World War I
A serious condition that results from your feet being wet for too long. A reality of trench warfare.
Trench foot
The name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is Black Tuesday?
Name given to the method FDR employed to communicate the goals of the New Deal with the American people.
What is the Fireside Chats?
Granted women's suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
Name of the "passenger" ship that was sunk by German U-boats. This action became a key motivator for the United States joining the war.
Lusitania
This treaty set the stage for what the interwar period would be like. Signed after the Paris Peace Conference, a few decisions include German reparations and reduced army and self determination.
This group made a reappearance in response to the growing nativist attitudes in the early 1900s. Their primary targets shifted from African Americans, to immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.
What is the KKK or Ku Klux Klan?
New Deal goals can be summarized with these three R's
What is Recovery, reform, and relief?
FLOTUS who changed the position of the First Lady and traveled around the country writing My Day
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico proposing Mexican involvement in the case the United States becomes involved in the war. A cause for US involvement.
The Zimmerman Telegram
Name of the trial that tested the cultural differences between urban and rural communities. On trial was a high school biology teacher who broke the law by teaching about the theory of evolution in his classroom.
Scandal during Harding's presidency in which Sec of Interior, Albert Fall, leased out oil reserves to private oilmen for bribes.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Insures bank deposits
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC?
First female to hold a cabinet position
Who is Frances Perkins? (Sec of Labor)
German offensive plan to sweep around the north of Paris by going through Belgium. Development began in 1905, executed in August 1914.
The Schlieffen Plan
This coalition of nations proved to be ineffective. Proposed by President Wilson, the United States never actually joined due to Congress losing authority to declare war.
What is the League of Nations?
Fear that communist and socialist immigrants from East Europe would spread communism.
What is the Red Scare?
This act created a pension system for retirees and unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs. This is why all American citizens have a 9 digit number assigned to them.
What is the Social Security Act?
Restored tribal control over American Indian lands- stopped further land division.
What is the Indian Restoration Act of 1934?
Government entity formed during World War I. With its formation, the government could decide what farmers grow, what products are produced by industries, and how supplies moved around the nation.
What is the War Industries Board?
Flu epidemic beginning in 1918. 1/3 of the world's population was infected and claimed 675,000 American lives.
What is the Spanish flu?
Legislation that said the number of immigrants of a given nationality could not exceed 2% of the number of people of that nationality living in the US in 1890.
Name of the government agency that employed citizens for conservation efforts of other public works projects.
"The most important and far-reaching legislation ever enacted by the American Congress." This established a federal minimum wage and minimum prices for goods to be sold (and more)
What is the National Recovery Administration?