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An extremely patriotic supporter of the expansion and use of military power. Theodore Roosevelt is an example of one.
Jingoist
Boat that exploded in Havana Harbor to start the Spanish American War
USS Maine
Amendment that granted women the right to vote.
Nineteenth Amendment
News accounts that sold newspapers by provoking and emotional response in readers.
Yellow Journalism
Date that is credited with starting the Great Depression
Black Tuesday
Name for the southern plains of the United States during the Great Depression, when the region experienced decastating dust storms due to soil erosion caused by poor farming practices and drought
Dust Bowl
An organiation founded in 1909 to fight for racial equality.
NAACP
The slogan Black Americans used during World War II to state their twin aims to fight for victory over fascism abroad and victory over racism at home.
Double V
This tactic, employed in the Pacific by U.S. forces in World War II, directed American and Allied forces to cut off and pass over some heavily fortified Japanese islands to speed their dive toward the Japanese mainland.
Island Hopping
Top-Secret government project assigned to develop the first nuclear bomb
Manhatten Project
Movement of 600 thousand black americans from the south to the north after WWI.
Great Migration
A Progressive Era political and social movement whose supporters worked to protect the environment by balancing demand for natural resources against calls to preserve the nation's wildfire and natural lands.
Conservationism
Roosevelt's plan to apoint as many judges to the supreme court as he could during his time as president.
Court Packing
The U.S.'s policy stemming from the belief that they should not be involved in the affairs of other nations.
Isolationism
Black pilots and airmen who served in segrefated units during World War II. They earned fame escorting U.S. bomber aircraft in Europe and North Africa
Tuskegee Airmen
An act that prohibibted antiwar activities, including oopposing the military draft, passed in 1917. It banned subversive mailings as will as deliberare actions of sabotage and spying.
Espionage Act
Battle in the Pacific between the U.S. and Germany, largely considered one of the greatest victories of the war.
Battle of Midway
Term given to Japanese pilots committing suicide by flying their planes in to ships or bases.
Kamikaze
A series of attacks by white servicemen against Mexican American teenagers.
.Zoot Suit Riots
The forced relocation of persons seen as a threat to national security to isolated camps. During World War II, nearly all people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast, approximately 120,000, were forced to quickly sell or abandon their possessions and relocate to detention camps.
Internment
A cabinet agency in which the Bureau of Corporations gathered information about large companies in an effort to promote fair business practices.
Department of Commerce and Labor
The government roundup of about 6,000 suspected alien radicals in 1919-1920, ordered by the Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and his assistant J. Edgar Hoover. This demonstrated the fears of foreign radicalism in the first Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Name one New Deal agency created by Roosevelt to aid the U.S. during and after the Great Depression
PWA, CWA, CCC, NIRA, NRA, TVA, SEC, FDIC, AAA
An agreement negotiated at the 1945 Yalta Conference by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin about the fate of postwar Eastern Europe, promising free elections. This did little to ease tensions between the Soviets and its Western Allies
Yalta Agreement
Nine Black youths convicted of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931.
Scottsboro Nine