United States leaders suggested building this in the Isthmus of Panama to avoid traveling around South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
The four MAIN causes of World War I.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism?
100
When Americans bought more than they could afford on credit.
What is "the illusion of wealth"?
100
The democratic president during the Great Depression and his wife.
Who are Franklin Delano Roosevelt (also known as FDR) and Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
The dictators that were part of the Axis powers.
Who are Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Hideki Tojo (Japan)?
200
When the US was trying to build the canal, they had to ask this state for permission.
What is Columbia?
200
The event that sparked World War I.
What is the assassination of Austria-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
200
New consumer products that were the result of electric power. (name two or more)
What are washers, toasters, electric vacuums, and fans? (two or more)
200
The issues the "do-nothing president" did nothing about, and the name of that president.
What are the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression/Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
The dictators on the Allies' side during the war and the countries they ruled.
Who are Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill (Great Britain), Francisco Franco (Spain), and Franklin Roosevelt.
300
One of the arguments these people used in regards to imperialism was that isolation would be best.
What are anti-imperialists?
300
Name at least three of each:
-Central Powers
-Allies
What are...
Central Powers: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire? (at least 3)
Allies: Belgium, Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia and others (at least 3)
300
This event brought over 500,000 African-Americans to the United States for job opportunities and to escape poverty and racial violence.
What is The Great Migration?
300
These World War I veterans asked for early payment on their promised bonus but were voted down by Congress.
What is the Bonus Army?
300
Japan need natural resources in order to build this.
What is an empire?
400
Three of the areas that the United States annexed.
What are Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and/or the Philippines (at least three)?
400
This caused Americans to win support for the war.
What is propaganda?
400
Henry Ford popularized this cultural change the US experienced during the 20s.
What is the use of the assembly line?
400
This event marked the start of the Great Depression and is known as Black Tuesday. It was the result of buying on credit.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
400
A type of war known as "lightning war" that involved speed and surprise in the use of tanks, troops and planes.
What is Blitzkrieg?
500
One of the arguments these people made in regards to imperialism was that industrialization would create strain on society.
What are pro-imperialists?
500
The three reasons the United States got involved in World War I.
What are...
-the sinking of the Lusitania
-the Zimmerman Telegram
-unrestricted submarine warfare
500
This country's economy was hurt as a result of the Great Depression (not America!)
What is England?
500
The areas Hitler took over, and the one that sparked the second world war.
What are...
Rhineland
Austria
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Poland (started WWII)