1920's Part 1
1920's Part 2
The Great Depression
The Great Depression 2
WW2
100
People who smuggled alcohol during prohibition
What are bootleggers?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Prohibition of alcohol
What is the 18th amendment?
100
The conservative president who failed to improve the economy and the living standards of Americans during the Great Depression
who is Herbert Hoover?
100
Shantytowns named mockingly after the strongly disliked president, which gave shelter to the homeless
What are Hoovervilles?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The American policy of avoiding foreign conflicts
What is What is isolationism?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The Harlem Renaissance can best be defined as:
What is a time of African American cultural pride, literature and music?
200
Women who broke the social norm by attending nightclubs to drink, smoke and dance
What are flappers?
200
Unemployment, poverty, famine, economic downfall, and bank failure
What are effects of the Great Depression?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday
200
The date which General Dwight D. Eisenhower led an attack on German forces and won, forcing them to retreat.
What is June 6th 1994 (D-Day)
300
The famous trial of religion vs. science that took place when a high school teacher broke the law by teaching evolution:
What is the Scopes trial?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Two causes of the 1929 economic crisis
What is buying on credit and an unregulated stock market?
300
A novel describing the hardships of the Great Depression focused on a family moving west to escape the Dust Bowl
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
300
Creator of the 14 Points that created The League of Nations
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
December 7, 1941
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
400
Making a purchase with money you do not have with the intent to pay it back in the future (people did this too recklessly)
What is buying on credit?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY People who strongly dislike immigrants
What are nativists?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY A plan devised by FDR’s Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, to help certain Americans
What is Social Security?
400
An international tariff increase on thousands of imported goods
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (June 17 1930)
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The turning point of the war between the U.S and Japan
What is the Battle of Midway
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Farmers did too much of this and therefore the prices of their crops decreased and they had trouble making a profit
What is over production?
500
The attitude of buying everything you want on the market, popular during the 1920s
What is consumerism?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Certain days that the American government closed banks in order to put money into them
What are Bank Holidays
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Dorthea Lang
Who is one of the most famous photographers of the Great Depression?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The names of the two Japanese cities that suffered from American atomic destruction
What are Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
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