WWI
What was the triggering event that sparked the beginning of WWI?
DOUBLE POINTS: if you can tell me which country was blamed for this triggering event
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
and a Serbian assassin killed the Archduke
What were the causes of the Great Depression
(you must identify 3 causes to receive the points)
-Overproduction
-Underconsumption
-Buying on Margin
-Unequal Distribution of Wealth
Which innovation was MOST responsible for aiding in the spread of popular culture in the 1920s?
The Lusitania was:
A passenger ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, killing 120 Americans
In what year did the US abandon neutrality and join WW1?
1917!!
Federal economic policies during the 1920s contributed to the start of the Great Depression by...
failing to adequately regulate stock market transactions
What is the MAIN consequence of the 18th amendment?(think about effects)
Organized crime increased
What was the major reason that African Americans migrated to northern cities during and after WWI?
In what year did WW1 end?
1918
During the 1920s, the Scopes trial and the dispute over Prohibition showed the clash between...
fundamentalism vs. modernism
rural vs urban life
Explain the effect of the Harlem Renaissance.
African American artists helped foster a new sense of unity and cultural pride. ex. jazz, poetry
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
The war might have only involved only two countries (Austria-Hungary and Serbia) if not for...
Alliances
Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war and became directly involved in WWI as as a result of...
(identify two reasons)
The Zimmerman Telegram & the use of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare