The Twenties
The Great Depression and New Deal
The Popular Front and Labor
World War II
Before and After
Dates You Should Know--Really
100
This Dayton, Tennessee Trial became associated with the American culture wars of the 1920s.
The Scope Trial
100
The Great Depression coincided with this environmental disaster that affected many midwestern farmers.
The Dust Bowl
100
This 1935-36 strike led to the emergence of the United Auto Workers as a major labor union.
The Flint Sit-Down Strike
100
American isolationist attitudes in the 1930s manifested themselves in these two laws passed in 1936 and 1937.
The First and Second Neutrality Acts
100
An environmental disaster in the mid-west where a perfect score is 300
Dust Bowling
100
The Treaty of Versailles ends World War I
1919
200
This 1924 bill was the first systematic attempt by the US government to manage and restrict immigration to the country
The National Origins Act
200
This New Deal agency sought to employ young men to do environmental work.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
200
Daily Double
This marked the first time the US government created enforceable laws around the role of labor unions in the workplace.
200
This 1941 Act allowed the US to begin supplying weapons to countries at war with Germany.
The Lend-Lease Act
200
Labor Action against GM that results in an out
Flint Sit-Down Strike Three
200
The Stock Market Crash
1929
300
The product that was most important in driving forward the consumer based economy of the 1920s was the:
automobile
300
This Second New Deal agency was the largest of the New Deal's public works programs.
WPA
300
This labor organization differed from the then dominant AFL because of its intention to organize industrial workers.
The CIO
300
This was the name of the top secret project to build the atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project
300
Daily Double
Recently deceased English Monarch passes Social Security, the WPA, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
300
Pearl Harbor
1941
400
The lack of financial regulation in the 1920s is generally associated with the policies of this Commerce Secretary and later President.
Herbert Hoover
400
What year did American unemployment drop below pre-crash levels?
1942
400
This priest and radio personality's antisemitic and fascistic rants played to audience of millions in the 1930s
Father Coughlin
400
Which of Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms spoke most directly to the need to achieve lasting global peace and security.
Freedom from fear
400
FDR's decision to close financial institutions for four days as an average American hotel chain.
Bank Holiday Inn
400
World War II begins
1939
500
The corruption of the Warren G Harding administration is generally associated with this bribery scandal?
The Teapot Dome Scandal
500
The need to regulate financial institutions and banks led to the passage of this law, which divided banks into savings and investment banks.
The Glass-Steagal Act
500
She was the first woman cabinet secretary, as well as the longest serving cabinet secretary in US History
Francis Perkins
500
Josef Stalin refused to honor a previous commitment to hold free and fair elections in eastern Europe at this final World War II conference.
The Potsdam Conference
500
World War II Prime Minister becomes the location of the annual Kentucky Derby
Winston Churchill Downs
500
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the end of World War II
1945