- Promises made by Woodrow Wilson

- called for less govt. control and more of the people vote

Politician from Illinois

Leader of the Republican Party

-1st chief of the United States Forest Service

- Was for conserving the natural wildlife like parks

- Set maximum railroad rates

- got rid of free passes to loyal shippers that used railroads

- Gives women the right to vote

- prohibits anyone to deny the right to vote because of sex

18th 

Amendment

Banned Alcohol

deals with the prohibition

- Imposed Income Tax

- reduced the power and privileges of wealthy americans by having them pay taxes on greater percentage of their income

Magazine that was sold for cheap

part of the muckraking journalism

foudned by Samuel McClure

enacted October 15

law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency

stop corporations from controlling everything

was a statuteenacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address the perceived evils of child labor

prohibits the sale of goods produced by kids

New Nationalism was Theodore Roosevelt's Progressivepolitical philosophy during the 1912 election.

The central issue he argued was government protection of human welfare andproperty rights,^[1] but also argued that human welfare was more important than property rights

This commission was authorized to issue Cease and Desist orders to largecorporations to curb unfair trade practices.

To stop big corporations from taking over small ones

Central Powers

(WWI)

was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to theUnited States prior to the latter's entry into the war. Early in 1916, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare

one would not engage in illegal warfare

Torpedoed by German U-boat U-20 on Friday 7 May 1915

The Big Four refers to the top Allied leaders who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, following the end of World War I

It was composed of Woodrow Wilson of theUnited States, David Lloyd George of Britain,Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clemenceau of France

was an Americanstatesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian from Massachusetts.

known in private and public life as Al Smith, was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times

Smith tried for the 1932 nomination, but was defeated by his former ally Franklin D. Roosevelt

was the 30thPresident of the United States

The "lazy guy"

was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on May 16, 1918

It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt

was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25

A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development ofnatural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments

restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock

Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby a portion of their fields lie fallow

The Social Security Act was drafted during Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, underFrances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal

The act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children

(also called the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War) was signed on August 27, 1928 by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy,Japan, Weimar Germany and a number of other countries

The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense.

 also called the Washington Arms Conference, was a military conference called by the administration of President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922

Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations having interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Soviet Russia was not invited to the conference

was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world

 It was drafted by the United Kingdom and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies

it was a policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The revision allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation

 were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe andAsia that eventually led to World War II

They were spurred by the growth in isolationism andnon-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts

is a policy of theUnited States federal government, enunciated in a note of January 7, 1932, toJapan and China, of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force

The "Greer Incident" occurred September 4. By all accounts, a German submarine (later identified as U-652) fired upon the Greer, but made no contact

When news of the encounter reached the United States, public concern ran high. Initial reports reported that a British aircraft aided in repelling the attack.

was given by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 5, 1937, in Chicago, calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time

 The speech intensified America's isolationist mood, causing protest by non-interventionists and foes to intervention

was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II

it was likely the largest anti-warorganization in American history

AFC was established September 4, 1940 by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr

was held atCecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 16 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, theUnited Kingdom, and the United States

 gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed tounconditional surrender nine weeks earlier

was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Unionfor control of the city ofStalingrad

was among the largest on the Eastern Front, and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties

was an American general and field marshal of thePhilippine Army

He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in thePacific theater during World War II

was a United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect"

this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to expand communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam

is anintergovernmental military alliancebased on the North Atlantic Treatywhich was signed on 4 April 1949

and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party

ron Curtainsymbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end ofWorld War II in 1945 until the end of theCold War in 1989

On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances

were Americancommunists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war

The charges related to their passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union

served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959

advocating an aggressive stance againstcommunism throughout the world

Sputnik

Deals with Cuba during the Cold War

was the large-scale economic American program of cash grants to Europe

The goal of the United States was rebuilding a war-devastated region, removing trade barriers, modernizing industry, and making Europe prosperous again

was one of the first majorinternational crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties

the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control

was a 58-page formerly-classified report issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during thepresidency of Harry S. Truman

 It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War. NSC-68 largely shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War for the next 20 years.

was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer

 He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and UN official

Hiss was accused of being aSoviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950

is the act of pushing a situation to the verge of war, in order to threaten and encourage one's opponent to back down

Brinkmanship in the Cold War refers to the constant competition between the United States of America and the Soviet Union

within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state

Singled out the Soviet Union

was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War

after some unsuccessful operations by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban regime (Bay of Pigs,Operation Mongoose), the Cuban and Soviet governments began to surreptitiously build bases in Cuba for a number ofmedium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States