Imperialism and Global Power
This 1898 war marked the U.S. emergence as a global power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
Who are muckrakers?
This event in 1914 sparked World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This decade was marked by economic growth and cultural change.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
This 1941 attack brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This amendment allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This act regulated food and drug safety in 1906.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This German submarine attack pushed the U.S. closer to war.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
This 1929 event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This policy allowed the U.S. to supply Allies before entering the war.
What is Lend-Lease?
This policy promoted equal trade in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This 1917 message proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This president created the New Deal programs.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This order led to Japanese American internment.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This president built the Panama Canal and expanded U.S. influence.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This president promoted the “Square Deal.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This act limited free speech during the war.
What is the Espionage Act?
This program provided jobs through public works projects.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
This project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This foreign policy approach relied on economic power rather than military force.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This reformer worked to improve conditions in urban slums.
Who is Jane Addams?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This New Deal program provided retirement benefits.
What is Social Security?
These two Japanese cities were targeted with atomic bombs.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?