According to this theory, the economy functions best when the government does not interfere in business.
What is the theory of laissez faire?
100
This is what people were called who contributed to the rise of Progressivism in the early years of the 20th century by exposing widespread corruption in business and government.
Who were Muckrakers?
100
This act created a retirement program that workers pay into and was government guaranteed.
What was the Social Security Act of 1935?
100
The threat of a communist revolution in the United States.
What was the "Red Scare"?
100
Kennedy agreed to removed missiles from this country to help end the Cuban missile crisis.
What was Turkey?
200
This is what business leaders who were ruthless in dealing with their competitors and workers were referred to as.
What were robber barons?
200
These developed mostly in response to low wages and poor working conditions.
What were labor unions?
200
This was a policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means.
What is imperialism?
200
One of this conference's purposes was to decide how to restructure Europe after the war.
What was the Yalta Conference?
200
The result of this war made Americans became more cautious about future wars in other parts of the world.
What was the Vietnam War?
300
New immigrants to the United States primarily came from this area of the world from 1890 - 1915.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
300
This social policy grew out of the English naturalist Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution and was supported by Herbert Spencer and Andrew Carnegie.
What was Social Darwinism?
300
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer hunted down and raided this group of people.
Who were communists?
300
President Harry S. Truman believed that an invasion of Japan would result in excessive casualties so he instead decided to use these types of bombs against Japan?
What were Atomic Bombs?
300
The baby boom started after this world war.
What was World War II?
400
Samuel Gompers, Terence Powderly, and Eugene Debs were leaders in the movement to improve these conditions.
What are working conditions?
400
The Scopes trial, national Prohibition, and the behavior of "flappers" were all disagreements over these.
What were traditional values and changing lifestyles?
400
This prominent African American educator believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
400
This doctrine helped Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
400
Joseph Stalin was the leader of this Cold War country.
What was the Soviet Union?
500
This movement's purpose was to correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society from 1900-1917.
What was the Progressive movement?
500
Franklin Roosevelt believed that he could restore public confidence in the banks by doing these two things.
What was declaring a bank holiday and creating the Federal Deposit insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
500
An example of this policy was when the prime ministers of Britain and France met Hitler's demands at the Munich Conference in 1938/
What was the policy of appeasement?
500
Betty Friedan wrote this book that helped start the women's liberation movement.
What was The Feminine Mystique?
500
Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio address became know as this.