This Triple Alliance member did not fight for the Central Powers in World War I.
What is Italy?
100
The three Republican Presidents during the 1920s.
Who are Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover?
100
The stock market got into trouble during the 1920's because so many investors got into trouble using this technique of putting up only 10% of the stock purchase price and borrowing the rest.
What is buying on margin?
100
The invasion of this country in 1939 officially started World War II.
What is Poland?
100
In this Presidential Election Year three Progressives (Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson) ran for election.
What is 1912?
200
This pre-war alliance included Britain, Russia, and France.
What is the Triple Entente?
200
Name of those opposed to organized government.
What are anarchists?
200
Those who blamed Hoover for the endless Depression had a nickname for the newspapers used by the homeless to keep warm.
What are "Hoover Blankets"
200
A series of Acts passed in the 1930s which banned arm sales or loans to countries at war.
What were the Neutrality Acts?
200
This Amendment to the Constitution provided for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people.
What is the Seventeenth?
300
The sinking of this passenger ship off the Irish coast in 1915 is often wrongly credited for dragging the U.S. into the war.
What is the Lusitania?
300
Opposition to foreigners was strong in the 1920s. Anti-foreign sentiment (feeling) is know as this.
What is Nativism?
300
Franklin Roosevelt's radio pep talks to the American people during the Depression were called this.
What were Fireside Chats?
300
At this meeting with the leaders of Britain, France, and Italy in September 1938 Hitler pledged that he would seek no further territory if Germany acquired the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
What is the Munich Conference?
300
This process was used by corrupt politicians to appoint friends and supporters to government positions. This enabled these politicians to maintain their power and to profit from their positions.
What is the Spoils System or Patronage?
400
The U.S. government sold these to raise money to pay for the war.
What are Liberty Bonds?
400
These two Italian immigrants were convicted of murder on shaky evidence in the 1920s thus symbolizing the anti-foreign feeling of the period.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
400
One of the New Deal's more controversial acts during the Depression which paid farmers not to grow certain crops even though so many were going hungry.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
400
The President who made the difficult and later controversial decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima thus ending the Pacific war soon thereafter.
Who is Harry Truman
400
Women's Right to Vote is known as this.
What is suffrage?
500
The signing of this treaty between Russia and Germany in March 1918 ended Russia's participation in the war thus upsetting its allies and allowing Germany to focus on the Western front.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
This amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed women the right to vote throughout the country.
What is the Nineteenth?
500
The 1935 Act which set up a system of pensions for older people in their retirement. Still in effect today.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
This March 1941 Act allowed sales or loans of war materials to "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States."
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
What Theodore Roosevelt called powerful companies that tried to abuse their powers by using unfair practices to drive competitors out of business and over-charged for their products.