Monday
Period 7: 1890 – 1945
APUSH – Steiker
Imperialism: Key Questions:
➢ What factors led to the rise of imperialism is the United States?
➢ Why was the United States interested in Latin America and the Far East at the turn of the century?
➢ How to Yellow Journalism influence U.S. involvement in the Spanish American War?
➢ What were the results and long term implications of the Spanish-American War to American foreign policy?
➢ Why did Americans become divided over the question of annexing the Philippines?
➢ What was the purpose of the Open Door Policy in China?
➢ How did the Panama Canal come to be built?
➢ How did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine affect American foreign policy in the twentieth century?
➢ How was the idealism of Wilson’s “missionary diplomacy” often at odds with the reality the president faced in dealing with Mexico between 1913 and 1916?
➢ Why did the U.S. become involved in World War I?
➢ How did war mobilization affect the economy, status of civil liberties and the Progressive movement?
➢ How did the Schenck v. the United States shape the “freedom of speech” debate?
➢ How did Wilson’s 14 points shape the Treaty of Versailles?
➢ Why did the U.S. Senate refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
Significant Vocabulary Terms
Allied Powers (Triple Entente)
“banana republic”
Big Stick Policy
Central Powers (Triple Alliance)
Committee on Public Information
DeLome Letter
Dollar Diplomacy
doughboys
Espionage Act
Fourteen Points
Good Neighbor Policy
Great War
Great White Fleet
government of butchers
imperialism
isthmus
jingoism
League of Nations
Lusitania
Maine
Manifest Destiny
missionary diplomacy
Monroe Doctrine
National War Labor Board
Open Door Policy
Pan-Americanism
Panama Canal
Platt Amendment
propaganda
protectorate
Roosevelt Corollary
Rough Riders
Russo-Japanese War
Schenck v. the United States
Sedition Act
Selective Service Act
self-determination
Seward’s Folley
Spanish American
War
spheres of influence
submarine
Sussex Pledge
Teller Amendment
Treaty of Portsmouth
Treaty of Versailles
u-boat
United Fruit Company
War Industries Board
War Labor Board
White-Man’s Burden
yellow fever
yellow journalism
Zimmerman Telegram
The Twenties, Great Depression and New Deal:
▪ How did changing social patterns affect families and young people in the 1920s?
▪ How did the movies, radio, sports, automobiles and household inventions revolutionize American life?
▪ How did the lives of women begin to change in the 1920s?
▪ How did fundamentalism and prohibition contribute to the rural-urban conflict?
▪ Why was there a Red Scare in the 1920s?
▪ What was the significance of Sacco and Vanzetti?
▪ What was the Monkey Trial and what is its significance?
▪ Why did America “close the gates” to immigration in the 1920s?
▪ To what extend was the Harlem Renaissance a true reflection of African American life in the 1920s?
▪ What were the roots of black nationalism?
▪ What literary trends developed in the 1920s?
▪ What was the significance of Black Tuesday?
▪ What were the underlying causes of the Great Depression?
▪ How did the Great Depression affect people’s lives?
▪ How did Herbert Hoover attempt to deal with the hardships brought on by the Great Depression?
▪ How did FDR approach societal problems brought on by the Great Depression?
▪ How did the Bank Holiday stop the banking panic?
▪ What legislation was enacted as part of FDR’s New Deal?
▪ To what extent was the New Deal effective?
▪ Why was there opposition to the New Deal?
▪ How were farmers affected by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl?
Significant Vocabulary Terms
100% Americanism
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
American Birth Control League
assembly line
Bank Holiday
bank runs
Birth of a Nation
Black Tuesday
bohemian
Bonus Army
business cycle
buying on margin
cause celebe
Civil Conservation Corp (CCC)
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)
Comstock Act
court packing
Divine Creation
e pluribus Unum
eugenics
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
fundamentalism
Harlem Renaissance
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Home Loan Act
Hundred Days
Indian Reorganization Act
Ku Klux Klan
Lever Act
"lost generation"
lynching
multiplier effect
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
nativism
New Deal
nickelodeon
overspeculation
Palmer Raids
Prohibition Bureau
quota system
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Red Scare
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Scopes Trial
Second New Deal
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Sick Chickens
Social Security
speakeasy
stock market crash
subsidy
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The Great Train Robbery
The Jazz Singer
Underwood Tariff Act
unemployment
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Wagner Act
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Significant Individuals:
Thomas Hart Benton
William Jennings Bryant
Al Capone
Father Coughlin
Clarence Darrow
Jack Dempsey
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marcus Garvey
George Gershwin
Ernest Hemmingway
Harry Hopkins
Langston Hughes
Al Jolson
Charles A. Lindberg
Huey Long
H.L. Menken
Frances Perkins
Cole Porter
Will Rogers
Babe Ruth
Sacco and Vanzetti
John Steinbeck
Jim Thorpe
World War II
▪ To what extent was the United States neutral before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
▪ Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
▪ How were American women’s lives changed by World War II?
▪ To what extent were Japanese internment during World War II justified?
▪ How did the Allies win the war?
▪ To what extent did the dropping of the atomic bomb on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring an end to the war
▪ in the Pacific?
▪ How did a meeting at Yalta shape the post-war world?
▪ Why did the United States help found the United Nations?
▪ What events shaped the beginning of the Cold War?
▪ How did the citizens of the United States and the Soviet Union view each other?
▪ How do communist dictatorships differ from capitalistic democracies?
Significant Vocabulary Terms
|arms race |Korematsu v. United States |Significant Individuals |
|Atlantic Charter |Lend-Lease |Winston Churchill |
|Axis Powers |Midway |Emperor Hirohito |
|blitzkrieg |Nagasaki |Adolf Hitler |
|communism |Neutrality Acts |Douglas MacArthur |
|fascism |Normandy; Potsdam; Yalta |George Marshall |
|Hiroshima |ration books |Benito Mussolini |
|internment camps |Rosie the Riveter |Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
|isolationism |War Powers Act |Joseph Stalin |
|United Nations | | |
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