AP Test Flashcards

8773646665	Roosevelt Corollary	Warned of U.S. intervention in Latin American affairs when necessary	0
8773651266	Zimmermann Note	Proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico during World War I	1
8773658005	Archduke Francis Ferdinand	His assassination sparked the declaration of World War I	2
8773674685	Espionage Act	Imposed sentences up to 20 years in prison for persons found guilty of aiding the enemy, obstructing recruitment of soldiers, or encouraging disloyalty during World War I	3
8773678005	Sedition Act	Imposed harsh penalties on anyone using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, flag, or armed forces during World War I	4
8773696792	Great Migration	Movement of African Americans from the South to the North in search of jobs	5
8773700376	Fourteen Points	President Wilson's peace plan to avoid future wars	6
8773704514	Treaty of Versailles	Signed by Germany at the end of World War I; included a war-guilt clause and reparations	7
8773717746	Red Scare	Resulted from a fear of Communists from Russia (USSR)	8
8773728641	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	New Deal agency that insures bank accounts to $250,000	9
8773733273	Social Security Act	New Deal agency that provides old age pension and survivors benefits	10
8773767000	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Promised a "New Deal" for America	11
8773769243	New Deal	Programs to provide relief, reform, and recovery after the Great Depression	12
8773795643	Good Neighbor Policy	Promised Latin American countries a cooperative relationship with the U.S.	13
8773797215	Lend-Lease Act	Allowed President Franklin Roosevelt to provide arms to certain foreign countries without antagonizing American isolationists	14
8773806136	Manhattan Project	Code name for the atomic bomb project	15
8773844050	Rosie the Riveter	encouraged women to work in factories	16
8773859549	Cold War	Bitter state of indirect conflict that existed between the US and the USSR after WW2 that involved political conflict and military tensions	17
8773863531	NATO	Based on the idea of mutual defense against a Soviet attack	18
8773867267	Sputnik	First satellite	19
8773869484	Domino theory	If one country falls to communism then the next will fall and so on	20
8773875625	Joseph McCarthy	Leading figure of the Red Scare of the early 1950s	21
8773879032	Satellite nation	Eastern European countries whose governments were controlled by the USSR	22
8773881813	Containment	Policy of stopping the spread of communism	23
8773889042	Iron curtain	Represented a symbolic division of Europe	24
8773896843	GI Bill	Gave low-interest loans to veterans to go to college and buy a house	25
8773902290	Flappers	Women who changed values in the 1920s, asserted their independence, demanded more freedoms	26
8773909449	National Origins Act of 1924	Reduced immigration due to social tensions from World War I	27
8773925363	Dust Bowl	Caused farmers in the Midwest to lose their jobs and head West in search of jobs	28
8773932155	Baby boom	Caused the population to triple and families to move to the suburbs	29
8773946722	Civil Rights Act of 1964	Banned discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or nationality	30
8773951098	Betty Friedan	Wrote The Feminine Mystique that talked about the "problem that has no name"	31
8773956261	Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	Congressional act giving the President complete control over US intervention in Vietnam	32
8773962561	Cuban missile crisis	US announced a naval quarantine around Cuba and told the USSR not to cross with new weapons or US will attack	33
8773974540	Deterrence	Policy of making the US so powerful that no enemy would dare attack	34
8773981599	Counterculture	Rejected conventional norms and values and experimented with new ones in the 1960s	35
8773986925	Feminism	Political, economic, and social equality of men and women	36
8773997785	War Powers Resolution	Put limits on the President's power to make war	37
8774015456	Progressivism	Reform movement that sought to return control of the government to the people	38
8774041341	Détente	Relaxing of tensions with the USSR	39
8774055450	War on Terror	Occurred in response to 9/11 attacks	40
8774110733	Brown v. Board of Education	Desegregated schools	41
8774112923	Immigration Act of 1965	Ended immigration quotas	42
8774122514	Great Society	President Johnson's domestic program; included Medicare and Medicaid	43
8774136801	Conformity	Sense of uniformity in the 1950s in which Americans followed strict societal roles	44
8774174265	League of Nations	Peacekeeping organization formed after World War I	45
8774181186	Harlem Renaissance	Development of African American culture, literature, art	46
8774197827	Japanese Internment Camps	Resulted from fear from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor	47
8774200032	Plessy v. Ferguson	Established the separate but equal doctrine	48
8774202297	Muckrakers	Journalists who wrote about corrupt business and questionable practices	49
8774204389	19th Amendment	Gave women the right to vote	50
8774226245	Pearl Harbor	Reason for US entry into World War II	51
8774229912	Axis Powers	Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II	52
8774234462	Allied Powers	USA, France, Britain, and USSR during World War II	53
8774247346	Cesar Chavez	Founder of United Farm Workers Organizing Committee; wanted better pay, working conditions, union recognition	54
8774260638	Sunbelt	Region stretching from the Carolinas to California that has seen growth since the 1960s due to favorable climate and cheaper labor	55
8774483628	D-day invasion	Led to liberation of France	56
8774487712	Nativism	Policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.	57
8774491696	William Levitt	Developer who mass produced homes	58
8774513441	Woodstock	Art and Music Fair for the counterculture	59