U1: Westward Expansion
What is Manifest Destiny?
when a country takes over other smaller countries to expand their power.
What is imperialism?
Shantytowns during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
Victory At Home, Victory Abroad
What is the Double V Campaign?
Competition between the United States and the USSR to be more superior in space exploration ending in the US landing on the moon.
What is the Space Race?
Act where settlers would receive 160 acres of land if the promised to farm and cultivate the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
exaggerated journalism, partially caused the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Stream of Domestic policy passed by FDR to try and pull the United States out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
What is Pearl Harbor?
Fear of communism in the united states.
What is the Red Scare?
An attempt by the American government to assimilate the Native Americans by encouraging individual farming
What is the Dawes Act?
foreign policy which allowed equal access to trade with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Amendment which gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
largest amphibius invasion in history, where boats landed on Normandy Beach and marked a turning point in World War II.
What is the D-Day invasion?
Major court case which ruled to end segregation and overturned the separate but equal ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
Immigrants coming to Angel Island during the American Gilded Age.
Who are Asian Immigrants?
Zimmerman telegram and the sinking of the Lusitania.
What are the reasons the US joined World War I?
Purchasing stocks using borrowed money.
What is Buying on a Margin?
The United States foreign policy going into World War II.
What is Isolationism
Closest the United States came to direct warfare with the USSR in the Cold War.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
party with growth during the late 1880s which was specifically endorsed by farmers. Also known as the peoples party.
What is the populist party?
Trench Warfare, Tanks, Airplanes, Poison Gas.
What are the new types of technology used during WWI?
Mass movement of African Americans from the south to the north in an effort to find better opportunity.
What is the Great Migration?
First African American aviators in the United States, they fought in World War II.
If one country falls to communism then others around it will fall.
What is the Domino Theory?