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This long-term cause of the war encouraged competitiveness between nations and encouraged various ethnic groups to attempt to create nations of their own. | nationalism |
This long-term cause of the war involved the development of the armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy. | militarism |
Closely linked with industrialization, this long-term cause of the war involved a contest for colonies. | imperialism |
In the Battle of the Somme, this resulted in the exchange of seven miles of territory at the cost of 1.2 million casualties. | trench warfare |
Put men between the ages of 18-25 to work on public works projects | Civilian Conservation Corps |
Provides insurance for retirees 65 or older, unemployment compensation, and aid to disabled | Social Security Act |
Created to regulate stock market | Securities and Exchange Commission |
Responsible for the building of airports, roads, public buildings, women workers sew clothes for the needy, and employs professional writers, artists, performers | Works Progress Administration(WPA) |
NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court | Thurgood Marshall |
Black Muslim leader who urged blacks to separate from white society | Malcolm X |
civil rights leader and minister who believed deeply in the power of nonviolent protest | Martin Luther King |
president who demanded that Congress pass a sweeping civil rights law but did not live to see it enacted | John F. Kennedy |
South Vietnamese citizens who fought against the South Vietnamese | Vietcong |
Communist leader of the Vietnamese struggle against the French, the Japanese, and the Americans | Ho Chi Minh |
Communist group that took control of Cambodia in 1975 | Khmer Rouge |
political organization whose goal was to win Vietnam’s independence from foreign rule | Vietminh |
This required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service. | Selective Service Act |
Although _____ served in the navy, marines, and Army Corps of Nurses, they were not subject the draft. | American women |
This term describes a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds. | conscientious objector |
This involved merchant vessels traveling in large groups with naval ships acting as guards. | convoy system |
reform movement that sought to return control of the government to the people | Progressivism |
the movement to protect America’s natural resources | conservation |
a plan that reformed how American banks were organized | Federal Reserve System |
a leader of the woman suffrage movement | Susan B. Anthony |