using economic power instead of going to war
moral diplomacy/dollar diplomacy
a message from Germany to Mexico that was intercepted by Britain. Germany wrote to ask Mexico to aid them in their fight against America
Zimmerman Note
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
Held that the United States had the right to get involved in the affairs of Latin American nations whenever they seemed unstable
Roosevelt Corollary
October 29, 1929
the stock market crashed
type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting, like in the late 1800s during the Cuban rebellion
yellow journalism
powerful German submarines
U-boats
September 1939
Hitler sent his armies to Poland/started WWII
nickname for american soldiers because their buttons looked like dumplings
dough boys
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
rebel leader that fought against Caranza after the fall of Huerta
Francisco Pancho Villa
-plan by Woodrow Wilson for everlasting peace
-Some of his ideas included adjusting boundaries in europe and creating new nations
14 points
GI
-uniforms labeled GI for Government Issue
-US soldiers came to be called GIs
payment for damages caused during a war
reparations
-means “my struggle”
-a book written by Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
the policy of using economic investments to protect U.S interests abroad
Substituting dollars for bullets/Dollar Diplomacy
-famous lawyer
-took part in the Scopes Trial
-defended many radicals and labor union members
-represented Scopes
Clarence Darrow
-June 6, 1944
-allied forces invaded Normandy
D-day
-symbol of the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s
-a carefree young woman with short "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and a short skirt
Flapper
Which countries were in the Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
-ocean liner sunk by a U-boat torpedo
-one of the main reasons that caused the USA to get involved with the war
Lusitania
makeshift villages where homeless people gathered
Hoovervilles
August 6, 1945 US dropped the first atomic bomb on a Japanese city
Hiroshima
Explain the Teapot Dome scandal
Albert Fall, Harding's secretary of the interior, in 1922 Fall, secretly leased government oil reserves to two oil companies; In return, Fall received more than $400,000; court found Fall guilty of bribery; became the first cabinet official ever to go to prison; Newspapers called the scandal "Teapot Dome," after the location of one of the oil reserves; became a symbol of widespread dishonesty in the Harding government
December 7, 1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii