World War I
The Roaring Twenties
Crisis at Home
The New Deal
World War II
100
This song is an example of World War I propaganda and was an attempt to motivate young men to join the army. It suggested that United States' soldiers were essential to victory.
What is "Over There".
100
As a result of labor unrest and racial violence, Americans feared the threat of communism and imagined that the country was filled with political radicals who were responsible for bombings and suspected conspiracies. This was a response to that fear, and was characterized by government raids, spontaneous acts of violence against supposed radicals, and intense nativism.
What is the Red Scare.
100
This organization was established during Hoover's presidency to provide federal loans to troubled banks, railroads, and other businesses, but failed to deal directly or forcefully enough with the real problems of the economy to produce any significant recovery. It financed only those public works projects that would ultimately pay for themselves, and only lent money to institutions with sufficient collateral. It made no real impact on the Depression.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC).
100
When he accepted the nomination of the Democratic party, this man said "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." While he was not clear about what this plan entailed, he was elected resoundingly because of Hoover's intense unpopularity.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
100
In late 1943, FDR publicly suggested that "Dr. New Deal" had served its purpose and should give way to this, which reflected his own concern that victory was more important than reform but also the political reality that Congressional conservatives saw the war as a way to dismantle the achievements of the New Deal.
What is "Dr. Win the War."
200
This man was in charge of the Committee on Public Information.
Who is George Creel.
200
This man, a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the leader of the Socialist Party, was jailed under the 1917 Espionage Act and the 1918 Sedition Act because he was opposed to the war.
Who is Eugene Debs.
200
This event did not so much cause the Great Depression as it did help trigger a chain of events that exposed larger weaknesses in the American economy.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
200
By 1938 the New Deal effectively came to an end. Hampered by its failure to fully recognize the value of government spending as a vehicle for recovery, it was really the economic boom sparked by this that finally ended the crisis.
What is World War II.
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
Often called a "flapper," this woman was characterized by a distaste for feminist reform movements and rejected Victorian attitudes toward sexuality, and argued that hers would the the first generation of women to have it all - education, career, marriage, and children.
What is the "new" woman.
300
This president was fiercely smart but was ideologically unequipped to deal with the chaos of the Great Depression, and believed that the economic crisis had to be fixed not by the government, but by consumers and producers.
Who is Herbert Hoover.
300
As a result of friction between new (industrial) and old (craft) labor unions, John L. Lewis created this organization in 1935. It expanded the constituency of the labor movement, was more receptive to women and African Americans than the AFL, targeted previously unorganized industries (textiles, laundries, tobacco factories), and was more militant than the AFL.
What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
300
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, government propaganda and popular culture combined to create an image of the Japanese as devious, malign, and savage people. It was easy for Anglo Americans to imagine that the Japanese Americans were engaged in conspiracies on behalf of Japan, even though no evidence existed to suggest this. In response to pressure from military officials and political leaders, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 which made THIS legal.
What is Japanese American internment.
400
This included a war guilt clause, which placed all blame for the war on Germany. It also imposed harsh penalties on Germany - it had to pay reparations, decrease the size of its armies and military, and lost territories. While provisions were made for a League of Nations, the United States refused to ratify the Treaty as is and called for significant amendments and reservations. Wilson refused to consider them, and due to the difficult process, the public lost interest in the peace process.
What is the Treaty of Versailles.
400
This action was the greatest contribution to the Red Scare, was led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover, and was inspired by increasing fear of domestic communism. Over 6,000 people were arrested in a series of raids on alleged radical centers throughout the country. While most of these people were eventually released, 500 who were not American citizens were deported.
What is the Palmer Raids.
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 New Deal organization, led by Harold Ickes, funded such projects as sewers, sidewalks, roads, bridges, courthouses, buildings, and airports. It was designed to inject money into the economy and put people to work, and was enormously effective in generating infrastructure.
What is the Public Works Administration.
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
Because sauerkraut was German, this was the name given to it for the duration of the war.
What is Liberty Cabbage.
500
This was one of the most successful books of the 1920s and was written by Bruce Barton. Jesus was portrayed as a religious prophet and a "super salesman". This book promoted the consumer mentality of the 1920s, and contained the message that men and women should be concerned with living a full and rewarding life in this world.
What is The Man Nobody Knows.
500
The Great Depression was a "perfect storm" in which these five factors came together to create an economic crisis that was both broad and deep. Name ONE of these factors.
What is 1. Horrifically bad timing 2. Poorly understood economic changes 3. Perceived structural changes 4. Poor decision-making by elites in government and business 5. Inability of existing organizations to cope with the disaster
500
Frustrated that the Supreme Court struck down the NRA and AAA and bolstered by his landslide results in the 1936 election, Roosevelt proposed this plan to overhaul the court system. It would allow him to appoint additional justices to the "overworked" court. His real purpose was to appoint liberal justices and change the ideological balance of the court so his programs would have judicial support.
What is the Court Packing Plan.
500
With the outbreak of war in 1939, this program was established to provide armaments to any nation deemed "pivotal to the defense of the United States" as long as that nation promised to return those armaments when the war was over. In addition to other events, this signaled the end of American neutrality in the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act.
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