World Wars & Global Growth
This 1917 legislation mandated that American men sign up for potential military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This major economic sector completely missed out on the roaring prosperity of the 1920s, suffering from early severe hardships.
What is the farming industry?
This historic economic collapse only truly ground to a halt because of massive government spending for World War WWII.
What is the Great Depression?
This specific foreign policy aimed to block communism from bleeding past its current borders into neighboring nations.
What is containment?
This monumental 1954 Supreme Court decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
American lawmakers blocked entry into this international peacekeeping body, fearing it would drag the nation into foreign conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
Underfunded enforcement, widespread bribery, and a public eager to drink made this comprehensive alcohol ban nearly impossible to manage.
What is Prohibition?
This president favored hands-on, direct government intervention to tackle the nation's severe economic collapse.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The global postwar standoff earned this chilly nickname because the two main superpowers never clashed directly on a battlefield.
What is the Cold War?
These crusading writers and photographers exposed societal rot, political corruption, and corporate greed to spark legislative reform.
What are muckrakers?
This was the sensationalized, exaggerated style of media reporting that helped whip up public support for the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Front-page news of mass arrests and radical deportations in early 1920 illustrated this period of intense anti-communist panic.
What is the First Red Scare?
While the public demanded isolationism from WWII, this leader wanted to provide aid to the Allies against Axis threats.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This geopolitical theory warned that if one nation fell to communism, its geographic neighbors would quickly follow suit.
What is the domino theory?
Jacob Riis used photography and writing in what book to expose the horrific cramped living conditions inside tenement housing.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
What motivated the U.S. to finally enter WWI in 1917.
What are economic ties with the Allies?
Widespread panic over high immigration rates and shifting social norms fueled a massive 1920s revival of this hate group.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This sweeping legislative agenda fundamentally shifted the federal government toward vastly expanded regulatory power.
What is the New Deal?
This post-WWII piece of legislation boosted the American middle class by paying for veteran college degrees and home loans.
What is the GI Bill?
The Homestead and Pullman strikes served as prime examples of the bloody, violent clashes between big business and this group.
What is organized labor / industrial workers?
The Spanish-American War drastically accelerated this global expansion policy for the United States.
What is American imperialism?
Buying cars and appliances using this specific financial mechanism gave a false impression of permanent 1920s wealth.
What is installment buying / purchasing on credit?
Unlike his successor, this leader believed in limited federal power when trying to fix the broken economy.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Federal housing policies and lending practices made suburban homeownership more accessible to white families than to this group
What are minority groups
Theodore Roosevelt’s famous corporate "trust-busting" campaigns perfectly embodied this early 20th-century political movement.
What is the Progressive movement?