period 7 cause and effects

gilded age corruption, inequality, industrial abuses

reforms (trust-busting, pure food and drug act, women’s suffrage, conservation)

economic markets, naval power (mahan), social darwinism

annexation of hawaii, spanish-american war, philippines

yellow journalism, USS maine explosion, cuban independence

u.s. gains philippines, guam, puerto rico; rise as world power

german u-boats, zimmerman telegram, defense of democracy

u.s. victory, treaty of versailles, league of nations proposed (but rejected by u.s. senate)

russian revolution, labor strikers, fear of radicals

crackdowns on immigrants and leftists (palmer raids)

stock market crash, bank failures, overproduction, lack of regulation

mass unemployment, rise in poverty, demand for reform

response to depression (new deal)

relief, recovery, reform programs; expanded federal government

axis agression, pearl harbor (world war ii)

u.s. becomes superpower; end of great depression; UN formed

women and minorities in wwwII

increased roles (rosie the riveter), but postwar pushback

japenese internment

loss of rights/property for japanese americans (korematsu v. u.s. upheld it)

atomic bomb use

ends war with japan; starts nuclear age and cold war tension

u.s. emerges as global power

shapes postwar world via bretton woods, UN, NATO, etc