Period 7
German submarines used in World War I
What are U-Boats?
The constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
What is Containment?
An international organization created after World War II to promote international cooperation
What is the United Nations?
What is the Internet?
Journalists who exposed the ills of society, paved the way for progressivism
What are Muckrakers?
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Belief that if a nation fell under communist control, nearby nations would also fall under
communist control
What is Domino Theory?
Combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth
What is Reaganomics?
Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died.
What is the Lusitania?
Johnson claimed US ship attacked by North Vietnam -- leads to US troops into Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin (incident)?
Response of the U.S. and Great Britain to the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin. Supplies
were sent to West Berlin with continuous flights of thousands of American and British airplanes.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Cabinet level department created after the attacks of 9/11
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation, taught religion and human dignity would help the middle class over come problems of industrialization
What is Social Gospel?
A New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region.
What is the Tenneseee Valley Authority?
Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Republican Senator from Wisconsin who in 1950 began a Communist witch-hunt that lasted until
he was censured by the Senate in 1954.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
law passed requiring employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan.
What is Executive Order no. 9066?
A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned American against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending
What is the Military-Industrial Complex?
Classified government documents on the Vietnam War leaked to the press by Daniel Ellsberg and
leaked to the New York Times
What are the Pentagon Papers?
Young, urban professionals who wore ostentation gear such as Rolex watches or BMW cars
What are "yuppies"?