Spanish American War
Battleship sent to protect Americans living in Havana, Cuba.
What was the Maine?
Man who was assassinated that started World War 1.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Nickname for the period of high times in the United States following World War I.
Term meaning people without jobs.
What is unemployment?
Name for the political system which the European powers were participating in before and during WW2?
What is fascism?
Cuban crop in which many Americans invested.
What was sugar cane?
Policy of one nation owning or controlling another.
What was imperialism?
People who transported and sold illegal liquor.
What were bootleggers?
Nickname for when people rushed to the bank to pull out their money, but the banks were sometimes closed.
What were Bank Runs?
What was Axis?
Volunteer calvary that is known for the Battle of San Juan Hill.
Who are the Rough Riders?
Treaty that ended World War I?
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Famous dance of the 1920's that took it's name from a city.
What was the Charelston?
Nickname for the day when the stock market crashed.
Pacifying or satisfying rather than going to war.
What is appeasment?
Treaty that ended Spanish American War.
Wilson's plan for peace.
What was the Fourteen Points?
The name of the fad that some daredevil women participated in.
What was wingwalking?
New Deal project that gave jobs to young men who helped plant forests.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Top secret project that developed the first atomic bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project?
Territories gained by the United States after the Spanish American War.
Germany at the end of the war, agreed to pay for damages done in the war.
What are reparations?
Famous trial over the question of evolution held in Dayton, Tennessee.
What was the Scopes (or monkey) trial?
Nickname for the people who moved west after the Dust Bowl.
What are Okies?
Name of the Native American tribe that was known for code talking during WW2?
What is the Navajo tribe?