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Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe passed this so the United States could not interfere with European affairs. This affects the Europeans and the United States. -
Sinking of the Maine
Maine was sent to Havana harbor to protect US interest during the Cuban War of independence. The ship was sunk by an external explosion from a mine. -
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Time Period 7
During time period 7 in United States history progressives across the country responded to political and economic uncertainty. It ranges from 1890 through 1945 with important events such as the annexation of Hawaii, the women's suffrage act, and D-Day. This era was a vey influential to the history of the US history. -
jingoism
Nationalism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. This is significant because it is a countries advocacy for the sue of threats or actual force. This affected British having to decide how to counter perceived Russian moves against Turkey. -
Teller Amendment
The joint resolution of the United States congress in reply to President William McKinley's war. This affected Cuba and the United States because it placed a condition on the united states military presence in Cuba. -
De Lome Letter
A note written by the Spanish Ambassador. This letter was written to the Foreign Minister of Spain. This is important because it reveals De Lome' opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba. -
Anti imperalist Leauge
Was created to battle the American annexation of the Philippines. People such as Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and Jane Adams. They believed that territorial expansion was against American ideals of liberty and consent of the governed. -
One Door Policy
This is important in its attempt by the United states to establish an international protocol pf equal privileges for all countries trading with China and support Chinas territorial and administrative integrity. -
Socialist Party of America
A democratic socialist and social democratic political party in the United States by a merger between the three year old Social Democratic Party of America. -
Newlands Reclamation Act
United States Federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. This act first covered only 13 of the western state as Texas had no federal lands. -
Square deal
President Roosevelt domestic program which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
17th amendment
The importance of this amendment is because it changed the way in which United States Senators are elected to congress. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The act defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies and upholds various rights of labor. Its goal was to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
NWP
The National Woman's Party (NWP) is an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment, which is still seeking ratification today. -
Sussex Pledge
A promise that was made by Germany to the United States during world war one. This pledge agreed to give adequate warning before sinking merchant and passenger ships and to provide for the safety of the passengers and crew. -
Zimmerman Telegram
a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
Selective Service Act
The purpose was to increase forces by using the draft. restrict membership in the armed forces to those with prior combat experience. allow all branches of the armed forces to be sent to Europe. equip the armed forces with the necessary weaponry for battle. -
Espionage Act
Try to stop threat of subversion, sabotage, and malicious interference with the war effort, including the controversial reinstatement of the draft. -
Red Scare
The first Red Scare began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and the intensely patriotic years of World War I as anarchist and left-wing social agitation aggravated national, social, and political tensions. -
Sedition Act
An act of the united states congress passed to try to stop the real threat of subversion, sabotage, and malicious interference with the war effort, including the controversial reinstatement of the draft. -
Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Quota Laws of 1921 and 1924
The Emergency Quota Act Fact 19: The 1924 National Origins Act made immigration restriction a permanent US government policy. The National Origins Formula was an American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population -
Cuban Revolt
This is important because it was a significant turning point in history. Cuban became an important player in the global power of the Soviet Union. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, and two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Dawes Plan
An international committee was formed with two representatives each from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, and the United States. The American delegates were financier Charles G. Dawes, who headed the effort, and financier Owen D. Young. A report was issued in April 1924. -
Black Tuesday
On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the processes. -
20th amendment
The 20th Amendment is an amendment to the US Constitution, the primary governing document of the US, and it was ratified on 23 January 1933. It applies specifically to federal officials and sets forth the beginnings and ends of their terms. It further makes provisions for circumstances in which no president-elect is present. -
21st amendment
On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution became the only constitutional amendment to repeal another amendment. This amendment revoked or abolished the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the United States. -
Tenesse Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
Good Neighbor Policy
foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America. Although the policy was implemented by the Roosevelt administration, President Woodrow Wilson had previously used the term, but subsequently went on to justify U.S. involvement in the Mexican Revolution. -
Neutrality Acts '35,'36,'37,'39
The Neutrality Acts were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. -
Spanish Civil War
Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with anarchists, fought against a revolt by the Nationalists, an alliance of monarchists, conservatives and Catholics, led by a military group among whom General Francisco Franco soon achieved a preponderant role. -
Quarantine Speech
The Quarantine Speech was given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago calling for an international "quarantine" against the "epidemic of world lawlessness" by aggressive nations as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the first and only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. -
Atlantic Charter
a declaration of eight common principles in international relations drawn up by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in August 1941, which provided the ideological basis for the United Nations organization -
Pearl Harbor Attack
The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. -
Lend Lease Act
Lend-Lease Act. Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Oil and steel embargo
Embargo Act (oil and steel) August 1941: American Embargo Act because of their dependence on American exports causes an oil crisis in Japan. The United States was contacted by Konoe the prime minister of Japan but President Roosevelt refused to have a meeting over the Act until Japan left Chinese Territory. -
Holocaust
Embargo Act (oil and steel) August 1941: American Embargo Act because of their dependence on American exports causes an oil crisis in Japan. The United States was contacted by Konoe the prime minister of Japan but President Roosevelt refused to have a meeting over the Act until Japan left Chinese Territory. -
Manhanttan Project
The code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. The project culminated in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, at White Sands in New Mexico -
Japanese Internment
Japanese American internment, the forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II. Between 1942 and 1945, a total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas -
Battle of Midway
The United States Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto. -
Tehrn Confrence
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. -
Island Hoping
It was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
D day
the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of Frances Normandy region. -
Yalta Confrence
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
Japanese surrender
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. -
United Nations
This is an international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. -
Fillipino Independence
In a formal declaration, the American flag was lowered in Luneta, Manila and raised the Filipino National flag in tri-color of red, white, and blue looked up by proud Filipinos. Finally, independence was granted to the Republic of the Philippines dated July 4, 1946. The National anthem of the Philippines was played next to America’s.
