#1 World War I Era (1914-1920)
The 1915 sinking of this British passenger ship killed 128 Americans and shifted U.S. opinion toward the Allies.
What is the Lusitania?
President Wilson's plan for peace after WWI was called the Fourteen Points, which included this international organization.
What is the League of Nations?
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was led by this figure.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The 1920-1933 period when the sale of alcohol was prohibited in the U.S.
What is Prohibition?
This New Deal agency provided jobs for young men in conservation work.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The Dust Bowl primarily affected this region of the United States.
What is the Great Plains (or the Southwest)?
This 1917 telegram from Germany to Mexico proposed a military alliance against the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
The 1919 treaty that officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was primarily a fear of this political ideology.
What is communism?
This 1925 trial involved the teaching of evolution in schools and became a symbol of the culture war.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The 1935 act that established Social Security and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
This 1940 novel by John Steinbeck depicted the struggles of migrant workers during the Great Depression.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
The U.S. entered World War I in this year.
What is 1917?
This U.S. Senate leader opposed the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
This 1920 bombing on Wall Street killed 38 people and was attributed to anarchists.
What is the Wall Street bombing?
The stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression occurred in this year.
What is 1929?
This New Deal agency provided relief, recovery, and reform through public works projects.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
The unemployment rate at the height of the Great Depression reached approximately this percentage.
What is 25% (or approximately 25%)?
This general commanded American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during WWI.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles primarily due to concerns about this clause.
What is the League of Nations clause (or Article X)?
The Palmer Raids of 1919-1920 targeted suspected communists and this group.
What are anarchists?
President Hoover's belief that the economy would self-correct was called this.
What is laissez-faire?
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act established this as the minimum wage.
What is 25 cents per hour?
This 1936 sit-down strike at General Motors plants resulted in union recognition.
What is the Flint Sit-Down Strike?
The 1918 armistice ending WWI was signed on this date.
What is November 11, 1918?
This 1921 conference limited naval armaments among major powers.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
This 1921 trial of two Italian anarchists became a symbol of anti-immigrant hysteria.
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
This 1933 bank holiday was declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to stabilize the banking system.
What is the Bank Holiday?
This Supreme Court case in 1935 struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act as unconstitutional.
What is Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?
The 1938 recession that occurred during the New Deal was partly caused by this policy.
What is the reduction in government spending (or fiscal contraction)?