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America built a canal in _____ after helping them break away from ______.
Panama, Colombia
The government guaranteed loans made to foreign countries by _______ under _____ diplomacy.
American businesses, dollar
The _____ Amendment gave the US the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
Platt
The US declared war on Spain after the_______ blew up
USS Maine
Reasons for American imperialism included a desire for _____ strength, a thirst for new ______, and belief in cultural ________.
military, markets, superiority
Queen ______ wanted Hawaiians to control their own _________.
Liliuokalani, government
Pancho _____ was a bandit from _____ who raided American villages
Villa, Mexico
The ______ Policy called for equal _______ rights for all nations in China.
Open Door, trade
The _____ Rebellion attempted to drive _______ out of China
Boxer, all foreigners
The _______ Riders was an important cavalry unit led by _______.
Rough, Teddy Roosevelt.
_____ journalism uses sensationalized stories to __________.
Yellow, lure in enraged readers.
Secretary of State _______ arranged the purchase of ______ from Russia
William Seward, Alaska
The United States failed to ratify the __________.
Treaty of Versailles.
Propaganda is the use of ______ communication to influence ________.
biased, public opinion.
The _____ system used _______ to escort merchant ships across the Atlantic.
convoy, destroyers.
The purpose of the League of Nations was to _____.
maintain world peace
Germany was required to make _____ payments to ______ after WWI.
reparations, the Allies
During WWI the Food Administration called on ______ to follow the gospel of _______.
people, the clean plate.
The ________ note proposed a secret alliance between Germany and ______.
Zimmerman, Mexico
Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on ______ started _____.
Serbia, WWI
Trench warfare caused armies to ________.
fight back and forth over the same land
The _______ was a British passenger ship sunk by a _______.
Lusitania, German U-boat.
New weapons during WWI included _____ guns, tanks, airplanes, and ______ gas.
machine,poison
The ________ Board called for ______ production and elimination of waste.
War Industries, increased
The ________ plan allowed Americans to pay for their purchases ______.
purchases, over time
The Model T ______ was the first _________ to be mass produced in the US.
Ford, automobile
The ______ Scandal involved the leasing of public lands rich in ______.
Teapot Dome, oil
The use of _______ power in the 1920's transformed American homes and ______.
electric, businesses
__________ Charles E. Hughes urged that no more ________ be built for 10 years
Secretary of State, warships
__________ are people opposed to any form of government.
Anarchists
The Fordney- ________ Tariff raised some import taxes up to _____ percent.
McCumber, 60
The _________ Pact was an attempt to make war illegal as national policy.
Kellogg-Briand
The ______ system was used to limit immigration from _________.
quota, certain countries
Isolationism is the policy of withdrawing from __________.
international affairs.
President _________ said that the chief business of the American people is business.
Coolidge
Lenin led the ________ rise to power in _______.
Communists, Russia
Illegal saloons in the 1920's were known as __________.
speakeasies
The ______ Renaissance was an artistic movement celebrating African American _______.
Harlem, culture
___________ was a leading poet who described the lives of working class African Americans.
Langston Hughes
Flappers were _________ who smoked and _______ in public.
young women, drank
_________ was the most popular baseball player of the 1920's.
Babe Ruth
_______ was the most powerful new form of communication in the 1920's
Radio
________ was the movement to ban the making, selling, transporting, and drinking of alcohol.
Prohibition
________ became the crime boss of Chicago in the 1920's.
Al Capone
________ was the first pilot to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
__________ believed all important knowledge came from the Bible.
Fundamentalists
_________was fined for teaching the theory of evolution.
John Scopes
_________ was a leading jazz trumpeter in the 1920's.
Louis Armstrong
_______ were transients who wandered the country hitching rides on ________.
Hoboes, freight trains
___________ was the President when the Depression began.
Herbert Hoover
The _______ Army was a group of _______ veterans who wanted an early pension payment.
Bonus, WWI
Buying stocks on ______ meant that a person used borrowed money.
margin
Causes of the Great Depression included _______ tariffs, a _______ in farm prices, and availability of ______ credit.
high, decrease, easy
The _____________ Average is used to track stock prices over time.
Dow Jones Industrial
The Dust Bowl was caused by extended _, high _, and overproduction of _______ .
drought, winds, crops
The ________ Finance Corporation provided federal money to ________ and other large businesses.
Reconstruction, banks
Black _______ was the day of the _________ Crash.
Tuesday, Stock Market
_______ kitchens provided free _______ for the needy during the Depression.
Soup, meals
_________ were communities built from scrap materials.
Shantytowns
Rugged ________ meant that people should succeed on their own rather than depending on ________.
individualism, the government
The ________ was a popular book about migrant farm workers during the Dust Bowl.
Grapes of Wrath
The TVA helped create __________ and prevent _______.
hydroelectric power, flooding
The CCC employed young men ages ______ to build ______ and develop _______.
18- 25, roads, parks
FDR appointed ________ to be commissioner of Indian affairs.
John Collier
The AAA paid _______ to reduce their ________.
farmers, crop production
The bank ______ was declared by FDR so all banks could be ___________.
holiday, inspected by the government
The Social Security Act provided ___________ for retirees at age _____.
old age insurance, 65
The NLRB acts as a mediator in disputes between _______ and ________.
Unions, employers
The FDIC provided federal insurance for ________.
individual bank deposits.
Grant Wood's painting _______ depicted a farmer and ________.
American Gothic, his wife
The policy of _____ spending means that the government spends more than ______.
deficit, it takes in
Frances Perkins became the first ______ cabinet member as Secretary of _______.
female, Labor
The ________ Act allowed workers to join unions and _____ collectively.
Wagner, bargain
___________ photograph Migrant Mother, is the most famous symbol of the Depression.
Dorothea Dix's
Gone With the Wind was one of the most famous and popular _______ of the Depression Era.
movies
______ is the deliberate and systematic killing of an _______.
Genocide, entire group of people
__________ established a ________ government in Italy.
Benito Mussolini, Fascist
On the night known as _________ Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.
Kristallnacht
The US entered WWII after Japan attacked ________.
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
_______ established a ______ government in Germany.
Adolf Hitler, Nazi
Auschwitz was the largest ________ in the Holocaust.
death camp
_______ established a _______ government in the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin, totalitarian
The _______ pact was an agreement between the Soviet Union and ________ to not attack each other.
non-aggression, Germany
The ________ Charter was a joint declaration of war aims between FDR and _______.
Atlantic, Churchill
The policy of _______ means to give up principles to satisfy an aggressor.
appeasement
The ________ attack on Poland marked the beginning of _____.
German, WWII
Germany, Italy, and _______ were members of the ______ Powers.
Japan, Axis
General ______ quote "I Shall Return" referred to the __________.
MacArthur's, Philippines
The GI _______ provided loans to soldiers for ______, housing, and businesses.
Bill of Rights, education
The Nuremberg Trials prosecuted _________.
Nazi leaders for war crimes.
______ was the invasion of France by the _____ to drive out Germany.
D-Day, Allies
The Battle of Stalingrad halted the _____ advance into ______.
German, Russia
American General Dwight Eisenhower commanded __________ in North Africa.
Operation Torch
Hiroshima, Japan was the first city to ____________.
be hit with an atomic bomb in wartime
________ were Japanese pilots who intentionally crashed into _________.
Kamikazes, Allied ships
The US policy of internment sent __________ to ________.
Japanese Americans, relocation camps
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the development of _________.
an atomic bomb.
The Battle of the Bulge was the last ditch offensive of ________.
Germany
The US policy of __________ limited the availability of certain products to consumers.
rationing
Names of ________ people accused of being Communist were kept on _________.
Hollywood, Blacklists
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