Inventions & Innovations
The Model T not only became an affordable vehicle but transformed manufacturing by introducing this strategy.
This term refers to the racially discriminatory laws that enforced segregation and disenfranchisement in the south.
What are Jim Crow laws?
A period defined through visual art, music, and literature to express the experiences of Black Americans.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This battle is considered the turning point that shifted WWI from a war of movement to trench warfare.
What is the Battle of the Marne?
This man was assassinated by a member of the Serbian terrorist group the Black Hand.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The 1912 sinking of the Titanic led to policy mandating ships carry enough of this item for all passengers on board.
What are more lifeboats?
This 1925 Tennessee law made it illegal to teach any theory that denied the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible.
What is the Butler Act?
Despite becoming a symbol of changing gender roles in the 1920s and 1930s by breaking flight records, this aviator mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The first day of this battle is the deadliest in British military history with over 60,000 deaths in one day.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
This new kind of battle tactic almost directly resulted in a stalemate.
What is trench warfare?
This prolific inventor is best known for his development of the radio & wireless telegraph.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
After 13 years of Prohibition, this amendment repealed the ban on the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 21st amendment?
A conference in this town was the first to organize women's leaders who wrote the Declaration of
Sentiments urging that women be granted the right to vote.
What is Seneca Falls?
This small country effectively slowed down early German mobilization preventing an early fall of France.
What is Belgium?
During the Battle of the Somme, the British military debuted this new mobile weapon.
This new weapon was first introduced by the German army at the Battle of Verdun (1916).
What is the flamethrower?
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women the right to vote in this year.
What is 1920?
After this document was decoded, US isolationist sentiments largely shifted in regards to World War I.
This Germany strategy wrongly assumed that the Russian army would be slow to mobilize therefore it could swiftly overtake France to avoid a war on two fronts.
What is the Schlieffen plan?
This term is defined as the uncertainty and confusion to make advantegous decisions caused by the chaos of war.
What is the fog of war?
What band's 1969 debut album featured the Hindenburg disaster on its cover?
Who is Led Zeppelin?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote, which later fueled the women's suffrage movement.
What is the 15th amendment?
This 19th century movement set the foundation for Prohibition. It promoted voluntarily choosing not to drink.
What is temperance?
The Battle of the Somme was constructed to pull German troops away from this French city.
What is Verdun?
(will accept the Battle of Verdun)
The sinking of THIS ship by German U-Boats in THIS year was one of the reasons the US joined the war.
What is the Lusitania and 1917?