Gilded Age
During the Gilded Age, this form of transportation helped connect the East Coast of the United States to the Pacific Ocean, allowing for faster travel and shipping times.
What is the railroad?
The act of expanding a country's power through diplomacy and militarism
What is imperialism?
Suffrage movement wanted the right to vote for which group of people?
What are women?
What was the German excuse for the start of WWII, in their opinion
What is the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles?
This was the first major military conflict between the West and Communist
What is the Korean War?
This term refers to men like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, who monopolized their industries at the expense of their workers and smaller companies.
What are "Robber Barons"?
Name the 3 territories the US as a result of the Spanish-American War
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
This era, which began in the early 1920s after a Constitutional amendment, came about as a result of the temperance movement of the 19th century
What is Prohibition?
This executive order cleared the the way for mass internment for Japanese Americans
What is 9066?
What country was trying to contain communism?
This law was passed in 1890 to try and crack down on the practices of big businesses
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The United States wanted to make sure there was an "open door" policy in regards to this nation.
What is China?
This African American cultural revival took place in New York City, producing all sorts of advances in music, literature, and the arts
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Name 3 of the Allied and Axis Powers
Allied: Britain, France, Russia, US
Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled form of this
What is Containment?
This act prevented large numbers of Asian immigrants from arriving in the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Name two reasons the United States decided to adopt a policy of imperialism in the late 19th century.
What is new economic markets, a belief in cultural superiority, desire to be seen as a world power, and militarism
If I believe that Alcoholic beverages are bad, what movement and I apart of?
What is the Temperance Movement?
What was the propaganda in German used for?
What is to get public support for the hatred for Jews?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
A hands-off approach to the economy, is known as
What is laissez-faire?
Name 2 reasons the United States was interested in going to war with Spain?
Cuban Independence, Imperialism, economic opportunity, desire to have military bases
What was the overall purpose of the Progressive Era
What is to give more power to the people?
What was the major difference between the Allied and Axis in the form of government?
Allies were mostly Democratic and the Axis were fascist
What was the US and USSR in competition to build
What are nuclear weapons?