Period 7 of 9

Boom, Bust, and Global War

1890–1945

America stepped onto the world stage as an imperial and industrial power, then wrestled with Progressive reform, the trauma of the First World War, Jazz Age excess, and the collapse of the Great Depression. It closed with the nation transformed again by the New Deal and total war against fascism.

9Chapters
13–17%Of the exam

Chapters in this period

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Chapter 27

Empire and Expansion

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 28

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 29

Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 30

The War to End War

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 31

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 32

The Politics of Boom and Bust

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 33

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 34

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards Chapter 35

America in World War II

Vocabulary Timeline Ordering Quiz Extra quiz Flashcards

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