Roaring 20s
caused by extreme and violent racism in the South in addition to a search for economic opportunity.
Great Migration
Which President was elected in 1932 and created The New Deal after taking office in 1933?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
encampments of people who had lost their homes, usually located on the outskirts of cities
Country was an ally of the U.S. and received assistance before the U.S. entered the war?
Great Britain
Event that encourages the US to enter WWII
Pearl Harbor
Cultural revolution that directly tied to the massive migration of the black population out of the south and to Northern cities
Harlem Renaissance
This president believed that the great depression would be solved through private charity and corporations.
Herbert Hoover
Buying on margin
Policy that allowed the US to keep its neutrality in WWII while providing weapons and supplies to the allied forces without immediate payment
Lend-Lease Act
What is the "Sleeping Giant?"
America's manufacturing
Women who pushed the boundaries of modesty and could be considered among feminists
flappers
What are the 3 R's of the new deal
(100 points for each correct answer)
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Banks are using peoples money to invest, but do not have enough in the physical bank. When the stock market crashes, people panic which leads to....
Bank Runs
The largest amphibious landing in history, this begins the race for Berlin.
D-Day; Normandy
Which groups of people were subject to Internment?
Any person of Japanese decent regardless of citizenship status.
Direct result of prohibition (ban of alcohol)
rise of organized crime
What does CCC stand for and what is the CCC?
200 Points for each correct part
-Civilian Conservation Corps
-a New Deal program that hired unemployed young men to work on public works projects (such as state parks).
Cause of the great depression that was the result of tax wars between foreign economies
Tariff
Group of all-black pilots who were essential to the European War effort
Tuskegee Airmen
A native American group who were the first on and off many beaches in the pacific to share information.
Navajo code talkers
Ecological disaster that worsens the great depression for many out west.
The dust bowl
Write a brief summary of any New Deal program
answers and points awarded will vary.
After the US did this, unemployment in the United States was almost unheard of, causing people to question how the Great Depression was solved
Entered into WWII
Policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving into its demands
appeasement
The decision to drop the atomic bombs ultimately focused on inhabited locations. Those locations were...
Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan