Alfred Thayer Mahan - ANS-US Admiral who encouraged the United States to reinforce its naval
power to emerge as a international strength.
America First Committee - ANS-A committee organized with the aid of isolationists in 1940 to
oppose American access into World War II
American Expeditionary Force - ANS-the U.S. Forces, led by using Gen. John Pershing, who
fought with the allies in Europe for the duration of WWI
Appeasement - ANS-A coverage of creating concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of
avoiding warfare.
Atlantic Charter - ANS-1941-Pledge signed via US president FDR and British top minister
Winston Churchill not to collect new territory because of WWII amd to work for peace after the
battle
Atomic Bomb - ANS-Two atomic bombs have been dropped on Japan (Hiroshima and
Nagasaki) which forced Japan to surrender and ended WWII.
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair - ANS-a dispute among U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the break up of the
Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U.S.
Conservation motion inside the early twentieth century.
CCC - ANS-Civilian Conservation Corps. It become Relief that provided work for young guys
18-25 years vintage in meals control, planting, flood work, and so on.
Civil Liberties - ANS-Freedoms to suppose and act with out government interference or fear of
unfair criminal treatment.
Conservation - ANS-Holding to standard attitudes and values and cautious approximately
alternate or innovation, commonly in politics or faith.
Dollar Diplomacy - ANS-Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. Changing
monetary help ($) for the proper to "help" nations make choices approximately change and other
commercial ventures. Basically it changed into exchanging cash for political have an effect on in
Latin America and the Caribbean.
, Dust Bowl - ANS-1930; Central place, the time period for the Great Plains whilst there was little
rain and there have been high-quality storms of dust.
Eddie Rickenbacker - ANS-Famous American fighter pilot
Espionage Act - ANS-1917 act gave the authorities new methods to combat spying
Federal Reserve Act - ANS-Set up a gadget of federal banks and gave government the energy
to control the money deliver, 1913
flappers - ANS-Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical style
Florence Kelly - ANS-Active within the agreement house movement and led progressive hard
work reforms for women and children.
Fourteen Points - ANS-Wilson's plan for peace following WWI.
Great Migration - ANS-movement of over three hundred,000 African American from the rural
south into Northern cities among 1914 and 1920
Harlem Renaissance - ANS-1920s growth in African American literature and humanities, as
southern African Americans delivered subculture to the north
Hawley Smoot Tarrif - ANS-raised expenses on foreign imports to one of these stage that they
could not compete in the American market, slowed down exchange
Initiative - ANS-A system by using which citizens can endorse a law or a constitutional change.
Japanese Internment - ANS-Carried out via Executive Order 9066, which took many Japanese
families faraway from their houses and into internment camp. Motivated with the aid of racism
after Pearl Harbor bombing
Jingoism - ANS-Aggressive nationalism
John Dewey - ANS-A eductaion reformer who believed we had to educate our youngsters
prolem solving capabilities, not simply memeorizing information
League of Nations - ANS-an international organisation shaped in 1920 to sell cooperation and
peace among international locations
Louis Brandeis - ANS-A legal professional and jurist, he created the "Brandeis Brief," which
succinctly outlines the facts of the case and cites criminal precedents, in order to influence the
decide to make a positive ruling.