Foreign Policy
This plan, put in place by President Wilson, was a series of 14 ideas that he hoped to achieve in the years following WWI.
What are the Fourteen Points?
The U.S. entered this war due to a Japanese attack on a naval base in an American Overseas Territory.
What is WWII?
President FDR's Alphabet Agencies were part of this deal.
What is the New Deal?
This person is a famous American baseball player from the 1920s.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This is a movement that sought to create a more Christian culture within the U.S. through a strict, literal interpretation of the Bible.
What is Christian Fundamentalism?
This plan was put in place to help rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
These are the two major "hot wars" of the Cold War.
What are the Vietnam and Korean wars?
These two acts were passed to suppress public dissatisfaction with WWI by making it illegal to criticize the war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This president brought the U.S. through WWII.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This historical era is defined by idea that society could be improved through reform, government action, and science.
What is the progressive era?
Prior to both WWI and WWII the U.S. held this type of policy with the hope of remaining out of the war.
What is neutrality?
What is American neutrality?
This war ended the worst economic downturn in history due to the dramatic increase in demand for wartime industry.
What is WWII?
President FDR stepped in to deal with the Great Depression by establishing these agencies.
What are the Alphabet Agencies?
This president is famous for saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Who is Roosevelt?
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This fire, which resulted in the death of 123 women and girls, led to increased support for progressive ideas.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This was the direct result of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. building up their nuclear arsenals.
What is the Nuclear Arms Race?
This war lasted for 46 years and saw the U.S. rise to become the sole global superpower at its end.
What is the Cold War?
The government of the U.S. was left with no choice but to become involved in the economy after this event in 1929.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This president was in power when the U.S. entered the Great Depression. He did little to respond to the economic disaster.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This event took place in the summer of 1919 and was a period of violent, racially motivated riots and massacres led by white supremacists.
What is the Red Summer?
This policy was used to create the American empire with the help of the "Great White Fleet."
What is the "Big Stick Policy?"
This war was fought around the globe and was started after an American naval ship was blown up while in a harbor. This war led to the U.S. building an overseas empire.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Women gained the right to vote in 1920 after years of this movement led to government action.
What is the Women's Suffrage movement?
This person was a staunch anti-communist.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This movement was centered in New York City and saw the rebirth of black culture in the U.S.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?