Gilded Age/Progressive Era
Business tycoon who controlled the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie
Event that sinaled the start of WW1
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3 causes of the Great Depression
What is overproduction of consumer goods, buying goods on credit, stock market crash, bank failures, unequal distribution of income
Berlin Airlift
What was the U.S. operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the soviet union set up Blokade in 1948
9/11
What were the terrorist attacks on several airplanes. two planes attacking the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon, and the other crashed in Pennsylvania
outlawed business monopolies
what is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Allied powers of WW1
What are Great Britain, France, U.S., Russia, and Serbia
Event that marked the beginning of WW2
What was Hitler invading Poland
Marked the beginning of the Korean War
What is North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950
Law signed in response to the 9/11 attacks
What is The USA Patriot Act of 2001
Leader of the populist party
Who is William Jennings Bryan
Zimmerman Note
What is the telegram sent by Germany, proposing that Mexico ally itself with Germany is the U.S. entered the war. Mexico would receive land in return.
Executive order 9066
What was the order by FDR that led to the internment of Japanese and Korean prison camps during WW2
HUAC
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee - Used to investigate the communist subversion
Made healthcare more affordable and accessible
What is The Affordable Care Act
Photagrapher who exposed the poor living conditions of the city and authored "How the Other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis
Final allied offensive of WW1
What is Battle of Argonne Forest
Date Japan attacks the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, causing the U.S. to enter the war
What is December 7, 1941
Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the U.S. government
What was the Bay of Pigs (1961)
President at the time of 9/11
George W. Bush
Declaration that the U.S. would act as an international police power in Latin America
What is Roosevelt Corollary
Led to the rise of Hitler and WW2
What is the treatment of Germany in the Treaty of Versaille
This divided Germany's army and was an advantage that helped the Allies gain
What was a two-front war
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
What is the Supreme Court decision that made segregation illegal in public schools
Balkan Crisis (1991-1995)
What was the ethnic war fought in former Yugoslavia between the Serbs and the Croats