World War I
What German military policy involved attacking ships without warning, including ships carrying American passengers?
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Which amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages?
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
What major economic crisis began after the stock market crash of 1929?
What is the Great Depression?
Who was president of the United States during most of the Great Depression and created the New Deal?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What surprise Japanese military attack brought the United States into World War II?
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What is the attack on Pearl Harbor? December 7, 1941
What message revealed Germany's plan to encourage Mexico to attack the United States if America entered World War I?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
What unintended consequence of Prohibition allowed criminal organizations to profit from illegal alcohol sales?
What is the growth of organized crime and bootlegging?
What economic problem occurred when businesses produced more goods than consumers could afford to purchase?
What is overproduction?
What was the New Deal goal of providing government assistance to unemployed Americans through jobs and financial support?
What is relief?
What military strategy involved capturing selected islands in the Pacific to move American forces closer to Japan?
What is island hopping?
What event in 1917 helped convince President Wilson to abandon American neutrality?
What is the discovery/publication of the Zimmerman Telegram?
What two forms of mass media helped create a shared national culture during the 1920s?
What are radio and movies?
What economic practice involved buying stocks with the hope of quickly selling them for a profit, contributing to the stock market bubble?
What is stock market speculation?
What New Deal agency insured bank deposits to protect people's savings and restore confidence in banks?
What is the FDIC?
What was the primary reason the United States used atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to the test's evidence?
What is that Japan had not surrendered, even after the first atomic bomb was dropped?
What movement involved African Americans leaving the rural South for northern and western cities in search of better opportunities?
What is the Great Migration?
What cultural movement celebrated African American art, literature, and music, especially in New York City?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What environmental disaster resulted from poor farming practices and prolonged drought on the Great Plains?
What is the Dust Bowl?
What was Roosevelt attempting to accomplish with his 1937 court-packing plan?
What is increasing the size of the Supreme Court so he could appoint justices more supportive of New Deal programs?
What major contribution did women make to the American home front during World War II?
What is filling industrial and factory jobs while many men served in the military?
How did World War I create new opportunities for both women and African Americans in the United States?
What is access to new industrial and wartime jobs?
How did automobiles, advertising, and mass production help transform American society during the 1920s?
What is the growth of consumerism and a new consumer culture?
Why did struggling Americans build communities called Hoovervilles during the Great Depression?
What is widespread unemployment, homelessness, and anger toward President Herbert Hoover's response to the crisis?
What are the three major goals of the New Deal, often summarized as relief, recovery, and reform?
What are helping people in need, rebuilding the economy, and preventing future economic crises?
How did Langston Hughes criticize American involvement in World War II by pointing out the contradiction between fighting for democracy abroad and conditions at home?
What is the contradiction of promoting democracy overseas while African Americans continued to experience segregation and discrimination?