Gilded Age
Grassroots movement led mostly by poor farmers in the late 1800s
Populist Movement
Motivations for US imperialism
Access to new markets and cheap resources; naval (military) bases
Resulted in a stalement on the western front
Trench Warfare
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
Process for manufacturing steel quickly and cheaply
Bessemer Process
Muckraker who exposed the corruption of standard oil
Ida Tarbell
It connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, drastically reducing travel times for military and commercial ships, cementing U.S. global power.
Reason for American entrance into WWII?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Housing in the slums of urbanized areas
tenements
Progressive Reformers attempted to challenge political corruption by introducing these three practices.
Recall, Reform, Referendum
Strong advocate of annexation of Hawaii, and relative of the popular fruit company.
Sandford B. Dole
Reasons for US involvement.
Government agency used to manage the wartime economy.
War production board
What are two items on Populist Party's agenda?
nationalizing railroads, telegraph and telephone graduated income tax unlimited coinage of silver
Land aquistions following the Spanish-American War
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
It's signing resulted in:
Germany had to accept blame and pay reparations Establish a League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Supreme Court ruling that upheld Executive Order 9066 as a "wartime necessity"
Korematsu v. United States
The law President Arthur enacted to rid the nation of the spoils system?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
What is the name of the addition to the Treaty of Paris (1898) that dictated Cuba's relationship to the USA?
Platt Amendment
Wilson's plan for peace
14 Points
These conferences were crucial World War II meetings among the "Big Three" allies that decided the postwar fate of Europe, and set the stage for the Cold War
Yalta and Potsdam