Geography
Imperialism
WWI
The Great Depression
More Great Depression
100
This is the term for the science of designing maps
What is cartography?
100
This is the historical practice of one nation attempting to control another through the use of political and economic control
What is imperialism?
100
The side the US fought on in this war
What is the Allied Powers?
100
Who was president when the Great Depression began?
Who is President Hoover?
100
The name for "villages" homeless people built during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
200
This projection was created in the 1500s to be used as a navigational tool
What is the Mercator Projection?
200
This person was the Queen of Hawaii at the time of US annexation.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
200
The assassination of this person sparked the war
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
200
In what month and year did the stock market crash, triggering the Great Depression
What is October 1929?
200
This president created the New Deal.
Who is Frankling Delano Roosevelt?
300
This person thought the Mercator Map was ethnocentric
Who is Arno Peters?
300
This person was a leader who fought against the US for freedom for the Philippines
What is Aguilnaldo?
300
This long-term cause of WWI refers to nations forming unions for their mutual benefit.
What is alliances?
300
Because of these, many banks failed during the Great Depression
What are bank runs?
300
Name 2 ways economists measure the strength of our economy
What are: unemployment rate, GDP, consumer confidence
400
The equator problem in the Mercator Projection resulted in the ______________ hemisphere covering most of the surface of this map.
What is the northern hemisphere?
400
What did the acquisition of Hawaii and the Philippines have in common?
What is that they provoked debate in the US about US involvement in faraway places?
400
The sinking of this ship was one of the reasons the US entered WWI
What is the Lusitania?
400
This is when someone risks money in the hopes of a quick profit
What is speculation?
400
Two differences between a depression and a recession
What is a depression lasts longer than a recession and there has to be at least a 10% drop in GDP
500
The "Greenland Problem" is a nickname for this
What is size distortion?
500
Name at least 2 states the US acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican War
What are Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah?
500
This treaty ended WWI and was one of the causes of WII
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
Name at least 2 of the main causes of the Great Depression
What are: stock market crash, over production, under consumption, drought, speculation, bank failures, monetary policy, WWI war debt
500
Name 2 programs that began during the New Deal that are still with us today
What are Social Security, FDIC, SEC
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