The city in Mexico that is attacked under President Wilson
What is Vera Cruz
100
WWI began when Germany invaded this country.
What is France
100
Young women who wore short skirts and makeup, cut their hair short, smoked cigarettes, and went to speakeasies.
Who are flappers?
100
The group of WWI veterans that marched in Washington D.C. to lobby the government to pay them money they were owed.
What is the Bonus Army?
100
Britain and France declare war on Germany after it invades this country.
What is Poland
200
The name of the battleship that is sent to Cuba.
What is The Maine
200
Sent from Germany to Mexico, this secret communication proposed that Mexico should attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
200
The government response to the Red Scare was the ______ raids led by a high-ranking U.S. official.
What are the Palmer raids
200
This was the unemployment rate in 1932
What is 25%
200
This new agency regulates the stock market and eliminate fraud.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission
300
Nicknamed the "big stick", this policy declared that the U.S. can intervene in governments in Central America and the Caribbean.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
300
The British passenger ship that is sunk by a German submarine.
What is The Lusitania?
300
Name an example of a musician who played jazz or blues during this time period.
Who is Louis Armstrong OR Bessie Smith
300
The head of General Motors, Alfred Sloan, competed with Henry Ford's Model T with these two methods. (Name 1 of the 2).
What is 1) making his cars more expensive and advertising them as stylish and 2) giving easy credit to customers
300
This agency hired workers to build places like courthouses and post offices.
What is the Works Progress Administration
400
President McKinley's policy that allows American businesses to trade freely in China.
What is the Open Door policy
400
Name one reason for the initial U.S. policy of neutrality towards WWI.
What is 1) US could still be economically involved 2) US was not attacked and didn't feel threatened. 3) Fear of internal turmoil b/c US is a nation of immigrants
400
The largest scandal that occurred during Warren Harding's presidency.
What is Teapot Dome
400
Oil is now drilled predominantly in the south instead of the north, which can be seen through the boom in oil drilling in this Texas town.
What is Spindletop, TX
400
This U.S. policy allowed American businesses to give equipment to the British on credit.
What is lend-lease
500
The Filipino who led fighters against the U.S. in the Filipino-American War
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo
500
The Republican in the Senate that led the opposition to the ratification of the Versailles Treaty.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge
500
Quota laws and reductions in overall immigration were examples of this conservative Republican belief.
What is nativism
500
The head of RCA and NBC, this man was the most important radio businessman of the day.
Who is David Sarnoff
500
This Houston native was put in charge of running the Reconstruction Finance Corporation