Ch 20
This 1989 conflict between the United States and Spain resulted in U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
What is the Spanish American War?
This constitutional amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States
What is the 18th amendment
This style of journalism exaggerated Spanish atrocities in Cuba and helped inflame the American public opinion before the war
What is yellow journalism?
These makeshift shantytowns of the unemployed were named after President Hoover as a public expression of blame
What is Hoovervilles?
This agreement attempted to ban war as a national policy in order to promote and protect peace but lacked enforcement mechanisms
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This explosion of an American battleship in Havana harbor helped push the United States into war with Spain after newspapers blamed Spain
What is the USS Maine?
This reform allowed citizens to propose legislation directly and submit it to voters, bypassing state legislatures
What is the initiative?
After the U.S annexed the Phillipines, this conflict erupted as Filipino nationalists fought for independence against American rule
What is the Philippine American War?
This drought and a series of devastating dust storms in the Great Plains forced displaced farmers to migrate west in search of work
What is the Dust Bowl?
These laws prohibited arms sales and loans to nations at war, where these protections were further expanded, adding the cash and carry policy
What is the Neutrality Acts?
This diplomatic policy sought equal trading rights in China and aimed to prevent European powers from separating the country
What is the Open Door Policy?
A program Roosevelt developed that to provide fairness to domestic workers/farmers, consumers, and businesses, often involving conservation, corporate regulation, and consumer protection
What is the Square Deal?
The Hawaiian monarch that was overthrown by American sugar planters who sought annexation by the U.S
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
This film became a defining example of Depression-era escapism, featuring a young girl wanting to escape a magical land
What is the Wizard of Oz?
A place the Japanese invaded during the interwar period to secure raw materials and relieve economic pressure from the Great Depression
What is Manchuria?
This organization opposed the annexation of the Philippines, as people believed that it threatened American democracy and liberty
What is the Anti-Imperialist League?
This African American leader rejected gradual accommodation and instead demanded immediate civil rights and higher education, helping found the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
A piece of technology that allowed the U.S to hear about the German-Mexican alliance against them, pushing them out of being neutral in WW1
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This coalition of antifascist groups, including the American Communist Party, supported New Deal reforms
Who is the Popular Front?
This Allied invasion of France opened a second front in Western Europe in Normandy, France
What is D-Day?
This amendment forced Cuba to include provisions in its constitution allowing U.S intervention and restricting Cuban foreign policy
What is the Platt Amendment?
An act passed that gave Roosevelt the name, "trustbuster," that sought to promote free market competition
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine declared that the U.S could intervene in Latin American countries to preserve stability and prevent European involvement
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
An act under the New Deal that provided financial assistance to the elderly, unemployed, and single mothers
What is the Social Security Act?
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese American internment
What was Korematsu v. United States?