Great Depression
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People
100
He was the United States president that gave "relief" to the people during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
After the stock market crash, people rushed to their banks causing this.
What is Banks closing down/Bank runs?
100
What happened on December 7, 1941 "a date that will live in infamy" that caused the US to enter into WWII?
Japanese bombed pearl harbor
100
This was the First Lady during the late years of the Great Depression.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
Common nickname given to the women who worked in factories during WWII?
Rosie the Riveter
200
Which term was used to the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's.
Dust Bowl
200
Bobbed Hair, Heavy Makeup, Drank, short skirts and sexually aggressive
Flappers
200
Who Am I ?
FDR
200
True or False: The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance were important events during the Great Depression.
What is false?
200
Who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Charles Lindbergh
300
This group demanded extra payment for service in WWI
Bonus Army
300
18th Ammendment
Prohibition
300
Which group of Americans were taken from their communities and sent to internment camps?
Japanese
300
Daily Double
What are the 3 R's in the New Deal
Relief
Recovery
Reforms
300
He was the United States president during the early years of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as.
Hoovervilles
400
Daily Double
These two Italian born immigrants were accused of robbery and Murder and executed in the electric chair.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
400
What did Americans buy to help finance the war?
US War Bonds
400
This major event followed the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
400
Led Organized Crime in Chicago during the 1920's
Al Capone
500
His Mixed market economic philosophy blended the free market with the government.
John Maynard Keynes
500
African American literature, music and Art in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
500
Daily Double
What is considered the turning point battle in the War in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
500
He led the 1920's in home runs
Babe Ruth
500
He went on trial for teaching evolution in the 1920s
John Scopes
600
Daily Double
This New Deal program hired people to build dams and generators that provided electricity to people in rural areas.
Tennessee Valley Authority
600
Name of the group of writers and intellectuals that were critical of industrial progress and mass culture.
The Lost Generation
600
What was the law passed by Congress to allow the president to transfer materials to a country he deemed vital to that of the U.S.
Lend Lease Act
600
Fords most famous car of the 1920's
Model T
600
Daily Double
Immigrant from Jamaica that was famous for Black Nationalism and a Back to Africa Movement in the 1920's
Marcus Garvey
700
This is an example of a ______ line
What were Bread Lines
700
Companies were under the assumption that they were making a lot of money because they were selling a lot of products. However, this wasn't true because most people got their products using ______ ______ and did not make their payments.
installment plans / buying on credit
700
What's the name of the riots that happened in Los Angeles between Mexican American youth and Navy men?
Zoot Suit Riots
700
A big factor leading to the failure of banks was people buying on margin. This is when _______.
people take out a loan to buy stock.
700
Who made this image famous
Who was Dorothea Lange?
800
The program FDR set up in part of his New Deal, to give retired people their money.
What is Social Security?
800
The most famous dance of the 1920's Jazz scene
Charleston
800
What is the Supreme Court Case that validated the internment camps Japanese Americans?
Korematsu v U.S. 1944
800
Radio speeches weekly to the American people by FDR
Fireside Chats
800
Many people left the great plains during the drought and went to California, they were called
What is is an Oakie?
900
This court case determined the AAA to be unconstitutional
Butler v United States
900
Secretly leased land in Wyoming became this major scandal during the Harding Administration
Teapot Dome
900
Where was the first U.S. atomic bomb tested during the Manhattan Project?
Los Alamos, New Mexico
900
New Deal Program that spent $4.2 billion on roads, schools, post offices, bridges, courthouses around the country.
Public Works Administration
900
He was the Attorney General that led raids to arrest communists after WWI during the first Red Scare.
Alexander Mitchell Palmer
1000
He believed everyone should receive an annual income of 2500 and a 100% tax on the rich over 1 million dollars made
Huey Long
1000
Name the Government agency of WWI that influenced methods of advertising in the 1920's to create a demand in society for consumer goods
Committee on Public Information
1000
What is the name of the meeting where the division of Germany into four occupation zones was agreed upon?
Potsdam Conference
1000
This New Deal program organized workers into unions based on industry, not skill level.
What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)?
1000
This author wrote The Grapes of Wrath, about a family of farmers who had to move to find work during the Depression
Who is John Steinbeck?
1100
This government insurance protection of personal money in the Banks is one of the lasting effects of the Great Depression.
FDIC
1100
A paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management responsibility for employee well-being providing Insurance, medical services, sports and recreation to its employees.
Welfare Capitalism
1100
Name the General and the Admiral of the U.S. for the War in the Pacific.
General Douglas McArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz
1100
First Female cabinet member
Frances Perkins
1100
She was an African American educator appointed to Roosevelt's administration.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?