Period 6
What was the name for the application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies, particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion?
Social Darwinism
What was the name of the liberals who advocated for the wellbeing of people, through the use of government intervention?
Progressives
What is communism?
A government system created by Karl Marx advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and everyone is equal.
What is the Energy Crisis?
Event caused by a decrease in oil supplies and embargos by OPEC.
What was the economic liberalism that believes in unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy?
Laissez Faire
What is conservation?
Holding to traditional attitudes and values while being cautious of change or innovation?
What is the name for the policy created in 1947, that provided economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism?
Truman Doctrine
What is the event of high inflation and unemployment called?
Stagflation
Who is JP Morgan?
He was an influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies.
What was the name for the plan made by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression?
New Deal
What is the Marshall Plan?
A plan that the U.S. came up with to revive the war - torn economies of Europe.
What is the Moral Majority?
A large but quiet group that helped Richard Nixon for his corrupt actions.
Who was John D Rockefeller?
He established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly in the history of the US.
What is Xenophobia?
Fear of foreigners
What is the alliance formed by the US to contain and assess communism in the world?
NATO
What was the Western political movement that was created to stop federal land and natural resource use?
Sagebrush Rebellion
What is the term for industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages?
Robber Baron
What was the Red Scare?
A period when the U.S. was scared and suspicious of potential communist and extremist spies in it's mist.
What are Proxy Wars?
Indirect wars in which the superpowers backed different sides that acted as substitutes.
What was the Persian Gulf War of 1991?
A war led by Bush, where the US defeats Iraq when Saddam Husein of Iraq leads an invasion on Kuwait.