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American History 2019

  • Schlieffen Plan

    Schlieffen Plan

    A plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries
  • MAINE

    MAINE

    M: Militarism,A: Alliances, I:Imperialism, N:Nationalism, E:Extreme leaders
  • Allies/Central Powers

    Allies/Central Powers

    Allies:France,USA,Great Britain,Russia/Central Powers:Germany,Austria-Hungary,Turkish Empire
  • The Spark

    The Spark

    Assassination of Franz Ferdinand(Austria Hungary) by Princip(Serbia)
  • The landing of WWI

    The landing of WWI

    Battle of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles Campaign, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I
  • Great migration

    Great migration

    Six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970
  • Armistice

    Armistice

    An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare

    The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition

    The law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933
  • Liberation movement

    Liberation movement

    Organization or political movement leading a rebellion, or a non-violent social movement
  • Jazz Age

    Jazz Age

    The US characterized as a period of carefree hedonism, wealth, freedom, and youthful exuberance, reflected
  • Xenophobia

    Xenophobia

    Fear of immigrants
  • Immigration quota

    Immigration quota

    limited number of immigrants of each country(2%)
  • Teapot dome

    Teapot dome

    Oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921
  • Maldistribution of Wealth

    Maldistribution of Wealth

    Money was distributed disparately between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States , and between the U.S
  • Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.
  • Government Inaction

    Government Inaction

    The failure to do anything, especially when you should do something.
  • Easy Credit

    Easy Credit

    The depression in the 1930s was caused by excess expansion of credit
  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States
  • Stock Market

    Stock Market

    The U.S. Stock Market underwent rapid expansion
  • Business Cycle

    Business Cycle

    A cycle or series of cycles of economic expansion and contraction.
  • Overproduction

    Overproduction

    Production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed.
  • Monet in Circulation

    Monet in Circulation

    The Money Supply and the Banking System Before and During the Great Depression
  • Smoot-Hawley

    Smoot-Hawley

    The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, formally known as the United States Tariff Act of 1930 and sometimes referred to in reverse order as the Hawley-Smoot Act
  • Bad Banking System

    Bad Banking System

    Estimated that 4,000 banks failed during the one year of 1933 alone.
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as Chancellor of Germany
  • Enabling Act

    Enabling Act

    A statute empowering a person or body to take certain action, especially to make regulations, rules, or orders.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The site of a naval base after the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898
  • Ghettos

    Ghettos

    A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.
  • Nazi

    Nazi

    A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.