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WWI and WWII
Problems with Communism
The Great Depression and The NEW Deal
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U.S. Imperialism
100
This signed document/ agreement forced Germany to pay reparations for WWI bankrupting the German economy. It also required Germany to give Alsace Lorraine back to France.
What is The Treaty of Versailles
100
Heightened Concern during WWI in the united States about communism and the fear that it would spread. Especially after the passage of the Espionage Act in 1917, the Sedition Act of 1918 and others. This is the reason also for the Sacco and Vanzetti trial of two Italian Immigrants for murder.
What is the Red Scare
100
This President believed in trickle down economics and tightening ones belt to get to work. He created public works projects to help combat the Great Depression, but did provide Direct Aid to individuals.
Who is Herbert Hoover
100
This man headed the War Industries Board prior and during WWI to get the U.S. economy ready for war.
Who is Bernard Baruch
100
This Queen was overthrown when the United States decided to annex Hawaii and protect U.S. investors sugar cane plantations.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani
200
These big three leaders met at the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference to discuss the Post War relations after WWII.
Who are Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman
200
This was a line during the Cold War along the border of Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia where to the east lay communistic regimes and to the west non communistic countries.
What is the Iron Curtain
200
President FDR created numerous New Deal Agencies between 1933 and 1938 such as AAA, CWA, TVA, FDIC, and more. The left criticized saying FDR did NOT do enough to combat the Depression and FDR implemented a Second New Deal. The Second New Deal included ____________
What is Social Security
200
This method of mass production promoted efficiency, stop watch methods and reduced the time it took to make a Model T Ford on the assembly line from 12 hours to 90 minutes.
What is Scientific Management
200
Publications that heightened the public's dislike of the Spanish Government by painting their treatment of the Cuban people as attrocious was callee this. It featured a popular comic strip character.
What was the Yellow Press?
300
These were the most highly decorated military unit in U.S. history from WWII. These were American born Japanese soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Who are Nisei soldiers
300
In 1948, this plan gave 13 billion dollars in grants and loans to Western Europe to keep them from famine, provide fuel to heat houses and more. These weak countries would be susceptible to communism and the U.S. aid sought to prevent that.
What is the Marshall Plan
300
In the wake of Supreme Court decisions that declared key pieces of New Deal legislation unconstitutional, Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of justices. If a justice did not retire at age seventy, the President could appoint an additional justice up to a maximum of six. This was called
What is Court Packing.
300
The 18th amendment to the Constitution forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol. This did not put Prohibition into full effect however. Congress passed this Act next which forbade the use of alcohol and meant to enforce the 18th amendment.
What is The Volstead Act
300
This document officially ended the war between Spain and the United Staets in December and forced Spain to give up control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Pacific Island of Guam. It also sold the Philippines to the U.S. for 20 million dollars.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
This order affected Civil Liberties in the United States because it designated war zones from which anyone could be removed. This led to hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans to be held in internment camps as well as 11,000 German and Italian Americans.
What is Executive order 9066
400
This organization was formed in 1949 to provide a military alliance to counter Soviet expansion.
What is NATO
400
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 that prefaced the Great Depression was caused by risky stock purchases where individuals buy stock on credit anticipating a quick gain.This term is called
What is Speculation
400
This Novelist explored the reality of the American Dream of wealth, success and emotional fulfillment. He also wrote, The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
400
This violoent ongoing event occurred in China due to a growing influence of outsiders in their country. The participants in this formed secret societies that celebrated Chinese customs and culture.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
500
The Atomic Bomb was dropped on these two islands to end the War with Japan during WWII and also to send a message to the Soviet Union to not mess with the U.S. after they had just declared war on Japan.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki
500
The U.S. supported this leader of China who was being overthrown by Communist leader Mao Zedong. The U.S. sent several billion dollars to support this leader in the Civil War of China. However, the support did not prove successful and the new leader Mao Zedong would have future implications involving North Korea.
Who is Jiang Jieshi
500
This trial involved a Tennessee Teacher who was convicted of teaching Evolution in his Biology class.
What is The Scopes Trial
500
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes are all key figures in this.
What is Harlem Renaissance
500
The U.S. President who was heavily involved in the building of the Panama Canal created a foreign policy very different from the Monroe Doctrine. This doctrine established the United States as the police force of the western hemisphere. It was called...
What was the Roosevelt's Corollary?