Influential persons
Federal laws and practices
Foreign Affairs
miscellaneous
100
This president signed the truce to end the Korean war in 1953.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower
100
Extention of the New Deal.
What is the Fair Deal?
100
This had America's involvment much due to the explosion of the battleship Maine.
What is the Spainish-American War?
100
Allies designated Western Germany to be free from Communism with this effort.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
He was war hero of the Spanish-American conflict.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
A special session of Congress called by Roosevelt to deal with the weak American banking system
What are the hundred days?
200
This war had General MacArthur removed from command.
What is the Korean war?
200
This act reorganized the military under one Department of Defence.
What is the National Security Act?
300
Journalists, novelists and critics who exposed corruption, especially in business and politics.
Who were the Muckrackers?
300
These were a series of court cases held at the stake of whether people in areas controled by the United States were given rights as citizens.
What where the Insular Cases?
300
The foreign ministers of nighteen nations including the U.S. put together this to divide and eventually reunite Vietnam.
What are the Geneva Accords?
300
Belief that if one area was overtaken by communism, nearby nations would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
400
A group of 1,4000 unemployed veterans who marched on Washington.
Who where the Bonus army?
400
This refers to when FDR removed gold from circulation, resulting in the devaluation of the dollar and helped raise prices along with assisting U.S. exports.
What is the Golden Standard?
400
Recovery program paid paid by America and Allies to rebuild Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
Mismanagement of grazing land and severe winds swept unprotected oil into dust storms, causing ecological damage on American prairie states.
What was the Dust Bowl?
500
Attempted to enlarge the Supreme Court and put in justices that would support his legislation, but failed.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt
500
A rider attatched to theAry appropriations bill that made Cuba a United States protectorate.
What is the Platt amendment?
500
Allowed for collective self-defence against the Soviet threat in the North Atlantic region.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organizaton?
500
A Republican senator from Wisconsin who claimed to have detailed information on Communists within the State Department (1950).
Who was Joseph McCarthy?