Absolute
Monarchy
King/Queen
has sole control
over the
government
Limited
Monarchy
King/Queen
have limited
power and a
parliament
Theocracy
No separation
of church and
state
Dictator
Has absolute
power over people
and usually comes
to power by
military force
1st
Amendment
Freedom of
speech,
religion, and
press
14th
Amendment
Citizenship to
anyone born
in the US
19th
Amendment
Women
get right to
vote
26th
Amendment
Lowers
voting age
to 18
Plessy v.
Ferguson
Declared
Segregation
legal (Separate
but Equal)
Brown v.
Board of
Education
Made Segregation
illegal (no separate
facilities based on
race)
Command
Economy
All economic
decisions made
by government
Market
Economy
Business is
privately
owned
Mixed
Economy
Combination of
privately owned
and government
controlled
businesses
Imports
Products entering
a country (what
we buy from
other countries)
Exports
Products leaving
a country (what
we sell to other
countries)
Tariff
A tax on imported
goods (encourages
people to buy their
own country's
products)
Immigration
Moving
into a
country
Emigration
Moving out
of a
country
Native
to
Indigenous
an area
Propaganda
Information used to
try to persuade
someone to a
particular point of
view
Stereotype
An
oversimplified
opinion or idea
Critique
Make a
judgement about
something (your
opinion)
Determine
Come to a
conclusion
Enlightenment
17th century intellectual
movement that
proposed limiting the
power of the
government and church
Enlightenment
Ideas:
American
Revolutionary War,
French Revolution,
US Constitution
and Bill of Rights
Divine
Right
God placed a
King/Queen
in power
Industrial
Revolution
Improved technology
increases agricultural
and finished good
production
Industrial
Revolution
Problems
Poor working
conditions, low
pay, child labor,
long hours
Industrial
Revolution
Outcomes
Labor Unions, middle Class
begins to emerge,
progressive movement,
increased immigration to US
(jobs, escape persecution,
escape famine, escape
overcrowding)
Imperialism
A stronger nation
exerts power
(political, economic,
and social) over a
weaker nation
US
reasons for
imperialism
Obtain strategic naval
bases, sell our exports,
and anglo-saxon
superiority (we need to
civilize other countries)
US
exmaples of
imperialism
Annex Hawaii, Buy
Alaska,
Spanish-American War
(we acquire Guam
Puerto Rico, and
Philippines)
MAIN
Causes of
WWI
Militarism,
Alliances,
Imperialism, and
Nationalism
Great
Migration
During WWI many
Afrucan-Americans
move to the North from
the South to escape
persecution and to find
work
WWI
Alliances
Central Powers
(Germany,
Austro-Hungarian
Empire, Ottoman
Empire) Allies (Britain,
France, US)
Treaty of Treaty that
Versailles ends WWI
Treaty of
Versailles
clauses
Germany is solely
responsible for the war,
Germany must pay war
reparations, Germany must
limit the size of their military,
create new countries like
Poland and Czechoslovakia
Red
Scare
Fear of
Communism
spreading to
US
Harlem
Renaisssance
Cultural movement
regarding the
accomplishments of
African-American poets,
writers, singers, and
artists
Causes of
Great
Depression
Overproduction of
goods, people
buying on credit,
stock market crash,
bank failures
NEW
Deal
FDR's (US
President) plan to
help get US out of
the Great
Depression
WWII
Alliances
Axis Powers
(Germany, Italy,
Japan) Allied
Powers (US, Britain,
and Soviet Union)
Pearl
Harbor
Attack on this US
naval base by the
Japanese forced
the US to get
involved in WWII
Internment
Camps
Japanese-Americans
were forced to live in
camps during the
duration of WWII
Atomic
Bombs
Dropped on
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki (in
Japan) to end
WWII
Cold
War
Following WWII
increased suspicions
and hostilities
between US and
Soviet Union
Marshall
Plan
US money given
to Western
Europe to rebuild
after WWII
Iron
Curtain
The name given to the
"line" that separated
democratic Western
Europe from communist
Eastern Europe
Korean
War
A war fought to help
contain communism in
N. Korea (US aided the
S. Koreans and Chinese
aided the N. Koreans)
Berlin
Airlift
US military flew in badly
needed food and supplies
into West Berlin as a result
of the Soviets blockading
entrance into West Berlin
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
Soviet Union attempts to
install nuclear missiles in
Cuba. President Kennedy
informs the world he plans
on using any means
necessary to stop this from
happening.
Domino
Theory
If we don't contain
communism, more
countries will become
comuunist much like
dominoes falling
McCarthyism
A term that stands for
the attempt to expose
and ruin any US citizen
involved in communist
activity in the US