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Alfred T Mahan's book (3 things)

US needs navy. naval bases and canal

Bessemer Process

A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply

Executive Order 9066

Japanese-Americans forced into interment camps

U.S.S. Maine

exploded in Cuba & started Spanish American War

Berlin Airlift

US flew supplies into West Berlin after Soviets blocked off all ground routes into the city.

Dolores Huerta

A labor leader and rights activist; co-founded United Farm Workers

Iran-Contra Affair

Reagan sold weapons to Iran and gave money to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels

2009 Affordale Health Care Act

provided healthcare to more people.

16th Amendment

income tax

Sherman Anti-trust Act

law against monopolies

Battle of Midway

U.S. naval victory over the Japanese that marked a turning point in World War II.

Title IX

No discrimination based on sex under any education program or activity

Interstate Commerce Act

1st law against business; passed to regulate railroad

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

program insured individual bank deposits

First Gulf War

Iraq invades Kuwait, US forces kick Iraq out

Homestead Act

1862 - Provided free land in the West

24th Amendment

Abolishes poll taxes

De Lome Letter

Spanish ambassador called President McKinley weak

Navajo Code Talkers

Native Americans used their language to make a code for the military that Japanese could not break

Assimilation

Adapt to new culture (like Americanization)

Nativists

fear of foreigners

Fourteen Points

Wilson's plan for world peace after WWI

26th Amendment

lowered voting age from 21 to 18

Schenck v. U.S.

declared that gov't can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger"

House Un-American Activities Committee

Congress investigated possible communists in the US after WWII (blacklisted many celebs)

GI Bill

Provided for college or home loans to WWII veterans

Why is there massive migration from Rust belt to Sun Belt in the 1990s?

more jobs, better weather, low cost of living

Marshall Plan

massive amounts of money to help rebuild Europe after WWII

AFL

A labor union formed in 1886 by Samuel Gompers

Vietnamization

Nixon strategy: replace U.S. troops with S. Vietnamese troops & bombs Cambodia

cultural diffusion

spread of US culture (pop music in Korea)

Flying Tigers

defended the Burma Road into China for supply route

Civilian Conservation Corps

young men work in state parks & send money home

Zimmerman Telegram

if Mexico attacked the US then Germany would give land to Mexico

Peace through Strength

Reagan's policy of combating communism by building up the military

War Powers Act

limits times a president can send troops without congress approval

Thurgood Marshall

First African American Supreme Court Justice

Hull House

community center that provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, etc

SNCC

used the sit-in as an effective method of protest, freedom rides as well

Upton Sinclair

Wrote The Jungle, it revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry

Kent State University

National Guard shot 4 protesting students; turned more against the war

Truman Doctrine

policy of providing aid to any European country threatened by communism started in Greece & Turkey.

18th Amendment

Prohibition of alcohol

17th Amendment

Americans directly elect senators.

Andrew Carnegie

Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL

Tuskegee Airmen

all black unit of US fighter pilots that led to desegregation after WWII

Tinker v. Des Moines

freedom of speech for students as long as it does not interfere with the learning environment.

Sputnik

Soviet satellite that led to the creation of NASA and the space race.

Freedom Riders

rode buses through the South to show segregation exists and force government to do something

John Pershing

American commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).

Betty Friedan

Best known for starting feminism through her book "The Feminine Mystique".

Little Rock Nine

Nine Black students tried to desegregate Little Rock Central High School but were stopped by state militia

Booker T Washington

Believed in vocational education to prove racial equality

19th Amendment

Women's suffrage

SALT

nuclear weapon treaties

Susan B. Anthony

Leader of the women's suffrage movement

Civil Rights Act of 1964

outlawed discrimination by employers .

Scopes "Monkey" Trial

represented traditional versus conservative ideas

Voting Rights Act of 1965

ended literacy tests

Significance of 2008

First black man elected president

Selective Service Act

required all men 18 yrs old to register for draft.

Court-packing scheme

Roosevelt proposed a bill that would have increased the number of justices from 9 to 15

Sandra Day O'Connor

First woman Supreme Court justice

Sonya Sotomayor

first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice

Camp David Accords

Carter's peace treaty between Israel and Egypt

Fireside Chats

FDR used the radio to communicate with Americans

OPEC

international organization that controls price of oil (Petroleum) by limiting supply;

Jane Addams

Founder of Settlement House Movement, specifically the Hull House

Iran Hostage Crisis

1979 revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran; held hostages for over a year

George Wallace

Gov. of Alabama tried to keep segregation

Bill Clinton's impeachment

personal decisions aren't impeachable offenses and citizens distrust govt more

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

gave president power to send troops to any area without declaration of war

Orval Faubus

Arkansas governor who used National Guard to stop integration

Ida B. Wells

fought to end lynchings

American Indian Citizenship Act

law granted immediate U.S. citizenship to all Native American Indians born in the United States.

Yellow Journalism

exaggerated stories in newspapers

Alvin York

awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom in WWI

victory garden

food and farm labor could be saved when we all grow our own food

McCarthyism

'witch hunt' search for communists during the 1950s Red Scare

Muckrakers

journalists who exposed corruption and problems of society;

Vernon Baker

He was the only living black World War II veteran awarded the Medal of Honor in 1997.

Dawes Act

distributed native land to families to make them more like American Farmers

Roosevelt Corollary

US would take care of this half of the world, not Europe

Teapot Dome Scandal

leased government land for oil and kept the money

W.E.B. DuBois

African American who argued that blacks needed political rights immediately. Created the NAACP

9/11 attacks led to War on Terror in the country of...

Afghanistan 2001 & Iraq 2003

Great Society

Johnson's programs to end poverty (medicare, medicaid, etc.)

Chicano Movement

civil rights movement for Mexican-Americans

Unrestrictive submarine warfare

brought US into WWI

9/11 attacks led to changes such as...

Patriot Act, Homeland security and Airport security

Bataan Death March

American & Filipino soldiers were forced by Japanese to relocated while Japanese killed thousands

Return to Normalcy

Harding's campaign promise in the 1920s to return the US to pre-world war (isolationism.)

League of Nations

United world after WWI but failed without US & Russia

Klondike Gold Rush

a rush of immigration to Alaska

Manhattan Project

secret U.S. project for the creation of atomic bomb. Headquartered in Los Alamos

Lusitania

Cruise ship sunk by a German U-Boat. Made Americans hate Germans WWI

1990s technology that changed society

computers, social media, robotics, etc

Sandford B. Dole

took over Hawaii from natives until US annexed

Tenement

tiny horrible apartment

Why was Hurricane Katrina so bad?

Levees broke and flooded New Orleans