Progressive Era
The names of two well-known business leaders of the Progressive Era
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie
Type of warfare seen in World War I
Trench Warfare
The US banning alcohol was called...
Prohibition
Event that forced the US into war (100 point bonus if you can give the date)
Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941
The two major superpowers involved in the Cold War
The US and the USSR
The growth of cities is called...
Urbanization
Name of the treaty that ended World War I
Treaty of Versailles
FDR's plan to pull the US out of the Great Depression
The New Deal
Foreign policy where France and Britain gave into Hitler's demands in attempt to avoid war
Appeasement
A mutual defense alliance formed between the US and other Western countries to try and preserve democracy
NATO
"Hands-off" approach to business, economy, etc.
Laissez-faire
The events that pulled the US into war
The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
Fireside Chats
U.S.'s top secret plan to develop the first nuclear weapon
The Manhattan Project
US foreign policy during the Cold War era AND its purpose
Containment; to stop the spread of communism
His book, The Jungle, shed light on the horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
4 MAIN causes of World War 1
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism
Movement of African Americans from South to North; for the purpose of finding jobs and escaping racial violence in the South
The Great Migration
US act that gave allied countries military equipment to help the war effort (this also broke US neutrality!)
Lend-Lease Act
Name the European country and its capital city that was divided into East and West after World War II
Someone who came from Southeast Europe, was poor, illiterate, and Jewish or Eastern Orthodox would likely be from which wave of immigration?
New Immigration
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were on this side in World War I
The Central Powers
FDR's attempt to upset the balance of power between our three branches of government; involved adding more justices to the Supreme Court
Court Packing Scandal
Name of the court case in which the Supreme Court upheld the U.S. wartime policy of detaining Japanese-Americans in relocation centers (Executive Order 9066)
Korematsu v. United States
Name of the satellite launched by the USSR in 1957; panicked the United States
Sputnik