Imper-ialism
Idea that "survival of the fittest" also applies to human societies that influenced American imperialist policies
What is Social Darwinism?
Directly led to the start of the Great War
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Independent women who subverted society's expectations by wearing short skirts, drinking, smoking, etc.
What are flappers?
Event also known as Black Tuesday that directly led to the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash (1929)?
The three goals of FDR's New Deal Program
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
Resulted in the US gaining the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico
What is the Spanish American War?
ONE example of new technology created during WWI that changed how war was fought
What are airplanes OR machine guns OR tanks OR poison gas?
Invention that allowed Americans to move to the suburbs
What is the automobile?
How American men responded to the GD and losing their jobs
What is abandoning their families?
The thing that actually ended the Great Depression
What is World War II?
Extreme patriotism that often favors aggressive, warlike policy
What is jingoism?
Movement of African Americans north to get jobs in factories during the war and escape Jim Crow
What is the Great Migration?
Occurred in 1917, created the Soviet Union, and caused the First Red Scare in the US
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
Event that exacerbated the effects of the Great Depression and caused OK farmers to move to CA
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
The Roosevelt Corollary builds off of this document stating that Europe should not interfere with the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Tactic that sunk the Lusitania and led the US joining WWI
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Consequence of Prohibition (18th Amnd) that created leaders like Al Capone, bootlegging, and speakeasies
What is organized crime?
Herbert Hoover's approach to the GD in which Americans were supposed to help themselves
What is rugged individualism?
The federal program that paid farmers to destroy their crops to limit overproduction but was ruled unconstitutional
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
The country that refused to build the Panama Canal at first
What is Colombia?
Court case that established the US government could limit free speech during war time under the "clear and present danger" doctrine
What is Schenck v. United States?
Came about by the Attny Gen. to hunt down political radicals after a series of bombings
What are the Palmer Raids?
Hoover's attempt at solving the GD but actually led to a trade war and global depression
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
On the first of these, FDR directly asked Americans to trust the banks to ease the burden of the GD
What are the fireside chats?