Unit 1- Gilded Age, Progressives
This term, used by Theodore Roosevelt, implied that immigrants should abandon their home culture and customs, and adopt "American Ways"
Americanize
This was a way popular culture could be spread across the country to Americans, unifying cultural values, beliefs and ideas.
What is Movies/Motion Pictures/Radios
This country was the only nation that could rival the United States after World War II
What is the Soviet Union?
This event launched Martin Luther King as a Civil Rights Leader?
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This was the reason a President of the United States resigned.
What is the Watergate break in/cover up?
These were built and implemented to increase Native American patriotism and 'Americanism'
What are Indian Boarding Schools
This was the foreign policy of President Taft
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This general led the counterattack at Inchon during the Korean War?
Who is Douglas MacArthur
This 60s President was more worried about foreign policy, though made a few moves to work on Civil Rights.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This group fought for the civil rights of, and better economic opportunities for migrants.
United Farm Workers
This event, in Downtown New York, led to labor legislation protecting the rights of working women, and factory safety standards.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
What caused Prohibition to be repealed?
Government realizing they could make money off taxing alcohol
OR
Creation of lawless cultural norms.
Though not created after World War II, this invention changed how people lived, worked, and socialized after World War II.
The Automobile
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This president ran on the idea of limited government, but instead increased the government by a large increase in military spending.
Reagan
Government Policy where the government is small, and benefits business owners and opportunities
Laissez-Faire
What ended the Great Depression?
World War II Spending
The Berlin Wall was built to solve this problem.
What is to stop people from East Berlin going to West Berlin
Which event was considered a loss for the United States, though war was never officially declared, leading to the War Powers Act?
Vietnam War
This policy is sometimes called reverse racism, though its intentions is to equalize opportunities.
Affirmative Action
This man promoted the use of wealth to increase the benefits to the masses, at the expense of his own heirs.
Andrew Carnegie
This was a main problem for the 30s that the New Deal failed to address
This policy was designed by George Kennan to prevent the spread of Communism worldwide.
Containment
The CIA sought to overthrow this country after 1970, due to the the election of a socialist president.
What is Chile?
This Natural Disaster in 2005 showed how unprepared the United States was to respond to a disaster.
What is Hurricane Katrina?