Collapse of the Old World Order
Despite joining the Axis powers in WWII, this boot-shaped country fought alongside the allies against the Central Powers during World War I.
What is Italy?
This 1920s persona was more athletic, assertive, and independent than previous generations, but she was less spiritual and often less religious.
What is the New Woman?
The New Deal's first step toward economic recovery dealt with these.
What are banks?
A major US ally during WWII.
What is the Soviet Union?
This defense strategy was used in the absence of sufficient troops to confront the Soviet army.
What is nuclear deterrence?
Theodore Roosevelt acquired territorial rights in Panama by encouraging this.
What is Revolution?
This new 1920s style of music fused soulfulness and syncopated rhythms.
What is Jazz?
This New Deal agency put young single men to work planting trees, building parks, and doing other projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
The spot where General MacArthur returned to liberate the Philippines in WWII.
What is Leyte
This fueled the postwar economic boom.
What is public (govt) and private (individual and business consumer) spending?
The US sold these to help pay for its costs in WWI.
What are bonds and savings certificates?
This put strict quotas on the number of immigrants allowed into the United States each year.
What is the National Origins Act?
Overgrazing, intensive agriculture, and drought all contributed to this ecological disaster.
What are dust bowl storms?
The first city attacked with atomic weapons.
What is Hiroshima?
This veteran benefit was one major success for the Truman Administration.
What is the GI Bill?
This new weapon negated the defensive advantages of entrenched troops in WWI.
What is the tank?
The weakest sector of the US economy in the 1920s.
What is agriculture?
As a result of the dust bowl, millions of people did this.
What is abandoned their farms?
The location of the vast number of German casualties during WWII.
What is the Eastern front?
He was relieved of command because he publicly opposed President Truman's military policies.
Who is General MacArthur?
This strategy of President Taft used investment and economics, NOT armed force, to strengthen US relationships in Latin America.
What is dollar diplomacy?
This man's greatest contribution to modern industrial culture was standardization and assembly line mass production.
Who is Henry Ford?
The tragic story of these boys showed how the Great Depression inflamed racial prejudice among many people.
Who are the Scottsboro Boys?
After the fall of France but before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt supported Great Britain in this way.
What is sending aid?
The Soviets tried to tighten their hold on Eastern Europe by blockading this city.
What is Berlin?