Imperialism & Foreign Policy
This policy justified U.S. intervention in Latin America as an extension of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Buying goods on borrowed money was called this.
What is installment credit?
This New Deal policy used government spending to stimulate recovery.
What is deficit spending?
This migration helped fuel the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
This attack pushed the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Which TWO factors contributed to U.S. entry into WWI?
Answer: A and C
This policy promoted equal trade access in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Producing more goods than consumers could buy contributed to this.
What is overproduction?
This program provided jobs through public works projects.
What is the WPA?
This trial symbolized conflict between modernism and traditionalism.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This order banned discrimination in defense industries.
What is Executive Order 8802?
Which TWO were New Deal programs?
AAA and WPA
Name TWO motives for U.S. imperialism.
What are economic interests, military/naval power, spreading democracy, Social Darwinism?
Name one cause of the Great Depression besides the stock market crash.
What is overproduction / income disparity / easy credit?
This controversial FDR proposal involved the Supreme Court.
What is the Court Packing Plan?
These women challenged traditional gender roles in the 1920s.
Who were Flappers?
This campaign promoted victory abroad and equality at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
Which TWO show increased government intervention?
War Production Board and Rationing
This event helped the U.S. gain quicker access between oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
FDR’s “3 R’s” stood for these.
What are Relief, Recovery, Reform?
Compare government’s role in the 1920s vs the New Deal.
Laissez-faire vs Keynesian Economics
This law reflected nativism in the 1920s.
What is Immigration Act of 1924?
This executive order led to Japanese internment.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Which TWO reflected nativism in the 1920s?
Immigration Act of 1924, resurgence of KKK
Compare: How was U.S. intervention in the Pacific similar to intervention in Latin America?
Both expanded U.S. influence for economic and strategic reasons.
Daily Double: Explain how laissez-faire policies contributed to the Depression.
Limited regulation allowed risky speculation and economic instability.
How did WWII expand federal government power?
Rationing, War Production Board, command economy, war bonds.
How did consumerism help both prosperity and instability?
Boosted economy short term, but easy credit helped cause collapse.
Compare continuity/change for minorities during WWII.
More opportunities but discrimination persisted.
Which TWO events marked America becoming a global power?
Spanish-American War, WWII/United Nations