US in WWI
These helped to pay for the war as well as raise taxes on American corporations.
Liberty Bonds
What caused the US economy to grow during the early 20th century (1900s)?
Imperialist Expansion and WWI War Demand
Name the President whose Reconstruction Finance Corporation program does not provide enough response to combat the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover
FDR's response to the Great Depression was to increase or decrease the role of the federal government?
Increase
What event caused the United States to officially declare War in WWII?
Pearl Harbor
A period of fear and persecution in the United States occurred in the early 20th century because they feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology.
Red Scare
The declaration Wilson made during the war to share his ideas on how to gain peace post war.
Name the organization the Wilson proposed would maintain world peace after the war.
Wilson's 14 Points
The League of Nations
How did popularity of the radio and regional and national radio program had on US society in the 1920s.
Mass Culture / Pop Culture / Common Culture
Name 2 Root Causes of The Great Depression
Various Correct Answers
Name a New Deal program that provided jobs to unemployed laborers during the Great Depression.
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration (PWA), Civil Works Administration (CWA), and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Name for US strategy to gain strategic geographic control of the western Pacific.
Island Hopping
Name the two major events that led the US to declare war against the Axis Powers in WWI.
The sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram (to Mexico)
What is the name of the mass movement of African Americans to northern cities in search of work in war industries during both World War I and II?
The Great Migration
-Name for the time period when alcohol was banned in the US, lasting from 1920-1933.
-What were illegal bars called?
-What music did they often have bands play?
-Prohibition
-Speakeasies
-Jazz
200 points :Why did people migrate from rural areas like Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado?
100 Points: What were those migrants called?
The Dust Bowl
Bonus: Okies
What were the 3 R's of FDR's New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
200 - Who were the 2 major allies of the US (The Big 3).
100- Name one of the conference they met at to discuss international strategy for war and peace after.
Great Britain (UK) and The Soviet Union (USSR)
Potsdam, Tehran, and Yalta Conferences
Executive Order that relocated all people of Japanese ancestry from targeted areas on the West Coast into Internment Camps during WWII.
Executive Order 9066
These laws set stiff punishments, such as 20 years in prison, for acts of interference for anyone who obstructed the military draft or for speaking against the government during WWI.
Espionage & Sedition Acts
African American cultural explosion of music, dance, art, literature, and theater centered around a particular area in Manhattan, New York.
Harlem Renaissance
The group of WWI veterans who demanded their early stimulus payment promised to them in 1924. Supposed to be received in 1945. Hoover uses force to disperse them.
Bonus Army
Raised profits by paying farmers to limit agricultural production. Responded to WWI era overproduction. Did not give relief to non-land owners such as sharecroppers.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
What 2 policies allowed the United States to aid Great Britain before officially declaring war themselves?
Cash+Carry and Lend-Lease Act
Executive Order that outlawed discrimination based on race in war industries and the federal government during WWII?
Executive Order 8802
SCOTUS case the ruled individual freedom's such as freedom of speech can be limited (denied) during times of war. "Shouting fire in a crowded theatre"
Schenck v US
How did the US federal government stop the increasing flow of immigrats during the 1920's?
Immigration Laws (Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and Immigration Act of 1924)
Name for the investment practice that allowed the purchase of stocks with loaned money?
Buying on Margin
This agency was created to restore trust in the US banking system by insurance individual account up to $2,500 (now $250,000)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Which SCOTUS case challenged the constitutionality of Japanese Internment Camps?
And what was the majority ruling?
Korematsu v US
Japanese Internment Allowed (Constitutional)
FDR tried to put 1 Presidentially appointed supreme court justice into the Judicial System for every member over 70 up to 6. What was this called?
Court Packing