The Teddy Bear
True or False: America was pulled into World War I because of an alliance America had with England.
False
Harlem
What "crash" stared the Great Depression?
The stock market crash, in which stock shares rapidly dropped in price
Name two of the three leaders of the Axis Powers?
Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito
Labor conditions
Temperance (getting rid of alcohol)
Women's Rights
Safe Housing
Immigration
The Allied Powers and The Central Powers
Because it was a period of economic, political, and social change, including a rapid growth in American wealth.
What was the environmental disaster happening in the Midwest during the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl
What major event caused FDR and Congress to declare war on Japan?
___________ is the ideology that encouraged strong European nations, as well as America, to annex smaller countries as "territories."
Imperialism
Airplanes
Chemical warfare
Automatic weapons
Langston Hughes
Which president started the "New Deal"?
FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
What "ism" is the belief that a country should stay out of foreign affairs?
Isolationism
What are two challenged 20th-century immigrants into America faced?
Tenement housing
Low pay
Dangerous conditions
Discrimination
Who won the war?
The Allied Powers
What type of music is associated with the 1920s?
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...
What was Japanese Internment?
A policy instituted by FDR in which Japanese and Japanese-Americans were forced to move into guarded camps during WWII.
What is the name of the poem on the Statue of Liberty?
The New Colossus
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!**
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
What is an "economic bubble"?
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