1920s
misc
Imperialism
New Deal
World War II
100

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Federally protected land was sold to two oil-men for a 400k bribe.

100

Direct Election of Senators

17 Amendment

100

Ship blew up and was sensationalized

Maine

100

What are the three Rs of the New Deal?

Relief, Recovery, and Reform

100

Why did FDR institute the Good Neighbor Policy?

to ensure that Latin America would remain allied to the US

200

How did the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) further US isolation in the 1920s?

It renounced war

200

Mistreatment of people here led to the Spanish American War

Cuba

200

Teddy's approach to foreign policy

Walk softly carry a big stick

200

What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority?

To provide electricity and jobs to the most rural areas of the south

200

How did the US find work-arounds on the Neutrality Acts?

1. Cash and Carry Programs
2. Lend-Lease Act

300

Created Birth Control for Women

Margaret Sanger

300

Wilsons approach for progressivism

New Freedom

300

Tafts approach to foreign policy

Dollar Diplomacy

300

How did the New Deal provide relief for the elderly?

They passed the Social Security Act

300

How were minorities and women impacted by the War?

Many went to work in factories, African-Americans left the south, many served in the armed forces, etc

400

Why was the 1920s a period of false economic prosperity?

Answers vary:
1. Consumerism centered around buying on credit
2. Wages never really increased
3. Buying stocks on margin
4. Farmers suffered

400

Wilsons approach to foreign policy

Moral diplomacy

400
Her dethroning lead to Hawaii being annexed by the US

Queen Lil

400

How did Huey Long try to alter the New Deal plans?

He proposed a redistribution of wealth--$5k to each family

400

What was the purpose of the secretive Manhattan Project?

To develop nuclear weapons

500

Made a famous flight across the Atlantic

Lindbergh

500

His book was the rationale for US foreign policy at the turn of the Century. Author and Book

Alfred T. Mahan, Influence of Sea power on History

500

This addition to Cuba's constitution led to US still having some control, like access to Guantanamo Bay

Platt Amendment

500

How did FDR try to ensure that ALL New Deal Programs would pass and be kept constitutional?

He tried to pack the supreme court with justices that would favor the new deal--it failed

500

Policy of warfare in the Pacific that led to dropping the bomb to "save lives"

Island Hopping.