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Which country was invaded by Germany as part of its Schlieffen Plan, causing Great Britain to enter the war on behalf of the invaded country
Belgium
Required men to register with the government to be randomly selected for military service
What term describes someone who smuggled alcohol, typically under their clothing?
Bootlegger
What term describes a fashionable woman of the '20s who wore her hair in a bob and wore shorter dresses?
Flapper
He wrote the Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Name the three major countries of the "Triple Entente" (Allies) at the start of WWI
Britain, Russia, France
Name the three major countries that were part of the Central Powers during WWI
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
This was a telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents
The Zimmerman Telegram
This was a British liner that was sunk by German ships aboard which over 1,000 people died, over 100 of whom were Americans
The Lusitania
This president led the US through WWI
Woodrow Wilson
He wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
This term describes Herbert Hoover's initial response to the Great Depression
Laissez-Faire
This term was given to shantytowns as a way to insult the government's response to the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
This president defeated Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory and became the only president to serve more than 2 terms in office
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is the policy that Neville Chamberlain pushed when Hitler was annexing territory in Europe
Appeasement
This is the name of a new style of warfare that Germany used in WW2
Blitzkrieg
This is the term that refers to the 8-month period in which France and Germany waited for the other to attack and nothing happened
The Phony War
What was the goal of Hitler's "Final Solution?"
The genocide of Europe's Jewish population
Which battle first proved that Hitler could be blocked in his advance throughout Europe?
The Battle of Britain
What was the Manhattan Project?
The project to create the atomic bomb
What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
It allowed the United States to sell and/or lend and lease weapons to its partners in the war like Great Britain and China
Upon which cities did the United States drop the atomic bomb?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Why did the US eventually join WW2?
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
Hitler hoped to avoid what when he signed the German-Soviet nonaggression pact?
A 2-front war
Which New Deal act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which provides federal insurance for individual bank accounts of up to $5,000, reassuring millions of bank customers that their money was safe?
Glass-Steagall Act