Master List of Terms and Concepts :
20th Century Topics, Emphasizing the Americas
Early 20th Century- Year 1
Unit 1 - The development of modern nations 1865-1929 (8 Weeks)
“Cross of Gold”
Chicago School of Architecture
“Melting Pot” theory
Cornelius Vanderbilt
AFL
Coxey’s Army
Andrew Carnegie
Edward Bellamy
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Emma Lazarus
Boss Tweed
Gilded Age
Carry Nation
Gold bugs
Gospel of Wealth
Railroad Strike of 1877
Haymarket Riot (1886)
Robber Barons
Henry George
Samuel Gompers
Homestead Strike (1892)
Settlement Movement
Horatio Alger
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Jacob Riis
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Jane Addams
Silver bugs
Jay Gould
Social Darwinism
John D. Rockefeller
Social Gospel
Knights of Labor
Thomas A. Edison
Louis Sullivan
Thomas Nast
Mark Hanna
U. S. v. E. C. Knight (1890)
Panic of 1893
William Jennings Bryan
Pendleton Act (1885)
William Lloyd Wright
Pullman Strike (1894)
Yellow-dog contract
Unit 2 - Emergence of the Americas in global affairs 1880-1929 (10 Weeks)
Treaty of Kanagawa
Pancho Villa
“Seward’s Folly”
John J. Pershing
Alfred Thayer Mahan
“Colossus of the North
Jingoism
James G. Blaine
Yellow journalism
Pan-Americanism
William Randolph Hearst
Spanish-American War (1898)
De Lome Letter
Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain!
Rough Riders
Queen Liliukalani
Emilio Aguinaldo
“White Man’s Burden”
Anti-Imperialist League
U. S. S. Maine
Commodore Matthew Perry
Commodore Dewey
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Walter Reed
Insular Cases
Teller Amendment
protectorate
John Hay, Secretary of State
Platt Amendment
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Panama Canal
Gentleman’s Agreement
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Nationalism
First Battle of the Somme
Militarism
“Dollar Diplomacy”
Trench warfare
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
Jones Act (1916)
Jones Act (1917)
“Moral Diplomacy”
Tampico Incident
Bosnian Crisis
Pacifism
Allied Powers
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Central Powers
Czar Nicholas II
Muckrakers
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Square Deal
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Forest Reserve Act
Sarajevo
Sedition Act
U-Boat
Espionage Act
16th Amendment
Panic 1907
17th Amendment
Big Four
18th Amendment
Red Scare- Palmer Raids
19th Amendment
Balkan Peninsula
Triple Alliance
Lusitania
Triple Entente
Gavrilo Princip
Fourteen Points
Sussex Pledge
Versailles Treaty
Schlieffen Plan
New Freedom
He kept us out of war!
New Nationalism
War of Attrition
Socialist Party
Zimmermann Note
Russo-Japanese War
The War to End all Wars!
Great White Fleet
Unit 3 - The Mexican Revolution 1910-40 (4 Weeks)
President Porfirio Diaz
December 4, 1914
Francisco I. Modero
March 11, 1917
Pascual Orozco
February 5, 1917
Francisco “Pancho” Villa
Constitution of 1917
Emiliano Zapata
April 10, 1919
Maximo and Aguiles Serdan
October 19, 1915
Doroteo Arango
Punitive Expedition of 1916-17
Victoriano Huerta
Anti-reelectionista Party
Henry Lane Wilson
Plan de San Luis Potosi (Oct. 1910)
Venustiano Carranza
Maderista Troops
Alvaro Obregon
Chuchillo Parado, Chihuahua
General “Jack Black”
Zacatecas
Woodrow Wilson
Division del Norte
Hidalgo
Celayo, Guanajuato
Eulalil Guiterrez
Cuidad Juarez
Toribio Ortega
Plan of Ayala (Nov. 1911)
Francisco Leon de la Barra
The Presidential Succession in 1910
Jose Maria Peno Suarez
Obregon’s Reform
General John Purshig
Good Neighbor Policy
Adolfo de Huerta
Guerrero
Elections of 1910
Morelos
November 20, 1910
National Revolutionary Party (PNR)
May 24, 1911
Occupation of Veracruz
June 23, 1913
Unit 4 - The Great Depression and the Americas 1929-39 (6 weeks)
“Return to Normalcy”
Twenty-One Demands
Teapot Dome Scandal
Washington Naval Conference
Muscle Shoals
5:5:3:1.75:1.75 naval ratio
Secy. of the Treasury Mellon (tax cuts)
Dawes Plan
Election of 1924
Young Plan
Progressive Party
Kellogg-Briand Treaty
Federal Farm Board
Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
“The Lost Generation”
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Prohibition [Volstead Act]
Bonus Army
Fundamentalists
“Hoovervilles”
Immigration Acts (1921, 1924)
Good Neighbor Policy
Billy Sunday
Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932)
Scopes Trial
election of 1932
Henry Ford [Model T]
20th & 21st Amendments
The Jazz Singer [1st talking movie]
bank holiday
Flappers
Hundred Days
the “New Woman”
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)
Harlem Renaissance
“Relief, Recovery, Reform!”
Langston Hughes
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act (1933)
Marcus Garvey
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)
Pan-African movement
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
National Industrial Recovery Administration
the “Blue Eagle” (NRA)
Charles Lindbergh
“Spirit of St. Louis”
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
John L. Lewis
Federal Emergency Relief Admin. (FERA)
Dust Bowl
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Oakies
Public Works Administration (PWA)
John Steinbeck [The Grapes of Wrath]
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Frances Perkins, Secy. of Labor
Harry Hopkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
Federal Arts Project
Keynesian economics
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC)
Huey Long [the “Kingfish”]
Federal Housing Authority (FHA)
“Share the Wealth”
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Father Charles Coughlin
Joseph Kennedy, Sr.
Election of 1936
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Social Security Act
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
“Court Packing”
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Wagner Act (1935)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Montevideo Conference - Rio de Janeiro
Conference (1933)
Buenos Aires Conference (1936) - Lima
Conference (1938)
Unit 5 - The Second World War and the Americas 1933-45 (10 weeks)
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Manhattan Project
Francisco Franco
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Adolph Hitler
Hiroshima
Benito Mussolini
Nagasaki
Joseph Stalin
V-E Day
Chiang Kai-shek
V-J Day
Panay Incident
Manzinar
General Tojo
Relocation
Lend Lease
Yalta Conference
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Potsdam Conference
Pearl Harbor (12/7/41)
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
War Production Board
Bretton Woods Conference
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Dunbarton Oaks Conference
genocide
UN Charter
Holocaust
Nuremberg trials
“Final Solution”
Voice of America
D-Day (6/4/44)
Marshall Tito
Stalingrad
containment
Winston Churchill
George F. Kennan
Casablanca Conference (1943)
Truman Doctrine
Teheran Conference (1943)
Marshall Plan
“unconditional surrender”
Battle of the Bulge
Berlin Blockade
NATO
Warsaw Pact
ANZUS
SEATO
collective security
CENTO
Mao Tse-tung
Unit 6 – 9 Post WWII United States Political Developments/ Mid-Late 20th Century Topics
Korean War
Baby Boom
General Douglas MacArthur
Taft-Hartley Act
Gandhi
Senator Robert A. Taft
Dien Bien Phu
Dixiecrats
Ho Chi Minh
Senator Strom Thurmond
Bricker Amendment
Henry Wallace
John Foster Dulles
Fair Deal
mutual assured destruction (M.A.D.)
National Security Act (1947, 1949)
Brinksmanship
McCarthyism
Nikita Khrushchev
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Hungarian Revolt (1956)
Alger Hiss
Common Market
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Organization of American States (OAS)
McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)
U-2 Incident
22nd Amendment
Bay of Pigs
Ayn Rand [The Fountainhead]
Alliance for Progress
McCarran-Walter Immigration Act (1952)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Interstate Highway Act
ICBM
Dept. of Health, Educ. & Welfare (HEW)
G. I. Bill of Rights (1944)
St. Lawrence Seaway
Jimmy Hoffa
Berlin Crisis
CIO merger
NATO
Sputnik
Dean Acheson
National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
Bernard Baruch
“military-industrial complex”
Atomic Energy Act
desegregation
Cold War
“Separate But Equal”
United Nations
Thurgood Marshall
International Monetary Fund
Rosa Parks - Montgomery, AL bus boycott
Nuremburg Trials
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
International Court of Justice
Little Rock, AR desegregation crisis
Election 1948
Civil Rights Act (1957)
Strom Thurmond
Civil Rights Act (1960)
Executive Order 9835
Richard Nixon
NASA
Immigration and Nationality Act