WORLD WAR I
This Supreme Court doctrine justified limits on free speech during wartime.
What is “clear and present danger”?
Illegal sale of alcohol during Prohibition.
What is bootlegging?
Sudden withdrawal of deposits causing banks to collapse.
What is a bank run?
FDR’s group of advisors who helped design New Deal programs.
What is the Brain Trust?
Policy of giving in to aggressors to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
Fear of communism that swept the U.S. after WWI.
What is the Red Scare?
Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan aimed at preventing future wars.
What are the Fourteen Points?
Young women of the 1920s known for breaking social norms.
Who were flappers?
Stock market crash day in 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
Program that provided jobs for young men in conservation.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were known as this.
Who were the Big Three?
Racial violence and riots in 1919.
What is the Red Summer?
African American regiment famous for bravery in WWI.
Who were the Harlem Hellfighters?
Term for Americans who left the U.S. to live abroad.
What is an expatriate?
WWI veterans who marched on Washington for early bonus payment.
Who were the Bonus Army?
Program that provided retirement pensions for elderly Americans.
What is Social Security?
June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of France.
What is D-Day?
1920s resurgence of a white supremacist organization.
What is the Second Ku Klux Klan?
Senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles with no compromises.
Who were the Irreconcilables?
Mass production innovation associated with Henry Ford.
What is the moving assembly line?
Severe drought and dust storms in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR’s controversial attempt to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
What is the Supreme Court Packing Plan?
Executive order that led to Japanese American relocation camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
German message encouraging Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
International organization the U.S. refused to join after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
Famous 1925 trial over teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
High tariff that worsened global trade during the Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Agency that brought electricity and development to the South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Top-secret project to build the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This WWII campaign promoted victory abroad and equality at home for African Americans.
What is the Double V Campaign?