Global conflicts over resources, territories, and ideologies renewed debates over the nation's values and its role in the world, while simutaneously propeling the United States into a dominant international military, political, cultural, and economic position.

Important Events:

• Tripartite Pact

• Open Door Policy

• The Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

• Bonus Army March

• Prohibition (the 19th Amendment)

• Scopes Monkey Trial

• The First New Deal

• The Second New Deal

• The Hundred Days

• The Second Hundred Days

• World War II

• Tripartite Pact

• Pearl Harbor Attack (December 7th, 1941)

• D-Day (Operation Overlord)

• Executive Order 9066

• Korematsu v. United States

• Potsdam Conference

• Dropping of the A-bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima

• Yalta Conference

• United Nations

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

• NATO and Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

Acts and Conferences:

• The Nineteeth Amendment

• Hawley-Smooth Tariff Act

• Emergency Banking Relief Bill

• Banking Act of 1933

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• FDR's Alphabet Soup

• Washington Naval Conference

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Lend-Lease Act

• Atlantic Charter Conference

• Nye Commission

• Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

• Most favoured nation trade status (MFN)

• Labor Disputes Act

• Selective Training and Service Act of 1940

Vocabulary:

• Prohibition

• Hoovervilles

• Fireside Chats

• FDR's Alphabet Soup

• Leficits

• Deficit Spending (New Deal)

Rise as  a Superpower

A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a new mass culture and spread "modern" values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased under the pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.

Important Events: 

• New Immigrants go through Ellis Island

• Urban migrations

• Progressive Movement

• World War I

• Sinking of the Lucitania

• Zimmerman Note

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Great Migration

• Treaty of Versailles

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• The Roaring Twenties

• Palmer Raids

• Jazz Age

• Annexation of Hawaii

• Phillipphine-American War

• Rise of New Navy

Laws, Acts, and other Policies:

• Food and Drug Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Federal Trade Commission

• Federal Reserve System

• War Industry Board

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Committee on Public Information (CPI)

• Fourteen Points

• League of Nations

• Emergency Quota Act of 1924

• The Eighteenth Amendment

• The Nineteeth Amendment

• Hawley-Smooth Tariff Act

• Emergency Banking Relief Bill

• Banking Act of 1933

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• FDR's Alphabet Soup

Vocabulary:

• Muckrakers

• The Jungle

• Ballot initiative

• Referendum

• Recall Election

• New Nationalism

• New Freedom

• Roosevelt Corollary (like the Monroe Doctrine)

• Neutrality

• Trench Warfare

• Flappers

• Propaganda

• Jazz

• Klu Klux Klan

• Checks and balances