Spanish-American War
The future president who gained fame during the Spanish-American War.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The central bank of the United States, established by Woodrow Wilson.
What is the Federal Reserve?
A cultural, social, and artistic explosion centered around the African American community in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The person whose death started WWI.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The fascist leader of Italy before and during WWII.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
The ship that exploded in Havana, Cuba, starting the Spanish-American War.
What was the USS Maine?
The novel, written by Upton Sinclair, that exposed unsafe food practices in the meatpacking industry and inspired the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
What was The Jungle?
The first person to fly a plane across the Atlantic without stopping.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
The movement of six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
What was the Great Migration?
The joint American and British invasion of France; the largest amphibious invasion in world history.
What was D-Day?
The regiment, led by Theodore Roosevelt, that charged up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Who were the Rough Riders
Popular journalists who used publicity to expose corruption and attack abuses of power in business and government
What were muckrakers?
Dishwasher, dryers, refrigerators.
What are home appliances?
a series of programs and policies implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
The two pieces of land invaded by Hitler in the lead up to WWII.
What are the Sudetenland and the Rhineland?
As a result of the Spanish-American War, America gained Guam, Puerto Rico, and these islands.
What are the Philippines?
What was the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire?
Strict adherence to a literal interpretation of a religion; a movement in the 1920s that advocated for creationism over evolution and blamed modernists for a decline in moral values.
What is fundamentalism?
The act that established a system of old-age benefits for workers, unemployment insurance, and aid to dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the disabled.
What was the Social Security Act?
Facilities where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated and confined during World War II, often located in remote areas and lacking basic amenities.
What were internment camps?
An extreme form of patriotism that often advocates for aggressive foreign policy and military action
What is jingoism?
The union leader who went on to be the presidential nominee for the Socialist Party.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
The first movie ever screened at the White House; about the KKK
What is Birth of a Nation?
The telegram sent by Germany in an attempt to convince Mexico to start a war with the United States.
Alternative
The British cruise ship sunk by German submarines that pushed America toward entering WWI.
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What was the Lusitania?
The names of the atomic bombs and the cities they were dropped on.
What were "Fat Man" and "Little Boy?" What were Hiroshima and Nagasaki?