Important EOC Events

• After WWI, sought to reduce the risk of war with this proposal. • Supported the creation of a League of Nations

• Banned sex discrimination in educational institutions. • Guaranteed girls in school the same opportunities as boys.

A New Deal Agency created in 1933 to insure bank savings deposits. Created faith in the banking system again

Provided a range of benefits for WWII veterans. Benefits included: low mortgages, low interest loans, and $ for college.

Passed by Congress in order to sell or lend war materials to any country “whose defense the President deems vital”

Prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion, and national origin.

Process by which special interest groups, through voter participation, can propose bills to their legislature for a vote

Mexican and many Mexican Americans were gathered and deported to Mexico

Stated that any citizen could occupy 160 acres of land out West

Policy put in place by President Nixon in which the U.S. slowly turned over fighting to South Vietnamese

The policy of providing increased minority representation in colleges, professions, and business.

Temporarily banned the immigration of Chinese workers to the United States

Policy adopted by President Taft to encourage American businesses to invest in other countries

Plan put in place by FDR to try and pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression.

• Theory was based on the belief that if one nation “fell” to communism, then the others in the region would too.

Part of the New Deal to watch over the stock market, prevent fraud, and guard against another stock market crash

Was a relaxing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War

• Signed by President FDR and required Japanese-Americans to be relocated to internment camps.

• Process by which voters approve bills offered by the legislature.

Granted U.S. Citizenship to all Native-Americans born in the United States.

Policy in which the U.S. sent aid to any nation trying to stop communism.

U.S. plan to give economic aid to European countries to rebuild their economies after World War II

U.S. policy during much of the Cold War era. • Goal was to stop the spread of Communism

Released in 1997. • Revealed that the Rosenberg’s (controversially executed) had indeed spied for the Soviet Union

Provides retirement, unemployment insurance & payments to those disabled workers or the widows of workers who have died.

A United States trade policy with China that stated that all nations would have equal trading rights in China

Policy named after Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy claimed that Communists had infiltrated the U.S. government.

Due to efforts to assimilate NA, Dawes Act, the traditions of NA disappeared as they were removed from their homeland

Policy put in place by President Teddy Roosevelt to assert the United States presence in the Western Hemisphere

Federal law passed to stop monopolies from engaging in unfair practices

Treaty written by Allied leaders that ended W.W. I • Created the League of Nations

• Policy focused on decreasing taxes paid by corporations and individuals, deregulation, and increased military spending

Eliminated voter literacy tests, which were reading tests that were required before one could vote.

Voters have the power to remove or recall a public official from office before the next election

Federal law that prohibited unfair practices by railroads, such as charging higher rates for shorter routes.

First 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution

Ratified in 1787 and replaced the Articles of Confederation, Set up a government based on federalism