World Power
This war made the United States a World Power when they acquired Puerto Rico, the Phillippines, and Guam.
Spanish-American War
These women challenged gender roles and social norms by wearing revealing attire, cutting their hair, smoking, drinking, etc.
FLAPPERS
During the 1930s, the Great Plains experienced this natural disaster, dust storms that left many farmers without work and forced families to migrate west. It was caused by drought and poor farming practices.
DUST BOWL
The name given to the day the invasion of Normandy, France began in 1944.
D-DAY
United States approach or strategy on how to approach the spread of communism during the Cold War.
CONTAINMENT
Panama Canal
This hate group committed acts of terror (i.e., lynching) against minorities. Membership and activity had dwindled by the late 1900s but resurged with the rise of Social Darwinism.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
The safety net that provides workers with unemployment benefits and a retirement pension.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Group that was used to send secret messages in the military because their language could not be deciphered.
NAVAJO CODE TALKERS
Name of the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union into space in 1957.
SPUTNIK
Secret message from German foreign minister to Mexico, promising to return lost territories to Mexico in exchange for an alliance against the United States
Zimmerman Telegram
This manufacturing method made automobiles more affordable and provided American families greater access to travel.
ASSEMBLY LINE
FDR's plan to allow the President to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice for each one over 70.5 years old.
Court Packing Plan
Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables and fruits in order to conserve the food supply.
VICTORY GARDENS
After the Soviet Union ordered a blockade on the capital of Germany, the name for the U.S. response provided supplies to feed the city
Berlin Airlift
This act allowed the United States to draft men to serve in World War I and future wars.
Selective Service Act
During the 1920s, millions of African Americans fled the South and migrated to the North in search of jobs in this mass exodus.
THE GREAT MIGRATION
This New Deal agency insures banks so that Americans do not lose their personal savings in the event of a bank failure.
F.D.I.C. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Order of law that required Japanese Americans to be relocated to internment camps.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066
G.I. BILL
WOODROW WILSON
President Warren G. Harding’s legacy was marred by this corruption scandal after it was revealed that he appointed government jobs to his friends, who were accepting bribes for contracting government land.
TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
Law signed by President Hoover which forcibly sent 1.8 million Mexican-Americans back to Mexico, 60% of which were naturalized citizens. It was intended to alleviate the competition for jobs during the Great Depression.
Mexican Repatriation Act
A group of all African-American pilots in the Air Corps who provided escorts for bombing missions.
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
Term named after the U.S. Senator who created fears of a communist conspiracy to overthrow the American government through spies and name calling
"McCarthyism"