WW1
These countries were part of the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
The author who wrote about Dust Bowl families in Grapes of Wrath
Who was John Steinbeck?
Severe drought and dust storms that ruined Great Plains farms
What was the Dust Bowl?
Japan attacked the U.S. fleet at this location, bringing America into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
A system where the government controls property and the economy
What is communism?
Germany's secret offer asking Mexico to attack the U.S.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
A composer who blended jazz and classical, like Rhapsody in Blue
Who was George Gershwin?
FDR's programs to fight the Great Depression
What was the New Deal?
A dictatorship built on extreme nationalism and total control
What is fascism?
The policy where the U.S. money sent to rebuild Western Europe after WWII
What was the Marshall Plan?
The sinking of this ship by a German U-Boat killed US civilians and pushed the US closer to entering the war.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
A painter whose Migration Series showed Black Americans moving north
Who was Jacob Lawrence?
The program that gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
What were the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The forced relocation of Japanese Americans into camps during the war
What was internment?
The flying of food and supplies into West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
What was the Berlin Airlift?
A peace organization the U.S. famously refused to join
What was the League of Nations?
Black Americans moving from the South to Northern cities for jobs
What was the Great Migration?
This program insures bank deposits so people don't lose their savings
What is the FDIC?
The British Prime Minister who led the UK through WWII
Who was Winston Churchill?
The accusing people of being communists without real evidence
What was McCarthyism?
The treaty that ended WW1 and acted to punish Germany
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A flourishing of Black art, music, and literature in the 1920s
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The three pillars of the New Deal as laid out by FDR.
What were the three R's (Relief, Recovery, and Reform)?
During this battle the US sank four Japanese carries and acted as a turning point for the battle in the Pacific
What was the Battle of Midway?
The Soviet Union's military alliance answering NATO
What was the Warsaw Pact?