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U.S. Imperialism
Progressive Era
World War I & The 1920s
The Great Depression & New Deal
World War II
100

The war that resulted in American colonies throughout the world.

War of 1898 - Spanish American War

100

The term for journalists exposing problems in American society.

Muckrakers
100

The final straw that led to the US entering World War I.

The Zimmerman Telegram

100

One reason the Great Depression occurred

Agricultural deflation, buying on margin, speculative investing

100
Japan bombed this US naval and air force base.  The US responded by declaring war on Japan and officially entering WWI on the side of the Allies.
Pearl Harbor
200

Print media that sensationalized news in order to drive up sales

Yellow Journalism

200
Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.  

The Jungle

200

The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.  

The Great Migration

200

The informal radio talks President FDR had with Americans during the Great Depression

Fireside Chats

200

A. Phillip Randolph's campaign during WWII

Double V campaign

300

The event that is credited with drawing America into the War of 1898 (Spanish American War)

Sinking of the USS Maine

300
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.  
Jane Addams
300
This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.  
The Red Scare
300

Ecological disaster on the Great Plains, leading to mass migration to places like California

Dust Bowl

300

The name given to the secret creation of the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

The Manhattan Project

400

The principle used to justify American intervention in Cuba and Puerto Rico

Monroe Doctrine

400

This person was jailed during the Pullman Strike, and founded the Socialist Party. He later ran for President from jail.

Eugene V. Debs

400

The event that sparked WWI

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

400

This employed about 3 million men to work on projects that benefitted the public.  Was a part of FDR's New Deal.  

Civilian Conservation Corps/WPA/PWA

400
Supreme Court decision that said Japanese internment during WWII was in fact constitutional because it was during a time of war.  
Korematsu v. US
500

Foreign policy theory in the late 1800s centered around the idea that a world power country required having this

What is a strong navy/control of the seas

500

The shift in American domestic politics as a result of the Progressive Era

The role of government as a regulator of American business

500
This Supreme Court decision declared that the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger."
Schenck v. US
500

One reason the New Deal was a success and one reason it was a failure  

Lowered unemployment, fed children, adjusted economic practices --- descriminated against non-whites, didn't fully alleviate unemployment, World War II completed the recovery

500

Bloodiest battle in WWII, and one of the bloodiest in American history

D Day/Invasion of Normandy