_________ a term used to describe the period following the Second World War that was marked by American economic and military strength.

___________ a binding idea in American society that recognises the equality of opportunity for every member of the society to succeed.

_________ the most significant in the series of official treaties that ended the First World War.

_______ a focus and economic reliance on the consumption of good and services.

_________ the idea that a country needs to isolate itself from world affairs and focus on its own self-interest.

_________ a duty levied by a country on imported goods to make them more expensive, to encourage people to buy domestically produced goods instead.

_________ a monetary system where a country’s currency or paper money has a value directly linked to that of gold.

_________ an official ban on trade and/ or commercial activity with another country.

__________ a period in American history in the 1950s dominated by extreme anticommunism; named after Senator Joseph McCarthy.

________________ deprivation of a privilege, particularly the right to vote.

________ the freeing of the slaves during and after the American Civil War.

___________ a major belief of capitalism that government should not interfere in the operation of the economy.

_________ an economic policy that leads to an increase in prices and a fall in the purchasing power of money.

_______ makeshift collections of self-made homes.

__________ a tax levied on every adult, with no reference to their ability to pay.

___________ keeping people and opportunities separated, usually because of race or ethnicity.

_________ something that is hated or despised.

__________ an economic system in which businesses and industry are run for profit by private owners, with minimal government involvement; this ideology was characteristic of Western economies, such as the United States.

_______________ a period of severe economic downturn that began in the United States and quickly spread around the world during the 1930s and 40s.

_________ representative government based on the will of the people.

_________ a political viewpoint that adopts a pragmatic policy of problem solving, balancing individual and community needs and aspirations.

The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal, and he served as the principal architect of the successful effort to rid the world of German National Socialism and Japanese militarism.

His reputation as a humanitarian—earned during and after World War I as he rescued millions of Europeans from starvation—faded from public consciousness when his administration proved unable to alleviate widespread joblessness, homelessness, and hunger in his own country during the early years of the Great Depression.

__________ was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823.