Imperialism
Bright young reporters at the turn of the twentieth century who won this unfavorable moniker from Theodore Roosevelt but boosted the circulations of their magazines by writing exposés of widespread corruption in American society.
(What is Muckrakers)
U.S. as a whole to avoid becoming emotionally or ideologically involved in the conflict.
(What is Isolationism?)
A period of intense anticommunism. The “Palmer raids” of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer resulted in about six thousand deportations of people suspected of “subversive” activities.
(What is 1st Red Scare?)
Major event caused by international trade crash.
(What is Great Depression)
These words from Franklin D Roosevelt “A Day Which Will Live in Infamy” refers to what.
(What is Pearl Harbor?)
Name applied by President Taft’s critics to the policy of supporting U.S. investments and political interests abroad. First applied to the financing of railways in China after 1909, the policy then spread to Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua. President Woodrow Wilson disavowed the practice, but his administration undertook comparable acts of intervention in support of U.S. business interests, especially in Latin America.
(What is Dollar Diplomacy?)
A world organization of national governments proposed by President Woodrow Wilson and established by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
(What is League of Nations?)
An economic system based on mass production and mass consumption
(What is Fordism)
Series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
(What is New Deal)
Project that lead to the development of the atomic bomb
(What is Manhattan project?)
American battleship dispatched to keep a “friendly” watch over Cuba in early 1898. It mysteriously blew up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, with a loss of 260 sailors. Later evidence confirmed that the explosion was accidental, resulting from combustion in one of the ship’s internal coal bunkers. But many Americans, eager for war, insisted that it was the fault of a Spanish submarine mine.
(What is the Maine?)
Ship that was sunk and caused the public opinion to shift against Germany
(What is Lusitania?)
A federal act enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
(What is Volstead Act)
Policy to improve relations with the nations of Central and South America.
(What is Good neighbor policy)
Pivotal battle which led to the liberation of France and brought on the final phases of World War II in Europe.
(What is June 6, 1944 D day?)
That the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries.
(What is Roosevelt Corolarry?)
A Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage and Sedition Acts, reasoning that freedom of speech could be curtailed when it posed a “clear and present danger” to the nation.
(What is Schenck v. United States?)
A sentimental triumph of the 1920s peace movement, this 1928 pact linked sixty-two nations in the supposed “outlawry of war.”
(What is Kellogg-Briand Pact)
This act reversed traditional high-protective-tariff policies by allowing the president to negotiate lower tariffs with trade partners
(What is Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act?)
A strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill
(What is Tehran Meeting)
Book written by Alfred Mayar Mahan that led to United States Imperialism through stating the time of Westward expansion is over and we must expand elsewhere for prosperity.
What is The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Law extending the anti-trust protections of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and exempting labor unions and agricultural organizations from antimonopoly constraints. The act conferred long-overdue benefits on labor.
(What is Clayton Anti-Trust Act?)
The highest protective tariff in the peacetime history of the United States, passed as a result of good old-fashioned horse trading. To the outside world, it smacked of ugly economic warfare.
(What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff)
An economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes, holding that central banks should adjust interest rates and governments should use deficit spending and tax policies to increase purchasing power and hence prosperity
(What is Keynesianism?)
Passed amidst worries about the effects that labor strikes would have on war production, this law allowed the federal government to seize and operate plants threatened by labor disputes. It criminalized strike action against government-run companies.
(What is Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act)