Period 7 (Part 1)
US foreign policy began its shift away from isolationism in the late 19th century, as evidenced by this war, fought mainly in Cuba and the Philippines
What is the Spanish-American War?
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of German-occupied France, occurred on June 6, 1944, also known as this day
What is D-Day?
What is the Iron Curtain?
What is the Berlin Wall?
The 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense," by this man, convinced many colonists that independence from Great Britain was the only viable option
Who is Thomas Paine?
Woodrow Wilson succeeded in his effort to create this organization in the Treaty of Versailles; unfortunately, the US Senate blocked the treaty, and the US never joined it
What is the League of Nations?
Two of the three "R"s that represented the main goals of FDR's New Deal programs
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
Most historians attribute the decline of Americans' trust in government to these two events of the 1960s and 1970s (name both!)
What is the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal?
Reagan's tax cuts for the rich were an example of supply-side economics, also known by this term
What is trickle-down economics?
This 1862 battle at this Maryland creek was one of the only battles of the Civil War to be fought in a Northern state, and turned out to be the bloodiest single-day battle of the war
What is Antietam?
The Progressive Era featured several reform movements on a variety of issues; many of them depended on the work of investigative journalists, also known as these
What are muckrakers?
At the Yalta conference in early 1945, FDR and Churchill believed they had convinced this man to allow free and democratic elections in Poland after the war; they were wrong
Who is Josef Stalin?
These two laws, passed in 1964 and 1965, respectively, were viewed by many as the crowning achievements of the movement for African-American equality
What are the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act?
One of the two countries that George W. Bush's administration attacked (with Congressional approval) in the years following the 9/11 attacks
What are Afghanistan and Iraq?
This female progressive reformer founded Hull House in 1889 in Chicago, one of the first settlement houses established to assist new immigrants in adjusting to life in the US
Who is Jane Addams?
Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy achievements included this international construction project, which led to thousands of deaths from diseases like malaria and yellow fever
What is the Panama Canal?
This committee of isolationists attempted to keep the US out of World War II in the late 1930s; the inclusion of members like Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford led to charges of antisemitism
What is the America First committee?
What is Iran?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is almost never referred to by that full name; more commonly, it is referred to as this word
What is Obamacare?
This newspaper publisher, along with his rival William Randolph Hearst, was responsible for the rise of yellow journalism in the late 1800s
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
The 1920 election was won by this Republican, who promised a "return to normalcy" -- unfortunately for him, he died before the end of his first term
Who is Warren G. Harding?
FDR successfully convinced Congress to pass this alliterative two-word act to offer aid to Britain early in World War II, much like how one would offer a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower surprised many with his 1961 farewell address, decrying the "creeping influence" of this two-word "complex," which he argued was partially responsible for increasing Cold War tensions
What is the military-industrial complex?
After facing longstanding attacks from Reagan and other conservatives throughout the 1980s, this government assistance program underwent significant reforms during the presidency of Bill Clinton
What is welfare?
This "A.P." referred to the Union's Civil War strategy of blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River
What is the Anaconda Plan?