The 1920s and 1930s

The Presidents

100

This President was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.  As President, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917.

Who was Woodrow Wilson?

200

An American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression.

Who was Herbert Hoover?

300

A common term for shacktowns and homeless encampments during the Great Depression. There were dozens in the state of Washington, hundreds throughout the country, each testifying to the housing crisis that accompanied the employment crisis of the early 1930s.

What are Hoovervilles?

400

32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II.

Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt? (FDR)

500

an American lawyer and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, he worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of Massachusetts.

Who was Calvin Coolidge?

World War 1

100

These were where a majority of troops during World War 1 would be located on the front lines.  These areas would usually flood due to being underground to make sure a sniper did not pick off any soldiers.  

What are trenches?

200

Also known as the Great War, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers.  

What was World War 1?

300

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.  The American government started to ramp up production of this to gain support for joining the war.  

What is Propaganda? 

400

This treaty was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination that originally sparked the war

What was the Treaty of Versailles?

500

This Austrian noble was shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August.

Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

The Roaring 20s

100

This U.S. hate organization employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. 

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

200

 A US silent film (1915) by D W Griffith. It tells the story of the American Civil War and the period of Reconstruction after it. Although it was successful and influenced later films, it also caused a massive resurgence in the KKK due to its depiction of the white supremacists and of African Americans.

What is The Birth of a Nation? 

300

One of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.  

What was The Great Migration? 

400

These young women were known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous. Now considered the first generation of independent American women, flappers pushed barriers in economic, political and sexual freedom for women.

Who were the Flappers? 

500

The collapse of the stock prices that began on October 24, 1929. By October 29, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped by 24.8%, marking one of the worst declines in U.S. history.   It destroyed confidence in Wall Street markets and led to the Great Depression.

What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Black Thursday)

Prohibition

100

This was the illegal manufacture, transport, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.

What was bootlegging? 

200

This was a person or ship engaged in bringing prohibited liquor ashore or across a border.

What is a Rumrunner?

300

This person was a United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion

Who was Al Capone? 

400

This legislation established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919.

What is the 18th amendment?

500

This United States federal law enforcement agency was formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of 1919, commonly known as the Volstead Act, which enforced the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

What was the Bureau of Prohibition?

The 1930s

100

This worldwide economic downturn began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe economic downturn ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory.

What was the Great Depression? 

200

These are a series of domestic programs (lasting roughly from 1933 to 1939) implemented during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy.

What was the New Deal?

300

This name was given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s.

What was the Dust Bowl?

400

This was a demonstration on March 7, 1932 in the United States by unemployed auto workers in Detroit, Michigan, which took place during the height of the Great Depression. The march started in Detroit and ended in Dearborn, Michigan, in a confrontation in which four workers were shot to death by the Dearborn Police Department and security guards employed by the motor company. More than 60 workers were injured, many by gunshot wounds. Three months later, a fifth worker died of his injuries.

What was the strike at Ford Motor Company? 

500

Roughly 2.5 million people left the Dust Bowl states—Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma—during the 1930s. It was one of the largest migrations in American history. 

What was the Okie Migration?