Events
This was a period of African American art, music, and literature during the 1920s.
Person who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Harry Truman
This event ended the Great Depression.
WWII
This amendment granted women’s suffrage.
19th
This amendment prohibited the sale, drinking and transporting of alcohol in the US.
18th
This was the building project that help create a tremendous amount of trade across the Pacific.
Panama Canal
She was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Amelia Earhart
US Commander of the US troops on D-Day.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is the movement of Black Americans from the South to the North in search of economic opportunity.
Great Migration
Agreement between the US and Britain signed after WWII began that made Germany the top priority and unconditional surrender the only option
Atlantic Charter
This was the official beginning of the Holocaust when Jewish businesses and homes were destroyed.
Knight of Broken Glass
1920s African American leader who proposed black nationalism and a “Back to Africa Movement”.
Marcus Garvey
Group of volunteer cavalry soldiers led by Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish American War.
Rough Riders
Name of the world peacekeeping organization formed after WWII.
United Nations
This was an agreement signed in 1929 that outlawed the use of war. Signed by a majority of the world’s nations, but lacked enforcement.
Kellogg-Braid Pact
Shipping supplies into Berlin to help those on the other side of the wall
Berlin Airlift
Return to Normalcy was this Presidential candidate’s campaign slogan.
Warren G. Harding
Secret agreement signed between the Soviet Union and Germany that declared they would not attack each other.
Non-Aggression Pact
This term describes the sometimes exaggerated stories that help promote newspaper sales.
Yellow Journalism
This Act was designed to provide electricity to one of the nation’s poorest regions.
TVA
This was when the Japanese Americans were forced into detention camps during WWII.
Japanese Inturnment
Man whose book outlined how a communist government should operate.
Karl Marx
This was the main legislative body created by Nicholas II in Russia to try to avoid war.
Duma
Third party created by Storm Thurmand during his attempt to run of President in the election.
Dixiecrats
This document guaranteed Cuba their independence. It was overturned by the Platt Amendment.
Teller Amendment