Unit 7 Vocab Flashcards
A canal across the Isthmus of Panama connecting trade between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Panama Canal
The 1904 assertion by President Theodore Roosevelt that the United States would act as a “policeman” in the Caribbean region and intervene in the affairs of nations that were guilty of “wrongdoing or impotence” in order to protect U.S. interests in Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary
A 1917 intercepted dispatch in which German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman urged Mexico to join the Central Powers and promised that if the United States entered the war, Germany would help Mexico recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Zimmerman Telegram
The 1919 treaty that ended World War I. The agreement redrew the map of the world, assigned Germany sole responsibility for the war, and saddled it with a debt of $33 billion in war damages. Its long-term impact around the globe — including the creation of British and French imperial “mandates” — was catastrophic.
Treaty of Versailles
The migration of over 400,000 African Americans from the rural south to the industrial cities of the North and after WWI
Great Migration
A political party founded in 1916 that fought for an Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution in the 20th century
National Women’s Party
A flourishing of African American artists, writers, intellectuals, and social leaders in the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives.
Fireside Chats
The theory, developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s, that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes, interest rates, and government spending) can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
Keynesian Economics
A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arkansas, and Kansas.
Dust Bowl
New York Governor and president, he was a Democrat who led the nation for 12 years.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Wife of FDR who worked to expand positions for women in political parties, labor unions, and education
Eleanor Roosevelt
A claim put forth by U.S. Secretary of State John Hay that all nations seeking to do business in China should have equal trade access.
Open Door Policy
An authoritarian system of government characterized by dictatorial rule, extreme nationalism, disdain for civil society, and a conviction that imperialism and warfare are the principal means by which nations attain greatness.
Fascism
