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These ideas were introduced by President Wilson in 1918. It was Wilson's peace plan to prevent future wars.
What is Fourteen Points?
The dynamic 1920's women notorious for their short hair, risky attire, and dance styles. They represented a trend of modernism in women's rights.
Who are Flappers?
In 1929, this President claimed that "prosperity was just around the corner". As the country plunged into the Great Depression, he did not feel the government should intervene in the economy.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Roosevelt's New Deal programs aimed at relief, recovery, and reform were known as this.
What are the Three R's?
Who are the Muckrackers?
In the 1920s, this group was extremely racist and very anti-foreign. It was against all groups which did not have a White, Protestant background.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
It occurred on October 29, 1929, when 16,410,030 shares of stocks were sold in the worst day of NY Stock Exchange history. It marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash?
This was used to end the War in the Pacific rather than a prolonged invasion of Japan that could have caused up to a half million casualties.
What was the atomic bomb?
Prior to the administration of Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt, this act had been used primarily to suppress trade unions.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The American public was scared that communism would come into the US. Recent immigrants and union supporters were targeted as suspected communists.
What is the Red Scare?
A group of almost 20,000 World War I veterans hard-hit by the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and marched to Washington to demand their promised bonus.
What is Bonus Army?
It created a federal insurance program based on the automatic collection of taxes from employees and employers throughout people's working careers to support the elderly and disabled.
What is Social Security Act of 1935?
A law passed in March of 1941 by sweeping majorities in both houses of Congress. This law said that the U.S. would lend or lease weapons to overseas countries and victims of aggression who would in turn finish the job of the fighting, and keep the war overseas from the U.S.
What is Lend-Lease
The idea that all people can have independence and make up their own government. This was one of Wilson's fourteen points.
What is self determination?
He made assembly line production more efficient. He helped to make cars inexpensive so more Americans could buy them.
Who is Henry Ford?
Economic depression, extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to this event.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The first few months of F.D. Roosevelt's presidency in which he tried different methods to ease the Depression were know as ________________.
What are the First 100 Days?
These acts showed America's reluctance to be drawn into another World War. They were an example America's isolationism policies.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
A secret diplomatic communication in 1917 from Germany offering an alliance with Mexico. It was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. This news caused the US to rethink its isolationist approach.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Joined the prosecution in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial against the teachings of evolution in schools. The trial challenged new ideas of Modernism, such as reliance on science.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The three Republican Presidents whose economic policies during the 1920s contributed to the Great Depression.
Who are Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover?
The New Deal represented an expansion of size and scope of this in the lives of the American people.
What is the role of the Federal Government?
In its Korematsu v. United States decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the wartime internment of West Coast Japanese Americans was ____________.
What is NOT unconstitutional?