Gilden Age
Key factor in explosive urban growth
Who are migrants from the countryside?
German War Plans
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
A constitutional amendment forbidding the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Living space for Germans
What is Lebensraum?
Name given to the military, political, and ideological barrier between Soviet Union and Western Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
The first U.S city to reach a million inhabitants by 1880.
What is New York?
This brought Great Britain into the war.
What is the invasion of Belgium?
Crudely built camps set up by the homeless during the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
The granting of political and territorial concessions in order to preserve peace.
What is appeasement?
U.S policy of checking the expansion or influence of Communist nations
What is containment?
Opposition to immigrants and immigration
What is Nativism?
Used for reconnaissance during the first year of war.
What is the airplane?
Unemployed Great War veterans who marched to Washington in 1932.
What is the Bonus Army?
Leader of the Vichy regime in France.
Who is Marshal Petain?
Anti-Communist foreign policy that called for military and economic aid to countries whose political stability was threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Court case that ruled that "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the equal protection clause of 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Forced to abdicate and later executed
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
FDR's radio talks
What are fireside chats?
The campaign into Russia
What is Operation Barbarossa?
Program launched in 1948 to foster economic recovery in Western Europe through massive amounts of U.S financial aid.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Exaggerating and sensationalizing reporting
What is yellow journalism?
The treaty ending the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Intended to help agriculture recover
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Stalin's show trials to bring false charges against the "enemies of socialism" and justify their execution.
What is the Great Purge?
Accused in 1948 of being a Communist spy; was convicted of perjury and sent to prison.
Who is Alger Hiss?