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17th Amendment
Gave Legislative power to choose senators
18th Amendment
Established prohibition of alcohol
19th Amendment
Prohibits the U.S. from denying voting rights based on gender
Ragtime
Leisure music genre popular in the past
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Allowed separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites
Spoils System
Elected leaders rewarding supporters with jobs and favors
Boxer Rebellion
1900 peasant uprising in China against foreigners
Seward's Icebox
Alaska purchase from Russia by Seward for $7.2 million
Remember the Maine
USS Maine ship explosion leading to war with Spain
Stalemate
Conflict where neither side makes progress
U-Boat
German submarine
Doughboys
Nickname for American soldiers in WWI
Lusitania
British ship sunk by German U-Boat in WWI
Espionage Act
Imposed penalties for spying
Sedition Act
Crime to speak or print against the government
Sabotage Act
Punished destruction of war supplies
Zimmerman Note
German offer to Mexico for alliance against the U.S.
Treaty of Versailles
1919 treaty holding Germany responsible for WWI
Laissez-faire
Belief in minimal government intervention in private life
Flapper
Carefree young women in the 1920s
Installment Buying
Purchasing with small payments over time
William Jennings Bryan
Lawyer in the Scopes trial; anti-evolution
Clarence Darrow
Lawyer who represented Scopes in the trial
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Called for the outlawing of war
Blitzkrieg
Sudden massed forces attacks
Mein Kampf
Book written by Adolf Hitler
Neutrality Acts
Banned selling weapons during war
Axis Alliance
Germany, Italy, and Japan alliance
Internment Camps
Where Japanese Americans were detained during WWII
Code Talkers
Native Americans using code in war communication
D-Day
Normandy invasion during WWII
Island Hopping
Strategy of capturing key islands in war
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Japanese cities bombed by the U.S. in WWII
Kamikaze
Japanese suicide pilots in WWII
McCarthyism
Reckless use of unproven charges against communism
Containment
Policy to stop the spread of communism
Taft Hartley Act
Limits workers' actions against employers
Demilitarized Zone
Region where military forces are prohibited
38th Parallel
Division line between North and South Korea
Dr. Jonas Salk
Developed the polio vaccine
Bill Haley and the Comets
Rock 'N' Roll band with hit 'Around the Clock'
Isolationism
Policy of avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs
Expansionism
State doctrine of territorial and economic growth
A Day that will Live in Infamy
Roosevelt's call to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor