1920s (5.3)
This international agreement outlawed war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Act?
This president is often blamed for government inaction after the stock market crash of 1929. He believed that it was not government's place to assist those affected by unemployment. "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This 1941 policy allowed the US to Lend or Lease war supplies to any nation that was deemed "vital to the defense of the United States".
What is the "Lend-Lease Act"?
What is Pearl Harbor?
International trials conducted to punish German officials who orchestrated/participated in the attempted genocide of Jews in Europe. Established the International Court, coined the terms 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity'.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
This Conference led to agreements between nations to reduce the size of their navies following World War I.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
This president is often credited with leading the US out of the Great Depression through his social and works programs. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Who is Franklyn D. Roosevelt?
This naval 1942 battle is considered the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
What is the United Nations?
Italian immigrants and anarchists wrongly convicted and executed for a robbery that resulted in two deaths.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
Presidential programs to put people make to work. Some were ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS, citing an overreach of Federal power.
What is the New Deal?
One of the "Neutrality Acts" that allowed the US to sell military equipment to countries fighting Germany as long as they paid in full in cash and assumed all risk of transportation on their own ships.
What is "Cash and Carry"?
As a result of Executive Order 9066, this group of people were forced to move from the West Coast of the US to camps in the Southwest and Great Plains.
Who are the Japanese-Americans?
Fear of a Communist take-over of the United States caused this US Senator to lead what is now looked upon as a "witch hunt", including the creation of "House Un-American Activities Committee" and the blacklisting of many in the entertainment industry.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The name given to a time period when Americans feared Communist take over of the US Government to a degree that led to extreme measures - in this case, The Palmer Raids.
What is The Red Scare?
This natural disaster combined drought, high winds and farming practices of top-soil planting and failure to rotate crops to remove topsoil from the Great Plains and move it across the continent - impacting as far as New York City.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Agreement between US and Great Britain signed in 1941 and established a vision of the post-war world that included the right of a people to be self-governed and pledge that neither country would seek territorial expansion at the end of the war. Seen as the foundation for the United Nations.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
May 8, 1945 - the date when Germany surrendered to the Allied forces of the US, England and USSR.
What is V-E (or Victory in Europe) Day?
Term given to the time period between 1947-1989 when both the US and the USSR avoided direct confrontation by fighting surrogate wars. Both sides understood a direct conflict would result in the use of nuclear weapons and cause "Mutually Assured Destruction" (MAD).
What is the Cold War?
This Plan sought to stabilized the German economy by loaning money for it to pay war reparations to England and France, who used that money to repay war debt to the US.
What is the Dawes Plan?
This "protectionist" tariff, designed to protect American farmers and industry, actually caused a two-thirds decline in US exports to Europe and caused an overall decline in world trade, heavily contributing to the severity and duration of the Great Depresson.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Policy of giving someone concessions in hopes of preventing a conflict. Specifically refers to Great Britain's failure to stop Germany's invasion of the Rhineland, the Anschluss of Austria, and the invasion of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
What is Appeasement?
Two cities destroyed by atomic bombs dropped in an effort to end the war in the Pacific.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
First "hot" conflict of the Cold War. Three years of active fighting between US-led United Nations forces and Chinese supported rebel forces Ended in an armistice with the 38th parallels serving as the Demilitarization Zone (DMZ) between two sides involved.
What is the Korean War?