Unit 2: Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A journalist who attempts to draw attention to inequities and issue in society
What is a muckraker?
When one country has control and influence over another country, usually a stronger nation having power over a weaker country
What is imperialism?
Women of the 1920s who cut their hair short, wore make-up & short skirts, and went out dancing and drinking; challenged the norms of society
The immediate cause for US entry into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
The Cold was was a conflict between the US and Soviet Union over who was the strongest world power, and a conflict over ______
What is communism?
What is definitively lost?
President known for stability in office
Who is President Obama?
Individual who founded the Hull House and helped immigrants assimilate to America
Who is Jane Adams?
Waterway build to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
Time period in the US following the 18th amendment when alcohol was illegal, and speakeasies/bootlegging was the popular
What is the Prohibition Era?
Secret US project to develop nuclear weapons
What is the Manhattan Project?
A period of hysteria over communism and persecution of people believed to hold communist views (name two)
What is the Red Scare and McCarthyism?
Government legislation that granted war veterans money for college tuition, home or business loans, or unemployment pay
What is the G.I. Bill?
Who is President Carter?
Was intended to address oppressive business practices and limit monopolies, was too vague and ultimately a failure
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Immediate cause for WWI
The event that started the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
giving into the demands of totalitarian leaders
What is appeasement?
Fidel Castro allowed the Soviet Union to construct a missile site in Cuba, resulting in the most tense period of the Cold War
______ outlawed segregation in public places
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Election where the the popular vote result differed from the electoral vote result
A novel that showed the unfair treatment of immigrants and unsanitary conditions in meat packing plants, resulted in legislation being passed in address quality and treatment of meat (MUST SAY AUTHOR AND BOOK)
What is "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair?
sensationalized and exaggerated newspaper stories used during the Spanish-American War
The three R's of President Roosevelt's New Deal
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
"Lightning war" tactic used by Germany during WWII
What is Blitzkrieg?
Overturned the "separate but equal" ruling
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?
legislation to improve the government's ability to detect terrorism, passed in response to 9/11
What is the Patriot Act?
The opposite of an industrialist who took advantage of workers and were only interested in getting more money
What is a Captain of Industry?
Officially ended WWI, created the League of Nations, forced Germany to pay heavy reparations
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Following WWI, the United States followed a foreign policy of ________ in the 1920s
What is isolationism?
Conferences where world leaders met to discuss what would happen in post-war Europe
What are the Yalta and Potsdam conferences?
The ________ brought about an end to the Cold War
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Six of the prominent social movements of the 1960s and 1970s include
What is the Civil Rights Movement, Gay Rights Movement, Chicano Movement, Women's Rights Movement, Native American Movement, and Asian American Movement
Reason for President Clinton's impeachment
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
The four MAIN causes of WWI
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
An angry American public responded to President Hoover's lack of action following the Great Depression with (list two things)
What are Hoovervilles and the Bonus Army?
During WWII, __________ showed that individual liberties may be threatened and unjustly revoked when there is a perceived threat to national security
What is Japanese Internment?
US policies/plans to contain the spread of communism (list two)
What is the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine?
Americans lost trust in the government during the Vietnam War because of the release of the _______
What is the Pentagon Papers?
What is Reaganomics?
Immigrants who were discriminated against because they were not from the US were victims of
What is nativism?
The sinking of the Lusitania, which was a reason the US entered WWI, was an example of the German tactic of
A major cause of the Great Depression (list two)
What is consumerism and buying on credit?
"The seeds of WWII were sown earlier in the 20th century" refers to the
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Wars fought during the Cold War where the US and Soviet Union used other nations as pawns
What is Proxy War?
The Greensboro sit-ins, Montgomery bus boycott, and March on Washington were all _____ used during the Civil Rights Movement
What is peaceful protests?
Prompted the Iran Hostage Crisis
What is President Carter allowing former Iranian President into the US?