WWI
Roaring 20s
Great Depression
New Deal
WWII
Postwar America
Pop Culture thru the Decades
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What happened that finally ignited WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
100
Many African Americans moved to northern cities was called this
Great Migration
100
Who was the president at the beginning of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
100
Which president served from 1933 to 1945?
FDR
100
This action officially put the United States into WWII?
attack on Pearl Harbor
100
DAILY DOUBLE:
46-year struggle between two superpowers was called what? Who were the two superpowers?
Cold War - U.S. & U.S.S.R.
100
First Hit "Heartbreak Hotel"
Elvis
200
What in 1919 ended WWI?
Treaty of Versailles
200
A period of rising stock prices is known as
bull market
200
What ended the Great Depression?
WWII
200
President Roosevelt's radio broadcast were known as
fireside chats
200
What kind of strategy was used to give us a direct route to Japan?
island-hopping
200
all nations are under pressure because of the superpowers’ arms race.
200
Daily Triple
Rock-and-roll was renamed from what in the Midwest? What is other genre gave birth to Rock-and-roll?
What blocked whites from listening to the music that gave birth to Rock-and-roll?
"race"
Rhythm and Blues
Jim Crow Laws
300
What does MAIN stand for?
Military
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
300
the creation of this help make items especially car become
assembly line
300
The migration of farmers out of the Midwest was due to what major event?
Dust Bowl
300
Before FDR's New Deal, Hoover also had an economic solution to help get out of the Great Depression. This theory is where money poured into the top of the economic pyramid and would eventually fall to the base. What was the theory called?
trickle-down economics
300
Germany's promise to warn ships before attacking using U-boats
Sussex Pledge
300
Americans built structures like the one in this picture here because they were
afraid of a potential nuclear attack during the Cold
War
300
Louis Armstrong was well known during this era of music
Jazz Age
400
What document was put in place to attempt to outlaw was after WWI?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
400
whose presidential slogan was "returning to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding
400
what made the great depression go international?
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
400
What are the 3 R's to the New Deal?
Relief
Recovery
Reform
400
Tactic used by US to use massive amounts of bombs to inflict the maximum amount of damage
Saturation Bombing
400
What is the counteraction of NATO?
Warsaw Pact
400
In the 20's women who rejected Victorian tradition were known as
flapper
500
President Wilson wrote these about the nature of the conflict by outlining America's war aims
Fourteen Points
500
In this decade the flowering of African American Culture was known as
Harlem Renaissance
500
What were the links (causes) of the Great Depression?
WWI
Over production by farmers
Bank Failures
Rely on credit
Stock market crash
Tariffs
500
What New Deal program insured bank deposits?
FDIC
500
Austria was given little choice but to accept its unification with Germany, this is called what?
Anschluss
500
This was created to investigate possible subversive activities by fastists, Nazis, or communists
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
500
Who wrote the Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck