World War I
US policy at the start of World War I
What was neutrality?
This was the intense fear of the spread of communism.
What was the Red Scare?
This man created the Model T, the first mass-produced automobile, by using assembly lines.
Who was Henry Ford?
The crash of this is often considered to be the start of the Great Depression
What is the stock market?
The WPA, PWA, CCC, AAA, SSA, CWA, and TVA are all examples of these
What are New Deal agencies?
The bombing of this US naval base led the US to join World War II
What was Pearl Harbor?
The sinking of this ship was one of the causes of US involvement in World War I.
What was the Lusitania?
The 18th Amendment led to this era, in which alcohol was banned
What was Prohibition?
This style of music emerged from the Harlem Renaissance
What is jazz?
This cause of the depression meant that factories were making too many products
What was industrial overproduction?
The wife of FDR who advocated for New Deal programs that would help others, not just young men.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
The two cities upon which the US dropped the atomic bombs?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The movement of African Americans from the South to the North and West
What was the Great Migration?
This right was granted with the 19th Amendment
What was women's suffrage?
Flourishing of African-American culture, art, music, dance, literature, etc. centered in New York City
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Shantytowns in which many Americans lived during the Depression
What were Hoovervilles?
This act provided support for the elderly and still exists today.
What was the Social Security Act?
This policy allowed the US to provide weapons to countries that were considered "critical" to US defense.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Message from Germany to Mexico, asking Mexico to attack the US
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
Women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and defied traditional gender roles.
Who were flappers?
The invention of this new technology led to a more unified American culture
What was the radio?
These occurred after the stock market crash, as Americans feared they would lose their life savings
What were banking panics?
Examples of jobs given to Americans through New Deal programs
What were building roads/bridges, restoring forests, building schools, building new housing, creating dams and methods of controlling floods, etc.?
Word that means limiting your consumption of a product to ensure there is enough
What is rationing?
What was the League of Nations?
An unintended side effect of prohibition that emerged as a result of people illegally producing alcohol
What was the rise in organized crime?
Buying more products
What is consumerism?
Two main causes of the Dust Bowl
What are overfarming and a 10 year drought?
The 3 R's of FDR's New Deal
What were relief, recovery, and reform?
Executive Order 9066 required the forced relocation of this group to internment camps
Who were Japanese Americans?