US Foreign Policy
This diplomatic policy focused on promoting human rights and democracy, and self-determination.
What is moral diplomacy?
The surprise attack on this pivotal U.S. military base led the United States to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 1930s tariff, aimed at protecting American businesses, led to a global trade slowdown.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
This 1933-1934 set of legislative actions by FDR aimed at relief, recovery, and reform.
What is the New Deal?
This 1925 trial in Tennessee tested the legality of teaching evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The U.S. attempted to limit war with this 1928 agreement, signed by multiple nations, which renounced the use of war for resolving disputes.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This act of warfare, used by Germany in WWI, involved attacking ships without warning, often with submarines.
What is Unrestricted submarine warfare?
This economic plan, developed after WWI, sought to stabilize Germany’s economy by securing loans from U.S. banks.
What is the Dawes Plan?
This 1937 plan to add more justices to the Supreme Court was seen as an attempt to bypass judicial opposition to the New Deal.
What is the Court-packing Plan?
Black Americans used this idea to express fighting a war abroad and the war at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
Wilson’s plan for post-WWI peace, which included open diplomacy and self-determination.
What are Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
The code name for the project that developed the first atomic weapons during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This was the U.S. policy of letting consumers purchase goods on credit, often leading to risky financial behavior.
What is the Installment Plan?
This 1920s movement was a cultural and artistic explosion in African American communities, particularly in Harlem.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This act passed during WWI curtailed civil liberties by limiting dissent and criticism of the government.
What is the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This 1920s U.S. foreign policy, led by President Taft, focused on using economic power to influence Latin American countries.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This 1942 battle in the Pacific was a turning point in WWII, where the U.S. defeated Japan.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This New Deal program aimed to support job creation and public infrastructure projects.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This 1920s law set strict limits on immigration from certain countries, reflecting nativist sentiments and racial prejudices of the era.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This 1917 German diplomatic message to Mexico, which led to U.S. entry into WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
This was the major U.S. policy aimed at providing military aid to Allied nations during WWII before direct involvement.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This act created a social insurance program that provides benefits to retirees, the disabled, and others in need.
What is the Social Security Act?
This New Deal Program stabilized the farming industries by paying farmers to destroy crops. It was later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
This policy, enacted during WWII, involved the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?