Time Period 7: Cold War Battle

Time Period 7 review questions for Bryant High School APUSH Cold War battle!

Sensational stories arousing public support for a war to liberate Cuba from Spanish control

141. What was “yellow journalism”?

the New Navy policy

142. What did Alfred Thayer Mahan promote?

The USS Maine was sunk mysteriously in Havana and Yellow Journalism

143. What were the two main causes of the Spanish-American War?

Anti-Imperialism League

144. The __________________ opposed annexation of the Philippines, arguing that it violated America’s long established commitment to the principles of self-determination and anti-colonialism.

Roosevelt Corollary

145. Because Theodore Roosevelt worried that the Dominican Republic and other Latin American nations would default on debts owed to European banks and those defaults could then provoke European military intervention, he issued the __________ _____________ to the Monroe Doctrine.

Dollar Diplomacy

146. What type of diplomacy did President Taft practice?

Open Door policy

147. What foreign policy underscored America’s commitment to free trade and opposition to obstacles that thwarted international commerce in China?

It was a message from Germany to Mexico, intercepted by Britain, which asked Mexico to ally against the USA, with the promise of Germany helping Mexico recover its lost territory. It brought the USA into WWI

148. What was the Zimmerman telegram and how did it impact WWI?

Jim Crow laws in the south and Wartime demand for labor

149. Give one reason why African Americans were attracted to the cities in the North and West beginning with WWI.

Issuing propaganda to arouse public war support, and buy war bonds

150. What was the Committee on Public Information during WWI?

Wilson refused to compromise on the League, Opponents believed the league would lead to further involvement in foreign wars, Senator Lodge’s personal rivalry with Wislon

151. Give one reason that the U.S. did not join the League of Nations.

Raids on suspected communists and anarchists—4k people jailed, denied counsel

152. What were the Palmer Raids of 1919 and 1920s?

Larger numbers of women and men working in office jobs, Increased consumer marketing, Growing stock market investment

153. Give three signs of prosperity during the 1920’s.

Midwestern and Southern farmers

154. Who was the least prosperous group in the 1920’s?

business

155. During the presidencies of Harding and Coolidge, the federal agencies created during the Progressive Era aided _____________.

International agreement in which 62 nations pledged to forswear war as an instrument of policy

156. What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928?

Dawes Plan

157. The United States responded to the economic crisis in Germany during the 1920’s by adopting the ____________ _______________.  The plan rescheduled German reparation payments and opened the way for American private loans to Germany.

Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald

158. Name one of the key writers of the 1920’s called the “Lost Generation”?

Jazz

159. Name a type of music that became popular in the 1920’s, especially popular among the youth because it symbolized a desire to break with tradition.

High school bio teacher indicted for teaching evolution; conflict between fundamentalism and modernism

160. What was the Scopes trial about?

Southern and Eastern Europe

161. The quotas established by the National Origins Act discriminated against immigrants from where?

An outpouring of Black artistic and literary creativity

162. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Migration of Black Americans from rural South to urban North and West

163. What was the Great Migration?

Charismatic leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

164. Who was Marcus Garvey?

Flappers

165. What was the term given to the women who symbolized the new freedom by challenging traditional American attitudes about women?  They favored short bobbed hair, smoked cigarettes, and wore one-piece bathing suits.

Reformer who championed birth control for women

166. Who was Margaret Sanger?

Gave women the right to vote

167. What was the 19th Amendment?

Loss of confidence in the stock market, Reduction in output of manufactured goods, Decline in investment of capital goods

168. List three causes of the Great Depression

WWI veterans marching to DC to demand their promised pay bonus. Hoover disbanded them.

169. Who were the Bonus Expeditionary Force (Bonus Army) and what happened to them?

Restoring public confidence in banking, Creating new public sector jobs, Raising farm prices by restricting agricultural production, Providing mortgage support

170. What happened in the first 100 days under FDR’s presidency?

Agricultural Adjustment Act: raised farm prices by limiting agricultural production

171. What was the AAA?

Civilian Conservation Corps: Program for unemployed youth

172. What was the CCC?

Social Security

173. What was the program that created a federal pension system funded by taxes on worker’s wages and by an equivalent contribution by employers?

Ensured workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively

174. What did the Wagner Act ensure for Labor?

Adding more justice to SCOTUS to ensure his new Deal laws were found constitutional

175. What was FDR’s court packing scheme?

Congress of Industrial Organizations

176. What organization organized unskilled and semiskilled factory workers in basic manufacturing industries such as steel and automobiles?

White southerners, African Americans, Ethnic Minorities, Union members

177. What groups made up the Democratic Coalition that elected FDR in 1936?

African Americans

178. What group of voters switched their allegiance from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party?

the Stimson Doctrine

179. What doctrine declared that the United States would not recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force? 

Isolationism

180. The Neutrality Acts of the 1930’s were expressions of a commitment to ________________

Authorized the sale of surplus military equipment to the Allies; help Great Britain and USSR against Nazis

181. Explain the Lend-Lease program.

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin

182. Who were the Big Three in WWII?

Military spending

183. What finally ended the Great Depression?

Office of Price Administration

184. What organization established a nationwide rationing system for consumer goods such as coffee and gasoline?

Discrimination in defense industries

185. The Fair Employment Practices Commission monitored what?

Japanese Internment camps were constitutional for its wartime necessity

186. What did the Supreme Court decide in the Korematsu vs. United States case?

The development of atomic bombs

187. What was the Manhattan Project?