This is the exaggeration of stories in order to gain a profit. This is a cause of the US declaring war on Spain in the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism
100
This group was revived during the 1920s after the film "Birth of a Nation" was released. They expanded their hatred to immigrants, Catholics, and Jews as well as African-Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
100
The attack on this naval base brought the United States into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor
100
Following WWII, many returning soldiers took advantage of this, which gave veterans loans for houses and education.
What is the G.I. Bill
100
This the concept that the Germans would sink any ship that flew an enemy's flag with their U-Boats
What is unrestricted submarine warfare
200
This was a secret communication between Germany and Mexico in which Germany asked Mexico to attack the United States. This is a cause of the US joining WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Note
200
This trial was held after the arrest of a science teacher in Tennessee who was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution.
What is the Scope's Monkey Trial
200
This term is used to describe the fear of Communist infiltration in the US Government during the 1950s.
What is McCarthyism
200
Many Americans moved to these following WWII, which were outside of the city, but not too far away.
What are suburbs
200
This New Deal agency was created to build dams and bring electricity to a poor area of America.
What is the TVA
300
This policy made the United States into a police power of Latin-America, allowing the US to intervene in Latin American countries' affairs with European nations
What is the Big Stick Policy -or- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
300
Name two of three goals of FDR's New Deal.
What is relief, reform, recovery
300
Propaganda posters were plastered all over the country trying to get Americans to do this in order to financially support the war.
What is buy war bonds
300
This man declared a "War on Poverty" with his Great Society plan to eliminate poverty in America by expanding welfare.
What is Lyndon B. Johnson
300
This was the most controversial war we have fought since World War II. Many protests were conducted to display disapproval involvement in this war.
What is Vietnam War
400
This was the last of Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace. This organization would include nations who would work out differences peacefully in order to avoid war. The United States voted to stay out of this.
What is the League of Nations.
400
This is the process of paying for a portion of a stock and taking a loan for the rest.
What is buying stock on margin
400
During this event, the United States sent airplanes to drop goods over the capital city of Germany after the Soviet Union blockaded roads to it.
What is the Berlin Airlift
400
This president had success with his detente and rapproachment with the USSR and China, but he is most known for resigning during the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon
400
This term is used to describe the lack of trust between the people and government during the 1970s.
What is credibility gap
500
Following WWI, the United States returned to a period of this, meaning staying out of world affairs.
What is isolation
500
Name 4 agencies from the New Deal.
What are AAA, SEC, SSA, TVA, WPA, FDIC, NRA, NIRA, CCC
500
The policy of the United States in battling communism during the Cold War
What is containment
500
This 1980s conservative President is known for his "trickle-down" economics plan to cut taxes so the wealthy can invest in the economy.
Who is Ronald Reagan.
500
This term is used to describe writers following WWI who felt disillusioned with what happened during WWi