Revolutionary Ideals & Miscellaneous
What are the five founding ideals?
Democracy/Rights/Liberty/
Equality/Opportunity
Laissez Faire
What document did Pres. Wilson bring to the negotiations to end WWI?
14 Points
What diplomacy approach did the European allies take when dealing with Hitler's growing power?
Appeasment
What nation(s) did the Truman Doctrine aid?
Greece and Turkey
What document initially outlines the founding principles?
The Declaration of Independance
Please give two things Labor Unions were fighting for during industrialization.
higher wages, shorter hours, safer conditions
Give two reasons the economy was so strong in the 1920s.
Installment Plan/Credit, Consumerism, Laissez Faire, WWI
Why did Japan attack the US at Pearl Harbor?
The US was putting financial regulations and embargos on good that Japan needed to import from the US. As well as the US froze Japan's money in America.
Give two examples of Containment.
Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Korean War
What document establishes the political values of the United States of America?
the Constitution
Who refused to cut rent rates after cutting his employee's wages?
George Pullman
What is something else, in addition to the Stock Market Crash, that was a cause of the Great Depression?
Consumerism, Credit, Dust Bowl, Bank Runs, Laissez Faire, Overproduction
Select two of the following groups and explain how WWII impacted them.
African Americans, Japanese Americans, Native Americans or Women
Double V Campaign
Internment
Code Talking
Workforce, Military
What was the outcome of the Korean War?
A truce, DMZ on the 38th parallel
What did Anti-Federalists require to be added to the Constitution in order to sign off on it?
the Bill of Rights
What was the objective of "Progressive" politicians?
To reform, correct, fix the ills of society and government. (work place, inequities, economy, etc)
What foreign policy does the US commit to between WWI and WWII?
Isolationism
Explain the impact of the Manhattan Project at home and abroad.
US = Superpower
Japan = two bombs dropped, destruction
What does McCarthyism represent?
The Red Scare in America: fall out shelters, duck and cover, loyalty investigations.
Give an example of Nativism from first semester.
Mexican Repatriation
Japanese Internment
others?
Please state what the 18th & 19th Amendments decided.
18th = Prohibition
19th = Women's Suffrage
What was the League of Nations? And, why did Congress refuse to join it?
A alliance formed, after WWI, to help protect member nations in the future.
It would have brought the US into a war without Congressional approval.
Explain the events of June 6, 1944 and their impact.
D-Day a major turning point for the allies. The Allies storm the beaches of Normandy, France and defeat the German forces there. Germany is no on the retreat.
Give three examples of things that represent the American Dream.
Suburbs, Baby Boom, Advertising, Great Jobs, Traditional Values, nuclear family, white picket fence, television