Unit 1: The Gilded Age
This steel tycoon worked his way up from poverty and would go on to establish over 3,000 public libraries around the U.S.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This 1924 immigration law severely restricted migration numbers from Europe and all but eliminated migration from Latin America and Asia.
What is the Johnson-Reed Act?
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, commencing this operation, the invasion and recovery of western Europe from German forces.
What is Operation Overlord?
Rather than straightforward military conflict, the U.S. strategy against the Soviet Union was embodied by this policy of economic investment and diplomatic sanctions.
What is Containment?
President Nixon inflicted heavy losses on communist forces in the Vietnam War by extending U.S. bombing into this Southeast Asian country.
What is Cambodia?
After the decline of the Knights of Labor in 1886, this organization took its place as the preeminent national labor union.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Number those amendments: allowing direct election of U.S. senators, banning the sale of alcohol in the U.S., and extending the suffrage to American women.
What are the 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments?
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath depicts the struggles faced by refugees of this ecological disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The federal government ultimately drafted over 500,000 American men to fight communist forces in this former French colony.
In an effort to bankrupt the Soviet Union with another arms race, President Reagan proposed a futuristic missile defense system given this derisive nickname.
What is "Star Wars"?
This midwestern city served as a key railroad hub as well as the heart of American butchering and meat processing.
What is Chicago?
Queen Liliuokalani was the last monarch of this tropical island nation annexed by the U.S. because of its proximity to lucrative Asian markets.
What is Hawaii?
This Louisiana senator and governor criticized the New Deal and ultimately pushed FDR toward creating the Social Security Administration.
Who is Huey Long?
Inspired by the Truman Doctrine of military support for allies threatened by communist forces, various North American and European powers formed this mutual defense pact.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
After his landslide reelection in 1972, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in August 1974 following the revelation of this break-in and coverup.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This mastermind of vertical* integration would eventually control over 90% of the American oil supply.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The U.S. declared war on Germany in 1917 after it was revealed that Foreign Minister Zimmermann had made a secret deal with this country.
What is Mexico?
This New Deal program focused (and still focuses) on electrifying the rural South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
The CIA unsuccessfully trained refugees from this Caribbean nation to invade their former home at the Bay of Pigs and topple the island's communist government.
What is Cuba?
This government agency was created following the 9/11 terror attacks to protect Americans from terrorists and to secure the national border.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This Sioux chief won the Battle of Little Bighorn but lost the war against the federal government.
Who is Sitting Bull?
While Jacob Riis exposed the terrible living conditions of New York City's overcrowded tenements, this Progressive reformer revealed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The Lend-Lease Act militarily and financially assisted this ally, a totalitarian dictatorship invaded by German forces in 1941.
What is the Soviet Union?
After dozens of federal employees were exposed as Soviet agents, this Wisconsin senator made headlines with increasingly controversial and unsupported accusations of communist espionage.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein revealed the extent of the Watergate scandal in this major newspaper.
What is the Washington Post?