Decades
Women of the 1920's who wore dresses and feathers
Flappers
Who gave the Gettysburg address
Abraham Lincoln
What is a war of just words
cold war
style of journalism that exaggerates ad sensationalizes the news
Yellow journalism
Where did most European immigrants pass through before they could enter the United States
Ellis Island
The decade of the 1930's was known as the
Great Deppression
Who was famous for the steel industry in the beginning of the 1900's
Andrew Carnegie
What war used gorilla warfare tactics
Vietnam
Policy by which stronger nations expand economy, political, or military control over weaker nations
imperialism
Region in the southwest in which farms were destroyed by damaging dust storms
The Dust Bowl
Name two fads of the 1920's
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Who wrote the "Jungle"
Upton Sinclair
During WWII, millions of Jewish people were sent to concentration camps and sentenced to death. This was known as the
Holocaust
Policy of making military power the primary goal of a nation
militarism
Parts of the west that were occupied mainly by Native Americans rather than settlers
The Frontier
What music was popular in the 1950's
Rock and Roll
The name given to the African American students who attended an all white school in Arkansas
Little Rock Nine
What event caused the United States to enter WWII
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pride and loyalty to ones nation
nationalism
Japanese city that was first hit with the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945
Hiroshima
What world event happened in the early 1940's that ended the great depression in the United states
World War II
An Islamic leader who encouraged African American to separate from whites. He was later assassinated.
Malcom X
World War I
Single party political system in which the government controls the economy
communism
Night clubs that illegal served alcohol
speakeasy