Imperialism and WWI
This defensive strategy ended up defining the First World War.
What is Trench Warfare?
Overworking of soil, droughts, and heavy winds contributed to this ecological disaster.
What was the Dust Bowl?
This deliberate genocide of Jews and other groups was perpetrated by the Nazis throughout World War II.
What was the Holocaust?
This country was split east/west throughout the Cold War, with its capital city being a hotbed of conflict.
What is Germany?
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr?
This document served as the tipping point for American entry into WWI.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
Speculation, the overuse of credit, and buying on margin caused this one-day economic collapse, leading to the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This policy, used by European leaders pre-WW2, involves giving into the demands of an aggressor to avoid conflict.
What is appeasement?
This country remained split at the 38th parallel and does to this day after a proxy war.
What is Korea?
This Supreme Court case overturned its previous ruling of "separate but equal."
What is Brown v. Board?
The assassination of this political leader was the spark that ignited WWI.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This group of people was first granted US citizenship in 1924.
Who are Native Americans?
This strategy was used by the US in the Pacific during WW2, taking key locations rather than focusing on all occupied areas.
What is island hopping?
This policy stated that the US would make all efforts to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment? (or the Truman Doctrine)
This act banned segregation in public facilities.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This treaty blamed the entirety of the war on Germany, imposing harsh restrictions that eventually boiled over in WW2.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
These three "R's" served as the foundation of handling the Great Depression.
What were relief, recovery, and reform?
These three authoritarian dictators ruled over the main Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) during World War II.
Who were Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Michinomiya Hirohito?
This war included a drafted peace treaty before the US withdrew, but further invasion caused the country to reunify.
What is the Vietnam War?
This protest was sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
These two inventions helped to add a third dimension to warfare as well as the ability to clear enemy trenches through the turning of a valve.
What was the airplane and poison (mustard/chlorine) gas?
Who were Nativists and the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1940s Supreme Court case upheld the US's practice of Japanese internment.
What was Korematsu v. US?
This Wisconsin senator launched a massive campaign against alleged communist in the government and Hollywood.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
A mass movement of white students from public to private schools to avoid integration.
What was "white flight?"