A New Century
Most immigrants chose to live here when they entered the United States.
What is cities?
Americans opposed American imperialism based on this principle.
What is Americans opposing colonization?
Drought conditions bringing high winds, poor farming practices leading to the removal of the native grasslands, and loose topsoil led to this phenomenon.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This former U.S. president is remember for dealing with the Iranian hostage crisis.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This leader of the Civil Rights Movement was a Baptist minister that was arrested around 30 times.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is the name of the well know corrupt political machine in the late 1800's.
What is Tammany Hall?
The name given to the extension of the Monroe Doctrine that one U.S. president used to justify intervening in Latin American Affairs.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
People experiencing malnutrition, a drop in the birth and marriage rates, and people losing their jobs and facing poverty are all consequences of this.
What is the Great Depression?
This crisis ended when the soviets removed their missiles from Cuba and the U.S. removed their missiles from Turkey.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This leader in Eastern Europe didn't allow for free elections and enforced communism after WWII leading to the Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
An investigative journalist who wanted to uncover corruption.
What is Muckraker?
Germany's decision to allow unrestricted submarine warfare led to this U.S. decision.
What is a declaration of war?
This president was largely blamed for a lot of the hardships people faced during the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This was the U.S. failed attempts at invading Cuba in the 1960's.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This event brought more than 250,000 Americans together to protest racial inequality and led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is the March on Washington?
The purpose of Upton Sinclair writing "The Jungle".
What is exposing the unsanitary conditions in food factories in the late 1800's?
This resulted in women and African Americans joining the workforce in wartime factories.
What is many men being drafter into the military during World War I?
These are the informal speeches given by FDR to keep the public informed.
What is Fire side chats?
These were two deadly chemicals used in the Vietnam war.
What are Napalm and Agent Orange?
This Supreme Court decision ruled against "separate but equal' in public schools leading to eventual desegregation.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education.
This famous Supreme Court case upheld the legality of segregation of people by race.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
The reason Americans and businesses living in fear that the idea of capitalism, free enterprise, and private ownership were threatened in the 1920's.
What is The Red Scare?
Relief, recovery and reform were all critical parts of this domestic policy of Franklin Roosevelts.
What is New Deal Legislation?
This theory represents the belief that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism the rest would follow.
What is the Domino effect?
This event is when Americans and British flew 277,000 flights delivering approximately 2.3 millions tons of food and supplies to West Berlin during a blockade by the Soviet Union.
What is the Berlin Airlift?