| A | B |
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| This policy encouraged American businessmen to investin overseas markets. | Dollar Diplomacy by Howard Taft |
| Encouraged the policy of containment - which would stop the spread of communism. | Harry S. Truman |
| This president was responsible for peace in the Middle East when he convinced Egypt and Israel to sign the Camp David Peace Accords | Jimmy Carter |
| When this president came to power, he implemented the policy of Vietnamization, which was the gradual withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. | Richard Nixon |
| This president emphasized “speak softly and carry a big stick” to show the rest of the US World dominance. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Policy which gave Money to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of communism. | Truman Doctrine |
| When this president was elected, the war in Vietnam escalated under his administration. | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| She exercised civil disobedience in her support of women’s suffrage | Susan B. Anthony |
| Monopolist who controlled Steel Industry | Andrew Carnegie |
| Monopolist who controlled Oil Industry | John D. Rockefeller |
| Monopolist who controlled Banking Industry | J.P. Morgan |
| Founder of Hull House, helped women and children improve their lives | Jane Addams |
| Muckraker photographer; published How the Other Half Lives about urban living conditions | Jacob Riis |
| Wrote muckraking book The Jungle about the meat packing industry | Upton Sinclair |
| President who advocated neutrality before WWI; wrote 14 Points | Woodrow Wilson |
| His program created jobs and stimulated economic growth in Depression | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| President that refused to provide direct relief to people suffering Depression | Herbert Hoover |
| Author of Feminine Mystique; leader of ERA movement in 1970s | Betty Friedan |
| Refused to move from “Whites Only” bus seat; led to Civil Rights Movement | Rosa Parks |
| Doctor who developed vaccine for disease poliomyelitis | Jonas Salk |
| Concept used to justify imperialism; “survival of the fittest” | Social Darwinism |
| Law that forced policy of assimilation on Native Americans | Dawes Act |
| Gives U.S. citizens right to criticize govt.; free speech, press, religion | 1st Amendment |
| Philosophy to disobey laws that are unjust; Thoreau, Gandhi, King Jr. | Civil Disobedience |
| Defended the rights of farm workers | Cesar Chavez |
| Result of the Spanish American War | U.S. Becomes a World Power |
| killed 25 machine-gunners and captured 132 German soldiers when his soldiers took cover; won Congressional Medal of Freedom | Alvin York |
| Gave farmers money to reduce crop size to reduce production and bring up the value of crops | Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
| Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion | Flappers |
| One of the causes of the Spanish-American War (1898) - this was when newspaper publishers like Hearst and Pulitzer sensationalized news events | Yellow Journalism |
| A form of journalism, in vogue in the early twentieth century, concerned with reforming government and business conduct. | Muckraking |
| The United States' policy of preventing the spread of communism. | Containment |
| mmigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern europe | New Immigrants |
| A period of 20 years, following World War Two, during which there was an unusual number of births. | Baby Boom |
| the 1st American Volunteer Group that fought in China during World War II | Flying Tigers |
| Supreme Court decision that said it was unconstitutional to keep Mexican Americans off of juries | Hernandez v Texas |
| Supreme court upheld lower court rulings that declared the segregation of Mexicans unconstitutional. | 1947 California & 1948 Delgado Texas cases |
| 1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | Marshall Plan |
| 1978 agreement between Israel and Egypt that made a peace treaty between the two nations possible | Camp David Accords |
| economic program which cut taxes and government regulation in order to increase productivity | Reaganomics |
| 1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security during WWII | Lend-Lease Act |
| A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. | Open Door Policy |
| Law which led to an increase in African Americans registering to vote | Voting Rights Act |
| 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism | Scopes Monkey Trial |
| a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice by President Nixon | Watergate |
| LBJ's policies of fighting poverty and racial injustice | Great Society |
| Proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico | Zimmermann Telegram |
| A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. | Lusitania |
| Led to the "space race" between U.S. and Soviet Union | Sputnik launched |
| Forced thousands of legal and illegal mexican immigrants out of the country during the 1930's to provide jobs for whites. | Mexican Repatriation Act |
| Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. | Chicano Mural Movement |
| name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 1800's and early 1900's | Tin Pan Alley |
| (1964) law under Johnson that made segregation illegal in all public facilities, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Civil Rights Act of 1965 |
| Department created to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States and reduce the country's vulnerability to terrorism after 9/11 | Homeland Security |
| Treaties to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas | NAFTA and GATT |
| A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older | Medicare |
| Voting Rights for women | 19th Amendment |
| the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by the 18th amendment | Prohibition |
| A lessening of tensions between U.S. and Soviet Union. Besides disarming missiles to insure a lasting peace between superpowers, Nixon | Détente |
