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Imperialism
World War I
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The 1930s
World War II
100

Thesis in 1893 helped develop American democracy and character
-rugged individualism
-people solve their own issues-->build character

Frontier Thesis

100
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.  
The Great Migration
100
The trial of a high school teacher in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law.  The teacher was found guilty and the trial was closely followed by the public.    
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
100
A group of almost 20,000 WWI veterans marched to Washington DC because they needed help from the Great Depression and they wanted their government payout they had earned during the war 
Bonus Army
100
Japan bombed this US naval and air force base.  The US responded by declaring war on Japan and officially entering WWI on the side of the Allies.
Pearl Harbor
200

a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention.

Platt Amendment

200
The British passenger ship destroyed by a German u-boat submarine.  This event contributed to Americans wanting to get involved in WWI.  
The Lusitania
200

a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists

Palmer Raids

200
The informal radio talks President FDR had with Americans during the Great Depression
Fireside Chats
200
Symbol of the American female factory worker who went to work during WWII.  
Rosie the Riveter
300

Navy officer whose ideas on naval warfare and the importance of sea-power changed how America viewed its navy.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

300
The discovery of this disclosed Germany's promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.
Zimmerman Telegram
300

This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.  

The Red Scare

300
Hoover created this in an attempt to protect US factories from foreign competition.  This backfired though, because European nations stopped buying US goods.  
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
300

The name given to the group that created the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

The Manhattan Project

400

Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests.

Queen Liliuokalani

400

The tool countries used to gain support for their war efforts

Propaganda

400

This financial concept allowed American business and people to make purchases they could not yet afford

Credit

400
This employed about 3 million men to work on projects that benefitted the public.  Was a part of FDR's New Deal.  
Civilian Conservation Corps
400

All-Japanese battalion that fought in WWII

442nd 

500

1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in the Western Hemisphere by using military force (police power).

Roosevelt Corollary

500

This city was the target of racial violence during the Great Migration. It was known to many as Black Wall Street

Tulsa, Oklahoma (Greenwood District)

500
These were passed to reduce the number of "New" immigrants.  Were a response to nativism.
Quota Acts
500
Most important law passed during the New Deal.  Provides help to the elderly, unemployed, disabled.  Changed the role of the federal government to where the government is now expected to help those in need.  
Social Security Act
500
Provided WWII veterans with low interest mortgages, college tuition, and vocational training.  
GI Bill