Imperialism & Policy
A US Naval Officer who advocated for a large navy and a canal through Panama.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This telegram, intercepted by the British, was a German offer to Mexico to ally against the US.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The fear of communism spreading to the US, fueled by the Bolshevik Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
These women of the 1920s adopted shorter hairstyles, shorter hemlines, and challenged traditional social norms.
What are Flappers?
He was the Austrian Archduke whose assassination in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist acted as the immediate trigger that started World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This type of diplomacy, associated with President Taft, involved sending money instead of military intervention to influence foreign nations.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This 1917 Act made it illegal to speak against the draft or war effort, leading to arrests like that of Eugene Debs.
What is the Espionage Act? (or Sedition Act)
The name for the series of raids organized by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to arrest suspected communists and radicals without warrants.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This new technology was the first source of mass communication and entertainment, helping to create national unity and culture.
What is the Radio?
This U.S. President is known for his Missionary Diplomacy and his declaration that the U.S. had a moral obligation to help the less fortunate and spread democracy abroad.
Woodrow Wilson
This policy, expanded by the Roosevelt Corollary, claimed the US had the right to intervene in Latin America to prevent takeover by any other nation.
What is the Monroe Doctrine/Roosevelt Corollary?
Name the two main parts of the Treaty of Versailles that severely punished Germany.
The War Guilt Clause and Payment of War Reparations (or loss of territory/military).
A governmental structure where the government controls every part of the economy and distributes everything.
Communism
This musical genre was an original American art form, blending African and European musical traditions. It provided a soundtrack for the decade and became a source of cultural pride and an expression of freedom for the African-American community and the youth.
What is Jazz?
As the leader of the Bolshevik Party, his successful 1917 revolution in Russia led to the creation of the USSR and fueled the American Red Scare.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
According to Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis, why did the US need to pursue new territories in the late 19th century?
The frontier was "closed" or gone, and the US needed a new outlet for its energy/Manifest Destiny.
What were the two core reasons that spurred the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities during this period?
Escape from Jim Crow violence/racism and the promise of higher-paying factory jobs in the North.
The 1920s law that dramatically reduced immigration by setting a quota of 2% of the number of foreign-born people from a specific historical census.
What is the Quota Act of 1924 (or Immigration Act of 1924)?
What did authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway call the generation of post-WWI writers who took a critical look at the decade's materialism?
What is the "Lost Generation"?
She was the notable female author of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and studied Black folklore.
Zora Neale Hurston
Name the three US foreign policy diplomacies (and their presidents) from the Imperialist Era (1904-1916).
Big Stick Diplomacy (T. Roosevelt), Dollar Diplomacy (Taft), Missionary/Moral Diplomacy (Wilson).
An international organization that represented Wilson's idea of collective security.
What is the League of Nations?
Why do historians often use the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti to illustrate the prejudice and nativism of the 1920s?
Many believed they were convicted and executed primarily because they were immigrants and known anarchists, not due to conclusive evidence for the crime.
Besides factory jobs, name two ways the increased availability of electricity and appliances affected the lives of American women in the 1920s.
Created more leisure time for women by making household chores easier (vacuum, washer, etc.) and contributed to the rise of consumer culture/advertising.
The Queen who was overthrown by American business interests and military forces, leading to the Annexation of Hawaii in 1898.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?