| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Battle of the Bulge | a battle during World War II |
| xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
| NATO | allied forces |
| Iron curtain | imaginary line between Eastern and Western Europe. |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance of Communist Nations |
| McCarthyism | calling someone communist |
| containment | (military) the act of containing something or someone |
| Berlin Airlift | When cargo planes full of supplies were dropped onto West Berlin to keep the people from starving |
| Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe |
| massive retaliation | A strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons. |
| Seward's Folly | the purchase of alaska |
| Roosevelt Corollary | 1904;Latin America |
| Imperialism | people impose thier will on another |
| Isolationism | policy of avoiding foreign involvement |
| Self Determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| panama canal | a ship canal 40 miles long |
| Spanish American War | A war found in 1898 between the United States and Spain |
| yellow journalism | sensationalist journalism |
| status quo | the current situation or condition |
| dentente | policy of US government to relax tensions with communist countries |
| alliances | assocations between nations |
| territory | property |
| nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
| espionage | severe penalties for spying |
| sedition | tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government |
| versaillies | place of the treaty that ended World War I (Treaty of Versailles) |
| League of nations | Peace keeping organization after WWI |
| 18th Amendment | banned the manufacturing of alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | Amendment that provides women's suffrage |
| red scare | fear of communists |
| Harlem Renissance | movement of African American artists celebrating their heritage |
| immigration quota act | limited imigration |
| Black Sox | scandal involving the white sox to throw the World Series |
| W.B. Dubois | instrumental in starting the NAACP |
| Louis Armstrong | black jazz trumpeteer |
| lost generation | group of writers who lived as ex-patriates during the 20's and after |
| Ernest Hemingway | wrote "farewell to arms" |
| Marcus Garvey | strted the back to africa movement |
| Ty Cobb | georgian that set a record for stolen bases and still hold the record for batting avg |
| Sacco and Venzetti | two Italian immigrant brothers in a scandal with no evidence |
| ScopesTrial | schoolteacher convicted of teaching evolution |
| flappers | women who protested against the "right" way of acting and thinking |
| prohibition | ban on manufacturing, sale, and transport alchol |
| jazz | popular music in the 20's |
| Bull market | demand of stocks go up |
| Great depression | time where america |
| Hitler | Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust |
| Nazi | a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party |
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