Causes Of WW1
This system of alliances divided Europe into two major Sides?
What is the Alliance System
What disease spread rapidly through overcrowded trenches?
What is Trench Foot?
This style of music became extremely popular in the 1920's, especially in clubs and speakeasies.
What is Jazz?
This Event in 1929, marks the start of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday/The stock market collapse.
This German political leader rose to power in the 1930's
Who was Adolf Hitler?
This event in 1914 triggered the start of WW1
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Created by illustrator James Montgomery Flagg, a famous 1917 poster featuring this stern-looking military figure bore the words, "I Want You for U.S. Army."
Who is Uncle Sam?
This invention helped families access entertainment and news
What is the radio.
These makeshift towns of homeless people were named after the president
This Battle was a major turning point in the Pacific against Japan.
What was the battle of Midway
This policy of building up weapons and armies, increased tensions in Europe.
This 1917 message from Germany helped push the U.S. into WW1
What is the Zimmerman telegram.
This law made Alcohol illegal in the U.S. from 1920-1933
What is the 18th Amendment/Prohibition
This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better because the economy goes up then down then back up?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This nickname was given to American Soldiers?
What are GI's
This country had recently taken control of Serbia, right before WW1?
What is Austria-Hungary
What 1916 battle is known for massive casualties and warfare in France?
What is the battle of the Somme?
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Jacob Lawrence are poets, artists, and writers whose talent began in a period known as this.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What conversations did FDR have with the American people, were he spoke to all America like they were simply his friends?
What are Fireside Chats?
What was the German airforce called during ww2
What was the Luftwaffe?
What was the three main reasons the U.S. became an Imperialistic Country?
Economic factors, Military bases, Cultural Superiority?
Lasting for much of 1916, this agonizing 10-month clash between French and German forces resulted in over 700,000 casualties and became a symbol of the war's brutal war of attrition.
What is the battle of Verdun?
This trial in 1925 debated evolution vs creation in schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
How Much money would the average factory worker make in a week. 15 dollars, 20 dollars, 25 dollars?
What is 15 dollars a week?
Speaking on the floor of the House of Commons in 1940, he rallied the British people by saying, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Who is Winston Churchill.