Imperialism & Foreign Policy
This 1898 conflict resulted in the U.S. acquiring the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This president broke up trusts and pushed for the Square Deal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This event directly led to U.S. entry into WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This event began the Great Depression in 1929.
What is the Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)?
This surprise attack led the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This policy aimed to ensure equal trade access to China for all nations.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This president led the U.S. during WWI and proposed the League of Nations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This president implemented the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This program allowed the U.S. to supply Allies before officially entering the war.
What is Lend-Lease?
This project connected the Atlantic and Pacific and was completed in 1914.
What is the Panama Canal?
This book exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This law punished anti-war speech and criticism of the government.
What is the Espionage or Sedition Act?
This program provided jobs for young men in conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This 1944 invasion of France opened a Western front in Europe.
What is D-Day (or the Normandy invasion)?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine justified U.S. intervention in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This movement sought to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption.
What is the temperance movement?
Wilson’s postwar vision was outlined in this document.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This act established a system of old-age pensions.
What is the Social Security Act?
This order led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This anti-imperialist author wrote The White Man’s Burden.
Who is Rudyard Kipling? (Note: He supported imperialism, though his work was used in both pro- and anti-imperial contexts.)
This reformer focused on African American rights and helped found the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This 1919 treaty ended WWI and punished Germany harshly.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This 1930s environmental disaster devastated the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?