book you guys read this year captured common themes, such as materialism, in the 20s
What is the Great Gatsby?
The failure of this treaty in securing peace allowed for fascist powers to rise, like in Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is communism?
A macroeconomic theory positing that economic growth is most effectively fostered by lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and free trade
What is supply-side economics?
This massive infrastructure project, completed after the Civil War, drastically reduced cross-country travel time from up to six months down to just one week.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This act was passed under FDR that gives payment to the elderly and disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
For the sake of national security, these were built for Japanese Americans to move into until the war ended.
What are internment camps?
The goal of this plan was to provide aid and support the economic recovery of Europe after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
The process of removing or reducing government controls, rules, and restrictions within a specific industry or secto
What is deregulation?