Unit 1
Form of transportation that unlocked the economic possibilities of the West
Railroads
policy acquiring new land to Expanding America's Empire, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Panama and the Philippines.
Imperialism
Cultural Movement led by African Americans based mostly in New York
Harlem Renaissance
Gen. MacArthur was fired by Harry Truman over who had military control over atomic weapons in which conflict?
Korean War
Brown v Board of Education 1954 had what impact on the Civil Rights Movement
Desegregated Public Schools
System of work that replaced slavery after the Civil War
Sharecropping
This specific nationality was barred from immigration to the US in 1876 due to racism.
Chinese Exclusion Act
American policy of keeping out of international entanglements or war
Isolationism
A part of the second red scare a congressman accused a multitude of people of being communist.... they were not
McCarthyism
Leader of the SCLC and non violent resistance to integration
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rules imposed on African Americans after the Civil War to reestablish white supremacy
Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws
Germany's unrestricted use of this weapon in part led to the USA entrance into WWI
Submarine,
Other reasons for entry
Zimmermann Note
Massive debt by Britain and France
Republican (Hoover)
Americans imprisoner due to xenophobic fears after Pearl Harbor
Japanese Americans Interment Camps
Soviets blocked access to former German capital, air supply kept people fed
Berlin Airlift
Book which changed federal regulations of food, specifically meat
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Large numbers of immigrants moved to American cities, they joined rural migrants in a search for jobs and opportunity in cities. This growth and movement to the cities is called
urbanization
Banks lent money to stock investors to buy on credit the result?
Bank failures due to the 'buying of stocks on margin'
Fascism is built on racism and Nationalism it led to what event
Holocaust
Declared combat operations in Indochina would begin
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Vietnam)
Moving to a city from the country
Urbanization
List the 4 main reasons for WWI
M
A
I
N
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
How did the United States finance WWII
Debt
Atomic weapons placed on an island by the Soviets were a threat to the United States, nearly caused World War Three
Cuban Missile Crisis
This theory was an extension of containment and worried that is one country fell to communism more would follow, this theory brought us to Vietnam
Domino theory