Acronyms & Other
Who were doughboys?
Who were flappers?
American soldiers, buttons looked like dumplings so they were nicknamed "doughboys".
A carefree young women of the 1920s.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Type of journalism based on sensational stories. Typically used exaggeration, sensationalism, and manipulated facts. Often had false reporting, and were biased.
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote (voting is not based off gender)
What happened on December 7, 1941?
What were internment camps?
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese warplanes attacked the United States military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Ships, anchored in a neat row, and airplanes, grouped together on the airfield, made easy targets.
Camps where Japanese Americans were kept by the U.S. during World War II, out of fear they would side with Japan and try to attack from America from within.
What are U-Boats? Which country is most famous for using them?
Submarines that were designed to sink ships, typically associated with Germany.
What was the CCC? What do the letters stand for? What kinds of projects did they sponsor?
Civilian conservation corps; Over the next 10 years, the CCC employed about 3 million young people. CCC workers toiled on projects that helped the public, including planting trees to reforest areas, building levees for flood control, and improving national parks
Free Space
Who is an anarchist?
What is capitalism? Name a country that's economic system is capitalist.
Someone who believes there should be no government.
An economic system based on private property and free enterprise. The United States has a capitalist economy.
Who were considered the Axis powers? What did they want to accomplish?
Alliance that consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. They opposed the Allied powers and wanted to rule the world. They wanted to influence the idea of facism all over the world.
What happened in September 1939?
What was D-Day? What date did it happen?
Hitler sent his armies into Poland. Two days later, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. WWII had begun.
June 6, 1944, ships carried troops and equipment across the English Channel to the French region of Normandy. Planes dropped paratroopers into areas around the beaches
What was the TVA? What do the letters stand for? What did they want to promote?
Tennessee Valley Authority; aimed to promote the economic well-being of the Tennessee Valley region; built dams along the Tennessee and other rivers; These dams helped control the terrible floods so common to the region. The dams also used the power of flowing water to generate electricity. As a result, thousands of farms and homes got electricity for the first time.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
Held that the United States had the right to get involved in the affairs of Latin American nations whenever they seemed unstable. The United States would act as a "police power" in Latin America. For example, in 1905, took control of the Dominican Republic's finances following a revolution that had toppled the country's government.
What does "substituting dollars for bullets" mean? Who came up with the saying?
Idea by William Howard Taft, idea that used economic influence (financial investments & loans) instead of military force.
What was the Lusitania?
What was the Zimmerman Note?
British passenger ocean-liner sunk by a German U Boat off the coast of Ireland
Germany offered an alliance with Mexico to fight against the United States, the note was intercepted by Britain & showed to America.
What does G.I. mean?
What happened at Hiroshima, Japan?
Clothing label meaning “Government Issue,” this is how American soldiers came to be called “GIs.”
Where the first atomic bomb was dropped by the US, killed between 80,000 and 120,000 people.
Who was Clarence Darrow? Who did he defend? Did he win his case?
Scopes’ defence attorney, lost the original trial, but the conviction was later overturned, a strong believer of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
Wildrow Wilson promoted democracy in other countries to prevent war and revolution. He wanted to base his foreign policy on moral principles of right and wrong. This didn’t work in mexico. He hoped the government would fall when Huerta took over and civil war broke out. It did not, so Wilson sent resources to Huerts’s rival, Veracruz Carranza. Wilson Ordered U.S troops to seize the port of Veracruz after the arrest of U.S sailors. This strengthened Carazza and they took power.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
What happened on October 29, 1929?
Name given to scandal where Albert Fall, the secretary of the interior, secretly rented government oil reserves to companies. In return, he received over $400,000. Fall was found guilty of bribery and was the first cabinet official to ever go to prison.
Stock prices plummeted because everyone was selling their shares, this caused the New York Stock Exchange to close for a few days to prevent panic selling.
What is Mein Kampf? Who wrote it?
What are reparations?
“My Struggle,” book written by Adolf Hitler while in prison, it outlined his political beliefs, political ideology, and future plans for Germany and the world.
Germany, as a result of their actions from WW1, had to pay for damages in the U.S.
What were Hoovervilles?
Makeshift villages where homeless people lived during the Great Depression. The names were sarcastic references to President Hoover.
Who was President Harding?
Promised to return America to “normalcy.” Gave top jobs to talented people but also to major donors to his campaign, in the summer of 1923, he took a trip west to escape his political problems, however, he suffered a heart attack and died. He was talkative and like to meet with the people
Who was Francisco Pancho Villa?
Rebel leader who fought against Caranza after the fall of Huerta. He tried to destroy Mexican-American relations by killing 16 U.S workers because of their support of Carranza. The U.S did not respond. His rebels burned down a town in New Mexico and killed 18 people. President Wilson sent a force to stop this and they pursued Villa for a year without success before having to return to fight Euorupe.
What is Laissez-Faire? Did Coolidge And Harding believe in it?
Belief that the government should have as little involvement in private life as possible. Both presidents believed in this method.
What was the Holocaust?
the name given to the mass slaughter of people by the Nazis during World War II. They Nazis killed about 6 million people and targeted:
Jewish people, homosexuals, people with disabilities, people from Poland, political opponents, Soviet P.O.Ws, and social outsiders.
What are the 14 Points? Who came up with them?
President Woodrow Wilson’s everlasting vision of a just and lasting peace.