Imperialism
A policy proposed by the US Sec of State John Hay in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.
Open Door Policy
The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
Great Depression
20th-century reporters who exposed corruption in business and government, child labor, etc.
Muckrakers
Countries involved in Allied Powers and Central Powers?
Allied: Great Britain, France, Russia
Central: Germany, Austria Hungary, Turkey
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Emperor Hirohito
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
Imperialsm
October 29th, 1929: the day when prices in the stock market took a steep dive, plunging over $10 million dollars.
Black Tuesday
This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
The Jungle
A German diplomat Arthur Zimmerman proposed to Mexico that it become allies with Germany, and Germany will help Mexico recover its lost territories
Zimmerman Telegram
The reason the US got involved in WW2.
Bombing of Peral Harbor
War fought between the US and Spain in Cuba and the Philippines. It lasted less than 3 months and resulted in Cuba's independence as well as the US annexing Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
Spanish American War
President Franklin Roosevelt's precursor of the modern welfare state. His programs were meant to combat economic depression and it enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy.
New Deal
The Constitutional amendment adopted in 1913 that explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax
16th Amendment
An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and it attempted to bring world peace. This organization would later prove to be not that strong. US did not join.
League of Nations
FDR persuaded Congress to adopt a less restrictive Neutrality Act that said a belligerent could buy U.S. arms if it used its own ships and paid cash; Technically it was neutral, but favored Britain
Cash and Carry
(1898) a rider to the war resolution with Spain whereby Congress pledged that it did not intend to annex Cuba, and that it would recognize Cuba's independence from Spain.
Teller Amendment
Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. Many families migrated to the west in search of jobs and new opportunities.
Dust Bowl
Law that strengthened antitrust laws and exempted labor unions and agricultural groups from monopoly restrictions.
Clayton Antitrust Acts
This is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. The ruling was that the first amendment can be restricted if the idea being printed or said is a threat to society.
Schneck v. US
After victory in Europe was achieved, the Big 3 (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill) agreed that Germany would be divided into occupation zones, There would be free elections in the liberated countries of Eastern Europe, The Soviets would enter the war against Japan, and A new world peace organization would be formed.
Yalta Conference
To demonstrate U.S. naval p ower to Japan and other nations, Roosevelt sent a fleet of battleships on an around-the-world cruise.
Great White Fleet
1935 New Deal program- guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health
Social Security Act
This act created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal reserve Board. It was an attempt to provide the United States with a sound yet flexible currency.
Federal Reserve Act
Stressed Self- determination; A nation, a group with similar political ambition can seek out it’s own independent state
Wilsonian (Wilson's Foreign Policy)
The U.S. Secretary of State Henry Stimson declared the U.S. would honor its treaty obligations under the Nine-Power Treaty by refusing to recognize the legitimacy of Manchukuo
Stimson Doctorine