Roaring 20s
Soldiers returning home meant excess of labor and caused this in the US after WWI?
What was uneployment?
The belief that depression would resolve itself as part of the cyclical nature of the economy was the belief of this former US President.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This form of totalitarianism emphasizes nationalism and conformity.
What is fascism?
This act allowed the US to "lease" supplies to the Allies and contributed to the end of the Great Depression.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
The Bataan Death March was due to this US General leaving to assist in Australia.
Who was General MacArthur?
The better economy and the excitement within American culture caused this decade to be nicknamed this.
What was the "roaring" twenties?
Active intervention to end the depression was the approach of this former US President.
Who was FDR?
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed this alliance to begin WWII?
What were the Axis Powers?
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear and anger towards Japanese immigrants in the US caused the creation of these camps.
What were interment camps?
The use of these types of codes led to a communication advantage for the Allies over the Japanese.
What were the Navajo codes?
Affordable real estate attracted many artists to settle in this area.
What was Harlem?
The creation of jobs to assist with economic growth was known as these projects in the 1930's.
What were public works projects.
The appeasement of Neville Chamberlain saw Germany invade this portion of Czechoslovakia, which contained a large German population.
What was the Sudetenland?
This was a failed attempt by Germany and the Axis Powers which showed that Hitler's totalitarianism was weakening.
What was the Siege of Stalingrad?
These islands were the first two targets for the Allies within Japan.
What were Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
Alcohol being illegal meant a dependency on bootleggers and mobsters during this period.
What was Prohibition?
This was created to boost economic withholdings and taxed individuals salaries. Individuals would get shares of those taxes paid once they retired.
What was social security?
The attack on this nation caused England and France to declare war on Germany.
What was Poland?
Normandy was the site of this "operation" by the Allied forces.
What was Operation Overlord?
The saving of American lives was the reasoning of President Truman to use this weapon to essentially end WWII for the US.
What was the atomic bomb?
This state supreme court case of Tennessee saw John Scopes found guilty of teaching students about evolution. The ruling was eventually overturned due to a technicality.
What was the Scopes Monkey Trial?
During the early parts of the Great Depression banks would close and costumers/ investors would lose any money within those establishments so this was created to insure those funds.
What was the FDIC?
After the failed Battle of Britain, Hitler and Germany broke this pact with the Soviet Union and invaded.
What was the Non-Agression Pact?
Jews were blamed for this country's problems in the 1930's and this blame was the platform onto which this Dictator came to power.
What was Germany and Hitler?
These areas of Japan were bombed using the atomic weapon.
What was Hiroshima and Nagasaki?