Road to WWI
This German policy of sinking ships without warning helped push the U.S. into World War I.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This law required American men to register for military service during WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Wilson’s postwar plan for peace was called these “Points.”
What are the Fourteen Points?
Harding promised Americans a “return to” this.
What is normalcy?
This trial in Tennessee became a symbol of conflict between modern science and religious fundamentalism.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “I, Too.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
This 1929 event shattered confidence and is often seen as the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
Shantytowns built by the homeless during the Depression were mockingly named these.
What are Hoovervilles?
Roosevelt’s first burst of major legislation in 1933 is known by this phrase.
What are the Hundred Days?
This 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This German policy of sinking ships without warning helped push the U.S. into World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
George Creel headed this propaganda agency that promoted support for the war.
What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
This international organization was proposed by Wilson but never joined by the United States.
What is the League of Nations?
This mass-produced automobile made car ownership possible for many middle-class Americans.
What is the Model T?
This amendment outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This jazz musician became famous for transforming American music with his trumpet playing.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Buying stocks with borrowed money was called buying on this.
What is margin?
This president believed voluntary cooperation and limited federal aid should solve the Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This New Deal program employed young men in environmental and conservation work.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
This executive order banned discrimination in defense industry jobs after pressure from A. Philip Randolph.
What is Executive Order 8802?
This intercepted German message proposed an alliance with Mexico against the United States.
What is neutral?
This Supreme Court case established the “clear and present danger” standard for limiting speech.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
This senator led opposition to the Treaty of Versailles in the U.S. Senate.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
Buying goods over time instead of all at once was called this.
What is installment buying?
Illegal alcohol producers and sellers during Prohibition were known by this term.
What are bootleggers?
This movement celebrated Black art, literature, and identity in 1920s New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This economic problem occurred when factories and farms produced more than consumers could buy.
What is overproduction?
This Hoover-era agency loaned money to banks and businesses but was criticized for not helping ordinary people enough.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?
This agency brought electricity and regional development to a poor southern area.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
This executive order authorized the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This 1915 sinking of a British passenger ship killed Americans and increased tensions with Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
Herbert Hoover led this wartime agency that promoted voluntary food conservation.
What is the Food Administration?
This treaty formally ended World War I and imposed reparations and war guilt on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This scandal under Harding involved secret leasing of naval oil reserves.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
This revived white supremacist organization of the 1920s targeted not just African Americans but also Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This Black nationalist leader founded the UNIA and promoted racial pride and self-determination.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This tariff law raised import taxes in 1930 and is often blamed for worsening global trade problems.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This group of World War I veterans marched on Washington demanding early payment of bonuses.
Who were the Bonus Army?
This 1935 law created pensions for the elderly and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
This cultural figure symbolized women’s industrial labor during the war.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Wilson said the U.S. entered WWI to make the world safe for this.
What is democracy?
These government-issued bonds were sold to help finance the war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds?
Fear of communism, labor unrest, and bombings after WWI led to this nationwide panic.
What is the Red Scare?
Radio, movies, and advertising helped create this kind of shared national culture.
What is mass culture?
This immigration law of 1924 sharply limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
What is the National Origins Act?
Women of the 1920s associated with new fashion, dancing, and breaking social norms were called these.
What are flappers?
This major weakness of the 1920s economy meant that wealth was concentrated in relatively few hands.
What is uneven distribution of wealth?
Large lines for free food provided by charities and cities were called these.
What are breadlines?
This law protected workers’ rights to organize unions and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act?
This program allowed the United States to supply weapons and aid to Allied nations before formally entering the war.
What is Lend-Lease?
FINAL JEOPARDY!!!
FESTIVALS, FESTIVALS, FESTIVALS
The 3 headliners at Coachella 2026.
Who are Sabrina Carpenter, Just(in) Beiber, and Karol G?