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Q1: This policy aimed to ensure equal trading rights and expand American markets in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This constitutional amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators.
What was the 17th Amendment?
This 1915 German submarine attack on a British passenger ship killed 128 Americans and increased anti-German sentiment.
What was the Lusitania?
This 1929 event is considered the beginning of the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This policy of giving in to Hitler’s demands in hopes of maintaining peace is known by this term.
What was appeasement?
This 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine declared that the U.S. would police all forces and powers in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This amendment granted women the right to vote nationwide in 1920.
What was the 19th Amendment?
This 1917 telegram from Germany to Mexico proposed an alliance against the United States.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
This president launched the New Deal in 1933 to combat the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This December 7, 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II.
What was Poland?
Construction of this major transport method, completed in 1914 under Theodore Roosevelt, greatly expanded U.S. naval and trade power.
What is the Panama Canal?
Journalists who exposed corruption in business and politics during this era were known by this term.
What were muckrakers?
This 1917 law required American men to register for military service.
What was the Selective Service Act?
This program provided jobs building roads, parks, and public buildings for young men.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This December 7, 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This amendment allowed the United States to intervene in Cuban affairs and establish a U.S. naval base.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This amendment authorized a federal income tax.
What was the 16th Amendment?
This 1919 treaty officially created the League of Nations.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Journalists who exposed corruption in business and politics during this era were known by this term.
What were muckrakers?
This secret U.S. project developed the atomic bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project?
A style of reporting that exaggerated stories about Cuba to gain readers and stir war fever were known by this term.
What is yellow journalism?
This tragic 1911 factory fire in New York City led to major workplace safety reforms.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This U.S. president proposed the League of Nations as part of his Fourteen Points.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This tragic 1911 factory fire in New York City led to major workplace safety reforms.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This international organization was created in 1945 to promote global peace after World War II.
What was the United Nations?