Vocabulary
Under the Dawes Act the US government attempted to make Native Americans _____ to white American culture
assimilate
World War I
Woodrow Wilson
When the USSR blockaded Berlin, the US ran this operation to supply West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
This author wrote The Great Gatsby and named the 1920s "The Jazz Age"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ended the Great Depression
World War II
Another term for repayment of war damages that forced the German economy into depression after WWI
reparations
World War II
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George H.W. Bush attacked Iraq because Saddam Hussein had invaded this country
Kuwait
This cultural movement celebrated the art, music, and writing of African Americans
Harlem Renaissance
Gas prices increased after this group withheld oil from the US in the 1970s
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
Term for something foolish or a mistake that was added to the name of this government official who wanted to purchase Alaska
(Seward's) Folly
Iran-Contra Affair
Ronald Reagan
The US attacked this country after 9/11
Afghanistan
These women showed their independence by cutting off their hair and wearing skimpy dresses
Flappers
Buying stocks on ________ meant that investors were borrowing money to buy stocks
margin
Term that refers to an extreme form of racism in which people do not want to allow immigration into their country
nativism
Watergate
Richard Nixon
Ironically, after the US fought Spain to stop Spanish atrocities in Cuba, the US killed more people taking this territory
The Philippines
Because they could buy on __________ plans, American households of the 1920s were full of radios, washing machines, and other consumer goods
installment (credit)
Oil industrialist considered to be the world's richest man
Rockefeller
Americans fear of the spread of communism after World War I
Red Scare
Great Society
Lyndon B. Johnson
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points called for countries to join _______________
the League of Nations
Because of labor-saving devices people in the 1920s enjoyed more __________ time
leisure
Farmers wanted this so that more money would be in circulation helping them to pay off their debts
bimetallism (use of gold and silver)