Imperialism & WWI
This 1898 conflict, sparked by the sinking of the USS Maine, led to the U.S. acquisition of the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 18th Amendment-era policy led to a rise in organized crime and "speakeasies."
What is Prohibition?
These shantytowns, named after the President blamed for the crisis, housed the homeless during the early 1930s.
What are Hoovervilles?
This 1935 Act created a federal safety net for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
This "date which will live in infamy" prompted the United States to formally enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)?
Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy philosophy, which advocated for peaceful negotiation backed by the threat of military force
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
The 1925 trial that pitted modern science against fundamentalist Christianity regarding the teaching of evolution.
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
The "Three R's" of FDR's New Deal: Relief, Recovery, and this.
What is Reform?
This "watchdog" agency was created to regulate the stock market and prevent the fraud that led to the 1929 crash.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
Executive Order 9066 led to the forced relocation and internment of this specific group of Americans.
Who are Japanese Americans?
This intercepted telegram from Germany to Mexico proposed an alliance against the U.S., serving as a primary cause for U.S. entry into WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This literary and artistic movement celebrated African American culture and identity, centered in a New York City neighborhood.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This environmental disaster in the Great Plains was caused by a combination of drought and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Known as the "Magna Carta of Labor," this 1935 Act (Wagner Act) guaranteed the right of unions to bargain collectively.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
The term for the mass mobilization of the U.S. economy, which effectively ended the Great Depression.
What is Total War (or the War Production Board)?
The 1919 Supreme Court case that established the "clear and present danger" test, limiting free speech during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This 1924 Act drastically limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and banned immigration from Asia.
What is the National Origins Act (or Immigration Act of 1924)?
This group of WWI veterans marched on D.C. in 1932 to demand early payment of their service certificates, only to be cleared out by the military.
What is the Bonus Army?
This New Deal program employed young men for environmental projects like planting trees and building trails in national parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This secret U.S. research project was responsible for developing the first atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The Senate's primary reason for rejecting the Treaty of Versailles was opposition to Article X of this organization's charter.
What is the League of Nations?
The name for the 1919-1920 period of intense fear of communism and radicalism in the U.S. following the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
This economic theory, adopted later in the New Deal, suggests that the government should use deficit spending to stimulate demand.
What is Keynesian Economics?
FDR's controversial 1937 proposal to increase the number of Supreme Court justices after several New Deal laws were ruled unconstitutional.
What is the Court-Packing Plan (Judicial Procedures Reform Bill)?
At this 1945 conference, the "Big Three" discussed the post-war reorganization of Europe and the division of Germany.
What is the Yalta Conference?