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 U. S. S. Maine Spanish-American War (1898) Commodore Matthew Perry De Lome Letter Commodore Dewey Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain! Treaty of Paris (1898) Rough Riders Walter Reed Queen Liliukalani Insular Cases Emilio Aguinaldo Teller Amendment “White Man’s Burden” protectorate
Anti-Imperialist League 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 Nationalism Gentleman’s Agreement First Battle of the Somme Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) Militarism “Dollar Diplomacy” Trench warfare Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. Bosnian Crisis Jones Act (1916) Pacifism Jones Act (1917) Allied Powers “Moral Diplomacy”
Tampico Incident 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 Charles Lindbergh the “Blue Eagle” (NRA) “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) Montevideo Conference - Rio de Janeiro Wagner Act (1935) Conference (1933)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Buenos Aires Conference (1936) - Lima Conference (1938) Fair Labor Standards Act
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” Berlin Blockade Battle of the Bulge 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