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In June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the nonaggression pact with ________.

Who said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?

In response to African American labor leader A. Philip Randolph putting pressure on Franklin Roosevelt with a threatened “March on Washington,” the president signed ________, which created the Fair Employment Practices Committee to bar racial discrimination in the defense industry.

During the 1920s and 1930s, while the United States focused on domestic issues, economic depression and political instability were growing in ________.

As a new industrial United States began to emerge in the 1870s, ________ began to lead the country toward a more expansionist foreign policy. 

When were radios first introduced?

A key factor driving U.S. engagement in World War I was ________.

The late 1890s saw the height of ________, in which newspapers such as the New York Journal, led by William Randolph Hearst, and the New York World, published by Joseph Pulitzer, competed for readership with sensationalistic stories.

African American poet, playwright, and novelist of the realist period, ___________  dealt with issues of race at a time when most reform-minded Americans preferred to focus on other issues.

Political philosopher ___________ took Darwin’s theory of evolution further, coining the actual phrase “survival of the fittest,” and later helping to popularize the phrase social Darwinism to posit that society evolved much like a natural organism, wherein some individuals will succeed due to racially and ethnically inherent traits, and their ability to adapt.