Gilded Age to Global Power
This name was given to people who controlled entire industries or were incredibly wealthy.
What are tycoons/robber barons/monopolies?
This caused the worst economic period in American History, the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
These three countries made up the Axis Powers in WW2.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Freedom rides, sit-in protests, and the march on Washington D.C. resulted in the economic and political opportunities of minorities during this era.
When was the Civil Rights era?
Before the United Nations, this organization promised World Peace.
What is the League of Nations?
This belief propelled the US to move westwards.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Great Depression was worsened by this policy, instituted by Herbert Hoover, which outlawed Alcohol.
What is Prohibition/18th Amendment?
The Pacific front of WW2 was ended by America's usage of this weapon.
What is the Nuclear Bomb?
The Space Race, Vietnam, Civil Rights, and counter-culture are part of these decades in US History, name one.
When were the 1960s and 1970s?
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris(1783)?
This factory fire marked a shift in worker's safety, eventually leading to the establishment of OSHA.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
After Herbert Hoover's failures, Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented this group of laws/programs to bring the economy back up.
What is the "New Deal"?
This country was split in two after WW2, becoming the center of the Cold War.
What is Germany or Korea?
The desegregation of schools was the outcome of this court case.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
Name one way that African Americans were prevented from voting in the South.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
Name one of the two main reasons the US entered WW1.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare/Sinking of the Lusitania?
This cultural movement of the 20s and 30s that influenced the civil rights movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This idea suggested that a communist government in one nation would spread to another. It justified US entry into Vietnam.
What is the Domino Theory/Containment?
In 1991 this nation collapsed, marking the end of the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union/Russia/U.S.S.R.?
Place these 3 states in order of joining the US from first to last: Ohio, Alaska, Virginia.
What is Virginia, Ohio, Alaska?
Name one of the M.A.I.N. reasons WW1 started.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
In the worst of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate skyrocketed to this record high.
What is 25%?
How many communist countries still exist today?
What is 5? (Vietnam, China, Cuba, North Korea, and Laos.)
This ideology was practiced notably by Japan and America, characterized by ignoring international relations.
What is isolationism?
Name the one president who resigned.
Who is Richard Nixon?