1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
100
What toy was named after President Theodore Roosevelt? 

The Teddy Bear 

100

True or False: America was pulled into World War I because of an alliance America had with England. 

False

100
The time period in the 1920s when African American art and culture thrived in New York was called the ________ Renaissance. 

Harlem

100

What "crash" stared the Great Depression? 

The stock market crash, in which stock shares rapidly dropped in price 

100

Name two of the three leaders of the Axis Powers? 

Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito 

200
What are two issues progressivists cared about? 

Labor conditions
Temperance (getting rid of alcohol)
Women's Rights
Safe Housing
Immigration

200
What were the two sides of World War I? 

The Allied Powers and The Central Powers

200
Why do we call it the "Roaring Twenties"? 

Because it was a period of economic, political, and social change, including a rapid growth in American wealth. 

200

What was the environmental disaster happening in the Midwest during the Great Depression? 

The Dust Bowl 

200

What major event caused FDR and Congress to declare war on Japan? 

The Attack on Pearl Harbor 
300

___________ is the ideology that encouraged strong European nations, as well as America, to annex smaller countries as "territories." 

Imperialism

300
What are two technologies that changed warfare during WWI? 

Airplanes
Chemical warfare
Automatic weapons

300
Which famous Harlem Renaissance poet, wrote the poems, "I, Too," and "Harlem"? 

Langston Hughes 

300

Which president started the "New Deal"? 

FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) 

300

What "ism" is the belief that a country should stay out of foreign affairs? 

Isolationism

400

What are two challenged 20th-century immigrants into America faced? 

Tenement housing
Low pay
Dangerous conditions
Discrimination 

400

Who won the war? 

The Allied Powers

400

What type of music is associated with the 1920s? 

Jazz
400

What were three programs that started as part of the New Deal? 

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
PWA (Public Works Administration)
Etc...

400

What was Japanese Internment? 

A policy instituted by FDR in which Japanese and Japanese-Americans were forced to move into guarded camps during WWII. 

500

What is the name of the poem on the Statue of Liberty? 

The New Colossus 

500

What was Germany's punishment as agreed upon in the Treaty of Versailles? 

They were declared as solely responsible for the conflict and were ordered to pay billions of dollars. ($33 billion, to be exact...$500 billion in today's money.)

**Side note: They finished paying this in 2010!**

500

What was the Red Scare? 

The time period when people feared that communism (the ideology in which resources are divided equally among citizens) was spreading in America

500

What is an "economic bubble"? 

When the price of something becomes inflated beyond what it is actually worth. 
500

What were two consequences of WWII? 

Nuclear weapons were created
The United Nations was created
The Axis powers were defeated
50 - 75 million people died 

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