The Roaring Twenties
What car was affordable for many Americans and allowed them to live a greater distance from their jobs?
Ford's Model T
The chance to make huge profits from small investments encouraged people to buy stocks. This was known as _________________.
Buying on margin
The majority of Holocaust victims were __________.
Jews
The United Nations was formed to ___________________________.
resolve international conflicts
What nation did the US side with during the Vietnam War?
South Vietnam
Why did consumers buy more manufactured goods in the 1920s?
Immigrants poured into the US in record numbers and bought new goods
President Roosevelt successfully used his fireside chats to _________________________.
Convince people that it was safe to keep their money in US banks
Who was the leader of Germany during WWII?
Adolf Hitler
Which president decided to use US troops to help defend South Korea in 1950?
President Harry Truman
What is the theory that if one country becomes Communist, nearby countries will also fall to Communism?
domino theory
Franklin D. Roosevelt easily defeated Herbert Hoover in the presidential election of 1932 because _________________________________________.
He promised to take steps to provide aid to Americans
During WWII, many American women ________________________________________.
did work that was usually done by men
FDR's New Deal was a set of programs to _________________________________________.
put people back to work and restore confidence in banks
The Allies' successful 1944 invasion of France is known as ________.
D-Day
What battle of WWII took place in the Pacific Ocean between the US and Japan?
Battle of Midway