Vocabulary
This term describes the intense patriotism with a belief in national superiority.
What is nationalism
The U.S. entered WWI in this year.
What is 1917?
This popular novel about the concept of the "American Dream" takes place during 1922.
What is the Great Gatsby?
This president created the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The attack on this location brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The policy of staying out of foreign conflicts, especially before WWII.
What is isolationism?
This intercepted message from Germany to Mexico pushed the U.S. into war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
What was the Scopes Trial?
Symbolized the clash between science and religion in the 1920s.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This program provided jobs for young men in conservation projects.
The U.S. strategy in the Pacific was called this. (Hint: think General Douglas MacArthur)
What is island hopping?
The idea that government should have a limited role in the economy, popular before the Great Depression.
What is laissez-faire economics?
Wilson's plan for postwar peace was called?
The Fourteen Points:
1. Open diplomacy without secret treaties
2. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace
3. Equal trade conditions
4. Decrease armaments among all nations
5. Adjust colonial claims
6. Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence
7. Belgium to be evacuated and restored
8. Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories
9. Readjust Italian borders
10. Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination
11. Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro
12. Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles
13. Creation of an independent Polish state
14. Creation of the League of Nations
These locations were used as underground areas for people looking to drink some alcohol during prohibition (Hint: think of bootlegging).
What are Speakeasies?
This law guaranteed workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act?
The Triple Entente is the to the Triple Alliance in WWI as the Allies are to the _____ in WWII.
What are the Axis Powers?
A form of aggressive nationalism marked by dictatorial power in the 1930s, (Hint: think about Italy and Germany).
What is fascism?
Define the Selective Service Act
Required men to register for the draft during WWI.
What is typically cited as the start of the Great Depression?
The Wall Street stock market crash in 1929.
What was the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
This New Deal program insures bank deposits.
What is Japanese Internment?
This 1918 law made it illegal to speak against the government during wartime.
What is the Sedition Act?
Why did the U.S. never join the League of Nations?
The majority of the U.S. Senate opposed the League of Nations due to isolationist sentiment, especially from Republicans like Henry Cabot.
What was the Great Migration?
A mass migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North occurred during and after World War I
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)? (Hint: think about where Tennessee is located in terms of NESW)
This New Deal effort built dams and brought electricity to the rural South.
This top-secret project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?