The Great Depression + The New Deal
This New Deal Program created jobs for unemployed, unmarried men between the ages of 18-25, mostly to work on federal and state owned land to conserve and control national parks.
This document representing containment policy in the United States during the Cold War stated that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from communist forces.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The action of a group or authority to compile a list of people to be avoided or prevented from working for that specific authority. In the progressive era, this term would pertain to people who were found to be participating in Unions.
What is blacklisting?
This business man built his wealth in transportation (i.e. railroads and steamboats)
This military general, who later became President in 1953, served in WWII and executed the operations on D-Day in Normandy, France.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Shanty towns were built by the homeless during the Great Depression, and given this nickname after the President they blamed for the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This was a collective defense treaty between the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Czechslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This book exposed the graphic nature of the meat packing industry in America. The author wrote, 'I was trying to aim for their hearts, but instead I hit their stomachs."
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
This tragedy took place on March 25, 1911 at a factory with little to no safety equipment, escape routes, or water. It resulted in fire-prevention legislation and factory inspection laws.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
The 442nd Regiment is the most decorated in US military history and known as a fighting unit of almost entirely second-generation American soldiers of this ancestry.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
This group of WWI veterans gathered in Washington DC in 1932 to demand cash redemption of their bonus for serving in the war. Two veterans were shot and killed at their demonstration, and their shelters were burned down.
What is the Bonus Army?
What is communism?
This riot/affair took place after the bombing of a labor demonstration on May 4th, 1886.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This policy/attitude means to let things take their own course, using a hands-off approach, the government does not interfere with the workings of the free market.
What is laissez-faire?
This far right, authoritarian ultranationalism is characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy.
What is fascism?
This term encompasses Hoover's laissez-faire approach to the government, stating that Americans should practice the advocacy of individualism in social and economic relations, and emphasize personal independence.
The Vietnam War was a proxy war fought during the Cold War. It began when the communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, and the Communist Party of Vietnam sought to seek independence from this reigning colonial power.
What is France?
This Act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid the foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
What is a monopoly?
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
The Dust Bowl was an environmental phenomenon that took place in the midwest and spread throughout the country during the Great Depression. Along with severe drought, this was another main cause of the dust storms.
What is over-farming?
This top secret National Security Council (NSC) policy paper outlined a variety of possible courses of actions for handling the Soviets including: returning to isolationism, war, diplomatic efforts, etc.
The unwritten deal which settled the 1876 election, resulting in the US government pulling the last troops out of the South post-Civil War, effectively ending Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This financier and banker was known for reorganizing businesses to make them more profitable and stable to gain control of them. He also financed industrial consolidations that would later form bigger companies manufacturing product and appliances.
Who is JP Morgan?
This President made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who is Truman?