Period 7

Question 1

Period 7

Answer 1

1898 - 1945

Question 2

Yellow Journalism

Answer 2

U.S.S Maine explosion, yellow journalism spiked rising conflicts
Spanish American War

Question 3

Effects of Spanish American War

Answer 3

Ended with Treaty of Paris 1898
Platt Amendment (1902)
* US military intervention
* Annexation of Philippines for $20 million
* Annexation of Hawaii

Question 4

Reason for ww1

Answer 4

Zimmerman Telegram
* intervention of German note sending to Mexico to start a war, and the promise to regain lost territories.

April 2, 1917, ww1.

Question 5

How did the war end

Answer 5

Treaty of Versailles Nov 11 1918
* Fourteen points
* establishment of the league of nations

Question 6

Organization for military production?

Answer 6

War Industries Board
* military production

Question 7

What act limited speech

Answer 7

Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918
* crime to oppose the war

Question 8

Communism sparked the

Answer 8

Red Scare, Anticommunism, xenophobia

Question 9

Effect of the Red Scare?

Answer 9

Palmer Raids
* 6000 Citizens and aliens arrested due to suspicions of communism

Question 10

Nativism

Answer 10

National Origins Act of 1924, accepting immigrants.
Could not exceed 2% of that national’s percentage of the U.S. Population.
150,000 immigrants per year from Europe

Question 11

Henry Ford

Answer 11

Automobiles, Americans own 80% of all automobiles worldwide
Created 3.7 million jobs

Question 12

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 12

After the Great Migration (1910) where 400,000 African Americans migrated into cities

• Birth of Jazz, Louis Armstrong

Question 13

Cause of the Great Depression?

Answer 13

Stock Market Crash of 19292, buying on margins which accumulated to massive debt.

Question 14

Effects of Great Depression

Answer 14

Unemployment rose to 25% where 15 million people were out of work by 1933.

Question 15

Election of 1932

Answer 15

FDR –> Governmental Intervention, Keynesian economics

Hoover –> Laissez Faire

Question 16

What did Roosevelt do

Answer 16

New Deal (1933 when he was inaugruated)
Hundred days, 15 major acts passed.
Three r’s
Relief of unemployment
Recovery of Businesses
Reform of economic institutions

Question 17

Programs from Relief of unemployment?

Answer 17

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
250,000 young men to do reforestation and conservation work

Public Works Administration(PWA)
Civil Works administration (CWA)
Provided jobs for 4 million Americnas
Repaired bridges
Built highways
Construct public buildings

Question 18

Reform of Economic Instuitions

Answer 18

Emergency Banking Act (1933)
Permitted banks to reopen if the Treasury Department showed that they had sufficient cash reserves

Glass-Steagall Act
Creaing the Federal Deposit INsurance Corportaion (FDIC)
guaranteed people’s bank deposits
Roosevelt

Removed the U.S Treasury from the gold standard in June 1933

Glass-Steagall Act
* Creaing the Federal Deopsit Insurance Corportaion (FDIC)
guaranteed deposits

Question 19

Agricultural Overproduction

Answer 19

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Direct governmental regulation of the farm economy
Provided cash subsidies to farmers who cut production of wheat, rice, tobacco e.g./

Question 20

The New Deal …

Answer 20

Transferred America into a welfare state and expanded American liberalism

Question 21

Opposes the New Deal

Answer 21

American Liberty Leauge
Government programs hurting American freedom

Business owners think too much government intervention

Supreme Court - unconstitutional

Question 22

Second New Deal

Answer 22

Emphasized social justice and the creation of a safety net

Question 23

Acts from the Second New Deal

Answer 23

Revenue Act of 1935
* 75% of tax on high income

Wagner Act (1935)
* Right of industrial workers to join Unions

Social Security Act (1935)
Old-age pensions for workers
Compensation for unemployed workers
Payments to widowed mothers and blind, deaf, and disabled
American weldfare state

Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Employed 8.5 million Americans

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
4- hours workweek a national standard
Federal minimum wage
Mandated overtime pay

Question 24

Before the U.S joined the war, they were

Answer 24

mainly isolationists,
Because of the profits of munitions makers during the war

Question 25

FDR before ww2

Answer 25

Neutrality Acts of 1935, 36, 37, 39, “Cash-and-carry” requirement (1937), predominantly showed America's allied nature towards Britain. Lend-Lease Act Leade, lend, or otherwise dispose of arms and equipment to Britan or any other country whose defence was vital to the security of the U.S.

Question 26

December 7 1941

Answer 26

Attack on Pearl Harbour, due to oil embargo, where America supplied almost 80% of Japan's oil. 2,400 Americans dead 200 airplanes

Question 27

ww2 in the u.s. homefront

Answer 27

Total War --> all assets, both military and domestic is used in order to fight the war. The number of civilians employed by the government increased almost to 3.8 million War Production Board Persuaded businesses to convert to military production

Question 28

How did the U.S. tackle the labour shortage?

Answer 28

Women, campaigns like Rosie the Riveter, encouraged women to work in the factories and help the war effort 36% of the labour force in 1945 was made up of Women. 350,000 American women enlisted

Question 29

How many black people enlisted in ww2

Answer 29

1 million African Americans

Question 30

What happened to the Japanese Americans in America?

Answer 30

Executive order 9066, Relocation of 100,000 Japanese in relocation camps.

Question 31

What ended the Second World War?

Answer 31

Manhattan Project 1942, J.Robert Oppenheimer, Atomic bomb, 1945 August 6 - Hiroshima - 100,000 dead August 9 - Nagasaki - 60,000 dead Unconditional surrender