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AH M5 Review
American History Module 5 Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| American Exceptionalism | The notion that America has a sense of duty to extend democracy beyond its borders. |
| Remember the Maine | Slogan used to draw support for war against the Spanish after a US ship exploded in Cuba’s Havana harbor. |
| Teller Amendment | Introduced in 1898 and stated that the United States would not gain permanent control over Cuba after the war. |
| Platt Amendment | The United States would remove remaining troops from Cuba if certain conditions were met. -Cuba could not transfer any lands to anyone but the United States. -Cuba had limited rights to negotiate treaties. -A naval station located at Guantanamo Bay was issued to the United States. -The United States would step in to defend Cuba against any foreign threats. |
| Open Door Policy | Nations trading in China should have the equal privilege to do so, all while keeping Chinese authorities in place. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Policy stating the United States would intervene if any country was being threatened by foreign nations. As a result, America became somewhat of a “peace keeper” of the western hemisphere. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Naval history author that published works which led to increased attention placed on building up America's Naval power. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Fought to reject American influence in Hawaii and keep “Hawaii for Hawaiians”. Abdicated the throne for a pardon to her supporters who had been jailed during a revolt. |
| Zimmerman Telegram | A message from Germany to Mexico offering them territory in the United States if Mexico entered the war on the side of Germany. |
| War industries Board | Created in 1917 to oversee the United States mobilization for war at home. |
| Committee on Public Information | Led by George Creel to boost morale and support for the war effort. |
| Four Minute Men | Groups of volunteers who recorded speeches to be played around the country to encourage war support. |
| Sedition Act of 1918 | Made it illegal for anyone to criticize the government during times of war. |
| Great Migration | Movement to northern cities by many African-Americans seeking more fair treatment than in the South. |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson’s vision for a post war world, ultimately allied leaders did not share his vision for Europe. |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty to end World War One. Germany had to take responsibility for the war and pay back unlimited reparations. |
| Red Scare | Post war concerns about communists infiltrating the United States to gain influence over society. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Scandal during the Harding administration. Oil field reserves were leased to individuals as a result of bribes paid to the secretary of the department of the interior. |
| Prohibition | The eighteenth amendment, making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or transport alcohol. |
| ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union founded in 1920 to fight for the constitutional rights of Americans. |
| Scopes Trial | Gained national media coverage setting Darwin vs. religion in public schools. |
| Harlem Renaissance | Explosion of black culture and pride across northern cities during the 1920’s. |
| Jazz | Music of the Harlem Renaissance that captivated both white and black audiences. |
| Lost Generation | Term used to describe writers in the generation after WWI. |
| Consumer Credit | Buying goods that were wanted versus needed with money lent to individuals in the form of credit. |
| Flapper | Term used to describe women in the 1920’s that embraced a new sense of freedom and independence that challenged the traditional role of women in American society. |
| Henry Ford | Revolutionized the automobile industry with his perfection of the assembly line. |
| Bonus Army | Group of WWI veterans who marched on the capitol to demand their bonus checks early. |
| Hundred Days | FDR’s first days in office when many New Deal programs were introduced. |
| Fireside Chats | National radio broadcasts for FDR to talk directly to the American public. |
| Dust Bowl | Term used to describe the Midwest during the depression. Giant dust storms blanketed towns as a result of mineral depleted soil. |
| Herbert Hoover | President at the beginning of the depression. |
| Smoot-Hawley Tariff | Approved by Hoover in an attempt to increase demand for American goods. This tariff hurt the economy in the long run. |
| Wagner Act | Made it legal for most workers to organize or join labor unions. |
| New Deal Programs | Known as alphabet programs that addressed efforts of relief, recovery, and reform. |
| Three R's | Roosevelt's agenda to pull the United States out of the depression. |
| Keynesian Economics | The economic policy of government spending money to try and end the cycle of depression. |
| Axis | The alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy during World War II. |
| Allies | The alliance between Great Britain, China, Russia, and the United States during World War II. |
| Pearl Harbor | A Japanese attack on a US naval base in Hawaii on December 7th, 1941 killing 2403 men. |
| Mobilizing | To get your country ready for war. |
| Rationing | Having fixed amounts of goods to ensure that the needed amount went to the military. |
| Food for Victory | A campaign where Americans were encouraged to eat their leftovers to secure more food for the military. |
| Victory Gardens | Citizens planted their own food so that more food created from the food industry could go to the military. |
| Rosie the Riveter | A tough, feminine figure created by the government to recruit women to factory jobs. |
| Double V Campaign | Stood for victory abroad and at home. The campaign argued that African-Americans should be given their full citizenship rights in America if they were risking their lives for America. This included ending segregation in the military. |
| Tuskegee Airmen | The first group of African-American aviators in the US armed forces. This group was a symbol of pride for African-Americans. |
| Executive Order 9081 | Executive Order signed by President Harry Truman mandating integration in US armed forces. |
| Executive Order 9066 | Executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt resulting in relocating 112,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast to internment camps during World War II. |
| Internment Camps | Areas that imprison large groups of people, usually without charges, and typically during war time. |
| Facism | A nationalist and authoritarian political philosophy that also promotes militarism, expansion of power in size and influence, and economic independence. It puts the importance of the nation above everything else - even individual rights. |
| Benito Mussolini | Founded the National Fascist Party in Italy and was elected to office in 1921. The following year he led the March on Rome with 30,000 armed men to take power as the prime minister of Italy. |
| Adolf Hitler | He became a leader of the Nazi Party in 1920, and created a platform based on nationalism, anti-Semitism (prejudice against Jewish people), and expansion of the country. |
| Four Freedoms | President Roosevelt argued that America should fight for universal freedoms that all people in the world should possess. They included the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear. This became the rallying cry and gave hope when the war was difficult. |
| Holocaust | The intentional planned killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children by Germany in World War 2. |
| Concentration Camps | Concentration camps were where many Jewish people were imprisoned in inadequate facilities, sometimes forced into labor, and waited for mass execution. |
| Europe First | An agreed upon strategy by Great Britain and the United States. It stated that the US and Great Britain would use their resources to defeat Germany prior to Japan. |
| D-Day | Also known as the Battle of Normandy which was the successful invasion of German occupied Western Europe. This was a critical battle that would help ultimately lead to the victory of Allies in Europe. |
| VE Day | On May 8th, 1945, Great Britain and the United States celebrated Victory in Europe with the surrender of Germany. |
| VJ Day | Victory over Japan Day on August 15th, 1945. |
| Leapfrogging | A military strategy that involved bypassing islands heavily manned by Japanese troops and then isolating them. |
| Island Hopping | Involved taking over an entire island and establishing a base there. The base became a stronghold to launch an attack on the next island. |
| Manhattan Project | The codename for the American led effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II. |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Two nuclear bombs were dropped on these Japanese cities by the United States ending World War II and killing 210,000 people. |
| Big Three | The leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and Russia. |
| Yalta Conference | Attended by the Big Three in February 1945 to determine what to do with the post-war world and how to bring about the War in the Pacific to an end. Tension emerged between Russia and Great Britain and the US. Key decisions included that USA, Great Britain, France and Russia would occupy sections of Germany after the war was over, Nazi war criminals would go to trial for their crimes, and help would be provided to freed areas of Europe to set up democratic countries. |
| Ultra | Military intelligence gained by breaking the codes of German Enigma machines. |
| Potsdam Conference | Attended by the Big Three in July 1945 in which the relationship between the US and Great Britain and Russia had worsened after the creation of the nuclear bomb by the US. Key decisions included that Russians could take industrial machinery from their occupational zone, but Germany would not pay war reparations. Plans were confirmed to disarm and demilitarize Germany. |
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