Sources

Question 1

Week 13 Source:
Theodore Roosevelt
1899

Answer 1

Before he became President- Republican
Turn of a century
Spanish- American war, The U.S. receives the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Puerto Rico as a result of the Treaty of Paris. “The twentieth century looms before us big with the fat of many nations.”
Over 1 million immigrants moved to big cities in 1890s and 1900s
Between 1870 and 1910 number of manual wage earner rose by 301%- 1/3 born outside US
Between 1880 and 1900 6.6million worker participated in more than 23,000 strikes
Open door policy

Question 2

Week 14 Source:
Senator George W. Norris
1917

Answer 2

World War 1- America joined 2 days after speech was made
US merchant sinks began to sink and civilians getting caught up
Zimmerman telegram Germany reaches out to Mexico pledges restoration of lost lands in return for support- UK intercepts telegram and doesn’t show US until after sinking of ship because they need help
Year before 14 points to end it in peace
By 1918 US replaces UK as largest economy

Question 3

Week 15 Source:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933

Answer 3

Just became president
During the Great Depression
Stocks $87 billion in 1929 to $33 billion in 4 years
10 million Americans unemployed
10,000 institutions failed in first 5 years
38 dust storms in 1933
Emergency banking bill 1933- stabilise banking system ad place federal government involved in system
The New Deal

Question 4

Week 16 Source:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1941

Answer 4

America joined WW2 Pearl Harbour- 2,403 killed, 1,143, 188 US aircrafts destroyed, 7 battleships and 10 other vessels sunk

Question 5

Week 18 Source:
Joseph McCarthy
1950

Answer 5

House Un-American Activities Committees
1947 Hollywood blacklist- nine days of hearings
1954 McCarthy accuses military of communism
After war should be a time of peace but there is a new threat of communism
Vietnam war- Indochina 1955
Red Scare
A-Bomb 1949

Question 6

Week 19 Source:
Rosa Parks
1956-58

Answer 6

Montgomery Bus boycott 1955-1956 
90% response
381 days
Jim Crow Laws beginning at the end of the 19th century ending in 1965 after Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964
Montgomery sit-ins 1960

Question 7

Week 20 Source:
John T. McNaughton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
1966

Answer 7

Vietnam War had been going on for over 10 years
1 year since US troops had been sent there
Between January and July 1965 missions change by April 60,000 troops by July 175,000, by 1966 400,000

Question 8

Week 21 Source:
Richard Nixon
1969

Answer 8

Vietnam war ends in 6 years
Vietnam war had been going on for 15 years
Nearly 5 years since US troops had been sent there
Confidence in American public and needs their support
Peace with honour
Nixon been president 10 months

Question 9

Week 22 Source:
Ronald Reagan
1983

Answer 9

An aggressive, hard-line stance that favoured matching and exceeding the Soviet Union’s strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would end the soviet union. The characterization demeaned the Soviet Union, angering Soviet leaders and energizing conservatives in the United States and Europe.
Americas determination and strength will end communism
Referencing Thomas Paine going back to the roots of America
The USA invades
The Day After
Soviets invade Afghanistan 1979- olympics

Question 10

Week 24 Source:
George W. Bush
2002

Answer 10

Year after 9/11, 2,996 people killed and 6000 injured
Year before Iraq war- 460,000 deaths
Biggest threat to peace at the time
Focusing on themselves and their own security
War on terror only just begun