Unit 1
This is the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline.
What is historiography?
This is a policy of extending a country's influence through force.
What is imperialism?
This U.S. president led the nation during World War I and promoted his Fourteen Points plan for peace.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This decade of economic growth, jazz music, and cultural change followed World War I in the United States.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
This is the period when the United States struggled with the question of how to fit newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
This tactic, commonly used in yellow journalism, involves exaggerating or fabricating stories to attract readers.
What is sensationalism?
This international organization was proposed by Wilson to maintain world peace after the war.
What is the League of Nations?
This constitutional amendment, enacted in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This movement sought to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This is the date that the Civil War ended.
What is April 9th, 1865?
This sensationalist style of journalism, popular in the late 1800s, emphasized scandal and exaggeration to boost newspaper sales.
What is yellow journalism?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I and imposed heavy penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This president introduced the New Deal programs to help Americans recover from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This 1960s conflict in Southeast Asia escalated U.S. involvement as part of the fight against communism.
What is the Vietnam War?
This was the main cause of the Civil War.
What is the North and the South fighting over the moral issue of slavery?
Yellow journalism is often blamed for helping to spark this 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This U.S. law required men to register for military service during World War I.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This decade-long economic crisis of the 1930s led to widespread unemployment and poverty.
What is the Great Depression?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education?
This declared that all slaves within rebellious states shall be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This treaty officially ended the Spanish–American War and transferred territories like Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This German submarine warfare tactic targeted ships without warning and helped push the U.S. toward war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This series of laws passed in the 1930s aimed to keep the United States out of foreign conflicts.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This period of tension and rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union dominated global politics after World War II.
What is the Cold War?