World War I
Roaring 20s
the Great Depression
World War II
the Cold War
100
The United States denounced what country for the sinking of the Lusitania.
What is Germany?
100
In addition to the new experiences for women during the 1920s of working new jobs, wearing new fashions, and newfound independence they also achieved this right after World War I
What is the right to vote?
100
This event set off a chain reaction that first toppled the American economy and then spread to the rest of the world.
What is the Stock Market crash in October 1929?
or
What is Black Tuesday?
100
This series of Acts was the United States' attempt to help our allies while not appearing to take sides in the conflict and stay out of WWII.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
100
The Soviet system of Communism was based on the ideas of this man.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
M.A.I.N. -- Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What were the causes of World War I?
200
During the 1920s these groups were considered dangerous and should be deported.
Who are Communists and anarchists?
200
The nickname for the stock market when stock prices are steadily increasing.
What is a Bull Market?
200
This attack made most Americans agree that the United States should enter into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
Because of the devastation in Europe due to an economic depression and fighting of two great wars, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II as the world's _____.
What are superpowers?
300
This new weapon was the reason why both sides dug trenches and stayed there for the duration of the Great War.
What is the machine gun?
300
The United States did not join the League of Nations, but enacted the Washington Naval Conference, the Nine-Power Treaty, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact for this reason.
What is to encourage world peace?
300
This U.S. President reacted too slowly and too insignificantly to the economic problems occuring during the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
This Supreme Court Case upheld the legality of keeping American citizens of Japanese descent in internment camps during the war. aka it's OK for the government to take away a citizen's civil liberties during wartime.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
300
Over several decades the United States engaged in "proxy wars" to uphold this policy of President Truman as a way to fight against the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
400
President Wilson needed to raise an army quickly so Congress approved the _____.
What is the Selective Service Act?
or
What is conscription?
400
This group increased in popularity during the 1920s and were anti-immigrant, anti-African American, anti-Catholic, and anti-Jewish.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
or
Who is the KKK?
400
This program enacted by President Franklin Roosevelt, while not exactly improving the economy, it helped the American economy from completely bottoming out.
What is the New Deal?
400
This is the battle that gained allies a foothold on the European mainland.
What is D Day?
400
Through this Senators aggressive search for Communists operating in the United States, many innocent lives were damaged.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
500
This was the reason for the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the South to the North.
What is factory job opportunities?
500
African American writers, artists, and musicians hoped to achieve this during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the evidence that African Americans could produce high quality art?
or
What is African American artists were just as talented as white artists?
500
The radio was new technology is people's homes in the 1930s. Roosevelt was the first president to informally address and reassure his citizen through these "chats".
What are fireside chats?
500
This is battle was the turning point (in favor of the allies) of the war in the Pacific Theater.
What is the Battle of Midway?
500
This extremely successful plan to give European countries economic assistance after World War II helped make them more resistant to the attractions of Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
600
This is the reason the United States failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
What is many Senators feared the League of Nations would involve the United States in foreign wars?
or
What is the United States wanted to adopt a policy of isolation?
600
This group worked to pass anti-lynching laws in the United States as there was an increase in lynchings during the 1920s.
Who is the NAACP?
600
This New Deal Agency constructed a series of dams that produced hydro-electricity.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
600
In the cold forest setting, the Germans fought for 6 weeks and lost their last battle of the war against the Allies.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
600
This principle behind Cold War military strategy justified the practice of nuclear proliferation by the U.S. and the Soviets after WWII.
Mutually Assured Destruction