Causes & Events of WWI (5.2.CE, 5.2.E)
This belief in a country's superiority over others caused European nations to compete and become rivals before WWI.
Nationalism
This decade's title is often used to describe the time of flappers, new appliances, and widespread radio use.
What are The Roaring Twenties?
This new communication technology became popular in the 1920s, creating a shared culture as people across the country heard the same music and news, like "Fireside Chats" from the President.
What is the radio?
Life became much harder for most Americans after October 29, 1929, because many people lost their jobs, savings, and farms due to ______.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Building roads, schools, and art projects, and creating a system to support the disabled and retired are two long-term changes that resulted from this series of programs.
What are the New Deal programs?
German U-boat attacks and what secret message asking Mexico to join Germany's side were the main reasons the US entered WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This is the nickname for the "new woman" of the 1920s, who wore short dresses and challenged traditional social rules.
What is a flapper?
The 19th Amendment was passed due to the work of women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, giving women this right.
What is the right to vote (or suffrage)?
The conditions of overproduction, easy credit, and over spending were major causes of ______.
What is economic instability (or the Great Depression)?
This US President, who famously promised a "New Deal" to the American people, was elected to office in 1932.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (or FDR)?
This is an example of how a ten-year-old could help on the home front by growing food in their yard.
What is a War Garden (or Victory Garden)?
This cultural movement of the 1920s highlighted African American music, art, and writing, and spread new ideas.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This was the common nickname for the shantytowns, or collections of shacks, built by homeless people during the Great Depression, which showed their negative feelings toward the president they blamed.
What is a Hooverville?
During the 1930s, this environmental disaster caused severe dust storms, forcing many Midwestern farm families to leave their homes and move west.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The New Deal had three main goals: Relief, Recovery, and this goal, which was to change the system to prevent a future depression.
What is Reform?
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is considered this type of cause, meaning it happened immediately before the war began.
Short or Long Term Cause?
What is a short-term cause?
This popular dance, which originated in South Carolina, spread across the nation during the 1920s.
What is The Charleston dance?
This constitutional amendment, which took effect in 1920, was responsible for enforcing the nationwide ban on alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Before the Stock Market Crash, one factor that helped Consumerism grow was that people could buy things with______.
What is easy credit?
This New Deal program, abbreviated FDIC, protects people's money in banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
The establishment or expansion of military bases in South Carolina, such as Fort Jackson and the Charleston Naval Yard, had this economic effect on the state.
What is boosting the economy (or bringing jobs/money)?
Following WWI, African Americans moved from the rural South to the North and Midwest in the Great Migration to seek better jobs and______.
What is better treatment (or less discrimination)?
This manufacturing process, perfected by Henry Ford, made the price of cars like the Model T drop, so more American families could afford one.
What is the assembly line (or mass production)?
Before the crash, this trend led to too many goods being made, which caused prices to drop and businesses to lose money.
What is overproduction (or mass production)?
This New Deal program, abbreviated SSA, gives money monthly to older and disabled people.
What is the Social Security Administration?