Road to WW1
This policy asserted that the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin America to stabilize economic affairs, expanding upon the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This government agency used propaganda posters, films, and speeches to build public support for the war effort.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
This constitutional amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol, contributing to the rise of organized crime.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This 1933 program aimed to restore public confidence in banks by insuring deposits.
What is the FDIC?
This policy allowed the U.S. to provide military aid to Allied nations before officially entering WWII.
What is Lend-Lease?
This 1898 conflict marked the United States’ emergence as an imperial power by resulting in control over territories such as Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
These 1917–1918 laws limited civil liberties by criminalizing criticism of the government and war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This cultural movement centered in New York celebrated African American artistic expression and intellectual achievement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This New Deal program provided jobs for young men in conservation and infrastructure projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This executive order authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This diplomatic note, intercepted in 1917, proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
In this Supreme Court case, the Court upheld limits on free speech during wartime using the “clear and present danger” doctrine.
What is Schenck v. United States?
These laws in the 1920s established strict quotas that favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe.
What are the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924?
This 1935 act established protections for labor unions and collective bargaining rights.
What is the Wagner Act?
This 1944 invasion marked the beginning of the Allied liberation of Western Europe.
What is D-Day / the Normandy invasion?
This policy, associated with Secretary of State John Hay, aimed to ensure equal trading rights in China without formal colonization.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This federal agency coordinated industrial production during WWI, reflecting expanded government involvement in the economy.
What is the War Industries Board?
This economic practice allowed consumers to buy goods by paying small amounts over time, contributing to economic instability.
What is installment buying?
This 1935 program created a federal system of pensions for the elderly and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
This secret project developed the atomic bomb during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The shift from neutrality to intervention in 1917 was most directly influenced by Germany’s use of this naval strategy targeting Allied shipping.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This demographic shift saw African Americans move from the rural South to industrial cities in the North for wartime jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
This 1925 trial symbolized the cultural conflict between modern science and religious fundamentalism.
What is the Scopes Trial
Critics argued this 1937 proposal threatened the balance of power by allowing the president to add justices to the Supreme Court.
What is the Court-Packing Plan?
At this 1945 conference, Allied leaders discussed postwar Europe and the division of Germany.
What is the Yalta Conference?