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He was the U.S. President who initially issued a Declaration of Neutrality in 1914 and later presented the Fourteen Points peace plan.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Industrialist who mass-produced the Model T automobile by perfecting the continuous assembly line and lowering production costs.
Who is Henry Ford?
The nickname given to cardboard shantytowns built by homeless Americans who blamed President Herbert Hoover for their economic plight.
What are Hoovervilles?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's sweeping federal agenda focused on Relief, Recovery, and Reform during the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
The surprise Japanese military attack on December 7, 1941, described as "a date which will live in infamy," bringing the U.S. into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Germany’s military policy of sinking all civilian and military ships in the Atlantic Ocean without warning, leading the U.S. into World War I.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
The post-WWI period of widespread fear of Communism and Socialism in America that triggered violent labor strikes and the Palmer Raids.
What is the Red Scare?
Occurring on October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday), this massive sell-off of stock shares marked the onset of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)?
The landmark 1935 Second New Deal program that established old-age retirement pensions, unemployment insurance, and assistance for the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
The early 1941 legislation that allowed the U.S. to supply military equipment and supplies to Allied nations who had run out of cash.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The secret 1917 intercepted message in which Germany proposed a military alliance with Mexico against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The constitutional amendment ratified in 1919 that established the Prohibition era by banning the sale and manufacture of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The severe environmental disaster during the 1930s on the Great Plains caused by extreme drought, over-farming, and high winds.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The Louisiana Senator and critic of FDR who proposed the "Share Our Wealth" program to tax the rich and redistribute income to struggling families.
Who is Huey Long?
The critical June 1942 naval battle in the Pacific where the U.S. destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers, turning the tide of the war.
What is the Battle of Midway?
The June 1917 law that penalized citizens accused of spying, sabotaging, or obstructing the war effort, which led to the conviction of Eugene Debs.
What is the Espionage Act?
The landmark constitutional amendment passed in 1920 that granted women the right to vote across the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The economic situation where industrial plants and farms manufactured far more goods than consumers were able to buy.
What is Overproduction?
The active First Lady who revolutionized the role by holding press conferences, traveling the nation, and fiercely advocating for civil rights and women's rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Operation Overlord, launched on June 6, 1944, which was the largest seaborne invasion in history and established an Allied beachhead in Normandy, France.
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
The movement of 1.5 million African Americans from the rural South to Northern industrial cities during the 1910s to escape Jim Crow laws and gain factory jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
The 1920s African American cultural, artistic, and literary movement centered in New York City that featured figures like Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The Democratic leader who won a landslide presidential election victory in 1932 by promising active government action to solve the economic crisis.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
FDR's controversial 1936 proposal to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every sitting member over age 70 after several New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional.
What is the Court-Packing Plan?
The top-secret scientific initiative headed by Groves and Oppenheimer that successfully engineered the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?