The Gilded Age
The belief that Darwin's ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest should be applied to society including the economy.
What is Social Darwinism?
This government agency was headed by Herbert Hoover and was established to increase the production of food and ration food for the military.
What is the Food Administration?
Speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which President Franklin Roosevelt explained complex issues and programs in plain language. Helped calm the nerves of the American people.
What is Fireside Chats?
A symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
Event where the U.S. and Britain flew supplies into West Berlin which had been cut off by the Soviet Union.
What is The Berlin Airlift?
Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
What is the Pullman Strike?
The proposed points outlining peace offered by President Woodrow Wilson in 1918 before the war was over.
What are the 14 Points?
Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture of the American prairies during the 1930s.
What is The Dust Bowl?
Legislation passed in 1941 for a program through which the United States loaned military equipment to Britain and other WW2 allies for the duration of the war.
What is The Lend Lease Act?
Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The telegram was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence.
What is The Zimmerman Telegram?
Nickname for Roosevelt's three goals of relief, recovery, and reform.
What is the Three R's?
Established the Japanese Internment during World War II.
What is Executive Order 9066?
U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Established Separate but Equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A nickname given to October 29th, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply.
What is Black Tuesday?
Established in 1934 to help stimulate the housing market.
What is the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)?
This series of diplomatic accords between Mexico and the United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. These agreements addressed a national agricultural labor shortage during WWII.
What is the Bracero Program?
Which conference decided the following two decisions:
Vietnam was split at the 17th parallel.
Planned a unification election 2 years later.
What is The Geneva Conference?
Tariff that raised protective tariff levels by nearly 50%, making them the highest tariffs on imports in the United States history.
What is the McKinley Tariff of 1890?
Prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
What is the Espionage Act of 1917?
Main purpose was to establish the legal right of most workers to organize or join labour unions and to bargain collectively with their employers.
What is the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (or the Wagner Act)?
Banned discriminatory employment practices by federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work. The order also established the Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce the new policy.
What is Executive Order 8802?
The practice of making accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to communism and socialism. The term originally referred to the controversial practices and policies of one U.S. Senator.
What is McCarthyism?