Industrialization
This term describes the economic system where private individuals own businesses and operate for profit.
What is capitalism?
This 1898 conflict resulted in the U.S. acquiring territories like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The U.S. entered WWII after this attack on December 7, 1941.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This term describes the political and military tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
This innovation allowed for faster production by having workers focus on specific tasks.
What is the assembly line?
The explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor escalated tensions leading to war with Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This project developed the atomic bomb during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This U.S. policy aimed to prevent the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
He was a steel industry magnate known for his philanthropic efforts.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This telegram from Germany to Mexico proposed an alliance against the U.S. during WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This Louisiana governor and senator was known for his "Share Our Wealth" program during the Great Depression.
Who is Huey Long?
This battle was a turning point in the Pacific Theater, halting Japanese expansion.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war over missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This African American entrepreneur became one of the first female self-made millionaires in the U.S.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This act required men to register for military service during WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This environmental disaster in the 1930s led to massive agricultural damage and migration from the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
These segregated military pilots were the first African American aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This alliance, formed in 1949, included the U.S. and Western European nations for mutual defense.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This act, passed in 1890, aimed to prevent monopolies and promote fair competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This peace treaty ended World War I and severely punished Germany for causing the war.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This act, part of the Second New Deal in 1935, established a system of old-age benefits and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
This type of boat, designed in Louisiana, was crucial for Allied amphibious landings.
What is the Higgins boat?
This 1989 event symbolized the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe and marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?