ushistory 11th

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

Through the _______, the United States gained the right to build a Central American Canal.

Roosevelt Corollary

The ________ stated that the United States would exercise police power in Latin America.

Caudillo

Political instability in Latin American led to the rise of ______ rule.

Dollar Diplomacy

Taft's policy of _______ was a plan to encourage economic development in Latin America.

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

In the _______, the United States and Great Britain agreed that any Central American canal would be politically neutral.

William Walker

The American adventurer who tried to take power in Nicaragua and Honduras was ______.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

The American tycoon who attempted to build a canal across Nicaragua was _________.

Minor Cooper Keith

_______ helped to found the United Fruit Company.

Porfirio Diaz

The Mexican dictator overthrown by Francisco Madero in 1911 was ________.

Pancho Villa

The Mexican revolutionary who made raids across the American border was _______.

Philippe Bunau Varilla

The French businessman who persuaded Congress to build the canal across the Panama was ______.

Emilio Aguinaldo

Leader of Filipino independence movement.

John Jay

Author of the Open Door Policy.

Mathew C. Perry

American naval officer who opened trade with Japan.

Anson Burlingame

American diplomat who resigned his post in order to serve China.

Valeriano Weyler

Spanish military commander in Cuba.

Carl Schurz

German-born American government official who opposed American imperialism.

George Dewey

American commander whose forces sank the Spanish fleet in Manilla Bay.

Triple Entente

The ______ included France, Russia, and Great Britain.

Central Powers

The ________ included Germany, and Austria-Hungary

Zimmerman Note

The ________ offered to return American territory to Mexico in return for an alliance.

Treaty of Versailles

The _______ was a formal the agreement ending the war.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The ______ set the terms for Russian withdrawal from the war.

League of Nations

The _______ was an international organization created after the war.

Balfour Declaration

The _______ started British support for a Jewish state.

Bernard Baruch

Head of the War Industries Board

Georges Clemenceau

Represented France at the Paris Peace Conference

William Haywood

Labor leader convicted of sedition

Herbert Hoover

Head of the Food Administration

Henry Cabot Lodge

Senator who led opposition to the League of Nations

John J. Pershing

Commander of American Expeditionary Forces

Ohio Gang

President Harding's advisors and friends

Red Scare

Widespread fear and anxiety of communism

Harlem Renaissance

Black artists in New York City who celebrated and examined black life in America

Palmer Raids

Crackdowns on suspected radicals

Teapot Dome Scandal

Secretary of the Interior found guilty of taking kickbacks.

Lost Generation

Group of American writers who wrote about hypocrisy adn greed.

Marcus Garvey

Was a Black Nationalist leader

Charles Lindbergh

Was the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean

Henry Ford

Was an automobile manufacturer who pioneered mass production

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Was an anarchist found guilty of murder in 1920 and executed in 1927

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Was the author of The Great Gatsby

Al Copone

Was a Chicago gangster whose illegal activities brought in millions of dollars a month during Prohibition

John Scopes

Was a teacher who was arrested and brought to trial in 1925 for teaching the theory of evolution

Bonus Army

Group of jobless veterans that marched to Washington DC.

Stock Pool

Large group of investors who buy stock manipulate the price

Margin Buying

Borrowing money to pay for a stock

Okie

Migrant farmer

Dust Bowl

Area of Central U.S. hit by dust storms in 1930's

Hoovervilles

Shantytowns

Great Depression

Period of economic hardship, 1929-1941

Black Thursday

October 24, 1929 - The Crash

Alfred E. Smith

The Democratic candidate for presidency in 1928

John Steinbeck

Wrote The Grapes of Wrath

Douglas MacArthur

The officer who led the attack on the Bonus Army

F.D. Roosevelt

Was the victorious Democratic candidate for President in 1932

Andrew Mellon

The man who served as Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury

Walter Waters

The leader of the Bonus Army of World War I veterans

Share-Our-Wealth Program

The ______ program was a radical proposal to redistribute incomes over a million dollars.

Wagner Act

Another term for the ______ was the National Labor Relations Act.

Second New Deal

The _______ was a set of programs put forward by Roosevelt in 1935.

Social Security Act

The ________ provided old-age insurance for working people.

Townsend Plan

The _______ called for the federal government to pay all older Americans $200 per month.

American Liberty League

The _______ criticized roosevelt's programs as a threat to Americans' basic freedoms.

Welfare State

A nation in which the government is responsible for the economic security of its citizens is known as a ________.

Charles Coughlin

Radio priest who criticized FDR

Harold L. Ickes

Director of PWA

Alfred Landon

Republican candidate for President in 1936

Huey Long

Senator from Louisiana, who proposed the Share-Our-Wealth program

Francis Perkins

First woman in the Cabinet - Secretary of Labor

Nonaggression Pact

In 1939 Hitler successfully concluded a ________ with the Soviet Union.

Weimar Republic

Hitler's rise to power in Germany signaled the fall of the ________.

Dawes Plan

The _______ slowed the schedule for Germany's payment of war reparations.

Lend-lease Act

The ______ allowed the United States to supply Britain with war materials.

Good Neighbor Policy

Roosevelt's attempt to improve relations with Latin America was called the ________.

Munich Conference

The _______ gave Hitler control of part of Czechoslovakia.

Appeasement

The strategy of giving in to Hitler in order to preserve the peace was known as ________.

Joseph Stalin

Soviet dictator from the 1920's to early 1950's

Francisco Franco

Dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975

Hideki Tojo

Japan's war minister during World War II

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister during World War II

Anastasio Somoza

Nicaraguan dictator who seized power when the U.S. withdrew

Battle of Midway

The Japanese advance in the Pacific was turned back after the _______ in 1942.

Battle of Atlantic

The fight for control of shipping lanes connecting the United States and Great Britain was called the _______.

El Alamein

The turning point of the war in North Africa came at ________.

Battle of Stalingrad

More than half a million Russian people were killed in the ______.

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Japan failed to stop an American invasion of the Philippines at the _________.

D-Day

The allied invasion of France in June 1944 is known as _______.

Battle of the Bulge

The final German offensive of World War II was the _______.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe

Erwin Rommel

German general, known as the "Desert Fox"

Douglas MacArthur

Leader of US Army forces in the Pacific.

Albert Einstein

German-American scientist who encouraged FDR to build an atomic bomb.

A. Phillip Randolph

Civil rights leader in America

Taft-Hartley Act

The _______ allowed management to hire non-union workers.

Truman Doctrine

The ________ said that the United States would aid any nation threatened by Communists.

Marshall Plan

The _______ was an economic aid program that rebuilt Western Europe.

NATO

_______ was a mutual-defense pact among Western nations.

Berlin Blockade

Stalin tried to force Westerners out of West Berlin in the ______.

Douglas MacArthur

Leader of American forces in Korea