Imperialism
Newspapers publishing outlandish stories to drive readership and promote the Spanish American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Two major events that brought the US into the war.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman note?
This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.
What is The Red Scare?
Prohibition was this amendment
What is the 18th Amendment?
This major event took place on Dec 7, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
This policy, proposed by Secretary of State John Hay, aimed to give all nations equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
President Wilson’s peace plan proposed after WWI was called this.
What are the fourteen points?
This technology, pioneered by Henry Ford’s factories, significantly lowered the cost of automobiles.
What is the assembly line?
Womens Right to vote was this amendment
What is the 19th amendment?
The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, was called this.
What is D-Day?
This term describes President Taft’s foreign policy, which emphasized economic investment rather than military intervention.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This 1917 law(s) made it a crime to interfere with the war effort, speak poorly about the government, disrupt military recruitment, or aid the enemy, punishable by death or imprisonment.
What are the Espionage and Sedition acts?
This term describes the movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities during the early 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
This term describes journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices in the early 20th century.
Who are the muckrakers?
Women who worked in defense industries during WWII were symbolized by this fictional character.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This 1898 conflict, sparked by the sinking of the USS Maine, led to the U.S. acquiring territories like Puerto Rico and Guam.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This international organization, proposed by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, was created to prevent future wars but was not joined by the United States.
What is the League of Nations?
This devastating event in 1921 saw a white mob destroy a thriving Black community in Oklahoma, resulting in hundreds of deaths and the destruction of Black-owned businesses and homes.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry, leading to federal food safety laws.
What is The Jungle?
This law, signed by FDR in 1940, established the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
What is the Selective Service Act of 1940?
This 1898 letter, written by a Spanish diplomat and intercepted by the press, insulted President McKinley and increased calls for war with Spain.
What is the De Lôme Letter?
This treaty, signed in 1919, officially ended World War I and imposed harsh terms on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This president was widely blamed for the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This organization, founded in 1909, worked to advance civil rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
This term describes the U.S. strategy in the Pacific, where forces selectively captured key islands while bypassing others.
What is island hopping?