World War I
An alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the early 1900's.
What are the Allied Powers?
A great war that began in Europe in 1914 between the Allied and Central Powers.
What is World War I?
A new style of music invented by black musicians in New Orleans.
What is jazz?
The only American president to be elected to four terms.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
An alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
What are the Central Powers?
A secret message from Germany to Mexico proposing a partnership during World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
A time of very high unemployment and slow economic activity that began in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
Franklin Roosevelt's program to use government money to put people back to work and end the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
A British passenger ship that was attacked by a German submarine in World War I.
What is the Lusitania?
A way for a person to pay for a product a little bit at a time, rather than all at once.
What is consumer credit?
A nickname given to shacks built from scraps of wood or metal.
What are Hoovervilles?
A New Deal program that paid farmers not to grow crops to increase demand for farm goods.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
The treaty that officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A mass movement of African Americans from the South to big cities in the North beginning around World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
Places that provided free meals to people who were homeless or did not have jobs.
What are soup kitchens?
A New Deal program to put young men to work on the land, especially in national and state parks.
The president of the United States of America during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
An artistic and literary movement that began because of the Great Migration.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The total number of people who do not have a job.
What is unemployment?
A New Deal program that provided money to retired and unemployed workers.
What is the Social Security Act?