A late-nineteenth century branch of reform-minded Republicans who left their party in 1884 to support Democratic presidential candidate Grover Cleveland
A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance; it included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungry, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union
A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941
Pioneering progressive idea, enacted in Wisconsin, Oregon, California, and other states that gave citizens the right to remove unpopular politicians from office through a vote.
Deadly disease that killed nearly 100,000 people in the United States in the 1980s
The labour system by which landowners and impoverished southern farmworkers, particularly African Americans, divided the proceeds from crops harvested on the landowner's property
novelist. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852. The book persuaded more people, particularly northerners, to become anti-slavery.
An authoritarian system of government characterized by a dictatorial rule, extreme nationalism, disdain for civil society, and a conviction that imperialism and warfare are principal means
An international organization of the leading capitalist industrial nations: the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Russia.
The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities
The domestic policy agenda announced by President Roosevelt in 1949.
monopolized the steel industry, originally a poor Scottish immigrant, tycoon behind the Homestead Strike
System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century, from the civil war to 1960s
small group of literary figures based in NYC and San Francisco in the 1950s who rejected mainstream culture and instead celebrated personal freedom, which often included drug consumption and casual sex
A literary movement that suggested that human beings were not so much rational agents and shapers of their own destinies as blind victims of forces beyond their control
The process of voting directly on a proposed policy measure rather than leaving it in the hands of elected legislators' a progressive reform
This was a strategy used by Richard Nixon in dealing with foreign and hostile nations, particularly the USSR in the 1970's.