WWI in Images
Roaring 20's
Great Depression
New Deal
WW2
100
This cartoon illustrates what important concept related to America joining WWI.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
100
This 1920s cultural explosion centered in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood celebrated African American art, music, and literature, with figures like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston leading the way.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
These makeshift shantytowns, named sarcastically after the president blamed for the Depression, housed thousands of unemployed Americans during the 1930s.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
In 1933, this collection of programs and reforms was enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the effects of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
The largest amphibious invasion in history, this World War II operation was a definitive turning point in Europe as it began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe.
What is D-Day?
200
This illustrates the US Congress's rejection of the international peacekeeping organization formed after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
200
Ratified in 1920, this amendment granted women the right to vote, marking a major victory for the suffrage movement.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
The 1929 event known as Black Tuesday marked the sudden collapse of stock prices, wiping out fortunes overnight and signaling the start of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
200
"Every Man a King" was the slogan for the "Share Our Wealth" program of this Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator, who criticized the New Deal programs for not doing enough to help America.
Who is Huey Long?
200
This June 1942 naval engagement, in which the U.S. sank four Japanese fleet carriers, is considered the turning point of the Pacific War."
What is the battle of Midway?
300
This US president led America during the WWI years.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
By perfecting the moving assembly line, this automobile pioneer made cars affordable for millions—helping spark a new age of mass production and American consumerism.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
Caused by severe drought and poor farming practices, this 1930s disaster turned the Great Plains into a barren wasteland, forcing many families to migrate west in search of work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
These three concepts were the guiding principles of the New Deal, focusing on immediate aid, economic stimulation, and preventing future depressions.
What is relief, recovery, & reform?
300
This popular home front initiative produced about 40% of all the fresh fruits and vegetables consumed in the U.S. during the peak of World War II.
What are victory gardens?
400
This poster represents an attempt to silence war protestors.
What is the Espionage Act?
400
This invention brought news, music, and entertainment into homes nationwide, helping create a shared American culture for the first time.
What is the Radio?
400
As businesses failed and banks closed in the early 1930s, this was the major economic consequence of the Great Depression.
What is an increase in unemployment?
400
After a conservative Supreme Court struck down key New Deal laws, FDR proposed this controversial 1937 bill, allowing him to appoint an extra justice for every sitting justice over the age of 70.
What is the Court-Packing Bill?
400
Signed by President Roosevelt in 1942, this executive order led to the forced relocation and confinement of over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were U.S. citizens.
What is the Japanese internment camps?
500
The event illustrated in the painting is one of the causes of America joining WWI.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
500
This 1919 amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the United States, ushering in the Prohibition era.
What is the 18th amendment?
500
In the 1920s, many Americans bought stocks on margin, hoping prices would keep rising—this risky practice, known as this, helped lead to the market’s collapse in 1929.
What is stock market speculation?
500
This landmark 1935 New Deal legislation created old-age insurance for retired workers and established a federal-state system for unemployment compensation.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
Known during WWII as 'Project Y' or 'The Hill,' this remote mesa community in New Mexico, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, was the top-secret laboratory where the atomic bombs were designed to complete the Manhattan Project.
What is Los Alamos, NM?