Gilded Age/ Progressive Era
Term used to describe investigative journalists during the Progressive Era.
What is a Muckraker?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire formed this alliance group.
Who were the Central Powers?
This person paid a higher wage and produced cars that were affordable for others to own.
Who is Henry Ford?
This event led to the start of the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash?
The three countries originally in the Axis Powers
Who are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Martin Luther King Jr supported this type of movement because he believed it would convince the public of the righteousness of the movement's goals.
What is Nonviolent Protest?
This industrialist controlled 90% of all oil production through his company, Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
France, Great Britain, Russia formed this alliance group
Who were the Triple Entente?
Was the first major superstar in baseball that help set fashion trends.
Who is Babe Ruth?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt held these to promote domestic programs to America.
What are Fireside Chats?
These 4 main countries made up the Allied Forces
Who are United Kingdom (Great Britain), France, USA, and USSR?
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the ideological and physical barrier dividing Europe between East and West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat to a white man on a segregated bus started this in Montgomery, Alabama
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This group helped lead worker strikes and negotiated contracts with businesses.
What are Labor Unions?
This led to a "domino effect" of European nations participating in World War I.
What are alliances between countries?
The 18th Amendment prohibited this during the 20's.
What is alcohol?
Even though the signs were there that the economy was struggling, this president chose to ignore them and assumed that the stock market would self-correct
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This event led to the United States entering World War 2
What is the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
He was arrested and wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" during his two week incarceration.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
These two checkpoints, one on the East coast and one on the West coast, determined whether an immigrant may be allowed to enter the United States.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
New technologies that made war more deadly (List 3)
What are: Tanks, long range artillery, submarines, poison gas, airplanes, flame throwers, machine guns, and grenades
This invention helped promote advertising of various items and sporting events inside everyday homes.
What is the radio?
These were the government sponsored social programs that President Roosevelt promoted to help the American people.
What are the New Deals?
In the documentary "Original Patriots", these (3) three local tribes were represented.
What are the Yurok, Tolowa, and Karuk tribes?
This congressman gain notoriety by declaring the presence of communists in the United States without any significant evidence.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
President Eisenhower did this when trying to protect the first black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
What is sent in Federal Troops to protect the students?
This journalist went undercover in a meat packing plant to expose the truth, writing the highly popular book, "The Jungle"?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Conditions of Article 231 in the Treaty of Versailles made Germany hesitate to sign the treaty. (2) two answers
What is held Germany responsible for the war and required them to pay $55 Billion in reparations?
African Americans from the South moved northward for better opportunities in employment and living situations
What is the 'Great Migration"?
This New Deal program protects U.S. citizens bank accounts up to $100,000.
What is FDIC?
This was the code name for the atomic program in the United States.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Two starkly similar conflicts involving the U.S. and its allies supporting South against communist North and its Communist allies
What are the Vietnam and Korea Wars?
News affiliations covering the protests in the South were starting to leave until a decision to permit this changed how the protests were viewed by northern viewers.
What was allowing children to march in protest?