The 1920s
An American captain of Industry that revolutionized cars forever.
Who is Henry Ford?
An alliance made up of Germany, Italy, and Austria Hungary.
What is the Tripple Alliance?
An exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers and where company stocks are bought and sold.
What is the stock market?
A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens.
What is totalitarianism?
The economic theory that lower taxes of the wealthy will boost the economy as business and individuals invest their money.
What is Reaganomics?
This American president focused on big business and helped reduce federal income tax.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
An alliance that was made up of Russia, France, and Great Britain.
What is the Tripple Entente?
October 29th, 1929: the day when prices in the stock market took a steep dive, plunging over $10 million dollars.
What is Black Tuesday?
A ruler who has complete power over a country.
What is a dictator?
Fall of wall that kept West Berlin from entering East Berlin.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
A plan to reduce the WWI reparations that Germany had to pay.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Vittorio Orlando, Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Clemenceau.
Was the president of U.S from 1923-1933 at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s.
What is Nazism?
December 1991 Soviet Union split into 15 separate communities ending the Cold War.
What is the Collapse of the Soviet Union?
An international agreement in which signatory states promised to not use war when resolving conflicts.
What is the Kellog-Briand pact?
French premier during World War I; he was the French representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919.
Who is Clemenceau?
The purchasing of stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at some time in the future.
Buying on Margin
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Group formed in 1979 as an attempt to organize Christian voters.
What is the Moral Majority?
Young western women who went against old customs and challenged the older generation.
What are flappers?
Countries in need of more resources wanted to conquer more land.
What is Imperialism?
Shanty towns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the depression.
What is a Hooverville?
"Lighting war", type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939.
What is Blitzkrieg?
The Caribbean island that the United States invaded in 1983.
What is Grenada?