World War I
A New Era
Great Depression
The New Deal
World War II
100
Americans viewed the sinking of this ship by a German U-Boat as an unprovoked attack on civilians and helped increase support for US involvement in the war.
What is the Lusitania
100
This amendment took effect in 1919 and prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages. It was supported by rural fundamentalists and progressives on moral and religious grounds, and represented a victory of conservatism over the modernizing tendencies of the 20th century.
What is the 18th Amendment
100
This did not cause the Great Depression, but helped trigger a chain of events that exposed larger weaknesses in the American economy.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929
100
This Act called for the imposition of production limits on the seven basic commodities of wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, rice, tobacco, and dairy. It did increase prices, but favored large farmers over small ones, and was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1936.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act
100
Many Americans supported this policy, which opposed involvement in foreign affairs.
What is isolationism
200
This document, intercepted by the British and given to Wilson, proposed that Mexico join Germany and fight against the Americans. It inflamed public opinion and helped build popular sentiment for war.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram
200
Members of this organization terrorized blacks, Jews, Catholics, and foreigners, and feared anyone who posed a challenge to traditional values.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
200
This was the name given to the region that stretched north from Texas into the Dakotas, where a combination of drought and heat over the course of a decade turned once fertile farmland into a desert.
What is the Dust Bowl
200
The New Deal was based on providing these two things to Americans.
What are relief and recovery
200
This image symbolized the new importance of the female industrial worker, even though most women workers during the war were employed in service-sector jobs, not in factories.
What is Rosie the Riveter
300
Germany turned all the waters surrounding Great Britain into a war zone when it declared that it would sink, without warning, all commercial vessels. Using U-Boats, Germany used this kind of warfare to prevent military supplies from reaching Great Britain and France.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare.
300
This term was used to describe the modern woman whose liberated lifestyle found expression in dress, hairstyle, speech, and behavior.
What is the "new" woman
300
This was the nickname given to the shantytowns established by unemployed people on the outskirts of cities. This name demonstrated that many Americans blamed the President personally for the economic crisis.
What are Hoovervilles
300
This period of Roosevelt's presidency has become famous for what he, Congress, lobbyists, and businessmen were able to accomplish in an effort to deal with the economic crisis.
What are the (first) 100 Days
300
This program between the United States and Great Britain allowed the federal government to give armaments to those nations deemed "pivotal to the defense of the United States". Nations that received these arms had to promise to return them when the war was over.
What is Lend-Lease
400
This government organization was created in July 1917 to coordinate government purchases of military supplies and flourished under the leadership of Bernard Baruch. It later served as a model for the National Recovery Administration.
What is the War Industries Board
400
This trial was a battle of modernism versus religious fundamentalism. Darrow made Bryan look foolish and got him to admit the possibility that not all religious dogma was subject to only one interpretation, but it did not resolve the conflict between these two groups.
What is the Scopes (Monkey) Trial
400
For this man, who called capitalism "creative destruction," the Depression dropped "creation" off the map and replaced it entirely with "destruction."
Who is Joseph Schumpeter
400
This Administration was at the center of the New Deal and was supposed to restore a system of competition that might safeguard small business, workers, and consumers, but its efforts undermined these goals and it was eventually deemed unconstitutional in 1935.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Administration (NIRA)
400
These acts - passed in 1935, 1936, and 1937 - prohibited banks from making loans to belligerent nations to try and avoid a repeat of how the US got involved in World War I. The 1935 act established an arms embargo against both sides in any military conflict. The 1936 act forbade the extension of loans or credit to belligerents. The 1937 act prohibited US ships from transporting passengers and articles to belligerents and set up a cash and carry policy.
What are the Neutrality Acts
500
This organization was created to homogenize American public opinion regarding the war. It used propaganda and censorship to inspire patriotism and eliminate dissent.
What is the Committee on Public Information
500
Advertising executive Bruce Barton wrote this book, which was one of the most successful books of the 1920s. It portrayed Jesus as a religious prophet and a "super salesman" and encouraged men and women to live a full and rewarding life.
What is The Man Nobody Knows
500
This name was given to the period between Roosevelt's election in November 1932 and his inauguration in March 1933. During this period, the Depression deepened and the banking system collapsed.
What is the interregnum
500
This organization sent photographers out west to capture the plight of rural America and raise awareness of how the Depression affected farmers and their families.
What is the Farm Security Administration (FSA)
500
This was a powerful isolationist lobby whose members included Charles Lindbergh and Senators Gerald Nye and Burton Wheeler, and had the support of a large proportion of the Republican Party.
What is the America First Committee
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