Cultural/Social
This attitude towards immigrants was widespread throughout the US in the first half of the 20th century.
BONUS: Name two policies enacted based on this attitude.
Nativism
Immediately following World War II, what happened to the US economy, and why?
BONUS: Name ONE government action or policy that contributed.
Economic boom
In the 1950s & 60s, the Supreme Court's focused shifted from protecting property rights to protecting these rights instead.
BONUS: Name one Supreme Court cases that illustrated this shift.
Individual Rights
Between World Wars I and II, the US tried to maintain this foreign policy.
BONUS: What events made maintaining this policy difficult?
Isolationism - Remain neutral and uninvolved in foreign affairs.
This was ONE action taken by the federal government during either World War that expanded its power.
BONUS: Name ONE additional policy, program, or action.
WWI - Food & RR Administrations; Draft; National War Labor Board; Liberty Bonds; Espionage & Sedition Acts.
WWII - War Production Board; Office of War Mobilization, Office of Price Administration; Rationing; Office of War Information; Japanese Internment
These were TWO other groups besides African Americans who experienced significant Civil Rights progress after World War II.
BONUS: Name two pieces of legislation that improved conditions for these groups.
Mexican & Mexican-American migrant workers; Latinx Americans; Native Americans; LGBTQ+ Americans; Women
Immediately following World War I, what happened to the US economy, and why?
BONUS: What were TWO of the reasons this quickly changed in the early 1920s?
Economic Recession
These were TWO Constitutional amendments that expanded democracy in the early 1900s.
BONUS: Name two additional amendments passed between 1900 and 1980.
17th - Direct Election of Senators
19th - Women's suffrage
This was the overriding foreign policy concern of the US after World War II.
BONUS: Name two specific conflicts where this policy was enacted.
Containment - Prevent the spread of Communism
These were TWO of the territories the US occupied after the Spanish-American War.
BONUS: What conflict in one of these territories followed the war?
Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines
This reform movement was a response to the excesses and problems caused by rapid industrialization in the Gilded Age.
BONUS: What were THREE of its objectives?
The Progressive Movement
These were THREE of the economic problems that plagued the US during the 1970s.
BONUS: What political realignment did these economic problems contribute to by the end of the decade?
Stagflation (rising inflation and rising unemployment); High interest rates; weakening labor unions; deregulation; rising federal deficit; outsourcing; loss of manufacturing jobs
This President's policies caused a major realignment of voters in support of the Republican Party.
BONUS: Name three strategies or policies that contributed to this realignment.
Richard Nixon (1968)
This was the US foreign policy exemplified by the Spanish-American War and its aftermath.
BONUS: What were some ways in which the US pursued this policy?
Imperialism - expanding US territory beyond North America in search of new raw materials and markets for growing economic output.
After World War I broke out in Europe, the US maintained a policy of neutrality until these THREE events of 1917.
BONUS: Name three other events or characteristics of WWI.
1. German Submarine attacks
2. Zimmerman Telegram
3. Russian Revolution
These were FOUR significant events in the African American Civil Rights movement after World War II.
BONUS: These were FOUR individuals who helped advance Civil Rights causes.
Desegregation of Federal Government & Armed Forces; Committee on Civil Rights & Fair Employment Practices Commission; Brown v. Board of Education; Montgomery Bus Boycott; SCLC, SNCC; Little Rock Nine; James Meredith & UMiss; Freedom Riders; March on Washington; Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts; 24th Amendment; Selma to Montgomery March; Black Muslim movement; Black Panther Party
These were FOUR of the causes of the Great Depression.
BONUS: What were FOUR of the impacts of the Great Depression?
C/S - Credit Buying/Speculation (Consumer goods, stock market growth)
I - Inequality (Rich/poor divide)
I - International Economy (Post WWI debt)
G - Government policies (lack of response/little regulation)
O - Overproduction (farm problems)
This President's policies caused a major realignment of voters in support of the Democratic Party.
BONUS: Name FOUR policies that many voters found appealing.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)
This was the main foreign policy idea employed by President Theodore Roosevelt.
BONUS: What foreign policy doctrine did he revise/add on to?
"Big Stick" policy - safeguard US interests by expanding the navy and intervening where necessary.
These were the FOUR fascist dictators that took power leading up to the outbreak of World War II.
BONUS: How did the US and other nations respond to their rise to power and increasing aggression?
Benito Mussolini (Italy), Adolf Hitler (Germany), Francisco Franco (Spain) and Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
These were FIVE points of cultural disagreement, tension, controversy, or conflict that occurred 1900-1980.
BONUS: What long-term changes occurred as a result of TWO of these events?
Preservationists vs. Conservationists; Imperialists vs. Anti-Imperialists; Progressive Movement vs. power of business interests; NAACP & Early Civil Rights movements vs. white supremacy; Women's suffrage movement; Prohibition; Nativism; Anti-WWI protests; Race riots/massacres (Tulsa); Union organization; Fundamentalists vs. Modernists; Conservative politics of the 1920s; Anti-New Deal/FDR opposition; WWII era Anti-Mexican attacks; Japanese Internment; Red Scare/McCarthyism; Changing gender roles; ERA; Opposition to Civil Rights movement(s); Counterculture & Anti-Vietnam War movement; the "New Left"; Critics of the Great Society; Environmental Movement vs. Deregulation
These were FIVE of the programs implemented during the New Deal that reshaped the federal government's role in managing the US economy.
BONUS: Which of these reforms were determined unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
CCC; TVA; NRA; PWA; WPA; AAA; NIRA; Wagner Act/NLRB; Banking Holiday; SEC; FHA; CWA; FERA; FDIC
These were the US Presidents (in order) between 1945 and 1980.
BONUS: Name one major political event during the term of each President.
FDR* (D); Truman (D); Eisenhower (R); Kennedy* (D); LBJ (D); Nixon (R); Ford^(R); Carter (D); Reagan (R)
These were FIVE non-military interventions by the US between 1900-1980.
BONUS: What new international role did the US adopt after World War II?
Venezuela; Panama; Columbia; Dominican Republic; Brazil; China (Boxer Rebellion); Germany/NATO; Cuba; Israel/Palestine; Egypt; Guatemala; Iran; Congo; Angola; Rhodesia; South Africa
These were FIVE events or conflicts (besides the wars in Korea & Vietnam) that occurred during the Cold War.
BONUS: What were their outcomes?
Red Scare/McCarthyism; Turkey/Greece; Berlin Airlift/Wall; Eastern European "elections"; Chinese Civil War; Nuclear Tests & Hydrogen Bombs; U2 incident; Cuban Revolution; Bay of Pigs Invasion; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space Race; Arms Race; OPEC embargo; Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan