Unit 5 IDs

Message that contained a German proposal to Mexico for an anti-American alliance

The nations that dominated the Paris Peace Conference - namely, Britain, France, Italy, and the United States

Wilson's proposed international body that constituted the key provisionof the Versailles treaty

Controversial peace agreement that compromised many of Wilson's treaty and League of Nations

American government propaganda agency that aroused zeal for Wilson's ideals and whipped up hatred for the kaiser

Radical antiwar labor unionwhose members were prosecuted under the Espionage and Sedition Act

Weak federal agency designed to organize and coordinate U.S. industrial production for the war effort

Constitutional provision endorsed by Wilson as a war measure whose ratification achieved a long-sought goal for American women

A hard core of isolationist senators who bitterly opposed any sort of league; also called the "Battalion of Death"

The "tiger" of France, whose drive for security forced Wilson to compromise at Versailles

Socialist leader who won nearly a million votes as a presidential candidate while in federal prison for antiwar activities

Head of the War Industries Board, which attempted to impose some order on U.S. war production

Head of the Food Administration who pioneered successful voluntary mobilization methods

Leader of the pacifist National Women's Party who opposed U.S. involvement in World War I

Wilson's great senatorial antagonist who fought to keep America out of the League of Nations

Folksy Ohio senator whose 1920 presidential victory ended the last hopes for U.S. participation in the League of Nations

The movement of 1919-1920, spawned by fear of Bolshevik revolution, that resulted in the arrest and deportation of many political radicals

Hodded defenders of Anglo-Saxon and "Protestant" values against immigrants, Catholics, and Jews

Restrictive legislation of 1924 taht reduced the number of newcomers to the United States and discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe

U.S. attorney general who rounded up thousands of alleged Bolsheviks in the red scare of 1919-1920

Italian American anarchists whose trial and execution aroused widespread protest

Top gangster of the 1920s; eventually convicted of income-tax evasion

Former presidential candidate who led the fight against evolution at the 1925 Scopes trial

Mechanical genius and organizer of the mass-produced automobile industry

Humble aviation pioneer who became a cultural ehro of the 1920s

Baltimore writer who criticized the supposedly narrow and hypocritical values of American society

Minnesota-born writer whose novels were especially popular with yough people in the 1920s

Innovative writer whose novels reflected the disillusionment of many Americans with propaganda and patriotic idealism

U.S. treasury secretary who attempted to promote business investment by reducing taxes on the rich

Poker-playing cronies from Harding's native state who contributed to the morally loose atmosphere in his administration

World War I veterans' group taht promoted patriotism and economic benefits for former servicemen

Toothless international agreement of 1928 taht pledged nations to outlaw war

Naval oil reserve in Wyoming that gave its name to one of the major Harding administration scandals

Farm proposal of the 1920s, passed by Congress but vetoed by the president, that provided for the federal government to buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad

American-sponsored arrangement for rescheduling German reparations payments that only temporarily eased the international debt tangle of the 1920s

Southern Democrats who turned against their party's "wet," Catholic nominee and voted for the Republicans in 1938

Sky-high tariff bill of 1930 that deepend the depression and caused international financial chaos

The climactic day of the October 1929 Wall Street stock-market crash

Hoover-sponsored federal agency taht provided loans to hard-pressed banks and businesses after 1932

Encampment of unemployed veterans who were driven out of Washington by General Douglas MacArthur's forces in 1932

Strong-minded leader of Harding's cabinet and initiator of major naval agreements

Weak, compromise Democratic candidate in 1924

Harding's interior secretary, convicted of taking bribes for leases on federal oil reserves

U.S. attorney general and a member of Harding's corrupt Ohio Gang who was forced to resign in administration

The "Happy Warrior" who attracted votes in the cities but lost them in the South

Weak-willed president whose easygoing ways opened the door to widespread corruption in his administration

Leader of a liberal third-party insurgency who attracted little support outside the farm belt

Tight-lipped Vermonter who promoted frugality and pro-business policies during his presidency

International economic conference on stabilizing currency taht was sabotaged by FDR

FDR's repudiation of Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, stating his intention to work cooperatively with Latin American nations

A series of laws enacted by Congress in the mid-1930s that attempted to prevent any American involvement in future overseas wars

Conflict between the rebel Fascist forces of General Francisco Franco and teh Loyalist government that severely tested U.S. neutrality legislation

Roosevelt's 1937 speech taht proposed strong U.S. measures against overseas aggressors

Leading isolationist group advocating that America focus on continental defense and non-involvement with the European war

Controversial 1941 law that made America the "arsenal of democracy" by providing supposedly temporary military material assistance to Britain

Courageous prime minister who led Britain's lonely resistance to Hitler

Dynamic dark horse Republican presidential nominee who attacked FDR only on domestic policy

Fascist rebel against the Spanish Loyalist government

FDR's secretary of state, who promoted reciprocal trade agreements, especially with Latin America

Fanatical Fascist leader of Germany whose aggressions forced the United States to abandon its neutrality

Women's units of the army and navy during WWII

Mexican American workers brought into the United States to provide an agricultural labor supply

Symbolic personification of female laborers who took factory jobs in order to sustain U.S. production during WWII

The federal agency established to guarantee opportunities for AFrican American employment in WWII industries

Site of 1943 Roosevelt-Churchill conference in North Africa, at which the Big Two planned the invasion of Italy and further steps in the Pacific War

Iranian capital where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to plan D-Day in coordination with Russian strategy against Hitler in the East

The bieginning of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944

The December 1944 German offensive that marked Hitler's last chance to stop the Allied advance

Big Three wartime conference that later became the focus of charges that Roosevelt had"sold out" Eastern Europe to the Soviet communists

The extended post-WWII confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that stopped just short of a shooting war

New international organization that experienced some early successes in diplomatic and cultural areas but failed in areas like atomic arms control

Term for the barrier that Stalin erected to block off Soviet-dominated nations of Eastern Europe from the West

American-sponsored effort that provided funds for teh economic relief and recovery of Western Europe

The new anti-Soviet organization of Western nations taht ended the long-time American tradition of not joining permanent military alliances

Key U.S. government memorandum that militarized American foreign policy and indicated national faith in the economy's capacity to sustain large military expenditures