WWI
Who were the Allied Powers?
Great Britain, France, Russia, and US.
Name one culturally influential movement in the 1920s.
Changing role of women, the Social Gospel movement, scientific knowledge, Modernism, fundamentalism, Harlem Renaissance, organized crime, nativism, prohibition, KKK, Black Pride, etc
(may not be listed)
Explain either Black Thursday or Black Tuesday
Black Thursday- an unprecedented volume of selling on Wall Street, stock prices plunged.
Black Tuesday- when millions of investors ordered their brokers to sell, but almost no buyers could be found
What was the event that pushed the U.S. to join WWII declaring war?
Pearl Harbor
Who was the president who implemented the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was the immediate cause of World War 1.
What popular controversial silent film portrayed the KKK during Reconstriction as heroes?
The Birth of a Nation.
Name two effects of The Great Depression.
Homelessness, poverty, suicide, unemployment, bank failures, business failures, etc
Where were the two places the U.S. bombed in Japan?
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
(little boy and fat man)
What act increased regulation of the banks and limited how banks could invest in customers' money?
The Glass-Steagall Act.
Name at least 2 underlying causes for World War 1.
Nationalism, imperialism, militarism, public/secret alliances.
What was Henry Ford's innovational system for manufacturing automobiles?
The "assembly line".
When did the Great Depression start?
Around the end of 1929.
Who was the symbol for women in the workforce and women's independence?
Rosie the Riveter
What act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement?
What treaty was founded to "maintain peace" at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
The League of Nations
Prohibition which banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Name one president who was in office during the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt.
What top-secret project produced the first atomic weapons?
The Manhattan Project.
What were the three R's of the New Deal?
Relief, recovery, and reform.
What was the Red Scare following WW1?
Fears of communism fueled by communist takeover in Russia.
Lots of anti-German and anti-Communist hysteria.
What group demonstrated extreme expression of nativism and was hostile towards African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and Communists.
What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)?
A tariff passed by the Republican Congress which set tac increases from 31 percent to 49 percent on foreign imports.
What was the invasion on the coast of Normandy to liberate France?
D-Day
What was the main criticism from the Democratic Party of the New Deal?
They didn't think the New Deal did enough for minorities such as women, blacks, immigrants, the poor, the disabled, etc...