Gilded Age
The belief that it was the God-given right of the United States to stretch all across North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
These two future-U.S. states were acquired during the American "Age of Imperialism" in the late 1800s
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
This event triggered the start of World War I after Russia declared war on Serbia in 1914
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This was the name of President Franklin Roosevelt's collection of laws, agencies, and programs to fight the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
This was a system of government where a dictator controls everything in society and uses propaganda and scapegoats to maintain their power
What is fascism?
This term describes the dirty, cramped apartment buildings that were created in U.S. cities in the late 1800s
What are tenements?
This military conflict between the U.S. and a major European power resulted in the U.S. controlling Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
What is the Spanish-American War?
This condition occurred when soldiers in the trenches spent long periods of time wearing wet or damp boots
What is trench foot?
These were where many homeless people ended up living in makeshift houses built from spare wood and scrap metal
What are Hoovervilles?
This was the event that caused the United States to abandon isolationism and officially join World War II
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This was the (derogatory) name given to the richest men in the U.S. during this period, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
Who were the robber barons?
When one country takes over another country's land or territory, making it their own
What is annexation?
These would be: militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism.
What are the MAIN causes of World War I?
These would be: World War I, credit and debt, tariffs, and the farming crisis
What are the causes of the Great Depression?
These are the three countries of the Axis Powers.
These were the organizations that ran cities in the Gilded Age. One example would Boss Tweed in New York City
What are political machines?
Economic competition, Manifest Destiny, nationalism, scientific racism, and the desire to spread American culture and values could all be examples of this
What are motivations for imperialism?
This was the document that officially ended World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This program established a system of pensions for senior citizens that provided people with money after they retired
What is Social Security?
Examples could include coffee, steak, gasoline, or rubber
What are commonly rationed goods on the homefront?
In response to the surge of immigration in the late 1800s, some people who did not like immigration embraced this belief
What is nativism?
This was President Theodore Roosevelt's policy to intervene in any Latin American country that failed to pay off its debts
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was required to pay these (a term for paying money after doing something wrong)
What are reparations?
These are the three goals of the New Deal.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
These were: to defeat fascism abroad and to defeat racism at home.
What are the two goals of the "Double V" Campaign?