Which canal was essential for the US to become a two-ocean military and economic power?

Why were islands an essential part of the U.S.'s long-term military/economic plan?

Instead of rum and Caribbean beaches, the U.S. purchased which territory from the Russian Empire in 1867? It was known as Seward's Folly until gold and oil were found.

This doctrine, established in 1823, stated that any new European colonization in the Americas would be considered an act of war against the U.S.

Coal stations in the Pacific were important because, in 1854, the U.S. opened which country via a flotilla of ships led by Matthew Perry?

Which collection of islands was annexed by the U.S. in 1898 due to economic and military reasons, as it was home to many U.S. sugar plantations and the U.S. Pacific fleet?

What conflict led to the U.S. gaining many overseas territories in the late 19th century?

What event was the catalyst for the U.S. entry into the Spanish-American War?

This individual resigned from his government post to participate in the Spanish-American War, famously leading a charge up San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders.

What new territories did the U.S. gain from Spain after the Spanish-American War?

The Spanish American War / Platt Amendment gave the U.S. a permanent lease on what in Cuba?

As part of its growing international presence, the U.S. participated in which international affair in China?

Inhabitants of which newly annexed territory fought a bloody war for independence against the Americans over four years?

Which set of Supreme Court cases, between 1901 and 1904, largely determined the legal status of territories annexed by the U.S.?

Which progressive American President is known for the following phrase about projecting power, "Speak Softly, but carry a big stick."?

Which progressive American President is known for Dollar Diplomacy?

Which progressive American President, who came from academia and had been the President of Princeton, is known for his 'Moral Diplomacy' and his involvement in the peace negotiations following WWI?

Who was re-elected in 1916 running on the slogan 'He kept us out of war'?

Which event was not a DIRECT factor in the U.S. entering WWI, as it occurred almost two years before the U.S. entered the war?

Which of the following were factors in the US declaring war on Germany in WWI?

What was Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace?

Which notable American authors fought in World War I?

Which of the following are examples of the U.S. government's expanded powers during WWI?

The Committee on Public Information, led by George Creel, created a wave of propaganda. What is it most famously known for?

Which acts greatly repressed civil liberties in the U.S. during the war?

Which American Socialist was sentenced to 15 years in prison for giving an anti-war speech and later ran for President from prison?

Which U.S. court case upheld that the government can limit speech when it presents a clear and present danger? This is why you can't shout fire in a crowded theater.

What were the Americanizing practices that began during WWI in the U.S.?

Which are examples of positive outcomes from U.S. involvement in WWI?

What is the name of the mass movement of African Americans to northern cities like Detroit during this time period?

Which two terms best describe the U.S. before WWI?

The 1920s are commonly known as?

Which quote by Calvin Coolidge best exemplifies the 1920s?

Which term best describes the government's hands-off policies during the 1920s?

Which political party dominated the 1920s?

Which presidency from the 1920s is often associated with corruption?

Which scandal is most often associated with the Harding presidency?

Which member of Warren G. Harding's cabinet, also known as the "Ohio Gang", was convicted of a federal crime for taking bribes from oil companies in the Teapot Dome scandal?

What innovation in manufacturing spurred industrial growth in the 1920s?

The automobile industry became the backbone of the American economy during the 1920s, with automobile production tripling. Which three companies were known as the "big three"?

Which of the following are examples of new industries from the 1920s?

Which of the following are examples of time-saving devices that became popular in the 1920s?

Which American industry moved to California shortly before World War I and became the world's leading producer in the 1920s?

Who was the most notable celebrity of the 1920s? He was the first man to fly nonstop from the U.S. to Europe.

What is the name of the group of authors, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who lived abroad during a certain period and wrote many classic works?

What is the name of the large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to industrialized northern cities (and to a lesser extent, western cities) slightly before and during the 1920s?

Which part of New York City became the cultural center of Black America?

During the 1920s, women experienced greater autonomy. Which group best exemplifies this?

Was wealth distributed equally during the 1920s?

What became the financial capital of the U.S. where large fortunes were made by selling & trading stocks?

During the 1920s, manufacturing began to move from New England to which region where labor was cheaper?

Which group of Americans experienced tough times during the 1920s as mechanization and low prices hurt their industry?

Which group, opposed to immigrants, Jews, and Catholics, reemerged in the 1920s?

Which people group was most strictly affected by the quota system on immigration in the 1920s?

Which famous trial from the 1920s best epitomizes the debate between Christian fundamentalists and progressive science-minded thinkers of the time?

What allowed Americans to purchase items they could not otherwise afford?

Is there a singular reason for the Great Depression?

Which of the following were factors of the Great Depression?

Are the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression the same thing?

If there was one singular cause of the Great Depression, what was it according to this episode of Crash Course?

The series of bank failures in the U.S. led to _________. This really started the Great Depression.

Which economist advocated for 'pump-priming' or 'deficit spending' to stimulate the economy?

What event did President Herbert Hoover place the blame on for the World Wide Great Depression?

Which tariff, aimed at protecting American manufacturing, led other nations to place their own high tariffs on imports, essentially killing global trade?

How did many Americans feel about President Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

Which institution did President Hoover not allow to completely take over the situation of the Great Depression?

Which demographic was most affected by the Great Depression?

Who did President Hoover feel should step in and help those that needed relief?

Who took the famous photograph, "Migrant Mother"?

Which author wrote a series of books set during the Great Depression, including 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice & Men'?

What were the shantytowns for the homeless during the Great Depression known as?

This protest by WWI veterans was violently suppressed by the national guard, further damaging Herbert Hoover's reputation.

Which President is considered to have had a mediocre response to the Great Depression?

What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan for economic recovery known as?

Which of the following is the best summary of the New Deal?

Crash Course categorizes New Deal programs into which three categories (3 R's)?

The first phase of the New Deal is often associated with

This New Deal organization paid young people to build things such as National Parks.

This New Deal policy, which encouraged farmers to destroy some crops while subsidizing others, was found unconstitutional.

This New Deal legislation barred commercial banks from buying and selling stocks.

This organization was designed for government planners and business leaders to work together in coordinating industry standards for production, prices, and working conditions.

This organization was formed during FDR's first hundred days to provide welfare payments to people in desperate need.

Government intervention reached its highest point with this program, which built a series of dams to control floods, prevent deforestation, and provide cheap electric power to people in rural counties in seven southern states. However, it was controversial because it put the government in direct competition with private companies.

This controversial New Deal plan gave the government the power to raise farm prices by setting production quotas and paying farmers to plant less food and slaughter livestock.

Which two New Deal Programs were struck down as unconstitutional with the rulings of U.S. v. Butler and The Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. in the "sick chicken" case?

What is the period following FDR's first 100 days, during which the Supreme Court began to uphold the constitutionality of New Deal policies, known as?

Which of the following plans are often associated with the second New Deal?

"Refusing to allow people to be paid less than a living wage preserves our own market. There is absolutely no use in producing anything if you gradually reduce the number of people able to buy even the cheapest products. The only way to preserve our markets is an adequate wage." The following quote is from which key individual from this period?

Which of the following best describes the United Auto Workers (UAW) form of strike for better working conditions during this period?

The Second New Deal Plan included unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, aid to poor families with children, and retirement benefits. It is funded through payroll taxes rather than general revenue.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed:

What minority did the popularity of FDR and his policies bring into the Democratic party?

Did the New Deal end the depression?

Which two groups have been reliably Democrat voters since the Presidency of FDR and the New Deal?

What did FDR's presidency and the New Deal shift in American's thinking, associating all government policy with?

In the context of the New Deal, what does NRA stand for?

Which amendment repealed the prohibition on alcohol?

Government intervention reached its highest point with this program. It built a series of dams to control floods, prevent deforestation, and provide cheap electric power to people in rural counties across seven southern states.

The Supreme Court's ruling against some of FDR's New Deal programs led him to propose a law that would allow him to appoint new Supreme Court justices if sitting justices reached the age of 70 and failed to retire. What was this unpopular action known as?

According to this episode, what events shaped Americans' opinion on foreign policy prior to WWII?

The period between World War I and World War II is often seen as an age of

Which of the following are examples of America not being as isolationist as some portray?

Which of Congress's actions reinforced the idea of American isolationism prior to WWII?

Which group, including many prominent Americans like Charles Lindbergh, encouraged America to remain neutral in European affairs?

In 1940, Congress allowed the U.S. to support the British War effort through which assistance program, as long as the British paid cash and transported the arms from the U.S. to the U.K.?

In 1941, for the first time in its history, the U.S. began what in preparation for war?

America became the "arsenal of democracy" with which act that authorized military aid to countries that promised to pay it back after the war?

What event fully pushed America into WWII?

Until 1944, which theater of WWII had more American servicemen deployed to it?

This disastrous event occurred when 78,000 American and Filipino troops surrendered to the Japanese early in the war.

This battle in 1942 prevented the Japanese from expanding into Australia.

Which battle in 1942 was a turning point in the Pacific theater?

Which of the following best describes the U.S. strategy in the Pacific?

Operation Torch, which involved the first fighting against Europeans in WWII by Americans, took place in:

In 1943 and 1944, where did the U.S. fight the Axis in the European theater?

On June 6th, 1944, where did the Allies invade on D-Day?

Who was the most notable U.S. war correspondent mentioned in this episode of Crash Course?

Though the U.S. liberated Paris, some concentration camps, and participated in the final assault on Germany, which allied power did the majority of the fighting and dying in WWII?

What actions compelled the Japanese to surrender unconditionally?

What was the name of the secret project to develop an atomic bomb in the U.S.?

The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?

According to this episode, three arguments against dropping the atomic bombs were:

According to this episode, what was the most deadly innovation of WWII?

Which of the following best aligns with John's opening statements about the effects of World War II on the US?

What are some examples of government intervention during World War II?

What are the reasons that unemployment dropped from 14% in 1940 to 2% in 1943?

Government expenditures during the war were twice the amount they had been in the previous 250 years combined. Although a lot of this was financed with debt, much of the war was paid for with what?

Which of the following best describes the effect of WWII on big business?

Which region of the US became an industrial center due to the war?

Which region of the US was hit especially hard by WWII, as many people moved to other regions due to it only having two major cities?

In order to prevent labor strife and maintain war production, the government forced employers to recognize which labor group?

From a historical standpoint, one of the biggest changes was that many of the workers in those factories were:

Who was a symbol of women in the workforce?

When the war was over, many women were able to keep their industrial jobs.

What are FDR's 'Four Freedoms'?

Though FDR's new Economic Bill of Rights was blocked by Southern Democrats, Congress did pass which bill to attempt to prevent widespread unemployment for returning soldiers?

How did WWII help reshape how Americans saw themselves?

Though WWII moved the US towards greater principles of equality, there was still a fear of minority groups. This fear contributed to race riots in Detroit and which series of riots against Mexicans in Los Angeles in 1943?

What program, which lasted until 1964, saw a dramatic increase in immigration from Mexico during the war years?

Although their reservations were largely rural and didn't share in the wartime prosperity, 25 thousand of these Americans fought in WWII.

Which ethnic group suffered from severe racism and one of the worst violations of civil liberties in America's history during WWII?

Which Presidential order expelled all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast to internment camps where they lived in makeshift barracks under the eyes and searchlights of guards?

Which Japanese American appealed his conviction for failing to show up for internment all the way to the Supreme Court, where he lost in another horrendous Supreme Court decision?

Which group experienced the greatest change during WWII?

What Presidential order banned discrimination in defense hiring and created the Fair Employment Practices Commission?

What demographic pattern, which saw African Americans leave the South for industrial centers in the North & West, continued during World War II?

Many African Americans saw themselves as engaged in which campaign for victory over the Axis powers abroad and over racism in the US?

Angered by discrimination in defense employment, this black labor leader threatened a march on Washington. He demanded access to defense jobs, an end to segregation, and federal anti-lynching legislation.

After WWII, the U.S. returned to its policy of isolationism.

Which of the following were meetings amongst the US, UK, and USSR in planning for a more peaceful and prosperous post-war world, established the idea that Germany would be divided and Nazis tried for war crimes, and laid the foundation for the Cold War in allowing Soviet influence in Eastern Europe?

What conference in 1944 established America's economic dominance as the dollar (replacing the pound), and created the World Bank to help rebuild Europe and also to help developing countries and the IMF to stabilize currencies?

Following WWII the US also took the leading role in establishing what organization to ensure peace,

According to this episode, what events shaped Americans' opinion on foreign policy prior to WWII?

The period between World War I and World War II is often seen as an age of

Which of the following are examples of America not being as isolationist as some portray?

Which of Congress's actions reinforced the idea of American isolationism prior to WWII?

Which group, including many prominent Americans like Charles Lindbergh, encouraged America to remain neutral in European affairs?

In 1940, Congress allowed the U.S. to support the British War effort through which assistance program, as long as the British paid cash and transported the arms from the U.S. to the U.K.?

In 1941, for the first time in its history, the U.S. began what in preparation for war?

America became the "arsenal of democracy" with which act that authorized military aid to countries that promised to pay it back after the war?

What event fully pushed America into WWII?

Until 1944, which theater of WWII had more American servicemen deployed to it?

This disastrous event occurred when 78,000 American and Filipino troops surrendered to the Japanese early in the war.

This battle in 1942 prevented the Japanese from expanding into Australia.

Which battle in 1942 was a turning point in the Pacific theater?

Which of the following best describes the U.S. strategy in the Pacific?

Operation Torch, which involved the first fighting against Europeans in WWII by Americans, took place in:

In 1943 and 1944, where did the U.S. fight the Axis in the European theater?

On June 6th, 1944, where did the Allies invade on D-Day?

Who was the most notable U.S. war correspondent mentioned in this episode of Crash Course?

Though the U.S. liberated Paris, some concentration camps, and participated in the final assault on Germany, which allied power did the majority of the fighting and dying in WWII?

What actions compelled the Japanese to surrender unconditionally?

What was the name of the secret project to develop an atomic bomb in the U.S.?

The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?

According to this episode, three arguments against dropping the atomic bombs were:

According to this episode, what was the most deadly innovation of WWII?

Which of the following best aligns with John's opening statements about the effects of World War II on the US?

What are some examples of government intervention during World War II?

What are the reasons that unemployment dropped from 14% in 1940 to 2% in 1943?

Government expenditures during the war were twice the amount they had been in the previous 250 years combined. Although a lot of this was financed with debt, much of the war was paid for with what?

Which of the following best describes the effect of WWII on big business?

Which region of the US became an industrial center due to the war?

Which region of the US was hit especially hard by WWII, as many people moved to other regions due to it only having two major cities?

In order to prevent labor strife and maintain war production, the government forced employers to recognize which labor group?

From a historical standpoint, one of the biggest changes was that many of the workers in those factories were:

Who was a symbol of women in the workforce?

When the war was over, many women were able to keep their industrial jobs.

What are FDR's 'Four Freedoms'?

Though FDR's new Economic Bill of Rights was blocked by Southern Democrats, Congress did pass which bill to attempt to prevent widespread unemployment for returning soldiers?

How did WWII help reshape how Americans saw themselves?

Though WWII moved the US towards greater principles of equality, there was still a fear of minority groups. This fear contributed to race riots in Detroit and which series of riots against Mexicans in Los Angeles in 1943?

What program, which lasted until 1964, saw a dramatic increase in immigration from Mexico during the war years?

Although their reservations were largely rural and didn't share in the wartime prosperity, 25 thousand of these Americans fought in WWII.

Which ethnic group suffered from severe racism and one of the worst violations of civil liberties in America's history during WWII?

Which Presidential order expelled all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast to internment camps where they lived in makeshift barracks under the eyes and searchlights of guards?

Which Japanese American appealed his conviction for failing to show up for internment all the way to the Supreme Court, where he lost in another horrendous Supreme Court decision?

Which group experienced the greatest change during WWII?

What Presidential order banned discrimination in defense hiring and created the Fair Employment Practices Commission?

What demographic pattern, which saw African Americans leave the South for industrial centers in the North & West, continued during World War II?

Many African Americans saw themselves as engaged in which campaign for victory over the Axis powers abroad and over racism in the US?

Angered by discrimination in defense employment, this black labor leader threatened a march on Washington. He demanded access to defense jobs, an end to segregation, and federal anti-lynching legislation.

After WWII, the U.S. returned to its policy of isolationism.

Which of the following were meetings amongst the US, UK, and USSR in planning for a more peaceful and prosperous post-war world, established the idea that Germany would be divided and Nazis tried for war crimes, and laid the foundation for the Cold War in allowing Soviet influence in Eastern Europe?

What conference in 1944 established America's economic dominance as the dollar (replacing the pound), and created the World Bank to help rebuild Europe and also to help developing countries and the IMF to stabilize currencies?

Following WWII the US also took the leading role in establishing what organization to ensure peace,