Progessive Era
Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
What is Muckrackers?
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
What is the Lusitania?
A condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them.
What is Overproduction?
1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific
What is the Battle of Midway?
The forcible relocation of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegam?
A situation in which people are purchasing fewer goods than the economy is producing.
What is underconsumption?
A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Congress voted to provide this financial assistance for those who had been imprisoned.
What is rapations?
muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What are caused of WWI?
Took place in late 20s, people thought the market would just keep going up, put money in just for kicks, with no regard for the actual company. Caused giant bubble, led in part to the 1929 Crash.
What is over speculation?
June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
What is D-Day?
In 1941 FDR passed it, which prohibited discriminatory employment practices by federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work. It established the Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce the new policy.
What is Executive Order 8802?
the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes.
Who is Jane Adams?
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.
What is the League of Nations?
Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.
The Dust Bowl
In April 1945, surrounded by Allies to southwest & Soviet Red Army to the east, Hitler committed suicide with wife Eva Braun & the Third Reich surrendered.
What is the Fall of Berlin?
A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancment of Colored People)
Woodrow Wilson's plan for post-war peace: no secret treaties; freedom of the seas; removal of economic barriers; reduction of arms; adjust colonial claims
What is 14 Points?
Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress
In order to meet the supply needs of the US military, many factories were converted from civilian to military purposes. This conversion lasted till war's end
What is Wartime Conversion?
African American strategy to defeat Hitler's racism abroad as well as racism at home.
What is the Double V- Campaign?