Westward Expansion to Progressive Era
This act would carve up the Native American reservations by dividing it up into individual plots of land that they did no know how to claim
The Dawes Act
This speech set the tone for US Isolationism that would keep the US mostly out of WWI
Washington's Farewell address
This was the name given to homeless villages during the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
This was the name of the battle strategy used by the Germans that means "lightning war"
Blitzkrieg
This is the idea that if you build up your nuclear forces enough, and the other nation builds up their nuclear forces enough, neither side would be willing to use them out of fear of both nations being destroyed
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
This was the term used for black people that moved out west to farm the land and escape Jim Crow and the racism of the south.
The Exodusters
This was an alliance of nations that was created by Woodrow Wilson, despite the United States not being a part of it.
The League of Nations
This was the name given to the day of the largest sell-off of shares of stock in US history that led to the collapse of the stock market
Black Tuesday
This is the name of the wall at the French border that they believed was impossible for the Germans to get around.
The Maginot Line
This was the hidden objective of the space race.
To create the technology needed to build intercontinental ballistic missiles
This extension to the Monroe doctrine stated that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in Latin America as part of "big stick diplomacy."
The Roosevelt Corollary
This was the treaty that officially ended WWI
The Treaty of Versailles
This New Deal program was designed to provide insurance to protect money in the event of a bank failure to help reestablish faith in the banks
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
This was the name given to the policy where the US would sell weapons to the allied forces, but they had to assume the risk of shipping and had to pay up front.
Cash and Carry
This was the Communist army that would fight against the Chinese Nationalist army led by Mao Zedong
The People's Liberation Army (PLA)
What two companies build the railroads? Name both
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific
This famous black infantry unit would be awarded the the Croix de Guerre by the French for their heroic accomplishments in WWI
The Harlem Hellfighters
This controversial New Deal program offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. It would save farming in the Midwest and established a trust between farmers and the government.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
What Japanese location saw the highest number of civilian casualties?
The firebombings in Tokyo saw around 300-330k civilians killed and left over 8 million homeless. Over 60% of Tokyo went up in flames.
This became the dividing line for North and South Korea following WWII
The "38th parallel" or the 38 degree line of latitude.
This was the Paiute shaman who founded the Ghost Dance
Wovoka
What nation suffered the most casualties in WWI
Russia
This was a derogatory term for married women who worked during the great depression created to shame them by women who were not married.
Pin Money Worker
This was the slogan used to describe black people as they tried to use their service in WWII to help promote civil rights at home
The Double V campaign (Victory at home, victory abroad)
This was created as an investigative committee of the US House of Representatives in 1938. It was created to investigate allegations of disloyalty and subversive actives on the part of private citizens. It would be abolished in 1975 with its functions being transferred to the House Judiciary Committee..
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)