The US should "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." This began the American policy of containment to try and stop the fall of countries to communism and to halt the expansion of Soviet influence. I supported Greece and Turkey
What is Truman Doctrine?
100
Period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. At its height in 1919–1920, concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and the alleged spread of communism and anarchism in the American labor movement fueled a general sense of paranoia
What is the First Red Scare?
100
Denotes the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents
What is The Second Red Scare?
100
Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.
What is Palmer Raids?
200
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
In fact, the point of the doctrine was to provide military and financial support to guerilla forces such as the Contras in Nicaragua
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
200
Series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is The New Deal?
200
Regulated RR and private businesses
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
200
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is Treaty of Versailles?
300
This Amendment got rid of poll taxes
What is the 24th Amendment?
300
Introduced during his eight years as president, these were in response to the tragic events of terrorism that occurred on September 11, 2001.
What is Bush Doctrine?
300
In his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. The phrase developed into a label for his administration's domestic and foreign programs.
What is The New Frontier?
300
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
What is Dawes Severalty Act?
300
1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".[2] Parties failing to abide by this promise "should be denied the benefits furnished by this treaty
What is Kellogg–Briand Pact?
400
You cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed.
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that significantly altered America's foreign policy. Previously, the US stated that it would not allow for European colonization of Latin America.
What is Roosevelt Corollary?
400
Term given to an ambitious set of proposals put forward by United States President
What is Truman Doctrine?
400
First major law restricting immigration to the United States. It was enacted in response to economic fears, especially on the West Coast, where native-born Americans attributed unemployment and declining wages to
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
Gives Cuba Independence and gives the US Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
What is Treaty of Paris of 1898?
500
If you are born or naturalized in the U.S. then you are a citizen of the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
The doctrine was motivated in part by an increase in Arab hostility toward the West, and growing Soviet influence in Egypt and Syria following the Suez Canal in 1956.
What is Eisenhower Doctrine?
500
Is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation.
What is Detente?
500
Gave the US a base in Cuba
What is Platt Amendment?
500
Law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945.