APUSH - Period 7

Important Vocab for Period 7

Yellow Journalism

Sensationalized news reporting used to influence public opinion and sell papers

Open Door Policy

A proposal for all nations to have equal trading rights in China

Roosevelt Corollary

An addition to the Monroe Doctrine stating the U.S. would police the Western Hemisphere

Zimmerman Note

Secret German-Mexico proposed alliance, push U.S. into WWI

League of Nations

An international organization proposed by Wilson to ensure world peace

Red Scare

A period of intense fear of communism and radicalism in the U.S. after WWI

Scopes Monkey Trial

A high-profile trial over the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools

Black Tuesday

Day of the Stock Market clash, start of the Great Depression

New Deal

FDR”s policies and deals for Relief Recovery, Reform for the Great Depression

Social Security Act

Pensions for elderly, unemployment insurance, disabled aid

Good Neighbor Policy

Foreign policy emphasizing non-intervention over force

Lend-Lease Act

U.S. provided weapons to alliances without declaring war

Executive Order 9066

The order that led to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII

Manhattan Project

The top-secret project that developed the first atomic bombs

Spanish-American War

Explosion of USS Maine pushed US into overseas empire