Imperialism
The USA was able to make and control this in order to be able to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to go completely under South America.
The 4 leading long-term causes of WWI
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
The women of the period who challenged traditional norms with the way they dressed and cut their hair
Who are flappers
The event that started the entire Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929
The event that officially put the US into war and was the only true reason why Americans lost civilians in WWII
What is Pearl Harbor
The event that officially kicked off the Spanish-American war, but could have potentially been falsified.
What is the bombing of the USS Maine
The reasons why America joined WWI (there are 3!)
What are German's Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Telegram, Sinking of the Lusitania,
The attitude/mindset of most younger Americans
What is "Buy now, pay later!"
This group marched to Washington DC demanding their bonus checks from fighting in WWI but were entirely ignored by President Hoover
What is the Bonus Army
The battle that first instituted the use of kamikaze attacks on American warships
What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf
This was added to the Cuban Constitution after the US defeated the Spaniards. It states that they must stay out of debt and allow the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
What is the Platt Amendment
What is the Treaty of Versailles
This trial made a mockery of traditionalist values when it came to the world of education
What is Scopes Monkey Trial
FDR's New Deal plan to help the United States economy
What is Relief, Recovery, Reform
The forceful removal of Japanese Americans from their homes, jobs, and livelihood and placing them in internment camps in the middle of nowhere in fear that they might secretly be aiding the Japanese government during war.
What is Executive Order 9066
Leading rebel of the Philippines who helped overthrow the Spanish government but then turned on the Americans when they did not give the Filipinos their independence.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo
New inventions/ideas generated by the US during WWI to assist in war efforts (At least 3)
What is X-Ray machine, ambulance, new medicines for germ theory, triage for wounded, antiseptic surgeries
The two amendments of the 1920s (description needed as well)
What are:
18- prohibited the manufacturing, selling, and consuming of alcohol
19- Women's right to vote
The affair that FDR committed that irritated the Republican party, but ultimately did not matter when it came to his reelection
The war tactic that the United States instituted to get closer to Japan in order to potentially have a land invasion
What is island hopping
Strong believer in "Survival of the Fittest" and the mentality that Anglo-Saxons should be imperializing the world.
Who is Josiah Strong
The final offensive made by the Allied side to finish off the war.
What is the Hundred Day Offensive
5 ideas on the mindset differences between Traditionalists vs. Modernists during the 20s
What are: temperance, immigration, evolution, consumerism, prohibition, Anglo Saxon superiority, America's role in the world, sexuality, etc.
The person who developed the theory of economy that you need to increasing gov’t spending; deficit spend if necessary, cut taxes, and create government job programs in order for the economy to recover
Who is John Maynard Keynes
What is an embargo of war materials: oil, steel, and iron