Gilded Age
This man invented the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
Under Teddy Roosevelt (in 1890), this Act was the first measure passed by the US Congress to dissolve monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This Archduke being assassinated was the reason WWI began.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and East Germany became satellite nations of the Soviet Union. These countries together formed this, Churchill stated "An _________ ____________ has descended across the continent."
What is an "Iron Curtain"?
This is the most sensational government scandal in history (in the 20's). People in Harding's cabinet took payments or bribes from private companies in order to lease lands containing oil reserves at this site.
What is the Teapot Dome?
This man wanted to overthrow the Queen of Hawaii to take control of the pineapple trade.
Who is Sanford B. Dole?
This muckraker wrote "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
This member of the Black Hand (terrorist group) assassinated a member of the Austrian royal family.
Who is Gavrilo Pricip?
NATO was formed in 1949 by western nations, attack on any member nation treated as an attack on ALL member nations. The Soviet Union formed THIS in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
These women cut their hair short, wearing short skirts, putting on makeup, drinking and smoking in public AND even frequenting illegal bars called speakeasies.
Who are the flappers?
This "mistake" cost the US 7 million dollars for the state of Alaska. It turned out to be one of the best decisions due to Alaska being worth 500 billion dollars due to the gold and oil reserves it has.
What is Seward's Folly?
This muckraker was the co-owner of Memphis newspaper "Southern Horrors." She was also one of the co-founders of the NAACP.
Who is Ida Wells?
This battle was the turning point in the Pacific theater of WWII.
What is Midway?
This is the reason Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed.
What is espionage/ being spies?
This is the day the Great Depression officially began.
What is Black Tuesday?
Jim Crow laws took these 3 Amendments away from African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
She was a leader in the women's fight for suffrage. She was arrested and charged a fine when she voted in an election.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, funded by the US military, this group group focused on creating the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
US places an embargo on incoming shipments to Cuba from the Soviet union (nothing from the Soviets gets into Cuba). Soviet ships reach the quarantine line (JFK's naval blockade), but receive radio orders from Moscow to turn back.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
By the Spring of 1932 about 15,000 WWI vets arrive in Washington DC to support passage of the Putnam Bill which would have granted them immediate pay. This is the name of this "Army".
What is the "Bonus Army"?
This is the first time large numbers of African-Americans move north in search of jobs and better educational opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
What is the "Square Deal"? It included Control Corporations, Consumer Protections, Conservation.
Name 2 contributions minorities made in WWII. Think Navajo Indian tribe and African-American pilots.
Who are the Navajo code talkers and Tuskegee Airmen (Red Tails)?
These 4 reasons are why there was so much protest of the Vietnam War.
What is FIRST televised war, Tet Offensive, Pentagon Papers, Draft?
Name one agency that FDR created to deal with the Great Depression.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority, Social Security, etc etc...