Period VII APUSH

1898

US annexed Hawaii becoming its first overseas possession

1903

Wright Brothers fly the first airplane

1917

US enters WWI

1920

19th Amendment gives women the right to vote

1920

Prohibition takes effect

1929

Stock Market Crash signals the start of the Great Depression

1932

Bonus Army marches in Washington DC

1935

Social Security Act passed a part of New Deal

1939

WWII starts with Germany’s invasion of Poland

1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

1944

D-Day Invasion of Normandy

1945

Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Annexation

the act of acquiring a state or new land; usually forceful by a unilateral power

Bonus Army

WWI veterans who marched into Washington DC to receive their promised payouts

Gentleman’s Agreement

Limited immigration of the Japanese negotiated by Theodore Frickin’ Roosevelt; promised ending the segregation of Japanese students in San Francisco

Second Great Migration

Movement of over 5 million African American individuals to urban areas of the North and West from the rural South

Isolationism

Traditional belief that the US should attempt to remain out of conflict involvement by all means possible, confirming bounded national security

Red Scare

The intense fear and condemning of communism and fellow radical left ideologies; prompted by WWI

Appeasement

The act of giving in to an aggressor to remain in peace between two countries; Hitler used this tactic heavily

Consumer Culture

Societal basis on advertised popular goods where such materials drive social status and decisions

Social Gospel

Reform led by Protestants to administer better housing conditions for the urban poor; relied on biblical scripture for rationale

Hoovervilles

Shanty, impoverished towns built by the unemployed during the early Great Depression; nickamed after the common culprit of the Great Depression Herbert Hoover

Lost Generation

American writers who felt alienated and separate mentally from the average American society of the 1920s

Yellow Journalism

Journalism that purposefully exploits or distorts news to gain attraction from readers and become popular