Latin America

Southeast Asia

Eastern Europe

Middle East

blocking immigration from poor countries

decreasing trade barriers among all nations

preventing labor outsourcing to developing nations

using sanctions to punish enemies of the United States

 Iran Contra affair

Iranian hostage crisis

Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon

 invasion of Grenada

race riots in American cities

efforts of Civil Rights leaders

protests against the draft

media coverage of the Watergate scanda

to train African Americans in job skills

. to integrate state-supported universities

to protest segregated eating establishments

to register African American voters

 file lawsuits against segregationists

engage in acts of civil disobedience 

lobby Congress for reparations payments

vote only for African American candidates

a high level of poverty

failure to pass a minimum wage law

widespread unemployment

unequal pay for women

Americans became more willing to question the government

Government leaders refocused policies to serve social needs.

Future wars suffered from low levels of public support.

Young people began voting at rates higher than other groups

 It contributed to suburbanization.

 It slowed down the post-war baby boom

It shifted the economy away from agriculture.

It increased Americans' reliance on government aid. 

the United States' participation in the Korean War

the Soviet Union to place nuclear missiles in Turkey

the USt construction of a wall dividing East and West Berlin

the military intervention in Hungary by NATO forces

internationalism

McCarthyism

Domino Theory

Nuclear Arms Race

Gerald Ford

Richard Nixon

Lyndon Johnson

John Kennedy

the Marshall Plan

the Declaration of Human Rights

 the Truman Doctrine

the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty 

 It was created to prevent the spread of communism.

 It was set up to promote international efforts to stop war

It was intended to prevent another global Great Depression

It was boycotted by both the United States and the USSR

 internment of Japanese Americans

dropping of atomic bombs on Japan

deportation of all recent immigrants from Japan

exclusion of Japanese Americans from the draft

Social Security Act

Volstead Act

Wealth Tax Act

Agricultural Adjustment Act

creating welfare programs to relieve public suffering

increasing government spending to stimulate production

establishing agricultural subsidies to relieve farmers

regulating banks to solve the root causes of the Depression

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. DuBois

Marcus Garvey

Ida B. Swift

the need for government intervention during economic crises

the benefits of new technologies and inventions

tension between traditional and modern values and beliefs

the importance of fighting communism at home and abroad

to reduce barriers to international trade

to work with other nations to prevent future wars 

to form military alliances as a defense against aggression 

to expand American influence over Asia and Latin America

to find and deport illegal immigrants

to break the power of the Ku Klux Klan

to identify and punish suspected communists

 to undermine the Civil Rights movement

populism

civil rights

temperance

women’s suffrage

to create public distrust of Germans

 to encourage young men to enlist in the army

 to demonstrate the reason for entering the war

to generate financial support for the war effort

to justify the acquisition of overseas territories

 to convince Congress to declare war on Germany

to persuade the Senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles

to reassure the public of his commitment to U.S. neutrality

 It made it easier for the U.S. Navy to patrol Latin Ameri

It shortened shipping routes

It created a buffer between South America and the USA

It prevented cheap goods from flooding the U.S. market

 Journalists provided frequent reports of the fighting

Journalists focused on bad news i order to criticize the war

Journalists ignored the signs of impending war 

 Journalists exaggerated events to build support for the war

Samoa

 Hawaii

Cuba

Puerto Rico

He wanted to force them to avoid debts with European states

He wanted to protect the US from attack by them

Roosevelt felt a moral need to prevent civil unrest there

He wanted to seize their natural resources

Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria

 Japanese immigration to the United States

tariffs between Japan and the United States

U.S. and Japanese fleets in the Pacific Ocean

Thousands of veterans returned home from the Civil War

Millions of people from the rural Midwest moved to cities

Many immigrants arrived from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Many immigrants arrived in the United States from China.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Emily Dickinson

 Sojourner Truth

Madame C.J. Walker

Both resulted in migration from urban to rural areas.

Both led to an increase in the number of farmers.

Both produced technologies that improved productivity

Both relied on steel and oil resources to promote growth.

vertical integration

 monopolization

 industrialism

laissez-faire capitalism

the availability of good jobs in the North and West

the sale of inexpensive land by the federal government

the construction of low-cost government housing in cities

the absence of racial discrimination in the North

to ensure the spread of manufacturing across the frontier

 to remove import taxes for goods shipped between states

to protect American farms from foreign competition

to prevent railroads from charging excessive shipping rates

Gentlemen's Agreement

Open Door Policy

Political Machine

Nativism

Lure Native Americans to migrate to the frontier

Entice Native Americans to move to urban areas

Give Native Americans jobs in the federal bureaucracy

Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle

to reduce the cost of  supporting Native Americans

 to encourage assimilation into mainstream society

to undermine the treaties made with Native American tribes

to guarantee constitutionally protected civil rights

 the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau

 the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

the passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

the relocation of emancipated slaves to colonies in Africa

Blacks were unable to afford to work agricultural jobs.

Many Blacks left the South to escape their debts.

Blacks worked in a system very similar to slavery.

Blacks worked for low wages to pay the cost of emancipation.

the rise of violence against emancipated slaves

 the passage of Black Codes throughout the South

white resistance to the civil rights movement

attempts to limit the voting rights of African Americans

providing aid and education to emancipated slaves

helping Confederate states get readmitted to the Union

 securing protections for African Americans' voting rights

preventing violence against African Americans in the South

 the disintegration of the Whig Party 

the addition of new states to the Union

the use of popular sovereignty to solve the slavery issue

the extension of voting rights to African American men

the right of Northerners to own slaves

the sale of federal lands to slave owners

the expansion of slavery into new territories

the return of slaves who had escaped from the South