Terms
Trustbusting
What president came up with "The Square Deal"?
Theodore Roosevelt
The four main causes of WWI?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States.
Lucky Luciano
What was the name of the day that the market crashed?
Black Tuesday
Yellow Journalism
The successor of Theodore Roosevelt?
William H. Taft
What is the Balkan Powder Keg?
An area that was mixed of many religious beliefs and also many different ethnic backgrounds.
Known for his choice of weapon when committing crimes.
Machine Gun Kelly
A point in time when dust covered all of the crops in the southern US.
The Dust Bowl
A ship that randomly exploded and was thought to be foul play. It began a war. In reality, the ship exploded because of the gunpowder on board.
The USS Maine
Name one of the presidents from the prohibition era?
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Men that would sit in a trench filled with water for multiple days on end would end up getting something. What was that?
Trench Foot
Illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of goods, especially alcohol or recordings.
Bootlegging
Areas of housing that people had to live in when losing their homes.
Hoovervilles
New military technologies. Arms race between countries.
Militarism
The president that the places people were living in were named after.
Herbert Hoover
The immediate cause of WWI?
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors.
Prohibition
What is another name for the Great Depression?
The Roaring Twenties
Agreements to aide each other if attacked.
Alliances
What was Teddys 3 parts of his Square deal?
Conservation
Trustbusting
Consumer Protection
Who was on the triple Entente?
Who was on the triple Alliance?
Entente - Russia, France, Britain
Alliance - Italy, Austria-hungry, Germany
Known for his criminal acts in the 20s. Bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, and of course the scare on his face.
Al Capone
What year did the stock market crash?
1929