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- When Roosevelt told the world that he would use US forces to protect American interests in the Western Hemisphere he was supporting which doctrine?
- Monroe Doctrine
- Which tariff of 1890 ended Hawaii's favored postiton in the sugar trade?
- McKinley Tariff of 1890
- Spanish ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the US after which war?
- Spanish-American War
- Why did Roosevelt send the Great White Fleet around the world?
- As a reminder of US's military might
- Who was William Randolf Hearst?
- He ran the Journal, a newspaper, and competed against Pulitzer
- From which country was the poet and writer Jose Marti exiled?
- Cuba
- Who was the leader of the Phillipine rebel army during the Spanish-American War?
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Who was responsible during the 1800s for bringing diseases to Hawaii that reduced the population by half?
- American missionaries, settlers, and traders
- What does it mean to annex a country?
-
"to add on"
establish a sphere of influence - How long did it take the US to build the Panama Canal?
- 9 years
- _____ Treaty gave US control of the Panama Canal
- Hay Bunau-Varilla
- ______ was the engineer in charge of building the canal for the French
- Phillipe Bunua-Varilla
- name of the calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba
- Rough Riders
- _________ was the group who sought to overthrow the monarch and persuade the US to annex Hawaii
- The Hawaiian League
- ________ out break stalled the building of the Panama Canal
- yellow fever
- war fought over China
- Russo-Japanese
- the quest for colonial empires
- imperialism
- the Hawaiian queen who wanted to restore Hawaii's independence
- Liluokalani
- the publisher whose tales of Spanish atrocities in Cuba encouraged war with Spain
- Hearst
- the American Secretary of State who called for Open Door Policy
- John Hay
- the rebellion group of Chinese who drove foreigners from China
- Boxer Rebellion
- the President who proposed the League of Nations
- Wilson
- the US Admiral who encouraged the biulding of a larger US navy
- Mahan
- an amendment added to the Cuban constitution by US demand
- Platt Amendment
- the man who discovered and explored the Hawaiian Islands
- Cook
- German U-boarts attacked ships to prevent them from reaching ______
- Britian
- What was used along the front line to slow the enemy?
- barbed wire and land mines
- The British Navy blockaded _______ and mined the _________
-
Germany
North Sea - At which battle did the Allies introduce tanks?
- Battle of Somme
- Even before the war, how did the US support the Allies?
- gave them war supplies
- The Schlieffen Plan called for an invasion of _____ through _______
-
France
Belgium - Having troops rush across land into enemy fire was a part of what type of warfare?
- trench warfare
- During WWI name 3 groups that faced discrimination
-
African Americans
American Indians
Mexican Americans - Germany offered to help Mexico reclaim territory in March 1917 by sending a message that became known as the _________ note
- Zimmerman
- Where did the soldiers of the American Expeditoinary Force fight?
- France
- Name 3 well known authors of the Lost Generation
-
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Lewis - What was the main povision of the 18th Amendment?
- ban of alcohol
- A higher accident rate was the result of the wider use of the __________
- automobile
- What type of music originated from African American musicians in the South?
- Jazz
- Which act passed by Congress enforced prohibition?
- Volstead Act
- Who made the following quote: "It will cost a man his job to have the odor of beet, wine, or liquor on his breath or have any intoxicants at his home"?
- Ford
- the practice of accepting religious text as literally true
- Fundamentalism
- Which industry was the nation's biggest business in the 1920s?
- auto
- Who was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson?
- accused of throwing the World Series in 1919
- Increased productivity in industry especially in the auto industry was made possible because of the use of the _____________
- assembly line
- Who were flappers?
- young women who adopted the new style of clothing and attitude in the 1920s
- Slave music and religious spirituals gave birth to a kind of music known as the _____
- Blues
- Who designed the Chrysler Building?
- not Fitzgerald
- What was the most popluar type of flims in the 1920s?
- silent
- How much did workers at Ford's auto factory earn?
- $5 a day
- _____________________ required men 21-30 to register for the army
- Selective Service Act
- the glorification of military strength
- militarism
- _____________ were sold by the government to raise money to support the war effort
- Liberty bonds
- _________ was sunk by a German sub and 128 Americans lost lives
- Lusitainia
- ________ was the general in charge of US troops sent to France in June 1917
- Pershing
- leader of the Bolsheviks who seized power in Russia in 1917
- Lenin
- system used by US warships to escort merchant vessels across the Atlantic Ocean
- convoy system
- movement norhtward by African Americans in 1915 and 1930
- Great Migration
- heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne who visited Sarajevo in June 1914
- Franz Ferdinand
- proposed a German alliance with Mexico
- Zimmerman Note
- this group supported violence against African Americans and other minorites
- KKK
- ____ was the high ranking official who recommended cutting taxes for the wealthy
- Fall
- name given to a period of anticommunist hysteria
- Red Scare
- nickname was Silent Cal
- Coolidge
- he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Randolph
- name of the scandal when the secretary of the interior granted private leases to oil reserves in California and Wyoming
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- he was executed along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- Nicola Sacco
- the transition from wartime to peacetime production levels
- demobilization
- sought laws against lynching and other acts of violence
- NAACP
- proposed to Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
- Equal Rights Amendement
- Mickey Mouse cartoonist of the 1930s
- Walt Disney
- deep economic downturn lasting from 1929-1940
- The Great Depression
- a novel about a lost utopia in Tibet
- The Lost Horizon
- thought government should let business get out of the depression on its own
- Mellon
- the highest tariff in US history
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- president who offered a "New Deal"
- FDR
- term for an upward trend in stock market
- bull market
- the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money
- margin buying
- President who faced blame for shantytowns
- Hoover
- Ocobter 29, 1929
- Black Tuesday
- WWI veterans who protested in Washington, DC
- Bonus Army
- mutual aid societies
- mutualistas
- the idea that success comes form individual effort
- rugged individualism
- playing the market
- stock specualtion
- the regualr ups and downs of business
- business cycle
- produced the famous photograph, Migrant Mother
- LAnge
- wrote Gone With the Wind
- Mitchell
- Whic region of the US did Georgia O'Keefe mainly paint?
- Southwest
- Who gave "fireside chats"?
- FDR
- (T or F) The Civilian Conservation Corp built roads
- F
- In which region of the US was the dust bowl located
- Great Plains
- Who is famous for the quote "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
- FDR
- Which program did Huey Long propose?
- Share Our Wealth
- Bank deposits are insured by this agency
- FDIC
- Was Harry Hopkins a critic of the New Deal?
- no
- The radio show that helped popularize country music during the depression
- The Grand Ole Opry
- Name of the administration that provieded electricity to rural areas
- Rural Electrification Administration
- The area of the US were the Dust Bowl farmers headed after the Dust Bowl drought
- California
- Whic group of people did Eleanor Roosevelt champion for racial justice?
- African Americans
- Who authored The Grapes of Wrath?
- Steinbeck
- Which date will "live in infamy"?
- December 7, 1941
- What was the foreign policy followed by the US in the 1920s and 1930s?
- isolationism
- This agreement between Roosevelt and Churchill made while oh a ship in Newfoundland stated that the US and Britianwould not pursue territorial expansion after WWII
- Atlantic Charter
- After the attack by Germany of this country Great Britian and France declared war
- Poland
- Which country bombed the US naval fleet at Pearl Harbor
- Japanese
- This leader of the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler
- Stalin
- What is anti-Semitism?
- hatred of Jews
- Conference at which the British prime minister gave control of the Sudentenland to Germany
- Munich Conference
- British prime minister who wanted to appease Hitler
- Chamberlain
- Hitler's "lightening warfare"
- Blitzkrieg
- The line of defenses along the French border with Germany
- Maginot
- (T or F) The caudillos controlled Mexico in the 1930s
- False
- Which nation violated the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1931?
- Japan
- The nation with a secret orgainzation called the Resistance
- France
- This nation's army was known as the Red Army
- Soviet Union
- Nanjing, a Chinese city, was occupied by this country in November 1937
- Japan
- international coalition of groups that opposed fascism
- Popular Front
- war fought in Spain between Fascists and Loyalists
- Spanish Civil War
- he broadcasted a radio porgram, War of the Worlds," that frightened many Americans
- Orson Wells
- Amerian author of The Sun Also Rises
- Hemingway
- Who was the leader of the US Pacific fleet?
- Nimitz
- Which Allied battle victory stopped the Japanese advance on Australia?
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Which was the bloodiest battle of the war in the Pacific?
- Battle of Okinawa
- Which battle did the Soviet forces win against the Axiz Powers in late January 1943
- Stalingrad
- Who led the British forces to victory in North Africa
- Montgomery
- What battle was the final counterattack for Germany
- Battle of the Bulge
- Who commanded the German Afrika Korps and was known as the Desert Fox
- Rommel
- General McArthur made a famous quote, "I shall return," to which place was he going to return?
- Batan
- Who was given command of all US army units in the Pacific?
- McArthur
- Where did the Allies land on D-Day?
- Normandy
- US troops would attack and seize only certain, strategic Japanese-held islands instead of trying to recapture them all.. known as..
- island hopping
- President who decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan
- Truman
- African American labor leader who planned a march on DC
- A. Phillip Randolph
- Nazi Germany's systematic slaughter of European Jews
- Holocaust
-
Victory in Europe
marked the end of WWII in Europe - V-E Day
- the deliberate annihilation of an entire people
- genocide
- controlled the flow of war news at home
- Office of War Mobilization
- US v Japs; marines attacked the island of Iwo Jima; several thousand marines and 20,000 Japs were killed; Americans planted flag after battle
- Iwo Jima
- the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on this city
- Hiroshima
- city in which Hitler died in a bunker
- Berlin
- V-2's
- long range rockets fired at England and Belgium
- ________________ was the island won by the US after breaking the Japanese code turning point and a true naval air battle
- Battle of Midway
- Japanese Americans wer forced into camps in US
- internment
- major Nazi death camp
- Auschwitz
- post-war peace was discussed
- Yalta Conference
- What is called restricting the expansion of Soviet communism?
- containment
- Who was treated as a hero upon returning to the US during the Korean War, even whough he had been relieved of this command?
- McArthur
- Which country launched Spunik into space in 1957?
- Soviet Union
- Which President ended the Korean War?
- Eisenhower
- Which country had control of satllite nations?
- Soviet Union
- Who was the Republican candidate for the 1952 election?
- Eisenhower
- Food and supplies were delivered to people during this time
- Berling Airlift
- Where did many European Jews move after WWII
- Palestine
- What party was formed in 1911 by students in China?
- Communist
- What was the name of the war which was like a competition between the US and the Soviet Union?
- Cold War
- Which congressional act made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting?
- Civil Rights Act
- What type of music did the 1950s teens seek which was considered nonconformist?
- rock'n'roll
- Which Supreme Court case ruling declared segregation illegal public education?
- Brown vs Board of Education
- Which medium had the most influence over advertising after WWII?
- tv
- Which Supreme Court case established the legality of "seperate but equal" educational facilities?
- Plessy vs Ferguson
- What is the purpose of the Council of Economic Advisers?
- give economic advise to the President
- Why was the GI Bill of Rights created?
-
help veterans
prevent economic depression - Who was arrested for refusing to give a bus seat to a white passenger?
- Rosa Parks
- What was the Baby Boom?
- high birth rate after WWII
- Who were the Little Rock Nine?
- African American students who were admitted to an all white high school in 1954
- Which supreme Court case greated the accused to have a lawyer present during police investigations?
- Escobedo vs Illinios
- What is the national health care program for people over the age of 65?
- Medicare
- Which President can be described by the following: Democrat, Roman Catholic, served in WWII?
- JFK
- Who was the conservative Republican candidate for president in 1964?
- Goldwater
- Who wrote the book Silent Spring which showed the ways in which Americans were poisoning their environment with pesticides?
- Rachel Carson
- In which crisis did the US and the Soviet Union come to the brink of war in 1962?
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- What is the federal program that provides free health care to the poor?
- Medicade
- Which President can be described by the following: Republican, chose Lodge as his running mate, felt he had maturity and experience to serve as president?
- Nixon
- What was the anti-poverty program for preschool education for low-income families?
- Head Start
- Who wan the 1960 televised presidential debate?
- JFK
- the group that led to the integration of many southern restaurants
- SNCC
- the FBI director who attempted to "disrupt" and "discredit" black nationalists and various civil rights organizations
- J. Edgar Hoover
- led to increases in African American voter registration
- Passage of voting rights
- expanded into the SCLC
- Montgomery Improvement Association
- the plan that brought in white volunteers to help with voter registration
- Freedom Summer
- the governor who banned the protest march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965
- Wallace
- the jail from which MLK, Jr wrote a famous letter to a group of clergymen
- Birmingham jail
- the state where SNCC organizer John Lewis maintained that voter registration was increased in this state it could be increased in the rest of the country
- Mississippi
- the Supreme Court justice who dissented from the fuling in U of California vs Bakke
- Marshall
- became the first African American mayor of Cleveland
- Stokes
- the Court case that encouraged companies to create affirmative action programs
- Griggs vs Duke Hower Co.
- the year the Supreme Court banned racial segregation in public school
- 1954
- the margin in the early 1970s polls that showed the white Americans opposed court-ordered busing
- 3:1
- led the SNCC in the controversial protests against the Vietnam War
- Carmichael
- the name of the settlement constructed to draw attention to African American poverty
- Resurrection City
- hoped to draw attention to violations of a Supreme Court ruling that stated segregation was illegal in facilities that served insterstate travelers
- Freedom Riders
- the act that put the entire voter registration process under federal control
- Voting Rights Act
- the leader of the SCLC who wanted white supporters to help in voter registration drives
- Moses
- took over as leader of the SCLC after MLK, Jr's assasination
- Abernathy
- called for unity of all people after converting to orthodox Islam
- Malcom X
- a political party started by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
- Black Panther Party
- CORE worker who was murdered during Freedom Summer
- Chaney
- delivered one of the most famous addresses in American history in 1963
- MLK,Jr
- NAACP field secretary who was murdered by a white racist in 1963
- Evers
- became the leader of the Nation of Islam in the early 1930s
- Elijah Muhammad
- What does the name Ho Chi Minh mean?
- "he who enlightens"
- Which country was Ho Chi Minh the leader of?
- North Vietnam
- known as the League for independence of Vietnam
- Vietminh
- key foreign policy adviser of Nixon
- Kissinger
- commander of US forces in Vietnam
- Westmoreland
- What is escalation?
- increasing troops and bombing
- Roman Catholic who became president of South Vietnam
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- mayor of Chicago in 1968
- Daley
- a longtime North Vietnamese revolutionary who met secretly with a US official in Paris in 1970
- Le Duc Tho
- US secretary of Defense
- Robert S. McNamara
- members of the national liberation front
- Vietcong