American Imperialism
This was an 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine—asserted the right of the U.S. to intervene in Latin American nations. US becomes the "international police force"
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
This was the US foreign policy stance before they entered World War I.
Isolationism
This event led the USA into join the war effort in World War II.
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
This is when people buy goods "on the margin" meaning you would get the good now but pay for it later overtime.
What is buying things on credit?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This is event saw the American newspapers print a letter from Spanish ambassador de Lome that spoke unfavorably of President McKinley
deLome Letter
This was the type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning,, specifically used by Germany in World War I
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
U.S. President FDR signed Executive Order 9906, which resulted in the removal from their communities and the subsequent interment of all Americans of Japanese descent who live on the west Coast.
What were the Japanese Interment Camps?
This is a religious movement demanding strict obedience to a literal interpretation of a religious text. We saw this in the 1920's.
What are Religious Fundamentalists?
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Amelia Earhart?
These people were a group of men organized and commanded by Roosevelt to fight in the Spanish American War. Included cowboys, miners, policemen, and college athletes
Rough Riders
In this note he had secretly proposed a German- Mexican alliance. He tempted Mexico with the ideas of recovering Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The note was intercepted on March 1, 1917 by the U.S. government. This was a major factor that led us into WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
This Treaty from WWI had a major impact on the start of World War II because of the harsh sanctions put on Germany for "starting" WWI.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
In this event we saw the winds blow across Midwest America, picking up loose dirt and clouds of dust For 8 years during the great depression.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The only athlete to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series.
Who is Deion Sanders?
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
This was an international organization founded after World War I to prevent future wars through diplomacy and collective security. It was the first attempt at a global intergovernmental organization aimed at maintaining world peace. Created by President Woodrow Wilson.
What is the League of Nations?
This movement called for “V for victory in the war abroad, and another V for victory in the efforts to end segregation at home"
The Double V Campaign?
This is an event (trial) where we saw a Science Teacher from Tennessee get arrested for teaching the Theory of Evolution in his classroom.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This ancient wonder, originally built as a tomb for a pharaoh, is the only one of the original Seven Wonders still in existence.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This foreign policy agreement prevented the U.S. from taking Cuban after it was liberated in the Spanish American War.
Teller Amendment
These were American laws passed during World War I that significantly restricted free speech. These laws made it a crime to interfere with the war effort. It also criminalized any speech considered disloyal, profane, or abusive towards the government, flag, or military.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, Republic of China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
This person resisted the use of government authority and money to help people out during the Great Depression. This person believed in "rugged individualism" to help people get out of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This is the College that Mr. Day attended.
What is West Chester University?