Immigration & Reform
These are reasons that people choose to leave their current country such as poverty, lack of opportunity, or political violence.
What are push factors?
The Spanish-American War began after this ship exploded in Havana Harbor?
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Women who dressed in short dresses, had short hair and challenged traditional gender roles.
What are flappers?
Intense racial hatred of Jews and believe in anti-Jewish conspiracy theories is called this.
What is antisemitism?
The event that brought the United States into WW2.
What is the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor?
Immigrants from Europe upon arriving in United States and were processed at this place.
What is Ellis Island?
Fighting on the Western Front was defined by a four years long stalemate in which little to no territory was exchanged. This was called
What is trench warfare?
The president who was condemned for not doing enough to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This event enabled Hitler and the Nazis to rise from a fringe, radical party receiving less than 5% of the vote to take power in Germany in 1933.
What is the Great Depression?
The Japanese practice of having pilots purposefully crash their planes into American ships in suicidal attacks.
What are kamikazes?
These were investigative journalists who tried to uncover corruption, waste and crime in American businesses and society.
What are muckrakers?
The existence of these systems led a small conflict between Austria and Serbia to evolve into a world war.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What is the Final Solution?
The U.S. strategy in the Pacific that called for the taking of important islands to slowly get closer to Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
The intense dislike of and prejudice against immigrants and non-Americans.
What is nativism?
This ended WWI officially and punished the Germans by blaming them for the war, taking their territory and forcing them to pay reparations to the Allies.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
FDR's New Deal had three primary goals. (hint: 3 R's)
What is relief, recovery and reform?
This battle opened up a Western front in France against Germany.
What is D-Day/the Invasion of Normandy?
This battle resulted in the deaths of 110,000 of the 120,000 Japanese defenders, numerous American casualties and over 5,000 suicides by Japanese civilians; led U.S. to abandon the idea of invading Japan.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
This journalists inflitrated and reported on the meat-packing industry. His book led to the passage of the Meat-Inspection Act and the Pure Food & Drug Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Woodrow Wilson's Plan for a long-lasting peace that was largely ignored by France and Britain.
What is the League of Nations?
This law, created in 1938, gave government pensions to all Americans over the age of 65 and still exists today.
What is the Social Security Act?
This is a far-right ideology invented by Benito Mussolini of Italy that emphasized complete loyalty to the state, an absolute dictator, and intense nationalism.
What is fascism?
This was the government program that developed the first atomic bombs that would be used to end the war against Japan?
What is the Manhattan Project?