Great Depression
Relief, Recovery, Reform
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920's who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms.
Flapper
A change in US foreign Policy that allowed Great Britain to travel to the US, pay for war supplies in cash and transport them back to Europe.
What is the Cash and Carry Policy
What were women called if they went against social norms?
Flappers
What were the three r's?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
paid farmer's not to overproduce
Red summer
A work program created by the US to bring Mexican agricultural laborers into the US to work on farms in the West.
What is the Bracero Program
Who created a new technique to produce automobiles and transformed the consumer economy?
Henry Ford
It crashed due to increased speculation and stock shares.
FDIC
insured bank deposits up to a certain amount
Trial of the theory of Evolution
Scope Trial
Code Talkers
Native American contribution to the war
What Amendment passed Prohibition but was later repealed?
18th Amendment
How did WW2 start?
Hitler invaded Poland thus allowing France and Germany to declare war on Germany.
provided jobs to help unemployment
Manner which consumers bought goods and paid a little up front and the rest later
installment buying
Battle of Midway
turning point in the pacific
new form of mass media
radio
cinema
How did the US enter the war?
Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor and was on the side of the axis powers. The US had to take immediate action in order to stop an all-out war.
Court Packing Scheme
Roosevelt's attempt to pack the court with an increase in supreme court judges
Hoovervilles
Shanty Towns that were blamed on the current president hoover
Battle of Stalingrad
Russians push back Germans
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem and had been influenced by many African Americans.
Name some examples of mobilization during World War II.
What is the Selective Service Act, War Production Board and Office of Price Administration