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 Unit One Project - Due 1-15-20  (Counts as a test grade)

 

Title: Emergence of Modern America Time Capsule

1. American Imperialism  2. World War I  3. Roaring Twenties

4. Great Depression  5. New Deal

 

1. Create a time capsule in Google Slide Show / or Booklet

form that has 2 items from each of the five periods in Unit 1

that best represent that period.

2. Each item should have an a) illustration / picture of the item 

 b) Explain what it was  c) and why you included 

it into your time capsule (So What? Its significance)

 

 

American Imperialism Vocabulary:

foreign policy

collective security

internationalism

global manifest destiny

oppression

expanionists

advocate

guerilla warfare

interdependent

yellow journalism

blockade

excursion

humanitarian

prestige

moral obligation

doctrine

unilateral 

armistice

barbarities

segregated

Roosevelt Corrolary

sphere of influence

intervention

annexation

infrastructure

 

World War I Vocabulary

context

nationalism

militarism

arms race

neutrality

no-man's land

anticipation

claustrophobic

diplomacy

trade barriers

armaments

self-determination

reparations

dissent

glorification

sophisticated

intricate

disavowed

artillery

embark

ambassador

deciphered

pacifists

accommodate

dissemination

 

Twenties Vocabulary

corporation

disillusion

recession

anarchy

hysteria

quotas

speakeasies

trade balance

stock market

consumer goods

consumerism

predecessor

subversives

radicals

prevalent

tyrannical

deliberation

xenophobia

benevolent

separatist

fundamentalist

conceivable

temperance movement

melodramatic

mesmerized

 

Great Depression and the New Deal

welfare state

precipitous

stock speculation

unequal distribution of wealth

trickle-down economics

stock brokers

fraudulent

laissez faire

regulations on commerce

foreclosed

share holder

buoyancy

internalized

prominence

enact

fireside chats

socialist

redistribution of wealth

buttressed

installment buying

business cycle

rugged individualism

conservative

liberal

 

 World War II

fascism

appeasement

ideological

internment

executive order

genocide

atrocities

concession

inflation

pretext

mandate

disarmament

embargo

contemplated

quarantine

communism

cash - and - carry

arsenal of democracy

provocations

amphibious

ambivalent

fabricated

exodus

asylum

epidemics

 

Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary

segregation

civil disobedience

integration

doctrine

judicial interpretation

eradication

representative democracy

commonwealth

Jim Crow laws

sit ins

oligarchy

decorum

exploitation

feminists

 

The Beginning of the Cold War Vocabulary

refugees

cliff hanger

annihilate

retaliatory

impeachment

confirmation

executive privilege

obstruction of justice

subpenas

disillusionment

American exceptionalism

capitalism

socialism

democracy

totalitarianism

individualism

collectivism

 McCarthyism

 

The End of the Cold War Vocabulary

antagonistic

subjugation

proxy

covert

communist sympathizers

zealously

paranoia

compulsory

blacklisted

surveillance

Domino Theory

napalm

Vietnamization