American Imperialism
considered the most IMMEDIATE cause of the Spanish-American War
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
a fear of communists, leading to an increase in nativism
What is the Red Scare?
popular music of the 1920s
What is jazz?
prolonged drought and poor farming practices were contributing factors to this
What is the Dust Bowl?
military strategy used in the Pacific
What is island hopping?
the act of rapidly assembling and preparing a nation's military forces, resources, and civilian population for war
What is mobilization?
constructed beginning in 1904 in order to facilitate trade and naval travel
What is the Panama Canal?
movement of African Americans & other minorities to the northern US during the war
What is the Great Migration?
revolutionized the factory assembly line
Who is Henry Ford?
name given by journalists to makeshift homeless camps that popped up throughout the nation during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
agreement between USSR and Germany to not engage in aggression against each other; share Poland
What is the Non-Aggression Pact?
civil rights activist who strongly advocated for immediate racial equality and is best known for co-founding the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
initiated by Secretary of State John Hay to maintain open trade with China
What is the Open Door Policy?
sent to Mexico, offered to help them win land back from the United States if Mexico would start a war with the US
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
granted women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
nickname given to FDR's New Deal agencies
What is "Alphabet Agencies"?
or Alphabet Soup Agencies
agreement where the US agreed to allow nations whose defense was vital to ours to use our war equipment
What is Lend-lease?
social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class, especially immigrants; founded the Hull House
Who is Jane Addams?
US foreign policy, primarily under President William Howard Taft, where the US used its economic power by providing loans to foreign countries, particularly in Latin America
What is the Dollar Diplomacy?
this outlined the idea that cooperation among international leaders was essential to world peace
What is Wilson's Fourteen Points?
teacher put on trial for teaching evolution
Who is John Scopes?
reform program to increase public confidence in banks by insuring deposits
What is FDIC?
June 6, 1944- stormed the beaches of Normandy and worked to liberate France
What is D Day?
series of aggressive law enforcement actions led by Attorney General during the First Red Scare, where federal agents conducted widespread raids to arrest and deport suspected radicals, particularly communists and anarchists
What are the Palmer Raids?
an extension of the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, asserting the right of the United States to intervene in Latin American countries to maintain stability and order.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
the issue in the case Schenck v. United States
What are 1st Amendment rights?
*also acceptable: freedom of speech
Italian immigrants who were accused of participating in a robbery and murder in Braintree, Massachusetts
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
increased tariffs on agricultural and industrial imports from foreign nations, which led to retaliation by other nations and led to diminished demand for American exports
What is the Smoot-Hawley tariff?
order that led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II
What is executive order 9066?
landmark Supreme Court case, where the court upheld the constitutionality of the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, a decision widely criticized for its racial bias and violation of civil liberties
What is Korematsu v. United States?