American Imperialism and Progressivism
This term refers to laws or actions that unfairly treat people differently based on race or nationality.
What is discrimination?
This event in 1914 started World War I.
What is the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This surprise attack in 1941 on what naval base led the United States to enter World War II.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This event caused the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash in 1929?
This war in 1898 between the United States and Spain helped the U.S. gain territories like Puerto Rico and Guam.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This term describes the expansion of a country's power through territory or influence.
What is Imperialism.
This system of warfare of digging into the ground was used by soldiers fighting on the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
These two Japanese cities were bombed with atomic weapons in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This president argued the government should create jobs and use the federal government to directly help citizens during the economic crisis.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the passage of the 19th Amendment.
The U.S. foreign policy regarding the war in Europe (WWII).
What is neutrality.
This U.S. president argued that America needed to make the world “safe for democracy” by getting involved in WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This U.S. program secretly developed the atomic bomb during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This president argued that local charities and voluntary cooperation—not the federal government—should help people during the Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This reform movement in the early 1900s aimed to fix problems caused by industrialization, corruption, and inequality.
What is the Progressive Era?
This term describes help given to people struggling during the economic crisis.
What is relief?
This group of countries fought together against the Central Powers during World War I.
Who were the Allies? (France, the British Empire, and the Russian Empire)
This military strategy used by the United States in the Pacific involved capturing key islands while bypassing others.
What is island hopping?
FDRs set of reforms which created the Social Security Act, Works Progress Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act, etc to address the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This type of journalism exposed corruption and problems in business and government during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
This word describes a government policy of avoiding alliances and foreign conflicts.
What is isolationism?
This treaty ended World War I and placed heavy penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Roosevelt was sympathetic to this country at the beginning of WWII, leading him and Congress to pass laws making it easier for them to purchase weapons and supplies despite the U.S. not being at war.
Who is Great Britain?
Three results/effects of the Great Depression.
What is unemployment, bank failures, homelessness?