Gilded Age/Progressive Era
This Capt'n of Industry (or Robber Barron) is best known for utilizing horizontal integration in the Oil Industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This nation was annexed by the U.S. for its strategic positioning in the Pacific and its exports despite numerous petitions by the native population.
What is Hawaii?
This was a name for women who challenged Victorian modesty standards with their shorter hair and hemlines.
What are Flappers?
This battle was a turning point for the U.S. in the Pacific theater against the Japanese.
What is Midway?
This person was a president during the Cold War.
Who is Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush?
These were investigative journalist who sought to uncover corruption and expose wrong-doings in business and government.
Who are muckrakers?
This war set the stage for U.S. to emerge as a global superpower and expanded its colonial holdings (Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines).
What is the Spanish-American War?
This trial challenged the traditional belief that there is an Almighty Creator and instead suggested that humans evolved from Apes.
What was the Scopes Trial?
These airmen helped break racial barriers and were instrumental in the success of air campaign against the Axis powers in Europe
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Although this city was the capital of all of Germany, it was divided between Communist and Democratic.
What is Berlin?
This amendment was a reform to address the corruption in the Senate, thus allowing for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
The construction of this man-made water way cut the travel time to the Pacific and made it cheaper.
What is the Panama Canal?
This gangster ran smuggling rings and benefited greatly from organized crime that flourished during the Prohibition Era.
Who is Al Capone?
This group spoke an Amerindian (Native American) language that was nearly impossible to break. Their efforts in the Pacific helped the marines take Iwo Jima.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
This war ended in a stalemate in which the two countries remained divided along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
This novel was written by Upton Sinclair to expose the meatpacking industry.
What is the Jungle?
This president employed "dollar diplomacy" as an alternative to providing weapons or troops to Latin American countries, historians question it's effectiveness.
Who was William Howard Taft?
This was a cause of the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
What is over speculation, buying on margin, waning consumer confidence, shrinking markets, lax government regulation?
This was the state where the testing for the Manhattan Project took place. This location was chosen because it helped Robert Oppenheimer's tuberculosis.
What is New Mexico?
During the Vietnam War this attack by the Vietcong (North Vietnamese forces) proved that the Vietnam War was not going to be easily won.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This American author coined the term "Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)?
This method of writing involves using sensational and often untrue statements.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This tariff caused European markets to institute a retaliatory tariff on the United States, contributed to the circumstances that led to the Great Depression.
What was the Hawley-Smoot Act/Tariff?
This was a reason why Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
What are we didn't want to share the surrender with Stalin, save U.S. lives, end the war more quickly?
This person was the leader of Cuba that turned to the Soviet Union for support after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
Who is Fidel Castro?