World War I
This secret German message tried to get Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Economic collapse starting in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
Program that provides money to retirees today.
What is Social Security?
Event that brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This act was used to arrest people like Eugene V. Debs for anti-war speech.
What is the Espionage Act?
Mass production used by Henry Ford.
What is the assembly line?
One major cause: risky investing using borrowed money.
What is buying on margin / stock speculation?
Agency that insures bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
Day Allied troops landed in Normandy.
What is D-Day?
What is the League of Nations?
Cultural movement celebrating Black art and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Shantytowns built by the homeless.
What are Hoovervilles?
FDR's plan to add judges to the Supreme Court.
What is court-packing?
Program that allowed the U.S. to send aid before entering the war.
What is Lend-Lease?
Black soldiers in WWI were treated this way.
What is segregated but still served (often in combat/support roles)?
Main goal of Harlem Renaissance artists.
What is to show African Americans could create great art and literature?
Environmental disaster that forced farmers to migrate west.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Main criticism from Huey Long.
What is the New Deal didn't go far enough?
Policy forcing Japanese Americans into camps.
What is internment?
Fear after WWI that led to anti-immigrant policies.
What is the Red Scare?
Three technologies that helped create shared national culture.
What are cars, radios, and movies?
Before FDR, unemployed people relied on this time of help.
What are private charities/soup kitchens?
Why the Supreme Court was a challenge to FDR.
What is they ruled some programs unconstitutional?
Women's new role during WWII.
What is working in jobs traditionally held by men?